Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X (FM2+) Motherboard Review

Overclocking

Having already reviewed and tested our A10-6800K on a few systems now we know its limits – 4.8GHz. Getting higher than that is possible but a combination of suicide-run voltages and thermal throttling mean going higher is more or less pointless. Getting to 4.9GHz requires so much extra voltage that the CPU overheats and downclocks to lower than 4.8GHz. So when we started overclocking on the G1 Sniper A88X motherboard we knew exactly what we should aim for – 4.8GHz. As expected the G1 Sniper did that comfortably. We used an offset of 0.075v on top of the stock voltage, in total that means about 1.5-1.515 volts. If you had a better chip than us then 5GHz would probably be possible with 1.5-1.55 volts but you’re just going to need some solid cooling. That said Gigabyte’s G1 Sniper A88X won’t hold you back, it has more than enough grunt to squeeze the most out of the fastest APU current available – the A10 6800K.

Overclocked Performance and Power