G1.Sniper 5 has Best Audio SNR out of 33 8 Series Motherboards Tested

    Not sure if this was posted earlier or not, but Hardware.info at the beginning of this month posted their review of over 33 different 8 series motherboards: “33 Haswell motherboard group test: 26x Z87, 4x H87 and 3x B8”. Besides the fact that not one, but two GIGABYTE motherboards ended up getting the gold award (the Z87X-OC and G1.Sniper 5), I noticed something very interesting in the audio testing section. Out of all the boards tested, the Sniper 5 had the best dB(A) rating of 96.4. The next closest board came in at 92.3dB(A). We use the loopback test in Rightmark Audio Analyzer, and connect the input to the output of the onboard soundcard. First we look at the signal-to-noise ratio, and Gigabyte convincingly takes the...

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GIGABYTE Extreme OC Workshop under way in Australia, wrestling crocodiles, riding kangaroos and breaking some world records at OCAU Meet 2013!

TeamAU, GIGABYTE and Corsair have joined forced to show off the latest Intel Z87 platform to some of the best overclockers in Australia. They’ve joined the yearly OCAU HWBOT team gathering up in Cairns, Far North Queensland. Cairns is in tropical part of Australia so even though it’s currently winter over there, the boys are wearing shorts and hitting the swimming pool. TeamAU is helping cool the climate however with ridiculous amounts of LN2 being used at the moment lol. Here are a few photos from the event which is currently under way. Lovely weather up in Cairns                         Star of the show today Crazy LN2 tanks are crazy Competition is under way as well. TeamAU...

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Dinos22 explains GIGABYTE’s OC Touch features on new Z87X-OC board!

OC Touch features are plentiful on the new range of GIGABYTE Z87 OC boards, particularly the Z87X-OC to a point they can be a bit overwhelming which is why this video by dinos22 will come in handy for anyone looking for some more information on how to use all the features properly. Happy viewing! <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""> createSummaryAndThumb("summary7760511474755946706...