Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 (Z77) Motherboard Review

3DMark 11

3DMark 11 is the latest offering from Futuremark, taking full advantage of DirectX 11 by utilising tessellation features and volumetric lighting. It takes your graphics and CPU hardware to the edge to simulate the most extreme conditions whilst working as a stand point to compare results with other users online.

Moving over to gaming related benchmarks and 3DMark 11, we can see that at stock, the G1.Sniper M3 gave some solid results which is comparable to the other boards we tested. When overclocked, the scores shot forward by a small amount, yet the Maximus V Gene from Asus managed to outperform it, but at stock speeds.

Metro 2033

Metro 2033 is a first-person shooter game based in the Russian metro system. Metro 2033 is very similar to the much loved game STALKER as it is developed by the same programmers. The game utilises DirectX 11 and relies heavily on tessellation features and is considered to be one of the most graphics intense games on the market.

With Metro 2033, we saw the Sniper M3 giving the same results as the other boards we tested. The overclock allowed an extra 1FPS on both resolutions, but this is nothing that is noticeable.