New Gen Intel Entry Integrated Chipset - GIGABYTE H61M-D2P Parity Board Review

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PWM controller is following Intel latest VRD 12 design guide. The cost is higher than traditional design.


GIGABYTE heatsink use new design. Matt surface makes it look better.


Boot screen is similar to packing.


BIOS Main Page


MB Intelligent Tweaker, M.I.T.


Clock setup page
CPUfrequency/multiplier, DDR3 clock, Integrated Graphics clock, etc.


CPU Related Technology
C1E for power saving.


Advanced DDR3 parameters.


Voltage page
Dynamic Vcore(DVID) -0.320~+0.640V
QPI/Vtt Voltage 0.900~1.440V
Graphics DVID -0.320~+0.640
PCH Core 0.900~1.500V
DRAM 1.100~2.400V


PC Health Status


H61 is most entry chipset in Sandy Bridge. There are many limitations in BIOS tuning.
However, GIGABYE still provides rich BIOS items for user to adjust.
H61M-D2P BIOS is mainly for GPU OC, CPU/DDR3 voltage and DDR3 parameters tuning.
Fine tune the items can improve some system performance.

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Test Configuration
CPU: Intel Core i3-2120
MB: GIGABYTE H61M-D2P-B3
DRAM: CORSAIR CMX8GX3M2A1600C9
VGA: Integrated Graphics
HDD: CORSAIR Force SSD 40GB
POWER: Antec HCG 400W
Cooler: Intel Original Cooler
OS: Windows7 Ultimate 64bit


Performance Test
CPU 99.8 X 33 => 3293.4MHz
C1E Enable
DDR3 1330.4 CL6 7-6-18 1T

Hyper PI 32M X 4 => 16m 27.559s
CPUMARK 99 => 508


Nuclearus Multi Core => 12926
Fritz Chess Benchmark => 13.10/6288


CrystalMark 2004R3 => 199112


CINEBENCH R11.5
CPU => 3.16 pts
CPU(Single Core) => 1.32 pts


PCMark Vantage => 11831


Windows Experience Index - CPU 7.1


H61 chipset with Core i3-2120 have very good benchmark for most software.
Sandy Bridge structure CPU/DDR3 performance is much more improved than LGA 1155.
2nd Gen Core i3 is more expensive. If you are use Pentium G series, the C/P will be better.

Temperature( Room is around 25℃)
Enter to OS desktop - 24~28


CPU Full Speed - 44~50
Intel Burn Test v2.4，Stress Level Maximum


For 32nm i3 CPU, the temperature is always good. I use Intel original slim type cooler for this test.
The room temperature is higher than real environment. It caused the full speed is 54℃.
Of course, if you are installing in chassis, it may increase 5~8 due to the air flow.

Power Consumption
Enter to OS desktop - 23W

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CPU Full Speed - 47W


Compare to i3-540 with H55, the power consumption is 52W/83W.
You can see the 32nm 2nd Gen Core i3-2120 has much lower power consumption and higher performance.
If you are serious for power saving, Sandy Bridge structure really show you the strength.

DDR3 Bandwidth
DDR3 1330.4 CL6 7-6-18 1T
ADIA64 Memory Read - 16436 MB/s
Sandra Memory Bandwidth - 17690 MB/s
MaXXMEM Memory-Copy -18285 MB/s


H61 chipset only can support DDR3 1333. The clock seems not high.
However the Memory Controller is new design, the performance is still much higher.
After fine tune to CL6 7-6-18 1T, you can see the DDR3 score is very high.

Intel HD Graphics HD2000 Performance test
Default clock is 1100MHz
3DMark Vantage => P1046


StreetFighter IV Benchmark
1024 X 768 => 30.79 FPS


FINAL FANTASY XIV
1280 X 720 => 374


Sandy Bridge built-in GPU in all SKUs. The models are HD2000/HD3000.
Core i3-2120 is using HD2000 and you can see the 3D performance is much better than previous platform.
You can treat it as the highest GPU 3D performance currently. You can use it to meet more 3D software requirement.

OC to 1333MHz

3DMark Vantage => P1357


StreetFighter IV Benchmark
1024 X 768 => 36.34 FPS


FINAL FANTASY XIV
1280 X 720 => 447


Using BIOS GPU clock to adjust it from 1100 to 1333MHz, the performance increases about 18~29%.
It’s almost same to i5-2300 which need to OC to 1700~1800MHz.
i3 HD2000 OC range is much smaller, but after OC GPU, the 3D performance is still some improvement.

Let’s compare the power consumption after OC GPU
Enter to OS desktop - 24W


CPU Full Speed - 57W


After OC Intel HD2000 to 1333, it just increase 1W and full speed increase to 10W.
You can see even GPU built-in design, the clock and performance also impact the power consumption.

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