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Guru3D.com » News » Review: Gigabyte G1.Sniper B6

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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lanelor
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#5043369 Posted on: 04/03/2015 12:30 PM
Can someone explain why CF/SLI with Gen3x16+Gen2x4 is bad for a gaming rig?

Most tech sites show 5% loss at most, while the majority of people report losses of 10%+. Technically the bandwidth should be sufficient for most mainstream cards, so maybe the CPU is chocking?

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#5043453 Posted on: 04/03/2015 03:32 PM
Nice review, it's the perfect MB for the money!

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#5043455 Posted on: 04/03/2015 03:40 PM
Is it just me or is this the "cleanest" ATX motherboard in existence? Seriously look at the PCB - there's almost NOTHING on it. Get rid of the white print and the heatsinks and it'd look almost barren. I'm not complaining, I just think it's crazy that you can fit in so much technology while being so "empty".


Can someone explain why CF/SLI with Gen3x16+Gen2x4 is bad for a gaming rig?

Most tech sites show 5% loss at most, while the majority of people report losses of 10%+. Technically the bandwidth should be sufficient for most mainstream cards, so maybe the CPU is chocking?

Well, 2.0 at x4 has the performance of 1.0 at x8. When you get to speeds like that, most high-end GPUs from the past 3 or 4 years are going to start losing performance. Not much, but enough. It really all comes down to what you intend to CF/SLI. If you do anything that isn't enthusiast grade, you're probably fine.

Overall, it seems that PCIe 3.0 x16 is overkill for just about anything. DX12 or Vulkan could possibly change that though.

lanelor
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#5043463 Posted on: 04/03/2015 04:02 PM
I agree that there is loss of performance, still there are no recent GPU tests of x16+x4, which is most of the lower tier of CF/SLI gaming mobos. Honestly I am a bit curious, yet not enough to buy a new MOBO+CPU+may be DDR4+CASE just to test the performance :)

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#5043482 Posted on: 04/03/2015 04:59 PM
I agree that there is loss of performance, still there are no recent GPU tests of x16+x4, which is most of the lower tier of CF/SLI gaming mobos. Honestly I am a bit curious, yet not enough to buy a new MOBO+CPU+may be DDR4+CASE just to test the performance :)


Exactly why I am still on my X58 setup.
Just no point on upgrading. My board has two 2.0 x16 and two 2.0 x8 slots.
And 2.0 X16 is still not really slowing my 290 down at all.

Plus I have a 6 core Xeon. Im not gonna go to a quad core for a few extra % of single core performance when my cpu is @ 4.5ghz. Not worth the cost of a new motherboard and CPU, and memory.

I may use my tax return next year and get a new 6 six core,16gb DDR4, and nice motherboard. That system would last me a good 4-5 years.

I know this is a long ramble post guys lol.

I really love the Gigabyte Sniper boards. Ive always wanted one.
My friend has the X58 G1 killer.

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