First LGA1366 mainboards appeared back in 2008 and since then they have already become somewhat obsolete. That is why mainboard makers initiated a second wave of Intel X58 Express based products. The major difference between the new boards and the older models became the support of such new interfaces as USB 3.0 and SATA 6 Gbps. Gigabyte did exactly the same thing and rolled out an entire family of new LGA1366 mainboards starting with the UD3R model and going up to UD9. However, they didn’t stop there and besides the common mainboards, began offering products in the new gaming series called “G1-Killer” as well as a special overclocking board. In fact, the terms “gaming mainboard” and “overclocking mainboard” are very popular these days, but they somehow remain pretty vague and unclear. This is why they may often be applied to almost any contemporary mainboard. Today any mainboard with at least two graphics card slots supporting ATI CrossFire and Nvidia SLI configurations is positioned as a gaming product, even though most gamers do perfectly fine with just one graphics accelerator. The boards that were specifically designed with gamers in mind are Asus RoG (Republic of Gamers) and MSI Big Bang. As for overclocking, even some entry level mainboards have overclocking-friendly features and all manufacturers always stress their products’ unprecedented overclocking potential. It turned out Gigabyte have their own unique ideas of true gaming and overclocking mainboard. Well, it is going to be even more interesting to see what these ideas are with the help of a gaming Gigabyte G1.Sniper mainboard from the G1-Killer series and Gigabyte GA-X58A-OC mainboard for overclocking fans.