The motherboards are the backbone of a PC and if get a good processor and a weak motherboard and want the good performance overall than its just your desire, nothing more. To get best performance from your CPU and GPU, you must have to get a good motherboard for your PC as well. The market is hot as the Intel released its 3rd generation of processors “Ivy Bridge”. The top brands of motherboards launch variety of motherboards in the market and continue to do so. Gigabyte is one of the top brand in the motherboard brands and they are well known for their solid build quality and reliable motherboards all over the world. Today we are going to take a look at Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3, its z77 based so its fully support Intel Ivy Bridge processors.
The Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 has the legacy green and black color and design as the previous Sniper motherboards had which were released by Gigabyte in the past and this Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 still maintain the mini ATX standards but also some thing more than that. Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 fully support the multi GPU either CrossFire or SLI. Its cheaper than the other motherboards but the performance is still more than the expected and the features are really enough for a mini ATX motherboard as well. The ability of overclocking is right up there as well as we achieve 4.6 Ghz clock speed ot Core i7 3770k on this Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 which is really cool. Its price is really low but its right up there with the full ATX motherboards with respect to performance as well and we are really impress with its performance and price too.
It also has the great overclock ability as well as the Dual UEFI BIOS and that really great for a mini ATX motherboard, I have not seen these features and performance from some full ATX z77 and ay of the mini ATX z77 motherboard as well. The CPU running at 4.6 Ghz and good overclocking of GPU is also a plus point of this Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3. The 3D UEFI BIOS is really cool and mostly high end motherboards have it because of more support and reliability and easy over clocking configuration is very easy as well.
Let have a look at its features….
Gigabyte G1.Sniper M3 is really great and it more than the other mini ATX motherboards. Performance is really nice and good features as well.Only thing that i notice is that you can't use the 2x GPUs in crossfire or SLI whici are takes double slots and that is usual with mini ATX so not really matters.If i would went into market to buy a mini ATX motherboard then i would not look at any other than this motherboard so it get a Gold award from SaadReviews.
- Nice Performance.
- Good features.
- Great Value and build Quality.
- Nice Design as well.
- Great Audio.
- 4 DIMS, really great for an mini ATX motherboard.
- Problem with dual slot Cards in sli/crossfire.
- Some improvement needed with onboard heat sinking system.
