Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2
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Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2


Gigabyte has leapt feet first into the high-end Z68 market with the new G1.Sniper 2. Touted to be one of the first few motherboards to feature PCI Express Gen 3, the board also boasts of dedicated Sound Blaster X-Fi 20K2 onboard processing with EAX 5.0 technology. Another onboard feature of worthy mention is the Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100, a Network Processing Unit (NPU) with 1Gb of dedicated DDR2 memory.

Product Specification

Processor Support and Chipset Type
  • Supports Intel Core i3 / i5 / i7 / Pentium / Celeron Processors in the LGA1155 package
  • Intel Z68 Express chipset
Memory
  • 4 x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to 32GB of system memory
  • Dual channel memory architecture
  • Support for DDR3 2133/1866/1600/1333/1066 MHz memory modules
Storage
  • 2 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  • 3 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
  • 1 x eSATA 3Gb/s connector on backpanel
  • Support for RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
Audio
  • 1 x Creative CA20K2 chip
  • Support for X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity and EAX Advanced HD 5.0 technologies
Video Support for AMD CrossFireX and NVIDIA SLI technology
Networking 1 x Bigfoot Killer E2100 chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
FireWire (IEEE 1394) Up to 3 IEEE 1394a ports (2 rear, 1 header)
Rear I/O
  • 7 x USB 2.0/1.1 ports
  • 1 x PS/2 keyboard/mouse port
  • 1 x CPU overclocking button
  • 1 x optical S/PDIF Out connector
  • 1 x eSATA/USB Combo connector
  • 1 x HDMI port
  • 2 x USB 3.0/2.0 ports
  • 1 x RJ-45 port
  • 5 x audio jacks
Internal Connectors
  • 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
  • 1 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connector
  • 4 x SATA 6Gb/s connectors
  • 3 x SATA 3Gb/s connectors
  • 1 x CPU fan header
  • 4 x system fan headers
  • 1 x front panel header
  • 1 x front panel audio header
  • 1 x S/PDIF Out header
  • 3 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
  • 1 x USB 3.0/2.0 header
  • 1 x serial port header
  • 1 x Trusted Platform Module (TPM) header
  • 1 x clearing CMOS jumper
  • 1 x heatsink LED power connector
  • 1 x CPU overclocking button header
Expansion Slots
  • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x16 (PCIEX16)
  • 1 x PCI Express x16 slot, running at x8 (PCIEX8)
  • 2 x PCI Express x1 slots
  • 2 x PCI slots
Other Features
  • Support for @BIOS
  • Support for Q-Flash
  • Support for Xpress BIOS Rescue
  • Support for Download Center
  • Support for Xpress Install
  • Support for Xpress Recovery2
  • Support for EasyTune
  • Support for Dynamic Energy Saver 2
  • Support for Smart 6
  • Support for Auto Green
  • Support for eXtreme Hard Drive (X.H.D)
  • Support for ON/OFF Charge
  • Support for Cloud OC
  • Support for 3TB+ Unlock
  • Support for TouchBIOS
  • Support for Q-Share
Form Factor ATX Form Factor; 30.5cm x 26.4cm