Gigabyte G1 Sniper 5!

[Mikey]

Green and orange are not my favorite colours, but when I see them on motherboard my heart skip a beat.

Spec of the board here
Pictures first as usual.

Another box!


Many accessories. Came with a single op amp upgrade kit


Mobo itself


Socket area + the watercool-able HSF


Many sata ports!


4x PCIE x16 slot for 4 way SLi/Crossfire. If all 4 slots are taken, they run at 8x


Sound Core3d with the removable op amp choip. This is real tech not some realtec̶h̶k.

 

[Mikey]

Back Panel


Back of mobo


8 Layer PCB


Sound isolation. Found in alot of Z87 mobo now


Power buttons plus shaky hands


Bios selector mode and switch.


On bench table with a GTX 770 Windforce 3!

 

[Mikey]

Some standard bench first

Linx Vdimm at 1.6v Vcore at 1.22v. Same vcore needed on other mobo.


3dmark Vantage. Notice the GPU core speed turboed to 1332 mhz!


Same deal with 3d11. turboed to 1332 mhz!

 

[Mikey]

I just google "network latency test" and one of the first few hit was tp ping-test.net. So i give it a try.

Started off with 2 runs with Killer nic, then 2 runs with Intel lan, then 2 runs with Killer nic and end with 2 runs with Intel lan again.



I was surprised with the results. seems like those ran with killer nic have lower latency!

 

[Mikey]

Something about the sound.

Stock op amp.


op amp that came with the box


The 3 extra op amps! Doesn't come with the board but not sure if the free offer still valid.




I will give them a try pretty soon!

 

[Mikey]

Some Bios screenshot

Very informative bios screen. Colour theme also follow the G1 theme.


Even have many ram profiles but they looks like they are not for mere mortals.

 

[dinosau4]

Nice! Especially with the amp customization, Imho it's still a nice looking board with overwhelming accessories!

 

[bhtan83]

Nice! Especially with the amp customization, Imho it's still a nice looking board with overwhelming accessories!

ya i love this mobo too but its a bit overpriced...

 

[Mikey]

ya i love this mobo too but its a bit overpriced...

yeah. but this is a mobo can you can buy and forget. My G1 sniper 3 still running strong

 

[Mikey]

Gigabyte OP-AMP Premium Upgrade Kit. Description of the 3 OP-AMPs found in this kit.

Free with Gigabyte G1.Sniper 5. While stock last!