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  • Stimpack - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link

    I refuse to buy this until they include the word murder on the box. Otherwise I'll never be able to take them seriously.
  • jdon - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link

    nice.... I'm just glad they abandoned the ammo-clip heat spreader. That thing was horrendous looking.
  • headbox - Sunday, November 10, 2013 - link

    I wish it would come with a 48-inch ammo belt... the average waistline of a Gaymer sniper!
  • jdon - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link

    This is a significant step back (price-wise) from the PLX-enabled quad-CFX/SLI boards of previous generations. Realistically, I think this is the better fight to pick then going up to the range where you might as well be picking up an Ivy-Bridge E for the native PCIe channels and add'l memory bandwidth anyway.... Good on you, Gigabyte!
  • IanCutress - Friday, November 8, 2013 - link

    There is a PLX-enabled quad-CFX/SLI board for this generation too - it came out at/near launch. The G1.Sniper 5. It's a halo board, designed to showcase the best of a company within a generation. The sub $200 gaming motherboards are where more people will focus, and the differences more down to software and minor choices in hardware.
  • Neden - Monday, November 11, 2013 - link

    There are some good features on this board, but why do so many higher-end motherboards only have 6 rear USB ports? My current (old 'beater) PC has 8 rear ports, and I use every one of them. I prefer not to have consistently attached devices in my front USB ports; they clutter my desk and get in the way of temporary devices that I want to plug in. I could just add a PCI add-on card, but would it be that difficult to place 8 or 10 USB ports back there? The chipset supports that many, and there seems to be plenty of room.

    Is this lack of rear USB something that anyone else notices, or am I just going crazy?
  • jamesurry - Saturday, November 16, 2013 - link

    Perfect board for me, but the 2 PCI slots make me sad. Why can't we have a couple of extra PCI-Express slots?
  • C.C. - Sunday, November 17, 2013 - link

    I see the appeal in having a single PCI slot for some legacy cards, but I agree they should have dropped the 2nd one in favor of another PCI-E 4X or 16X slot..Still nice to see the prices coming down on the 1150 boards, especially if the Haswell refresh just requires a BIOS update (it is the same socket after all)..
  • Jay77 - Thursday, November 21, 2013 - link

    What is it with Gigabyte and those damn pci slots...

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