ah the last member of the G1 series for me to unbox
this is the G1 gorilla so we've already
done the Assassin and the sniper this is
the most value oriented of the G1 series
boards although they're not really value boards these are performance gaming
boards but this is the least expensive of the lot of them and let's get started
it comes with a three-year warranty in the US and Canada it supports Intel core
i7 processors on LGA 1366 so that is
920s 930s 940s 950s 960s 970s 980 Xs and
990 XS yes that includes extreme Edition
okay it has the Intel x58 chipset it includes an X5 built-on sound card as
well as a killer e2100 gaming networking
card so those are pretty good values considering the fact that you do not
have to now buy an add in network card or in theory an addin sound card because
the add-in sound card not only has an X5 processor but also a built-in front
audio headphone amp which is pretty sweet as well as high-end audio
capacitor so this is pretty important because I've always been a huge advocate
of better onboard features such as say
for example sound and networking and it's good to see somebody moving in that
direction all right so we got the Bigfoot networks uh killer game
networking platform we have a front access control panel let's see SATA 3 6
GB per second USB 3 locked and loaded heat pipe design which will'll have a
closer look at later five smart F connectors which can be easily
controlled with the easytune 6 software it includes Ultra durable 3 maximum CPU
power and oh there we go dual BIOS with 3 plus terabyte hard drive
support a super site what's a super
sight with multiple GPU uh delivers maximum FPS allowing gamers to see more
clearly aim faster and move more quickly okay oh okay basically they're just
saying it has support for up to three-way SLI and three-way Crossfire X
that's what they mean by super
sight all right so when we open up the box we find some
digicam then put the box there so it can
pose there and look sweet and then we'll
pull out the G1 gorilla
itself okay see after all this I was expecting
an AP themed board n I'm just kidding that's a
different kind of gorilla okay here we go so we got a poster first thing this
poster would look pretty sweet on my wall it's got a skull and some weaponize
yourself stuff and on the back there's a target of a guy it's already
conveniently got bullet holes in it so you won't have to bother shooting at the
Target next we have some
stickers G1 killer Bullet Hole stickers bullet stickers some more G1 killer
stickers more bullets and more bullet holes all right we've got that
convenient USB 3.0 front panel uh 3 and
1/2 in guy that connects to an internal USB 3 header since most cases these days
still don't have front USB 3 via a header that's an awesome feature here
we've got a three-way SLI Bridge we have a two-way SLI
Bridge as as well as uh four stated
cables two straight and two right
angle go ahead and put that there we also have a users manual with a drivers
and utilities DVD download the latest off the Gigabyte website rather than
using that we have a multilingual installation guide book as well as an IO
Shield that looks pretty cool because it says G1 killer on the back it's not
colorcoded but it's black so it looks better so you know you got to make your
you got make a judgement call there do you prefer a good looking back panel or
do you prefer a labeled one it all comes down to whether you can find out where
things plug into without the color coding or whether looks are important to
you and all that stuff personally I prefer the black one just because I have
no problem finding my USB ports um I
know what they look like and since the USB 3.0 On's are colorcoded blue inside
the connector anyway that's not a big deal either so let's go ahead poose the
box here and and let's have a look at
the G1 gorilla itself so one of the
first things I noticed about this board versus its bigger Brothers is that it
doesn't have as many power phases so this is only looks like an 8 plus2 phase
power design for the 1366 socket it's
still a sweet looking board and it has a very similar looking cooling um system
so why don't we do yeah let's do cooling first so you got your barrel of a pistol
thing going on here then you've got uh all of these LEDs light up and look cool
and this says gaming motherboard on it so this looks really good and then
you've got your magazine right here with a bullet sticking out of it as well as a
helpful warning not a weapon cannot be assembled
as a firearm so please be aware of that you may not recycle this board once it's
you know old and slow and make a gun out of it it doesn't work that way all right
at the top left we've got an 8 Pin power connector moving over we've got our CPU
fan connector we've got six DDR3 slots supporting triple Channel
DDR3 our 24 pin power connectors in its ideal location along the right hand edge
of the board moving down some more we've
got our SATA connectors so there are six SATA 2 3 gbit per second connectors and
two SATA 3 6 GB per second connectors
here is our Southbridge heat sink which we've already looked at there's our
North Bridge heat sink mosfet heat sink I don't think I ever said what they were cooling before front panel connectors
are here we've also got three front USB headers we've got one front USB spe 3.0
header another fan we've got our front audio connector in its ideal location
along the bottom left not here where we used to often find them on Gigabyte
motherboards our PCI slot layout is
fairly ideal looking let me have a look
at what these are okay so it looks like what we got here is 16x 16x 8X now the
way I would probably use this board if I was to use it in my personal system is
I'd throw one of my cards in here I'd throw my other one in here taking that
bandwidth hit because actually doesn't affect performance and that would leave
me with a 16x slot and a 1x slot for any additional expansion cards this is a
standard siiz motherboard although it's a touch wider than standard ATX it
should fit in most standard ATX cases but it doesn't have any additional
length like the XL ATX G1 assassin does
here is our builtin uh creative sound
card so you can see here it's actually isolated where on the PCB all of those
components are located so that's where you're going to have get better sound
quality from we've got uh also the headphone amplifier is built into that
particular part of the board here is our killer e2100 with its dedicated cash so
that's going to take care of the Ethernet capabilities of this
motherboard here on the back we will find two PS2 ports one for the keyboard
one for the mouse optical audio as well as coaxial audio out an OC button which
as you may or may not be able to figure out based on the name of it will OC your
board that is overclock your board
all right we've got wow looks like two USB eSATA combo ports I love those those
are awesome we've got um four more just
plain USB 2 ports two USB 3 ports this
is a great mix actually of USB to e sat
ports fantastic because you can do lots of external devices you can do lots of
usb2 all that good stuff we' got a gigb Ethernet as well as 7.1 audio and uh
nothing much to say about the back of the board except that it has a matte
black PCB which every single motherboard
in the world should have because it looks great just want to give Gigabyte kudos
for this they've done such a good job of improving the overall look and feel of
their boards versus their last generation stuff I mean I bought an uh
ex58 extreme back when it first launched
so this was their first x58 high-end board and I actually ended up getting
rid of it to change out for something that had a very similar color scheme to
this even though I knew it was an inferior board it was a DFI uh t388 or
something along those lines so uh yeah if IID had one of these I definitely
would have just kept it thanks for checking out this unboxing of the G1
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never look directly down the barrel of a gun it's a really bad idea fortunately
this isn't a gun it's just a heat
sink so just relax