Review: Gigabyte G1.Sniper B6

by Hilbert Hagedoorn on: 04/03/2015 09:11 AM | source: | 21 comment(s)

We review the budget yet high-end board G1.Sniper B6 from Gigabyte, it is based on the lower cost B85 chipset from Intel. B85 based motherboards typically end up in business desktops and normally are limited from overclocking. Well, that is just different with the Gigabyte G1.Sniper B6! A small price, nice features and tweakability?

Read the full review right here.

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chismo
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#5051618 Posted on: 04/16/2015 08:04 AM

The default latency was 9-10-8 @1866 the XMP gave me 8-9-8 @1600 but I changed it manually to 7-8-8 @1600. I'm not sure what you are planning to use the board for but it's not a good choice for SLI or Crossfire due to the lack of lanes, so for single GPU usage I doubt the memory clocking/speed makes any real difference.

http://www.anandtech.com/show/7364/memory-scaling-on-haswell/7

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#5052299 Posted on: 04/17/2015 05:52 AM

I'll never be a fan of SLI/X-fire for various reasons. AS I stated above "I'm happy with a GTX 970 on Gsync 1080p" - So no probs there. Plus, it's not all for gaming at all.

The latencies will help, I've just gone for 1600Mhz sticks. Have you changed any voltages for those timings?

Quick question, did you just put the 4690 straight in? No issues? They're only on rev1.0 anyway, but nice to ask.

Thanks again

chismo
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#5052519 Posted on: 04/17/2015 02:54 PM

No just the default voltages (reads about 1.51v). Yeah it has Devil's support out of the box if that's what you are asking? No issues at all so far.

Moonraker™
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#5053372 Posted on: 04/18/2015 06:56 PM

Excellent mate, thank you for everything. Ordered one now. Happy days. Will be putting a build log on another site of a certain Canadian Youtuber. Green black all the way

kinggavin
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#5112846 Posted on: 07/02/2015 02:48 PM

ive just buy one theses boards its a great looking board . i had an asrock extreme4 z97 with sli 970 i had problem with it heating up near the on/off button and getting hot in general so i got a refund from amazon and sold one my gtx 970 and decided go back to single card gaming with this motherboard and im happy with the choice my temps are so much cooler and lower power consumption with this board and a single gpu

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