 By popular request this is my unboxing of the gigabyte g1 Killer series of gaming motherboards g1 Assassin it has a really cool box for starters it comes with a three-year warranty. It is an LGA 1366 motherboard which means it's got full support for Intel's core i7 and core i7 extreme processors on the LGA 1366 Intel x58 platform, so don't go trying to put your 1155 or 1156 CPU in here It won't work okay other technologies that we're going to see right off the bat here our x5 sound Killer gaming networking okay, so this is probably the most feature-rich Gaming motherboard I have ever had the opportunity to have a look at because gigabyte has not only You know added more USB ports and you know added more Bullet points to the back of most funny I should say bullet because it's all about bullets this particular theme here But they've actually included technologies that are highly relevant to gamers and to me Better sound is one that most gamers don't really seem to understand that they need, but they do Including a built-in front audio headphone amplifier. That's Huge that's enormous They've also taken care to use higher quality capacitors on all of the sound Or at the sound parts of the board so that you're going to have good filtering in it So it's not going to have a high noise to sound ratio or rather. It will have a much higher Sound to noise ratio here. We've got okay. We've got an onboard creative sound blast or x5 digital audio processor So all of that is included. Let's see what else they've got to say about themselves super speed so the onboard bigfoot killer e 2100 game networking platform, so you guys have probably heard of the killer nick We actually did an episode about it this basically for all intents and purposes has a dedicated Killer nick built onto it front access control panel for two USB 3.0 ports and powered eSata It includes support for SATA 3 6 gigabit per second and USB 3 super shield here So this is actually just the heat sink design which looks pretty sweet We're going to take the board out to show you guys that and it also has D. This is another feature that I've wanted to See on more gaming motherboards smart fan connectors, so those are going to allow you to actually configure Sorry about that to actually configure how the fans connected to all of those headers behave and I don't see it yet, but we're going to find out if those are 4 pin PWM connectors, or if they are standard 3 pin connectors Okay, the board itself no no I'm not going to let you look at that yet first We're going to do accessories really quick here all right, so we got a poster This is the g1 killer Gaming mother, so there's three different boards in this series the assassin the sniper and the gorilla So they're all featured here on the back of the board is a target or the back of the board on the back of the poster Is a target next we have some stickers these are pretty sweet stickers, so we've got Bullet stickers these are all individual bullets, so you can put them wherever you want. We've got some bullet holes We've also got a g1 killer sticker Okay, oh, we've got some more look at that so more g1 killer one for each side of your case more bullets more bullet holes Next we have a user's manual as well as a driver disc so don't use this download the latest from the gigabyte website box contents Okay, nice Multilingual installation guidebook just in case you need it next we have actually let's look at this first So this is our front panel thing so we've got quick boost which is an overclocking button eSata slash USB So that's a power d. Sata and 2 USB 3.0. So that goes in a five and a quarter inch bay next We've got a gigabyte sticker although. That's not as cool as all those other stickers We saw Dolby home theater sticker and we've got an IO shield which is conveniently labeled in terms of all the different Connectors on the back we have a three-way SLI bridge and gigabytes classic color scheme So you might want to get yourself a black SLI bridge to go with this board if you are going to install that as well as one crossfire bridge and one SLI bridge and Finally we have four SATA cables two are straight and two are right angle cables So I'm gonna go ahead and close this because it makes for a great digicam That is digital camouflage not digital camera a digicam background for the motherboard itself Which I will eventually extract from the packaging There we go. We've got a little cover there, and this is a huge board like enormous okay Here we go So the first thing let you know what let's go. You know what I'm gonna do my no I'm gonna do my standard approach to this so the first thing we find is the CPU socket here in the middle of the board That is an LGA 1366 socket as I mentioned before over here on the left We've got dual 8-pin power connectors, so you can provide a ton That is to say a ton of juice to that CPU socket without running into any power delivery Instability let's count the CPU power phases We got 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 oh hold on Give me a moment on this one So that is a 16 phase power design around the CPU socket I think we also already talked about these so let's work our way over to the RAM We have support for up to six dims in running in triple channel So that is up to 24 gigabytes of memory on this particular board You can see here that the first ones we're going to need to populate are the green ones and once you've populated all of the Green ones then you can begin to populate the black ones You've got a fair amount of space around the CPU socket in general Which is so important for a board like this where the reality of it is Nobody's using stock cooling on a motherboard of this caliber So you need lots of space around for aftermarket cooling on the right hand side of the board We've got our 24 pin connector in its ideal location We also find moving on down the right that we have all of our SATA connectivity So these six are going to be running at SATA to 3 gigabit per second and these two are going to be running at SATA 3 is 6 gigabit per second remember guys the x58 platform and ICH 10r do not natively support SATA 3 so these are running off of a third-party chipset and That is why you don't see more say the 3 6 gigabit per second connectors on this board Down at the bottom. We've got our front panel connectors. We've got two front USB 2 two front USB 3 headers And then we have a an auxiliary molex power connector our front audio in its ideal Location this is the first time I've seen front audio here on a gigabyte motherboard Usually it's up here over by the audio chipset, but you can actually see the creative chipset being used is down here So maybe that's why they put it there in terms of Expansion here we go so we got one two three four PCI Express 16x connectors none of them are two of them are only wired for PCIe 8x So these two are wired for full PCIe 16x and you can see from the spacing That those are the two you're intended to use for two-way SLI And then if you were to run three-way SLI you're probably going to go one two three and four four way Well, I think the answer should be quite obvious one two three four additional connectors We have two PCIe 1x one PCI slot So if you are running dual cards in SLI you're going to be left with one PCIe 8x one PCIe 1x And a final PCIe 8x so here's all of the circuitry that is involved in the built-in Amplified Amplified motherboard audio okay, we also have up here the killer e2100 with its dedicated RAM and So I think that's pretty much it for the overall features Okay, you know what let's have a look at the cooling on this board because it's pretty sweet looking So the cooling on this board is heat pipes with heat sinks as we've come to Pretty much expect at this point from any decently high-end motherboard. We've also got some kind of neat design elements here, so you can see that this particular heat sink is the front of a pistol Okay, so if you look at it from that angle you can see that's the sight From the other side you can see that's the barrel so that's kind of neat the one over here at the top doesn't seem to have Have that kind of a shape going for it here. We've got gaming motherboard. We've got some LEDs built in here Okay, our Northbridge heat sink is very very solid the reality of it is the x58 chipset doesn't require a ton of cooling So gigabytes not concerned about the thermal efficiency of this design I mean, it's more than adequate for cooling everything we got here But they just want it to look sweet and they have definitely achieved that now the Southbridge heat sink is just One slab of metal and unlike some of the motherboards I've seen with huge cooling heat sink solutions on them in the recent past this one everything is constructed entirely of metal So it's actually going to contribute to cooling now this bottom one is Is a clip right there, so you can see it's actually got a bullet sticking out the top of it And then on the bottom a convenient little warning just just for the special Purchasers out there heat sink not a weapon cannot be assembled as a firearm, so please Put that out of your mind. You won't be doing it. That won't be happening What else do I want to show oh? Yeah another thing? I wanted to show you guys is yes those controllable fan connectors are all four pin PWM So there's one here actually here just back out, and I'll show you where they are so we got one here one here One here one here and finally one here I also didn't point out this other auxiliary four pin power connector now the reason these two are here is Because all of the motherboard power comes from the 24 pin connector traditionally these are just for the CPU So that means if you install four graphics card by spec all of them need to pull a pretty decent amount of power out Of the board and then they only pull the extra that they need from those connectors at the back So if you plug in four high-power GPUs, and you don't use these auxiliary power connectors You can actually burn the connectors here from so much current running through them So that's what gigabyte is trying to prevent on their nice shiny high-end motherboard So we've got some more power delivery back here, and this is a nice touch I always like to see this proper screws Attaching the cooling solution for the motherboard rather than push pins because that's going to make sure that if it gets hot or cold Expands contracts no matter what happens everything is going to stay properly attached I'm just looking at the board. I mean the overall color scheme of it. I think is great They're using their new matte black PCB Which I think looks better than anyone else's PCB out there the color scheme is phenomenal with a nice gunmetal Appearance to everything and then a couple of green and black accents. I think it looks absolutely outstanding It would actually be a great pair for that Half X Nvidia edition right back there because this is not a standard size motherboard This is actually a nine expansion slot motherboard So you can see there's two missing spots up here, and then seven expansion slots So this is longer than a standard motherboard actually by a fairly substantial margin. You know give me a sec. I'll go grab one So just for comparison sake here's the p67 a ud4 next to the g1 assassin okay, and you can see that it is substantially shorter, and it is also Substantially narrower, so I'm going to go ahead and put it on top And I'll get the cameraman to come have a look at how much wider this board is so you can see the mounting holes here And here there are your mounting holes well Yeah, there's more board to the side of this one than there is on a standard sized ATX motherboard, so you're going to make sure you need to have a special case to accommodate a board like this Let's go ahead and have a look at the back panel of connectors, and I think that's pretty much it We've got two dedicated ps2 connectors. I do still like to see these we've got coaxial audio out We have four USB 2.0 for USB 3.0 gigabit Ethernet powered by Bigfoot networks and then we have 7.1 audio as well as an Additional digital audio output and that is optical. 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