Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2: €400 for a card mother LGA-1155?

The Taiwanese manufacturer Gigabyte will soon launch a motherboard Z68/LGA-1155 to more than €400...

A little over five years ago, the motherboard in the heart of an Intel platform offered a considerable amount of features that are now directly integrated into Santa Clara giant processors. It was justifiable to spend some money on this component. This logic is now ancient history, and it is difficult to see how Gigabyte can afford to seek more than €400 for the G1.Sniper 2.

This motherboard is the players, a population that the Taiwanese manufacturer clearly considered cows milk. To the ATX, it incorporates the Intel Z68 Express chipset and socket LGA-1155, which also supports the current Sandy Bridge, as the future Ivy Bridge.  It has also four slots supporting the DDR3 to 2133 MHz on two channels, and two slots PCI Express x 16 (SNB, IVB 3.0 2.0), which are compatible with SLI, CrossFireX, and Virtu technologies. Side storage, there are four Serial ATA 6 Gb/s, and three ports 3 Gb/s.

Gigabyte also incorporates a Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100 network controller and a Creative CA20K2 audio controller. These solutions significantly lead the invoice, whereas the gains they make are not always obvious. The presence of an amplifier helmet will be more significant. Panel aft of the G1.Sniper 2 shows ports, HDMI, eSATA and USB 3.0. The side a little more, it should be noted the presence of an automatic overclocking button, a Touch BIOS, and a control panel (powered) eSATA port and two additional USB 3.0 ports. It has therefore case a relatively complete product, but we excuse a high label!

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Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2 motherboard in Z68 equipped for the future

Gigabyte announces the G1.Sniper 2 motherboard bound for Gamers, very complete and thought for the future. It takes over the design of the G1.Sniper, but Exchange of socket and adopts the Z68 instead X 58.The Gigabyte G1 series is radically different from the other motherboards of the constructor. The PCB is black like the latest Gigabyte, but PCI-Express ports and the Ram ports are alternately green and black. The heatsink to a particular form with a look of firearm.The G1.Sniper 2 is thought for the future taking the essential of today and tomorrow. It will be compatible with the current Sandy Bridge processors. Gigabyte also announced support for the Ivy Bridge 22 nm processors, which is the next generation of CPU Intel expected for early 2012. Twelve phases of power supplies will help power the processor.Port PCI-Express 3.0 is also supported but with Ivy processor only Bridge since Sandy Bridge that handles lines PCI-Express 2.0.The more traditional way motherboard is based on the Z68 chipset. It supports up to 32 GB of ram in Dual Channel with frequency up to 2133 Mhz. The SLI and the CrossFire are supported, the PCI-Express ports will then be 2 * 8 x. Note that the LucidLogix Virtu chip will be also the part, as a reminder to switcher between graphics and the graphic part integrated into the CPU, to save energy when the dedicated graphics card does not have to be used.Concerning the storage, the motherboard will support four SATA 3 (6 GB/s) ports two via Intel chipset and two via the additional chip Marvell 88SE9172. There are also three ports SATA 2 (3 GB/s) internal as well as a connector eSATA 3 GB/s at the back of the motherboard.

USB 3.0 will be managed by two Ron EJ168 chips that will allow to have four ports USB 3.0 including two at the rear of the motherboard and internal two. USB 2.0 will be also present with fourteen ports.

For players the G1.Sniper 2 will have a real creative chip the CA20K2 welded to even the motherboard to support the EAX Advanced HD 5.0, the Dolby Digital Live and DTS Connect support as well as X - FI options. The network portion will be entrusted to the Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100 chip a UPN (processor dedicated to the network portion) supported by 1 GB of DDR2, the NPU promises to improve network performance.

There are more than to know the price of this Gigabyte G1.Sniper 2.

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