Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5 Motherboard Review

Motherboards/Intel S1150 by stefan @ 2013-07-31

The G1.Sniper 5 Z87 motherboard from Gigabyte is packed with all bells and whistles and offers stuff like Killer E2200 NIC, a solid 16-phase VRM, Sound Blaster Core3D audio with interference PCB isolation and replaceable OP AMPs, a 2-in-1 heatsink on the VRM which also acts as a water block, 4-way CrossFireX/SLI support and many more.

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A Closer Look Part II

The mini-card is manufactured by Atheros and also supplies Bluetooth 4.0 interface (model number AR5B22). The board supports both 2.4GHz and 5GHz networks, meaning that it is dual band:

 

 

 

In the front we have the WiFi and Bluetooth activity LEDs:

 

 

 

Going on with the bundle, we will get:

 

-one 3-way SLI bridge connector

-one 4-way SLI bridge connector

-one 2-way CrossFire bridge connector

-the I/O shield

-one USB 2.0 cable for the GC-WB300D kit

-audio extra accessories

 

 

 

The OP AMP upgrade kit comes with the IC extractor and one extra operational amplifier:

 

 

 

 

 

 

As documentation, we get one Multilingual Installation Guidebook, the GC-WB300D manual, one Gigabyte sticker, the main User Manual for the board and two DVDs:

 

 

 

The G1.Sniper 5 motherboard is pretty loaded in terms of interfaces, accessories and comes with a nice green/black theme:

 

 

 

In the top left corner we have the ATX_12V CPU power connector:

 

 

 

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