 Buy a qualifying Intel product and get entered in the Intel Dynamic Ticket Giveaway for a chance to win great prizes. Visit IntelGamingPromo.com to learn more. So if you happened to look at our unboxing of the G1 Sniper 5 from Gigabyte, their flagship 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 E2200 Killer NIC onboard. 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 two right angle SATA cables and two straight SATA cables, so a smaller accessory package, a gigabyte sticker, a manual, a driver disc, download the latest off the gigabyte website, and this right here, this is where shiz starts to really get real guys, because when I say better onboard audio, I mean better onboard audio, so they're using Soundcore 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, it's still on the motherboard, so you don't use up a PCI Express slot, which is particularly important for an MATX 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's an op amp socket, and 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, 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 color, the subtleties. So it comes with a puller 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 Haswell Intel Core i5, i3, 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 DIMMs 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 caps, so this is part of their whole ultra durable 5 concept, which includes better quality components, their 2 ounce copper PCB concept, as well as their glass fabric PCB, which should in theory make the boards 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 5 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 2, and then here where you'd plug in a fan at the back of your case, you find an additional 1. Your 8 pin connectors in its ideal location at the top left and your 24 pin connectors in its ideal location along the right. Your 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 bench and honestly even in a case, you start installing graphics cards down here, boom, all this is covered, having the front panel connectors, or front panel buttons up here is more convenient, so there is a CMOS 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 2 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 3 front panel header round out the right side of the board with 6 SATA 3, 6 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 SATA 3, very good Intel, you're not too late on that one. Anyway, we've got our front panel connectors here, 2 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 E2200 network chip on here somewhere that handles that prioritized gaming features and whatnot out of that gigabit ethernet port right there, USB 2.0 ports, 4 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 display port, 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 16x or 8x, 8x operation, with this one wired up for 4x, 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 and 3 because Nvidia specifies 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. 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