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how's it going guys Kyle here with awesomesauce news today I'll be doing an unboxing and quick overview on this motherboard from gigabyte this is their g1 Sniper Series m3 and it is a micro ATX gaming motherboard and with that in mind I did want to point out that smaller form factor systems have been getting increasingly popular these days especially small form factor gaming systems and I feel like because of that a lot of manufacturers have started to implement more and more full-featured features on smaller form factor boards so I think the m3 would be a prime example of that so with that said let's take a closer look at the box alright so as you can see here this board does feature Intel's z77 chipset it is socket 1155 so it does support all Intel Core processors it also has the 3d bios and that's basically a gigabytes dual UEFI so this board has two bios's on it BIOS ease bios's and so that's cool if you're overclocking you could have one profile just at stock settings and the other one at overclock settings or if you happen to be updating your BIOS and something goes wrong you always have that backup BIOS to boot from we also have 3d power which is essentially gigabytes power delivery software and this board does come equipped with virtue MVP it's powered by some core 3d and it does support SLI and CrossFireX for all of your multi-gpu needs taking a look at the back of the box we can see a full blown image of the motherboard itself with a bunch of text floating around it highlighting some of the main features that this board comes with but I'm gonna get into most of this when I talk about the board itself and take it out of the box but here you can just see some a few highlights SATA rev3 USB 3 PCI gen3 a lot of threes going on so inside you will receive a user's manual a multilingual installation guidebook a fairly large poster here I'm not gonna open it up because I already know it features the flaming skull guy with the knife in his mouth and quite frankly he scares me got some stickers some bullet decals some bullet holes g1 killer oh this go guy you can't escape the skull guy but those are free to stick anywhere you please as long as it's legal and you also get an SLI bridge this is a ribbon style SLI bridge it's painted black on the Flexi ribbon style ones and it looks like you can probably do some some 2-way action with that you also get an i/o shield painted black and some set of cables of course two four six six SATA cables and it looks like they've given you a combination of the L bracket shapes and the straightaway SATA cables in there three of each and last time we've got the motherboard itself but it can't really be seen in all of its glory inside of this reflective packaging so I'm gonna take it out and give you guys a closer look okay so clearly gigabyte has gone with a black and green color scheme for this board and I personally think it looks fantastic you can see here on the back even the PCB isn't a nice black matte finish and that goes for the front as well of course and up here at the top we've got a four pin EPS CPU power connector 12 volt and just take a look at that vrm heatsink right there for a second it's very stylish and right there your 1155 sockets compatible with both Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge processors from Intel and over here you have four dimm slots supporting up to 32 gigs of ddr3 memory at 1600 megahertz and here you have a 24 pin power connector for your motherboard and a USB 3.0 port header which is actually being natively controlled by the z77 chipset it's got a black heatsink over it with some gigabyte with the gigabyte logo right there and green as well I've got four SATA ports here these two white ones up top are actually set a rev 3 16 bit per second speeds and these two are Center up to three gigabit per second speeds all of which being controlled by the z77 front panel connectors down at the bottom very colorful and they're all labeled for you for your convenience those little buggers can be difficult to get in there sometimes and this red port right here is actually a USB 2.0 port header you should be plugging into this thing if you want to take advantage of gigabytes super speed technology which essentially allows you to charge your USB enabled device whether it be a smartphone or tablet at three times the speed three times the charging speed that is as you normally would get from a normal USB 2.0 port and speaking of which there are two more right here you can take a look at the corner of the board you can see that there's a little metal bracket going around it's kind of isolating or segregating the rest of this board from itself and that's essentially the onboard audio going on so it's almost like a little discreet sound area right here you've got your HD audio connector right there but essentially what this bracket is going to be doing is reducing the amount of interference that might be caused by some of the other component tree on this board that could interfere with the sound process so it's going to essentially offer you more crystal-clear audio for your onboard sound aside from that you've got your PCIe gen3 point-o connectors right here this is a 16 X slot so if you have one card slot it in right there this is a PCI Express 1x card or 1x slot and these two are also PCI Express 3.0 x16 except this one is wired for 4x and this one is wired for 8x it's kind of backwards a lot of motherboards do it the opposite way but if you are going to be running a 2 card configuration on this board make sure your slotting them into these two slots right here aside from that I just want to point out the fan connectors on this board I think there are one two three four of them and they are all four pin fan connectors on the back here we have your rear i/o once it focuses I will continue you've got USB 2.0 ports here two of them ps2 port VGA dual link DVI DisplayPort HDMI that pretty much covers all your bases as far as video outs are concerned I've got two more USB 2.0 ports there eSATA port Intel Gigabit Ethernet LAN port yay that's nice two USB 3.0 ports there and 7.1 channel audio with your optical Toslink out all right guys that's gonna wrap it up for this video once again this has been the g1 sniper series m3 micro ATX gaming motherboard from gigabyte and if I am to give my own personal opinion on this board I personally love it I think it has a lot of full blown features on it I really enjoyed the PCIe gen3 connectivity as well as the super speed USB 2.0 header one critique maybe a critique is that I wish there was a little bit more fam connectivity there's only four headers I'd like to see more but then again it is a micro ATX board you're probably not going to be putting it in a massive case with a bunch of case fans but with all that said I think it's a very solid board and I'd recommend it to anyone who's looking for a small form-factor gaming rig in the near future so that's gonna do it for now guys thank you all for watching awesomesauce news and I'll see you guys in the next video