 Welcome to my unboxing of Gigabyte's update to the G1 Assassin, which we actually, oh yeah, we have our G1 Assassin system over here. So we will be updating our G1 Assassin LGA 1366 machine right there with the Dual 590s and the liquid cooling and all the good stuff. We will be updating that with this board once we are finished unboxing it and once I have the LGA 2011 mount that I need for SwiftX water block in order to rebuild our Extreme Buyers Guide system. So this guy's got a five-year warranty as well as some other upgrades over the original G1 Assassin. One of them is a Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi card that is included. Another one is their patent-pending 3D BIOS, Dual UEFI BIOS. So I'll be doing a video on 3D BIOS in the near future here. We also have 3D Power, which is basically Gigabyte's way of saying that they have three-way digital power delivery on this particular board. See, 3D is more like three-digital rather than three-dimensional, whereas this is more like three-dimensional. So, yes, so they mean a couple of different things. What else we got back here? Okay, so you know what? Let's get the board open. Let's open up the board. Let's cut to the chase. Skip to the good part. Take it away. And I know someone, someone is going to make a comment on that on YouTube. I know because they did it when I did my original G1 Assassin unboxing for some reason. Yes, both the G1 Assassin 1 and the G1 Assassin 2 led out a huge fart when I opened them up. There's nothing I can do about it. Grow up. No, I'm just kidding. You don't have to grow up. Farts are funny. Okay, so here we go. We have some bullets, some bullet holes, and a G1 Killer Dude. We've also got some more bullets and bullet holes and more G1 Killer Logos. We've got a poster, which is different from the G1 original series posters, which featured the Gorilla, the Sniper, and the Assassin. This one is just the general G1 logo. So this has, well, it has the original ones on it, but not the new ones. I guess they didn't update the poster. Fascinating. Okay, we've got a Gigabyte sticker included. And look at all these accessories. That's some good accessory action going on here. So we have our Bluetooth and Wi-Fi PCI Express 1X adapter, which incidentally doesn't only work antennas on Gigabyte motherboards. It also works on whatever motherboard you want. So if you happen to buy one of these boards and you happen to need Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on some other machine, then you just got yourself an extra value add. We have a Crossfire Bridge, a 3-way SLI Bridge, as well as an SLI Bridge. These are all long bridges, which is nice. Let's use that long spacing. This is a USB data cable for that Bluetooth card, or Wi-Fi Bluetooth card. It does both. We've got one right angle, or two right angle, and two straight SATA cables. All right, we've got a front 3.5-inch USB 3 Doodad that plugs into the header of your motherboard. So if you don't have a case that has front USB 3, now you do. Next we've got an I.O. shield. Some documentation, including some disks that you're going to want to go ahead and download the latest from the Gigabyte website. So one disk for the board, one disk for your GC Wi-Fi, that is that wireless Bluetooth guy. You've got your manual, you've got a manual for the GC Wi-Fi, and that pretty well does it. Looks like that probably went in there. Ha ha! I figured out how this works. Like a wizard. I'm sure Harry Potter could figure out how to unbox something. It's too bad those movies are over. I enjoy the Harry Potter movies. Now I'll never get to watch one ever again. Because they're not really, like, they're good, they're, you know, they're kind of fun to watch, but I don't think they really merit, like, a re-watch, so to speak. You know what, I'm going to put it over here. So, yeah. Here we go. I'm going to put it on its Digicam camouflage box, and there's absolutely nothing camouflage about this board. This board is about as, like, out there as it gets. So here we go. Let's start with the overall package. So the overall package is XLATX. Is it XLATX? Hold on just a gosh darn minute here. No, it's not. I'll be back in a moment. So I thought this was the XLATX board, but it turns out I was wrong. The UD7 is the XLATX board. So this is an ATX board with an LGA 2011 socket right smack in the not quite middle, but a little bit off to the right side. And it supports four DIMMs in quad channel. So that means you have support for up to 32 gigs of memory if you're using 8 gig DIMMs, and potentially 64 gigs in the future when that sort of comes out, if it ever does. Okay, what else we got here? We have our 8-pin connector, and I would say it's not quite ideal location. It is on the top edge of the board, but it is not over here in this corner, which is where most cases are usually putting a cutout so that you have easy access to it. We've also got our 24-pin ATX connector in its ideal location along the right-hand edge. We've got our USB 3 connector in its ideal location along the right-hand edge. We've also got our SATA 3, 6 gigabit per second ports right about here. Our SATA 2, 3 gigabit per second ports right about here. So that's two of those and four of those. And finally, on a third-party chipset, we have more SATA 3, 6 gigabit per second ports here. Now, in terms of the cooling solution, we're used to seeing pretty cool cooling solutions on the G1 board. So we've got kind of a sort of silencer, muzzle-looking thing over here. That looks like kind of like a barrel, and that looks kind of like a, you know, stock or not a stock. What's the thing you hold? I don't know, the grippy thing where you put your left hand if you're right-handed. Okay. We have a heat pipe going down to a pistol, which says, GIGABYTE GAMING MOTHERBOARD. And this is hilarious. You guys are going to love this. Okay, here, here, here, here, here, here, here. Heat sink, not a weapon, cannot be assembled as a firearm. So just in case you were wondering, no, you cannot assemble it as a firearm, and you're dumb for thinking that. Okay. Not that I ever try to insult my viewers, but come on, really? Like, really? Okay. So, front panel connectors are right about here on the bottom. There's your powered USB 2. So powered USB 2 is useful for charging things like iPads and other tablets and good stuff like that. We've also got two additional USB 2 front panel headers. We have our front panel audio, and we have full support for up to three-way Crossfire or SLI. So you're going to be running 16x, 16x for a dual-card configuration, which would leave you with PCIe 8x and a PCIe 1x for further expansion, or you can run 16x, 8x, 8x, and that would leave you with nothing else for further expansion unless you're using water blocks, which is possible. What we also find down here is our amplified onboard audio. So headphone amps, I'm a big sort of advocate of using a properly amplified headphone output. If you are using headphones, especially ones with reasonably high impedance, which is anything that's higher end than a fairly basic set of headphones. So that is there. We also have the onboard, yes, with dedicated RAM, Killer E2100 NIC card. And up here, you find all kinds of fascinating little chips, most of which I don't know what they do. Here's a Fresco Logic. There's our Marvell, which I would say is probably powering RAID, but my guess would be that it's not and probably powering the eSATA. We've got another Marvell chip over here. Okay, lots of good stuff. Hey, let's look at where all the fan headers are. Okay, so we have our CPU fan header here. You want to sort of back up a little bit for this part? Oh, yeah, you are. Good job. Okay, CPU fan header here. We've got another four pin fan header here. Another one here, so that's three so far. We've got another one here, so that's four. We've got another one here, so that's five. So we have five four pin PWM fan headers on the G1 Assassin 2. And let's have a look at what we've got in terms of rear I.O. So we have a PS2 keyboard mouse combo port, one two three four five six seven eight USB 2.0 ports, an OC button, that is a one touch overclock, a BIOS selector switch, that is very very handy and very cool to see. We've also got a CMOS clear button, two eSATA ports, so those are those eSATA USB combo ports, two USB 3.0 ports, there's your Killer E2100 networking, and finally 7.1 audio out, including optical audio out, although the omission of a dedicated microphone in port is a very strange one to me. So what you guys can probably see here is that this is a little bit costed down compared to the original G1 Assassin, but they still have left along most of the features that I would say gamers would care about. Most gamers are not loading up their system with 128 gigs or 64 gigs of memory, so you've still got the four slots for quad channel operation. You've still got your full support for three way SLI or Crossfire X, you've got your Killer Bigfoot networking, you've got your headphone amp sound card that is built in. Okay you know what bearing in mind, okay I'm criticizing them on the mic port missing here, but you can obviously use your front panel mic which is probably what they're expecting you to do, now that I think about it a little bit more. So yeah, thank you for checking out my unboxing of the G1 Assassin 2, don't forget to subscribe to Linus Tech Tips for more unboxings, reviews, and other computer videos.