Gigabyte Z68 G1.Sniper 2 Review
CineBench and wPrime
Published: 17th August 2011 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £320 |
CineBench
Back in the real world, the Sniper 2 performs admirably in the CPU side of CineBench giving the highest score of our 4.8GHz clocked tests, and only beaten by the higher speeds available from the Sabertooth, Marshal et al. The OpenGL score, whilst not range-topping, is always varied greatly by the GPU drivers and, as this is the first v280 run we've done, there aren't many conclusions to be drawn.
wPrime
As one would expect in the world of big number-crunching tasks, the Sniper 2 is a slave to the CPU clockspeed.
Most Recent Comments
ouch - expensive!!! £250-£270 and i would have been impressed 
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QuoteI really hope that the price of this board will come down and that it is priced so high because it is being marketed as being PCI-E 3 and Ivy Bridge native and that retailers are just charging extra to cash in on it.
The thing is now that we know that all Gigabyte boards are PCI-E 3 compatible with just a simple BIOS update, then that makes the UD7 the better and cheaper board. Ok, so it may not have the sound card and the NIC chip but these have been proven to be not that much of a improvement over standard ones at a lower price anyway, so is it really worth paying the extra for them? No, in my opinion anyway.
It is a good board and it does look good and perform very well but the price is just to high
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The thing is now that we know that all Gigabyte boards are PCI-E 3 compatible with just a simple BIOS update, then that makes the UD7 the better and cheaper board. Ok, so it may not have the sound card and the NIC chip but these have been proven to be not that much of a improvement over standard ones at a lower price anyway, so is it really worth paying the extra for them? No, in my opinion anyway.
It is a good board and it does look good and perform very well but the price is just to high
QuoteGood motherboard but TOOOO expensive! 
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Quoteawwww....no shots of the "this is not a real gun" sticker??? Tell me yer gonna use it as a case vadge!!!Quote
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