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 crown with its G1.Sniper 5 motherboard and the Creative Sound Core3D chip. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for.

It’s nice to see the audio features we put on our gaming boards really do deliver the best onboard audio experience. As they didn’t test the G1.Sniper M5 it would be interesting to see how that board would fair in terms of audio since it shares the same audio features as it’s big brother. I can’t really blame them though, since testing 33 motherboards for launch time must have been crazy.

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 SniperOz Corsair team vs TeamAU dinos22 GIGABYTE team.

TeamAU dinos22 GIGABYTE is in the lead at the moment in the low clock challenge 5.5GHz with the new Intel XTU benchmark with the new world record as well at 1377 marks!

 

TeamAU dinos22 GIGABYTE team                         vs               TeamAU SniperOz Corsair team battling

   

Youngpro from TeamAU doing some subzero RAM testing

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!