Gigabyte Z170X-UD5 ATX Motherboard Review

Sisoft Sandra

Sisoft Sandra has multiple benchmarks designed to test nearly every component within your system to provide you a detailed view of the capabilities. We will be taking a look at a few of their benchmarks, revolving around Memory and the CPU.

Taking a look at Sandra’s Memory Bandwidth test, we knew ahead of time that overclocking the CPU wouldn’t have any effect on how the memory performed as we just increased the mulitplier on the CPU. We can clearly see a difference between the scores of a DDR3 system running Kingston Savage 2400MHz memory and a DDR4 capable system with Kingston Fury 2666MHz system.

In Sandra’s CPU Arithmetic calculation test, we knew there would be a clear difference in performance between the i5 and i7 system. In addition, with the i7-6700K CPU overclocked, we can see that it makes a difference in scores.

The final benchmark we took a look at is Sandra’s Multi-Media benchmark. Here the i7-6700K received a large difference in score compared to the i5-4690K, which was to be expected. When the CPU was overclocked, Sandra reports around a 12% boost in performance as well.

Legit Bottom Line: In the two CPU tests, Sandra showed a good boost in performance when we overclocked the Z170X-UD5 simply by increasing the multipler. If we had overclocked the memory, I’m sure the memory test would’ve shown a boost in performance as well.