Gigabyte G1 Assassin Review
Pictures part 2 - The Motherboard
Published: 21st February 2011 | Source: Gigabyte | Price: £419.99 |
Pictures Part 2 - The Motherboard
Motherboard colour schemes have gone through a few changes over the years. For a long while all you could get were blue ones, and variants of that. Then in the last couple of years it seems every big motherboard has been black and red. It's nice to see Gigabyte giving us a different option here with a very, unavoidably nVidia, green colour scheme.
The CPU socket is kept relatively free despite a 16 phase power circuit making sure that the board has serious overclocking potential.
Four PCIe slots provide plenty of space for your graphics cards and thanks to the ATX-XL sizing there is enough cooling to keep even the most power hungry GPUs cool. Speaking of power hungry, above the top PCIe slot there is a molex input to make sure the Assassin can keep everything smooth.
Inputs and outputs are well covered with both SATA2 and SATA3 covering your storage needs. Round the back we have the standard connections with 4 USB3.0 ports, 2 USB2.0 ones, Creative outputs and two PS2 sockets.
One of the big features of the Assassin is the inclusion of a KillerNIC E2100 Network chip that claims to maximise the latency of your connection by giving bandwidth priority to gaming traffic.
On the bottom left corner we have the Creative CA20K2 which is a major upgrade to the standard X-fi software solutions found on most other motherboards.
There is no doubt that Gigabyte have played the Military theme to the maximum. The southbridge heat-sink is particularly impressive being a perfect replica of a 7.62 magazine. The power phase cooling is staring down the barrel of a gun. So good is this that the warning that the heatsink cannot be assembled into a gun must be useful for any customs checks.
Most Recent Comments
Love the Assassin build videos watched them all multiple times
As for P67, it's still a viable option for noobs, I hope. Especially if we don't use the S2 ports.
I missed out on X58 and went strait from 775 and P45 to P67 and 1155 but if I hadn't done that I probably would have gone for this board.
Now I have a Q for ya TinyTom, what would you prefer, this gigabyte board or a EVGA classified board ?.
I`ll take your advise thoug a 970, a couple of dominators and some green stuff.
Wow
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Originally Posted by VSOP
This is availabe for purchasing now? |
Here's hoping the Sniper is affordable for me xD
. Love the content that you were putting on YouTube aswell. A good overclocker motherboard is necessary, the root of the computer.
+???? lots of points for that ASSASSIN G1
Thanks OC3D my overclocks are OC3D enhanced
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Originally Posted by coolgame
@tomlogan:u said that the zotac cards were noisy in ur exclusive gtx 580 review.how is the msi reference one compared to that?can u review the 560ti sli in stock/oc vs a single gtx 580? |
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Originally Posted by I Hunta x
Link on the picture in your first prost is borked tom, http://http:// is how it starts, redirects to somewere offsite in firefox atleast. |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
These are the AMP! Models dude. We think now the original 580 I had, had a faulty vapor chamber causing the fans to spin up. |
Excellent scores and Crysis play
well doneI'm surprised with CPU Crysis results as my temps are alot lower @4Ghz than BFBC 2 @3.8Ghz
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Originally Posted by crimson2404
For £450 it’s just an over hyped rip off, for that money you could get a 2600k and an asus p8p67 deluxe. |
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Originally Posted by tinytomlogan
How narrow minded are you! |
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