Question for G1.Sniper 5 owners (Not M5)

Alloneword · 31 Mar 2014 at 23:14

This board seems to be the only one left on my shortlist that i can find, so G1.Sniper 5 owners what are your thoughts on it both good and bad and any anomalies that came to instaling the hardware or the OS I'll be runnig win 7 U x64, i7 4770K, 16GB RAM, 2 SSD's and 7 x 3TB WD Blacks, corsair hx750.

Any or all feedback is welcome.

All1

stulid · 31 Mar 2014 at 23:19

You are referring to the £250 board and not the £110 variant?

Alloneword · 31 Mar 2014 at 23:23

Yes sorry the G1.Sniper 5 NOT the G1.Sniper M5.

All1

stulid · 31 Mar 2014 at 23:27

Epic board, does four way SLI etc, strong sound and WiFi+Bluetooth.

Jamin280672 · 1 Apr 2014 at 05:42

+1 as above, best move I made, no issues at all, theres a big build quality difference between the Sniper 5 and its cheaper variants.

If you plan to buy the board from OCuk, my board which I brought 2 weeks ago shipped with F4 bios on it, I had to update it to F7 first using Q-Flash, then F8 using Q-Flash, F9 however updates the Q-Flash utility and the only way I could update it was through the latest version of @BIOS, you have to make sure its the latest version, no other versions will flash it, took me ages to find it, link here: http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_atbios_8series.exe

I had the Sniper Z87 for a while, didn't like it and endless problems, see this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18558959

Alloneword · 1 Apr 2014 at 22:48

OK thanks for the tips and advice guys giving Asus one last chance but 3 boards in and 4th on the way i'm wondering what the hell is going on, if this fails then G1 Sniper 5 is the one i'll be going for.

All1

Alloneword · 8 Apr 2014 at 15:06

stulid said:
You are referring to the £250 board and not the £110 variant?

Cheapest i can find is £300 where can i save £50 as funds are tight now i have spent almost 2 grand in a month on bits.

All1

stulid · 8 Apr 2014 at 16:11

You can run less RAM such as 8GB, that will save £50'ish.

Alloneword · 18 Apr 2014 at 02:40

Jamin280672 said:
+1 as above, best move I made, no issues at all, theres a big build quality difference between the Sniper 5 and its cheaper variants.

If you plan to buy the board from OCuk, my board which I brought 2 weeks ago shipped with F4 bios on it, I had to update it to F7 first using Q-Flash, then F8 using Q-Flash, F9 however updates the Q-Flash utility and the only way I could update it was through the latest version of @Bios, you have to make sure its the latest version, no other versions will flash it, took me ages to find it, link here: http://download.gigabyte.eu/FileList/Utility/mb_utility_atbios_8series.exe

I had the Sniper Z87 for a while, didn't like it and endless problems, see this thread:

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=18558959

Some handy tips there Jamin280672 well i gave up on the Asus and now i'm running the G1.Sniper 5, jesus what an aweful bios interface but so far that is my only gripe been able to update to latest bios with your help so thx again Jamin280672.

Kyle1987 · 20 Apr 2014 at 14:54

I have the g1 sniper 5 and it is a very good board and I have to agree the f4 bios that it comes with is awful I have updated to f9 using @BIOS and is a lot smoother and better. The only problem I have about the motherboard is when I'm gaming it some times desides to turn the built in sound card off or echoes and I have to restart pc. Other than that great board. I do think tho an Asus bios a lot easyer to overclock.