Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 (Z77) Motherboard Review

Cinebench R11.5

CINEBENCH is a real-world cross platform test suite that evaluates your computer’s performance capabilities. CINEBENCH is based on MAXON’s award-winning animation software CINEMA 4D, which is used extensively by studios and production houses worldwide for 3D content creation. MAXON software has been used in blockbuster movies such as Spider-Man, Star Wars, The Chronicles of Narnia and many more. CINEBENCH is the perfect tool to compare CPU and graphics performance across various systems and platforms (Windows and Mac OS X). And best of all: It’s completely free.

Starting off with Cinebench and taking a look at the stock performance, we can see that the G1.Sniper M3 gives some solid numbers and falls just above some of the other boards around. By overclocking to 4.6GHz, the score in Cinebench is increased to a respectable 9.45.

Super PI

Super PI is a computer program that calculates pi to a specified number of digits after the decimal point—up to a maximum of 32 million. It uses Gauss–Legendre algorithm and is a Windows port of the program used by Yasumasa Kanada in 1995 to compute pi to 232 digits.

Moving over to Super PI, we see a time of 9 minutes and 17 seconds which is slightly quicker than some of the other boards we tested, but only marginally. By overclocking the CPU to 4.6GHz, we saw 2 minutes and 4 seconds being shaved off of the calculation time.