The flagship of Gigabytes Series 7 motherboards, the G1.Sniper 3 and is intended for both Sandy Bridge as Ivy Bridge cpus. The board is made for overclockers, and with four 3.0 pci-express-slots.
The new G1.Sniper 3 is like its predecessors aimed at gamers and overclockers, and is equipped with a lga1155 socket for Sandy Bridge processors and Intel’s upcoming generation of cpus. Manufacturers may not formally Ivy Bridge, say, but have to be at 22nm processors or third-generation Core processors. The cpu is combined with ddr3 memory in four slots can be inserted and there is a Z77-chipset built-in.
The chipset provides four sata-600 ports, and eight sata-300 connectors there are six usb 3.0 ports available. Two additional sata-600 ports from a Marvell-controller is supplied. The system expands the sixteen pci-express lanes via a plx chip, so two video cards at full speed can be controlled, or up to four cards in x8 configuration can be used. Furthermore, two pci-express x1 slots and a pci slot.
The Sniper-board green-black designed with a fairly traditional heat sinks: earlier was an earlier version with bullets and guns as heat sinks shown. The board received four video outputs, dual gigabitnetwerkpoorten with a Killer NIC controller, and Intel nic, and a Sound Core3D-sound chip from Creative.
The msata slot is on the board, so all small caching ssds can be used to hard disk performance to increase. The msata slot is on a large part of Gigabytes Series 7 motherboards, the Taiwanese company has a substantial number of the revue went through, back to find. Also, many signs in the higher segment now with the onboard wi-fi – and bluetooth-adapters supplied.