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.

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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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