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Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X review

Our Rating :
Price when reviewed : £80
inc VAT

A decent FM2+ ATX board with good performance, but you can get pretty much all of the same features on cheaper boards

Specifications

FM2+, ATX, A88X chipset, supports: AMD A-Series, Athlon

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On the rear panel, the G1 Sniper has plenty of ports and Gigabyte has placed a special emphasis on improving its sound support. On top of its optical S/PDIF optical output and five 3.5mm audio jacks for 7.1 surround sound, there’s also a gold-plated USB2 port that’s been especially designed to connect to a DAC, cutting down on noise to deliver enhanced audio. Well, that’s if you believe that the connector on a purely digital interconnect can make any difference to sound quality. There’s also a PS/2 port and a Gigabit Ethernet port.

Gigabyte G1 Sniper A88X

We were disappointed that there were only two USB3 ports to be found with its five USB2 ports, but there’s a USB3 header on the front of the board for an additional two USB3 ports if your case layout allows for it.

We tested the G1 Sniper A88X with an AMD A10-7850K processor and 4GB of DDR3 RAM running at 1,600MHz and it scored 71 overall. This is roughly what we’d expect to see from this setup,

At £80, the G1 Sniper A88X is a good price for a mid-range board, but you’re not getting much more for your money than the cheaper Asus A88XM-PLUS. Unless you specifically need the extra space an ATX motherboard gives you, go for the A88XM-Plus instead.

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Basic Specifications

Rating***
Processor socketFM2+
Form factorATX
Size220x305mm
Processor supportAMD A-Series, Athlon
Processor external bus100MHz
Chipset north bridgeA88X
Chipset south bridgeA88X
Passively-cooled north bridgeyes
Integrated graphicsNo
Supported memory typeDDR3
Maximum memory speedPC3-19200
Memory slots4
Maximum memory64GB
Dual-channel supportyes

Buying Information

Price£80
Supplierhttp://www.cclonline.com
Detailswww.giga-byte.com

Internal Ports

Power connectors1x 24-pin ATX, 1x 8-pin ATX
PCI-E x16 slots2
Dual graphics architectureCrossFire, AMD Dual Graphics
PCI-E x4 slots0
PCI-E x1 slots3
PCI slots2
Fan headers4
Floppy ports0
IDE ports0
Serial ATA ports0
RAID chipset (max disks)AMD A88X (RAID 0, 1, 5, 10, JBOD)

Features

Wired network ports1x 10/100/1000
Sound (ports)Realtek ALC898 (5x analogue, optical S/PDIF out)
USB2 ports / headers7/6
Firewire ports / headers0
Legacy portsserial header
Other portsVGA, DVI, HDMI
Cables included4x SATA
Brackets includednone
Software includednone

Setup and Overclocking

Voltage adjustmentCPU/RAM/Chipset
CPU clock max adjustment140MHz

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