Gigabyte unveils Z170 G1.Sniper Skylake Motherboard

[GodsOwnLegion]

What a complete and utter load of old seasoned nonsense.

Do you realise just how few run Crossfire or SLI?

Gigabyte have left the PCI slots on this to appeal to people with older computers that may still run something PCI. And tbh? you would be absolutely amazed at how many people still run old rigs with old PCI devices in them. I see so many threads on OCUK where people are still running a Q6600 or one of the later quads and ask what to upgrade to.

Put it this way, had I spent $400+ on the Asus Xonar 2 PCI at launch I would want to still be using it.

What if you are selling to a company who are looking at replacing 20 workstations with newer ones *but* have some sort of PCI encryption card that they don't want to replace?

It's far more clever than any one here would know. I'd actually believe that Gigabyte knew more about the market and what it wants than some dude who posts on a forum.

It would do well if you actually read what some "dude" writes, assimilate the information presented, understand what is said then decide on how you reply I did mention about legacy devices but hey ho you know better than me?

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Oh and businesses don't usually tend to use a z170 chipset as it tends to be a little overkill, again what would I know and for a company updating 20 workstations which usually use a 110 or 150 chipset as that all that's required of them to mostly access servers and databases as they don't usually do such cpu or gpu intensive tasks but what would I know or for that matter gigabytes who produce business oriented chipsets for far less money

 

[AlienALX]

It would do well if you actually read what some "dude" writes, assimilate the information presented, understand what is said then decide on how you reply I did mention about legacy devices but hey ho you know better than me?

Posts merged - Please do not post multiple times in a row

Oh and businesses don't usually tend to use a z170 chipset as it tends to be a little overkill, again what would I know and for a company updating 20 workstations which usually use a 110 or 150 chipset as that all that's required of them to mostly access servers and databases as they don't usually do such cpu or gpu intensive tasks but what would I know or for that matter gigabytes who produce business oriented chipsets for far less money

So workstations run on I3s then?

And you're right, what would you know.

 

[Feronix]

Oh and businesses don't usually tend to use a z170 chipset as it tends to be a little overkill, again what would I know and for a company updating 20 workstations which usually use a 110 or 150 chipset as that all that's required of them to mostly access servers and databases as they don't usually do such cpu or gpu intensive tasks but what would I know or for that matter gigabytes who produce business oriented chipsets for far less money

Actually, that would be the B150/Q170 chipsets for Skylake, as they are the Business chipsets. I looked up fifty B150 motherboards, out of which only 22 feature at least one PCI slot. One of those is a Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7. Not sure why they decided to launch a Gaming board with a 'business' chipset, and at €120 it's not even /that/ cheap, but then again MSI also have two Gaming motherboards with this chipset, both featuring 3 PCI slots.


Also, let's keep it civilized guys.

 

[AlienALX]

Actually, that would be the B150/Q170 chipsets for Skylake, as they are the Business chipsets. I looked up fifty B150 motherboards, out of which only 22 feature at least one PCI slot. One of those is a Gigabyte G1.Sniper B7. Not sure why they decided to launch a Gaming board with a 'business' chipset, and at €120 it's not even /that/ cheap, but then again MSI also have two Gaming motherboards with this chipset, both featuring 3 PCI slots.


Also, let's keep it civilized guys.

Many small business/home professionals do not buy professional grade rigs. This is why Asus do their Workstation boards, so those on a budget can build a workstation around a cheaper set of components (CPU board ram etc).

It is odd that Gigabyte chose what is a very pretty gaming board (IMO of course, every one sees boards differently) to slap two PCI ports on* but as I said before what if you were running the original PCI D2X with daughter board for work? that thing was $400 and more (I know my mate bought one).

So you're recording music/sound and you then want to compile/encode what not.

I just think it makes sense is all. Recently I have slowed down a bit and realised that the whole world does not rush out and buy every new CPU or motherboard.

*probably only one of them will work at a time, they probably only put two there so it would work with any sort of configuration on the slots.

Many people now when upgrading do not replace everything. Over the past few years a PSU and who makes it has become very important. Thus, when you spend a lot of money on a PSU (as you should, it's never worth skimping) you usually come to find that the technology in it lasts light years longer than any CPU or GPU.

So many are just swapping out board, CPU and possibly ram (if you went the DDR4 route) but some of the other stuff in their computers has been there for years.

 

[GodsOwnLegion]

The fact that I do administrate a network of around 30 workstations but you know as I said what do I and YOU know

 

[AlienALX]

The fact that I do administrate a network of around 30 workstations but you know as I said what do I and YOU know

Yawn who can pee the highest yawn.

 

[GodsOwnLegion]

Tbh I actually agree with what you said if you check my previous post I actually stated about add in cards being legacy and people still using them. It's not a contest at all to see who can pee higher (I would win anyways �&#56860 it was just informed judgement.