G1 Sniper the board for gamers

Psycho Sonny · 17 Mar 2011 at 06:01

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18240911&highlight=gigabit+network+card

found that which re-iterates my post, on a quad core, the 0.1% cpu usage is not going to have any affect at all when it comes to using up your resources. its mostly all marketing gimmicks.

1Day · 17 Mar 2011 at 08:07

meansizzler said:
Wish they sold the front panel bay's on their own, any chance of a pic of it?

You mean the USB3 bay? I did not put it in because the 600T case has a USB3 header at the top of the case. But will take a pic for you.

soultaker · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:23

GIGABYTE P67A-UD7

@ 1day am i right in saying that you have had the P67A-UD7 and if so what was you take on this board, i had this board for 2 days before it failed on me now waiting for B3 replacement (since 5/3/11) i was running it with a 2600k chip, 4 gig 2133 ram and 2 x hd5770 had chip @4.8 no problem with stock cooler didn't push it any more returned everything to stock next day would not boot even to bios.

chrisarm · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:44

Nice setup bud

Rroff · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:50

Sorry but someone has to have paid you to extol the virtues of the Killer NIC absolutely NO real enthusiast or gamer will reccomend one, theres no harm to having one over a regular NIC but there is no tangible real world benefits for multiplayer gaming over any semi reasonable NIC on a reasonable spec PC, the bottleneck when those requirements met is the hop between CPE and the ISP and internet traffic conditions which the Killer NIC can't influence in any way whatsoever.

1Day · 17 Mar 2011 at 18:58

soultaker said:
@ 1day am i right in saying that you have had the P67A-UD7 and if so what was you take on this board, i had this board for 2 days before it failed on me now waiting for B3 replacement (since 5/3/11) i was running it with a 2600k chip, 4 gig 2133 ram and 2 x hd5770 had chip @4.8 no problem with stock cooler didn't push it any more returned everything to stock next day would not boot even to bios.

I have had immense enjoyment out of my UD7 motherboard. From my perspective it is the best benching board you can get for SandyBridge. No other way to say that. :cool:

But to put things in context. The ASUS Rampage Extreme III is the best benching board for 980X CPU's in my experience. Different boards do different things. And the UD7 is the board for SandyBridge.

soultaker · 17 Mar 2011 at 19:27

Thank you 1Day

andyr · 17 Mar 2011 at 21:48

Nice job again 1Day !

1Day · 17 Mar 2011 at 22:18

Thanks Andy - this was one of the most fun builds I have done in ages.

You sort of get wrapped up in benching and so focused with squeezing that last bit of performance out of your kit, and trying to find that extra tweak which will give you a edge over the competition that it exclude all else. I guess you have to be that focused to succeed. But after getting the UK number 1 position (guess that does make me an enthusiast

) I decided to take a little break from competitive benching and go back to where it all began for me as a bencher - Gaming. And I am loving it.

A couple of my old gaming mates have resurfaced and we are talking about starting our old team up again.

But that is something to think about for another day, right now I am just having a bit of fun with my new system.