Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 First Look

[tinytomlogan]

We met up with Gigabyte today and got our hands on the new baby £116 Sniper board - we thought youd like a nice early look!


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[maniac]

When I opened the video, I thought it was a review and I was like :O wtf? only 11 minutes? then I was like ohhh its an 11 minute first look

 

[Wraith]

Hopefully with AMD stating that they will continue the AM3+ platform into 2015 we may just get to see the AM3+ incarnation, I know when I spoke to Gigabyte they were all hush hush about it... so fingers crossed.

 

[SieB]

Sticky, keyboard is sticky.

 

[chrismjurd]

hopefully its within 95% of the raw performance of the bigger brothers, and signalling the end of mid level boards in the 150+ price bracket, especially for intel based boards.

so whats really missing, sure a couple of sata connections, meh

i guess it all comes down the the overclocking potential.. hopefully its decent. cant wait for the following review.

 

[NeverBackDown]

for that price is sort of makes my Gd55 z77 board look like crap in both looks and price...

Board looks very sexy with a dark mate black pcb.

 

[scorp38]

I just bought this board yesterday, i had to i love the gigabyte green color scheme. I should receive it tomorrow, very excited to see how it handles everything.

 

[tinytomlogan]

hopefully its within 95% of the raw performance of the bigger brothers, and signalling the end of mid level boards in the 150+ price bracket, especially for intel based boards.

so whats really missing, sure a couple of sata connections, meh

i guess it all comes down the the overclocking potential.. hopefully its decent. cant wait for the following review.

Wont happen, they still cut stuff back for this board dude. Its not full ATX for one.

 

[ShaunB-91]

For £116 it looks great, I'm happy with the G1. Sniper M5 and this comes in even cheaper, not a bad little budget board!

 

[MrKambo]

Amazing board for the price bracket, im sure we will be seeing nice budget builds with this

 

[RizeAllard]

It will be a value for the money... At this area of europe it will be a must buy item for the gamers on low budget. Nice from Gigabyte of thinking those too...

 

[Rastalovich]

Hmm nice prices ...

What's about to come as standard on mobos, that these won't have, that'll make the next round come out at £200++ ? ...... I wonder ....

Been a while since I bought a Gigabyte mobo. Nothing 'against' them perse, I have actually bought many in the past, just been impressed by MSI and ASRock of late.

 

[tinytomlogan]

Hmm nice prices ...

What's about to come as standard on mobos, that these won't have, that'll make the next round come out at £200++ ? ...... I wonder ....

Been a while since I bought a Gigabyte mobo. Nothing 'against' them perse, I have actually bought many in the past, just been impressed by MSI and ASRock of late.

All the asrocks Ive ever used have been beyond disappointing one way or another.

Next step up from one of these is about £150 dude

 

[Rastalovich]

The ASRock Z68 Extreme 7 Gen3 really opened my eyes to them not being just an elcheapo consolidation make. Obtained a fleet of these and Extreme 4s for some serious deployments.
Still going now, with nothing out worth replacing them with, until they die I guess.

 

[ryadasu]

I've had a horrible experience with my ASRock motherboard; never again..
Can't wait for the full review to see if this Sniper holds up against the UD3H!

 

[smoke2]

This board looks promising, but I have interesting experiences with sound on Sniper.

I owned Sniper M5 with Recon3D and the sound overall during listening the music was too bassy for me.
I must through control panel THX TruStudio Pro reduce the bass on minimum.

Now I have borrowed a rig with Sniper B5 with Realtek ALC898 and OP-AMP and must to say the music is more balanced and with more clarity.
On Sniper M5 I had tried only OP-AMP equipped from manufacturer, not the second one from the page.

It's probably mainly sound chipset for games?

Now I'm wondering to buy new Sniper Z87, but little afraid about Recon3D and it looks like Sniper B5 is now probably better choice?

Is there something what I must to turn off in Control Panel or is Recon3D really worse sound chipset than Realtek ALC898?

What are your opinions on Recon3D?

 

[NeverBackDown]

This board looks promising, but I have interesting experiences with sound on Sniper.

I owned Sniper M5 with Recon3D and the sound overall during listening the music was too bassy for me.
I must through control panel THX TruStudio Pro reduce the bass on minimum.

Now I have borrowed a rig with Sniper B5 with Realtek ALC898 and OP-AMP and must to say the music is more balanced and with more clarity.
On Sniper M5 I had tried only OP-AMP equipped from manufacturer, not the second one from the page.

It's probably mainly sound chipset for games?

Now I'm wondering to buy new Sniper Z87, but little afraid about Recon3D and it looks like Sniper B5 is now probably better choice?

Is there something what I must to turn off in Control Panel or is Recon3D really worse sound chipset than Realtek ALC898?

What are your opinions on Recon3D?

Your using a creative recon3d card. That is the problem. Get rid of that crap asap.

 

[smoke2]

No, Creative Recon3D is a sound chipset which is integrated onto Sniper M5 board!

 

[NeverBackDown]

That makes it even worse lol