Gigabyte G1 Sniper Z87 (LGA 1150) Motherboard Review

Overclocking

I seem to end up saying the same thing every time I overclock a Z87 motherboard. As you will know if you’ve read any of our other recent Z87 motherboard reviews our Core i7 4770K sample only does 4.8GHz. Any higher than that and the voltage increases required to get it to 4.9 or 5 cause the CPU to overheat and throttle lower than 4.8GHz. Of course anyone that knows about Haswell will also know that the overclocking isn’t really limited by your motherboard because most of the VRM is on-die or controlled on-die. Therefore it isn’t at all surprising that the Gigabyte Z87 G1 Sniper easily maxed out our Core i7 4770K chip at 4.8GHz with 1.2975 vcore.

Overclocked Performance and Power