Review: Gigabyte G1.Sniper B6
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lanelor
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?
Noufel
Nice review, it's the perfect MB for the money!
schmidtbag
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".
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
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 🙂
Agonist
vajoiner
that whole strip on the right side are leds? thats pretty neat. can they be turned off or have anything like pulse etc?
Prince Valiant
I'm shocked that voltage was allowed for a preset OC mode :eek3:.
alanm
Now lets hope Gigabyte doesnt bait and switch with a 1.1 or 1.2 version with inferior parts, less phases, etc.
rl66
icedman
This would be perfect to go with a Pentium k super cheap and powerful.
rta
That thing is gorgeous.
chismo
Hey, thanks for the review. I purchased this board and it's pretty solid so far 4690k @ 4.7ghz (1.29v).
A couple of things I noticed/didn't realise. DDR-1600 is the max select-able (that's a chip set limitation).
The offset voltage mode doesn't work for me, negative offset or positive the voltage just stays the same.
The on-board sound is pretty good to my ear and gear (Denon D2000) it has plenty of gain which is nice as my old board was only just load enough at max.
Moonrakerâ„¢
chismo
Moonrakerâ„¢
What are your feelings on it though? It's strange it seems playable with CPU, but not memory so much. The review here says it was fiddly, but still. Surely there's some lee way on the mem? Even latencies going down?
What are your stock 1866 latencies in full on your memory? Did this just drop them down to lower latencies auto when running 1600? May work out nice low latencies with the 2133MHZ then?
I'm about to order this board, so would appreciate your feedback.. granted, a lot of it is for the green style... and that I'm happy with a GTX 970 on Gsync 1080p etc. - Would just like to know
chismo
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
Moonrakerâ„¢
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
Moonrakerâ„¢
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
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