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by a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel dynamic ticket giveaway for a chance to win great prizes is it Intel gaming promo com to learn more so if you happened to look at our unboxing of the g1 sniper 5 from gigabyte their flagship of gaming LGA 1150 board and thought well I like that but it's a little expensive it's a little big I don't know if I need quite all those features this is the board for you my friends this is the g1 sniper m5 which is the micro ATX version slightly fewer bells slightly fewer whistles same gaming oriented features so when I say gaming oriented features I'm talking about things like better onboard audio as well as Bigfoot e 20 200 killer Nick on board so that prioritizes your gaming packets as well as having some other cool software features like limiting the bandwidth available to certain programs and stuff like that but at a lower cost in a smaller form factor and without some of the extras like the integrated Wireless and Bluetooth card and stuff like that so let's go ahead and run through the accessories that are included really quickly we've got an i/o shield there you go looks a little something like that conveniently labeled we've got an sli bridge it's the flexible sli bridge type and actually that's kind of a unique layout for it that's okay I'll talk more about the slot layout after we've got to right angle SATA cables and two straight SATA cables so a smaller accessory package a gigabyte sticker a manual a driver disk download the latest off the gigabyte website and this right here this is where chiz starts to really get real guys because when I say better onboard audio I mean better onboard audio so they're using sound Core 3d which is a creative technology there's an audio processor here under what is a gold shield however it's sort of debatable how much of a difference that's going to make in terms of isolating it from EMI but what's important is that it's on a separated part of the PCB that actually has a green line that draws a serious business line between well here's the audio stuff and here's everything else so rather than having it on a riser card still on the motherboard so you don't use up a PCI Express slot which is particularly important for an M ATX board but that doesn't change the fact that it's a very high-end audio solution now this right here is upgradable op amp kit op amp upgrade kit that's what they call it sorry excuse me so there is an op amp socket basically what an op amp does is it amplifies the audio signal this is important particularly if you have high impedance headphones that require a stronger signal in order to drive them however some people like to swap the op amps because it can change the way that the sound does the sound quality and when I say quality I don't mean in terms of goodness or badness I mean in terms of the qualities of it the the color the subtleties so it comes with a polar as well as an additional different op amp and you can upgrade to other different aftermarket ones I'm not necessarily saying that I think it's the best use of your time and money but if you're one of those people who wants to tinker and wants to play with it gigabyte gives you the choice so there you go we've got an LGA 1150 socket right here supporting the latest fourth generation has well until Core i5 in I 3 and i7 processors that means you've got full support for high speed ddr3 memory running in dual channel up to 32 gigs with the currently available 8 gig dims that are on the market we've got a high-end vrm solution under a pretty straightforward cooling solution that's got a gigabyte branding as well as ultra durable branding on it they are using what they're calling their durable black solid cap so this is part of their whole ultra durable 5 concept which includes better quality components they're 2 ounce copper PCB concept as well as their glass fabric PCB which should in theory make the board's more resistant to humidity which might be more of a factor for people in climates other than where I live but hey it's good to have the features as opposed to not having them there are five fan ports on the board itself so there's CPU as well as CPU optional many people do use multi fan cooling arrangements on their CPUs these days and then down at the bottom you find an additional two and then here where you'd plug in a fan at the back of your case you find an additional one your 8 pin connectors in it's ideal location at the top left and your 24 pin connectors in its ideal location along right you're onboard switches are up here at the top right I like this better than having them down at the bottom of the board and the reason is that particularly on an open test mention honestly even in a case you start installing graphics cards down here boom all this is covered having the Kinect having the front panel connectors our front panel buttons up here is more convenient so there is a CMO switch so you can clear your CMOS there's a reset switch there's a power switch as well as a bios switch so there are two dedicated BIOS chips on this board and an LED indicator that tells you which one you're using so there's a main BIOS as well as a backup BIOS on the board itself and then over here we've got voltage read points which is extremely handy if you want to get into some extreme overclocking and you want to be able to get more accurate numbers than you can get out of the BIOS a post indicator LED as well as a USB three front panel header round out the right side of the board with six SATA 3 six gigabit per second connectors along the bottom right edge this is enabled by Intel's new chipset that finally has lots of support for native USB 3 and native say 2 3 very good Intel not too late on that one anyway we've got our front panel connectors here to front USB 2.0 ports the audio which I talked about before as well as if I could find it whatever I can't find it anyway there's a killer e 20 200 Network chip on here somewhere that handles that prioritized gaming features and whatnot out of that Gigabit Ethernet port right there two USB 2.0 ports four USB 3.0 ports and a ps2 keyboard mouse combo port round out the usb on the back we've got a DVI port HDMI another hdmi and displayport which is a pretty complete complement of ports back there as well as gold-plated 7.1 audio ports and an optical digital audio port now I wanted to talk about those PCI Express slots this one right here and this one are wired up for 16 X or 8 X 8 X operation with this one wired up for 4 X that means you're going to want to carefully select your chassis if you want to run a dual graphics card configuration on this board particularly SLI because SLI will not run in PCI Express slots 1 & 3 because Nvidia specify you have to have at least PCIe 8x operation this slot right here is running off of the chipset not directly off the CPU and it is running at 4x speed so make sure whatever case you use has an additional slot or an empty spot nearby so that there's room for this one to overhang if it's a dual slot card which they pretty much all are these days thank you for checking out my unboxing and overview of the g1 sniper m5 from gigabyte don't forget to subscribe for more videos like this from me don't forget to like the video if you liked it or dislike it if you didn't or dislike it if you dislike something particularly about me that's fine in fact you can even leave a comment and tell me what you don't like about me I'll read it but I won't care don't forget to subscribe as well