Pros: This board could be the best I've owned over the years. Everything worked as advertised from first installation. 1. RAM clocked and ran at correct speed/timings the second I selected profile1. No fishing around...applied the profile, and I was running at 2133 with CAS 9. I ran memtest86+ for awhile, and I was greeted with ZERO errors. 2. The header placements for fans, SATA2, and USB are all properly placed. I have no crazy cable runs to match this board. 3. The new 3D BIOS is a nice change from the past. 4. The performance has been excellent. There is no concern on this micro board about voltage or power phases.

Cons: 1. Only con...the SATA3 connects sit right in line with the graphics card. If you have a long graphics card, connect the SATA 3 cables before putting the board in the case or the end of the card will make it very hard to attach the connectors.

Pros: Great specs for the board

Cons: Heaven help you if you have an issue.

Overall Review: The board arrived DOA. My fault for waiting more than 30 days to buy the processor...I couldn't just return it to Newegg (who are superb in dealing with RMAs). I contacted Gigabyte, who made me pay the shipping costs to ship their own DOA board back to them. Two weeks later, I get the board back (it had a bad chip that Gigabyte repaired). Now it just power cycles. Tech Support for Gigabyte had me pull the whole board back out (again) and test ram in each slot. Still no joy. Then I had to remove the heat sink and processor and photograph the processor bed. Tech support seemed to imply I had bent the pins. I told them "This is how the board came back to me...I know how to insert a processor. I did it fine the first time, and now there's an issue? Only people who have had their hands on it since it left my possession is you guys...and you didn't find any bent pins the first time, right?" So now I'm dealing with a engineer who's trying to "assess" from pictures if the pins are bent or not. Please. Just replace the board already. If you buy a Gigabyte product, pray it works right out of the box and that you never need their help.

Pros: Oc's ram and cpu well. Good fan header placement.

Cons: Zoidberg

Pros: SATA 6Gbs with a SATA 6Gbs ssd hard drive. Wow, this thing flies. Popped in a 3570k and off she goes. Thing is faster than I can type. 5 seconds to windows splash screen. Inernal graphics are above average and look great running two monitors. Still waiting on AMD card....

Cons: Ummm... the "3d" bios is kind of weird. I like the old school bios. Just have to get use to it.

Overall Review: Coming from a q6600 and a budget board with 3.0 Gps transfer and old school hard drives, this thing is beyond my expectations. Glad I waited for this upgrade.

Pros: This is an update to my previous review.

Cons: well, the problem was never fixed, and has only gotten worse. now, the board refuses to boot at all, even with 2 different power supplies and 3 know working sticks of ram. it will occasionally boot, but it is really a 1 in 5 chance whether or not it will even power on.....very disappointing.

Overall Review: It has been too long to send the board in for an rma....so now im stuck with a bad board. just freakin great.......

Pros: Packs a lot of punch in a small package! The Sniper recognized all four sticks of my ram and runs like a dream, which is something I cannot say about the Asus Gene V that I recently RMAd.

Cons: The board's second Pcie 3.0 slot is too close to my NZXT Vulcan's powersupply which means I cannot use a second GPU. I don't know if other computer cases have the same problem with space as the vulcan does, but this is a pretty big con for me. Also, I wish this card allowed onboard miniPCIE WIFI like the Asus Gene V does, but since I can't use a second GPU, I just got a TP-Link-WLD4800 instead.

Overall Review: This board is solid! It posted on the first try and has not given me any hassle. Unfortunately, I will eventually like to run two GPUs, so I'll probably go with the Asus Gene V in a few months when they become more reliable and have better bios & WIFI support.

Pros: -A quality of onboard sound you won't find on most mobos under $300, and likely better than many discrete sound cards. It is hands-down the standout feature of this mobo. It's nice not needing a discrete sound card, which just impedes airflow. -4 PWM fan headers, which I'm using now instead of my fan controller. -Intel NIC -Solid, hefty. I was actually surprised how heavy it was. Maybe the copper/fiberglass lining accomplishes something and maybe it doesn't, but when you hold this board you definitely get the impression that Gigabyte puts more effort into construction than most brands. The I/O panel is even lightly padded. No corners cut, here. -Everything booted up fine, which is as it should be.

Cons: -Poor utility software. The Gigabyte chipset/driver utility functioned like a half-written program, freezing and getting gui glitches. -Would be nice if each fan could be controlled individually. Fan control only has two speed curve adjustments: one for the cpu fan and one for the other three combined..but, each case fan header has its own temp sensor and the speed presets in bios seem to control them rather intelligently. -Gigabyte seems to think 130c is the red-line temp for Ivy. No, it's 105c, and that wouldn't be a big deal unless you tried to use the automated OC tool in EasyTune, which could attempt to push the chip to damaging levels. -EasyTune is rather sad. I don't think they've given that software a real update in six years. -Ridiculous decals and poster included. I know it's a gaming board , but what am I, 12?

Overall Review: Ultimately the utility software doesn't matter much to me because the hardware is solid. Feature for feature, this board really doesn't have any equals in this price range, with the possible exception of the ROG, and from what I've seen in recent years Gigabyte has upstaged their main competitor when it comes to build quality. Had my 3570k stable at 4.7 *just changing the multiplier and leaving everything on AUTO*, which speaks well to the bios intelligence. I turned it down to 4.2 because it was a bit toasty at 4.7, though really the 3570 doesn't even need an OC.

Pros: I do not own this board, but I am here to elaborate one one rather... unglorifiying post. Not because I am nerd raging, but because the review doesn't really offer anything substantial.

Cons: This is a quote 'Cons: Now for "why the two stars?": Look very closely at the pics for this board: the PCIEx4 slot is the second from the board's edge. The PCIEx8 slot (required for SLI) is the last next to the edge. This means if you put a board with a double slot cooler in for SLI... well, you *WONT* - it can't fit! USB/case led/switch headers are in the way, even if you have case space for it. Put said card in the second to last slot and no SLI (or soup) for you given it's a x4 slot - your second GPU is a nice case warmer or PhysX accelerator. woo. No other vendor does this on their MicroATX boards. When was the last time you bought a high dollar "Gaming" MB to SLI two low cost single-slot cooler cards together? Hmmm?? Dumb." Wiser words could not have been used. Dumb. Anyways... read Other thoughts.

Overall Review: Obviously our friend here doesn't understand the concept of low profile or single slot cards. Most people who use these boards use them for.... small cases. WOW. I know reviewers, I can't believe we didn't know that!!! What's more is if you want to a fully fledged GPU that takes up two slots on a small board like this.. well then it's better to have one unless your liquid cooling because of the tight parameters on small boards LIKE this SNIPER. Know your facts, know the pyramid schemes because this isn't one. A big LOL to you m8.