Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 (Z87) Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 11 years ago
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.
