PCMark 7
PCMark 7 provides a set of 7 suites for measuring different aspects of PC performance with a high degree of accuracy. Overall system performance is measured by the PCMark Suite. The Lightweight Suite measures the capabilities of entry level systems and mobility platforms unable to run the full PCMark suite. Common use performance is measured by the Entertainment, Creativity and Productivity scenario suites. Component performance is measured by the Computation and Storage hardware suites. The Storage suite is ideal for testing SSDs and external hard drives in addition to the system drive.
All around system performance shows the G1.Sniper 5 a component board only being beaten by a few points by its little brother; the M5, the Extreme6 from ASRock and the Sabertooth Z87 from Asus. Overclocking to 4.9GHz obviously increases the system performance overall by around 700 points.
I love this board and I’m really grateful to my supplier for donating one to me along with a Gigabyte Windforce GTX 770. I’m really impressed by the audio and now I can finally retire my old Xonar PCI soundcard. Although the board and GFX card are way overkill for my personal use and gaming setup (I’m not as big a gamer as I used to be, I’m much older now & my grandkids take up a lot of my time) I appreciate it non the less.
Audio is better than Xonar DS? ( I guess you have meant that)
That’s awesome.
It has the ability for you to swap around operational amplifiers to tailor the sound to your liking. The board comes with two different value op-amps but I also have a few of my own lying about.
In the past I always had to settle for a board that sported at least one legacy PCI slot in order for me to keep using my aging Xonar D2 soundcard which is far superior to any Realtek or VIA codec chip IMO.
That’s great man! Only very hid end DACs have the switchable op-amp feature, like Xonar Essence One.
I’ve to say I’m impressed!
with the name ULTRA DURABLE on it, makes me feel like im buying a generic autozone part