Friday, March 2nd 2012
Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 Z77 Motherboard Pictured
How time flies. It's been just a little over an year since Gigabyte unveiled its G1.Killer series of gamer-overclocker oriented motherboards, including the G1.Sniper, and now it's already at G1.Sniper 3. While the original G1.Sniper was based on the X58 chipset supporting LGA1366 processors, the the Sniper 2 based on Z68 chipset, supporting LGA1155 processors, the Sniper 3 stays put on the LGA1155 platform, but makes use of the brand-new Z77 chipset. The motherboard is designed to drive up to four graphics cards in 4-way CrossFire/SLI configurations. It takes advantage of a PLX PEX8747 bridge chip, which takes in one PCI-Express 3.0 x16 link, giving out two PCI-Express 3.0 x16 links, it even has a native multiplex that splits its second downstream x16 link to two x8 links. This way, the G1.Sniper 3 is ready for 4-way action with the latest PCIe Gen. 3.0 graphics cards.
The socket LGA1155 CPU is powered by a 15-phase VRM. It is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots supporting dual-channel DDR3 memory. Expansion slots include four PCI-Express 3.0 x16 (x16/NC/x16/NC; x16/NC/x8/x8; x8/x8/x8/x8); two PCI-Express 2.0 x1 (wired to the PCH), and one legacy PCI. There's a boat-load of SATA connectivity, starting with six SATA 6 Gb/s ports (two from the PCH, four from additional controllers), four SATA 3 Gb/s, and one mSATA 6 Gb/s. For a change, Gigabyte did away with Creative X-Fi audio (at least the CA20K2-based version), and replaced with Sound Core3D driving the audio, with better ground-isolated amp circuitry, and Bigfoot's Killer E2100 network controller. There's a second GbE connection, driven by Intel Gigabit Ethernet controller (probably 82579V).
Display connectivity looks to include DVI, D-Sub, HDMI, and DisplayPort (the whole lot). All USB ports on the rear panel are USB 3.0, four of them could be wired to the PCH. There are a number of USB 2.0 ports available by headers, not to mention two more USB 3.0 ports via front-panel header. Moving on, the G1.Sniper 3 has Gigabyte's dual-UEFI BIOS with 3DBIOS UI. While the board retains the gunmetal black+green color scheme, it did away with retarded-looking heatsink designs. It packs a whole bunch of features for overclockers, including consolidated voltage measurement points, a feature-rich BIOS, etc. The G1.Sniper 3 could feature in Gigabyte's first wave of Z77 motherboards.
Source:
VR-Zone
45 Comments on Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 Z77 Motherboard Pictured
That is the final design.
They have their own gigabyte forum too.
Gigabyte have been well aware of complaints, so aware that they sacked the manager who makes decisions about the design of motherboards.
Gigabyte have had a bad run with design choices, no UEFI, no PCI-E 3, stupid heatsinks, and X79 motherboards that blew up, etc etc.
forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/
Anyone remembers ASUS or Gigabyte software? They NEVER mastered the use of regular windows. They always used some crappy looking custom interfaces that were done using i don't know, MS Paint and they always took 500MB of HDD space because everything was in BMP format.
whether or not the cards they use have single or dual slot cooling is debatable
some benchers might also run 4xcrossfire/SLi.
theres a few of them on these forums with them kind of machines....
Either which way, Gigabyte is more than happy to listen to feedback, but they're not going to take bitching on a forum seriously, neither is any other hardware manufacturer.
Constructive feedback is the way things work in the real world and that's what these companies listen to. Just saying... ;)
No one told gigabyte their heatsinks were nice I guess, so they made them how they thought users wanted them, maybe they thought users thought the heatsinks were too nice, who knows some of the guys on forums are nuts in their responses just bitching about everything. I think the Sniper 3 looks good however.
I can't believe I am reading such stupidities! I am just sick of people like you who are complaining and make a big case out of insignificant issues. Of course, appearance has its aesthetically importance, but just tell me how many times you are looking at your motherboard AFTER you installed it (especially while you are gaming!)? I am not taking in consideration the time when you wand to make modifications to your initial set-up. So unless you are that kind of geeks that just want to "SHOW-UP" their gears! And again, talking about heat sinks, I do not see what in their shape and appearance is bothering you unless their shape or appearance is impeding the functionality of the board or added cards. Their only reason to be there in strictly functional and they are meant to cool the necessary components not for anyone aesthetically pleasure (even tough is nothing wrong to have a god-looking heat sinks or a whole good-looking motherboard). So, guys,if you allowed me, i would recommend you to cool down and get a life.Thanks fo reading.
And thats what people do. You have a nice XXXXX you show it off. Lots of cases have windows on it so you can see the board easily. Others run their PC on a benching station. This is an enthusiast community, not a Dell closed box community. So while I understand what you are saying, you are also missing the market here in the first place. So Dargo, if you allowed me, I would recommend you step back and realize what demographic you are speaking to before making an off the wall first post and understand that looks are important for a lot of users here. So those expressing their opinion have a right to be dissappointed in the selection as it is in view for a lot of users. :)
Funny that other people's opinion bother YOU enough to go through the trouble to register, post, and then you had the fortitude to tell other people to get a life. The irony in that is just killing me. :p
EDIT: That said, it looks much better than the gun theme they had going on!!