Gigabyte G1.Sniper2 Z68 Motherboard Review
Andy Ruffell / 13 years ago
It’s been a little while since we used the old school blue BIOS but quickly got back into the swing of things and found this board allowing us to push things quite far, with very little effort, but before we delve into that, a neat “on-the-fly” overclocking feature is incorporated onto the rear of the board.
By pressing this simple, shielded button, we found the processor being clocked to 4.2GHz and could do this whilst in Windows. This is perfect for gamers, who want to gain a little bit more performance, with no effort whatsoever.
A simple change of the multiplier and CPU core voltage allowed us to push the board further, and got our i7 2600k up to 4.8GHz. With a little bit more tinkering to the voltages and the calibration settings, the board settled on 5GHz and whilst 5.1GHz was achievable, the voltages needed to be quite high and still didn’t remain 100% stable.
CPU-Z reports the wrong voltage as per normal, but we managed to boot at 5GHz at 1.5V, which is perfectly safe considering we were running it under water cooling.
