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learn more so if you happened to look at our unboxing of the G1 sniper 5 from
Gigabyte their Flagship gaming lga1150
board and thought well I like that but
it's a little expensive it's a little big I don't know if I need quite all the
those features this is the board for you
my friends this is the G1 sniper M5 which is the Micro ATX version slightly
fewer Bells slightly fewer whistles same
gaming oriented features so when I say gaming oriented features I'm talking
about things like better on board audio as well as Bigfoot
e2200 killer Nick on board so that
prioritizes your gaming packets as well as having some other cool software
features like limiting the bandwidth available to certain programs and stuff
like that but at a lower cost in a
smaller form factor and without some of the extras like the integrated uh
Wireless and Bluetooth card and stuff like that so let's go ahead and run
through the accessories that are included really quickly we've got an IO
Shield there you go looks a little something like that conveniently labeled
we've got an SLI Bridge it's the flexible SLI Bridge type and actually
that's kind of a unique layout for it that's okay I'll talk more about the
slot layout after we've got two right angle SATA cables
and two straight SATA cables so a smaller accessory package a Gigabyte
sticker a manual a driver disc download the latest off the Gigabyte website and
this right here this is where shiz starts to really get real guys because
when I say better on board audio I mean better onboard audio so they're using
soundcore 3D which is a creative technology there's an audio processor
here under what is a gold shield however
it's sort of debatable how much of a difference that's going to make in terms of isolating it from Emi but what's
important is that it's on a separated part of the PCB that actually has a
green line that draws a serious business
line between well here's the audio stuff and here's everything else so rather
than having it on a riser card it's still on the motherboard so you don't use up a PCI Express slot which is
particularly important for an matx board but that doesn't change the fact that
it's a very high-end audio solution now this right here is upgradable opamp kit
opamp up up GR kit that's what they call it sorry excuse me so there's an opamp
socket and basically what an opamp does is it amplifies the audio signal this is
important particularly if you have high impedance headphones that require a
stronger signal in order to drive them however some people like to swap the off
amps because it can change the way that the sound the the sound quality and when
I say quality I don't mean in terms of goodness or Badness I means in terms of
the qualities of it the uh the color the subtleties so it comes with with a pull
as well as an additional different opamp and you can upgrade to other different
aftermarket ones I'm not necessarily saying that I think it's the best use of
your time and money but if you're one of those people who wants to Tinker and
wants to play with it Gigabyte gives you the choice so there you go we've got an
LGA 1150 socket right here supporting the latest fourth generation Haswell in
core i5 I3 and i7 processors that means
you've got full support for high-speed DDR3 memory running in dual Channel up
to 32 gigs with the currently available 8 gig dims that are on the market we've
got a high-end vrm solution under a
pretty straightforward cooling Solution that's got a Gigabyte branding as well
as Ultra durable branding on it they are using what they're calling their durable
black solid cap so this is part of their whole Ultra durable 5 concept which
includes better quality components their
2 oz copper PCB concept as well as their
glass fabric PCB which should in theory make the boards more resistant to
humidity which might be more of a factor for people in climates other than where
I live but hey it's good to have the features as opposed to not having them
there are five fan ports on the board itself so there's CPU as well as CPU
optional many people do use multifan cooling Arrangements on their CPUs these
days and then down at the bottom you find an additional two and then here
where you'd plug in a fan at the back of your case you find an additional one
your eight pin connectors in its ideal location at the top left and your 24 pin
connectors in its ideal location along the right your onboard switches are up
here at the top right I like this better than having them down at the bottom of
the board and the reason is that particularly on an open test bench and
honestly even in a case you start installing graphics cards down here boom
all this is covered having the connect having the front panel connectors or
front panel buttons up here is more convenient so there is a simos switch so
you can clear your seos there's a reset switch there's a power switch as well as
a bio switch so there are two dedicated BIOS chips on this board and an LED
indicator that tells you which one you're using so there's a main BIOS as
well as a backup BIOS on the board itself and then over here we've got
voltage read points which is extremely handy if you want to get into some
extreme overclocking and you want to be able to get more accurate numbers than you can get out of the BIOS a post
indicator LED as well as a USB 3 front
panel header round out the right side of the board with six SATA 3 6 gbit per
second connectors along the bottom right Edge this is enabled by Intel's new
chipset that finally has lots of support for Native USB 3 and Native SATA 3 very
good Intel you're not too late on that one anyway we've got our front panel
connectors here two front USB 2.0 ports the audio which I talked about before as
well as if I could find it whatever I can't find it anyway there's a killer
e2200 Network chip on here somewhere that handles that prioritized gaming
features and whatnot out of that gigabit Ethernet port right there 2 USB 2.0
ports 4 USB 3.0 ports and a PS S2 keyboard mouse combo Port round out the
USB on the back we've got a DVI port HDMI another HDMI and DisplayPort which
is a pretty complete complement of ports back there as well as goldplated 7.1
audio ports and an optical digital audio
port now I wanted to talk about those PCI Express slots this one right here
and this one are wired up for 16x or 8X
8X operation with this one wired up for 4X that means you're going to want to
carefully select your chassis if you want to run a dual graphics card
configuration on this board particularly SLI because SLI will not run in PCI
Express slots 1 and three because NVIDIA specifies you have to have at least PCIe
8X operation this slot right here is running off of the chipset not directly
off the CPU and it is running at 4X speed so make sure whatever case you use
has an additional slot or an empty spot
nearby so that there's room for this one to overhang if it's a dual SL lot card
which they pretty much all are these days thank you for checking out my
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