1 00:00:00,919 --> 00:00:06,399 by popular request this is my unboxing 2 00:00:04,799 --> 00:00:13,639 of the Gigabyte G1 killer series of gaming motherboards 3 00:00:09,880 --> 00:00:15,440 G1 assassin it has a really cool box for 4 00:00:13,639 --> 00:00:20,439 starters it comes with a three-year warranty it is an LGA 5 00:00:17,600 --> 00:00:26,519 1366 motherboard which means it's got full support for Intel's core i7 and 6 00:00:22,760 --> 00:00:30,080 core i7 extreme processors on the LGA 7 00:00:26,519 --> 00:00:33,239 1366 Intel x58 platform so don't go 8 00:00:30,080 --> 00:00:35,680 trying to put your 1155 or 1156 CPU in 9 00:00:33,239 --> 00:00:39,879 here it won't work okay other technologies that we're going to see 10 00:00:37,040 --> 00:00:45,360 right off the bat here are xfi sound killer gaming networking okay so this is 11 00:00:42,760 --> 00:00:49,199 probably the most featur rich gaming motherboard I have ever had the 12 00:00:47,079 --> 00:00:55,879 opportunity to have a look at because Gigabyte has not only you know added 13 00:00:52,160 --> 00:00:58,559 more USB ports and uh you know added 14 00:00:55,879 --> 00:01:01,840 more bullet points to the back of well it's funny I should say bullet because 15 00:01:00,039 --> 00:01:07,159 it's all about bullets uh this particular theme here but they've 16 00:01:04,199 --> 00:01:12,320 actually included technologies that are highly relevant to Gamers and to me 17 00:01:09,880 --> 00:01:17,200 better sound is one that most Gamers don't really seem to understand that 18 00:01:14,000 --> 00:01:19,799 they need but they do including a 19 00:01:17,200 --> 00:01:26,040 built-in front audio headphone amplifier that's huge that's enormous they've also 20 00:01:23,640 --> 00:01:31,880 taken care to use higher quality capacitors on all of the sound or the 21 00:01:29,920 --> 00:01:36,200 sound parts of the board so that you're going to have good filtering and so it's 22 00:01:33,920 --> 00:01:40,799 not going to have a high noise to sound ratio or rather it will have a much 23 00:01:37,960 --> 00:01:44,320 higher uh sound to noise ratio here we've got okay we've got an onboard 24 00:01:42,240 --> 00:01:47,240 creative Sound Blaster xfi digital audio processor so all of that is included 25 00:01:46,280 --> 00:01:53,680 let's see what else they've got to say about themselves super speed so the onboard Bigfoot killer e2100 game 26 00:01:51,520 --> 00:01:57,119 networking platform so you guys have probably heard of the killer Nick we 27 00:01:55,119 --> 00:02:00,439 actually did an episode about it this basically for all intents and purposes 28 00:01:59,159 --> 00:02:05,560 has a dedicated killer Nick built onto it front access 29 00:02:03,079 --> 00:02:11,760 control panel for two USB 3.0 ports and powered e SATA it includes support for 30 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:13,680 SATA 3 6 GB per second and USB 3 super 31 00:02:11,760 --> 00:02:17,120 Shield here so this is actually just the heat sink design which looks pretty 32 00:02:15,879 --> 00:02:20,640 sweet we're going to take the board out to show you guys that and it also has D 33 00:02:19,200 --> 00:02:25,480 this is another feature that I've wanted to see on more gaming motherboards smart 34 00:02:23,120 --> 00:02:30,400 fan connectors so those are going to allow 35 00:02:26,440 --> 00:02:32,840 you to actually configure 36 00:02:30,400 --> 00:02:38,680 sorry about that to actually configure how the fans connected to all of those 37 00:02:34,959 --> 00:02:40,080 headers behave and I don't see it yet 38 00:02:38,680 --> 00:02:43,720 but we're going to find out if those are four pin pwm connectors or if they are 39 00:02:42,319 --> 00:02:47,200 standard three pin connectors okay the board itself no no 40 00:02:46,120 --> 00:02:52,879 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 41 00:02:53,159 --> 00:02:57,560 poster this is the G1 killer gaming 42 00:02:56,440 --> 00:03:03,040 motherboard so there's three different boards in this series the Assassin the sniper and the gorilla so they're all 43 00:03:00,959 --> 00:03:07,200 featured here on the back of the board is a Target or the back of the board on 44 00:03:04,840 --> 00:03:11,519 the back of the poster is a target next we have some stickers these are pretty 45 00:03:09,159 --> 00:03:14,159 sweet stickers so we've got uh bullet stickers these are all individual 46 00:03:12,920 --> 00:03:20,799 bullets so you can put them wherever you want we got some bullet holes we've also 47 00:03:16,560 --> 00:03:22,959 got a G1 killer sticker okay oh we've 48 00:03:20,799 --> 00:03:27,080 got some more look at that some more G1 killer one for each side of your case 49 00:03:24,959 --> 00:03:32,000 more bullets more bullet holes next we have a users manual as as 50 00:03:29,879 --> 00:03:37,200 well as a driver disc so don't use this download the latest from the Gigabyte 51 00:03:33,599 --> 00:03:39,000 website Box contents okay nice 52 00:03:37,200 --> 00:03:43,080 multilingual installation guide book just in case you need it next we have 53 00:03:41,720 --> 00:03:47,840 actually let's look at this first so this is our front panel thing so we've 54 00:03:45,480 --> 00:03:53,159 got quick boost which is an overclocking button esata/usb so that's a powered 55 00:03:50,519 --> 00:03:56,840 eSATA and two USB 3.0 so that goes in a 5 and a/ qu in Bay next we've got a 56 00:03:55,319 --> 00:04:00,840 Gigabyte sticker although that's not as cool as all those other stickers we saw 57 00:03:58,599 --> 00:04:04,799 duby Home Theater sticker and we've got an IO Shield which is 58 00:04:02,599 --> 00:04:09,560 conveniently labeled in terms of all the different connectors on the back we have 59 00:04:07,239 --> 00:04:13,799 a three-way SLI bridge in gigabytes classic color scheme so you might want 60 00:04:11,120 --> 00:04:17,320 to get yourself a black SLI bridge to go with this board if you are going to 61 00:04:15,159 --> 00:04:23,479 install that as well as one crossfire bridge and one SLI bridge and finally we 62 00:04:20,600 --> 00:04:28,680 have four SATA cables two are straight and two are right angle cables so I'm 63 00:04:26,880 --> 00:04:34,280 going to go ahead and close this because it makes for a great 64 00:04:31,240 --> 00:04:37,520 digicam that is digital camouflage not 65 00:04:34,280 --> 00:04:40,440 digital camera uh digicam background for 66 00:04:37,520 --> 00:04:44,759 the motherboard itself which I will eventually extract 67 00:04:43,360 --> 00:04:50,759 from the packaging there we go we got a little 68 00:04:46,639 --> 00:04:51,840 cover there and this is a huge board 69 00:04:50,759 --> 00:05:00,680 like enormous okay here we go so the first thing you 70 00:04:58,560 --> 00:05:03,680 know what let's go uh you know what I'm going to do my no I'm going to do my 71 00:05:01,800 --> 00:05:07,320 standard approach to this so the first thing we find is the CPU socket here in 72 00:05:05,680 --> 00:05:13,400 the middle of the board that is an LGA 1366 socket as I mentioned before over 73 00:05:10,880 --> 00:05:20,319 here on the left we've got dual 8 Pin power connectors so you can provide a 74 00:05:15,759 --> 00:05:22,520 ton that is to say a ton of juice to 75 00:05:20,319 --> 00:05:27,840 that CPU socket without running into any power delivery instability let's count 76 00:05:24,720 --> 00:05:34,160 the CPU power phases we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 77 00:05:27,840 --> 00:05:36,759 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 oh hold 78 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:42,759 on give me a moment on this one so that is a 16 phase power design 79 00:05:39,880 --> 00:05:46,360 around the CPU socket uh I think we also already talked about these so let's work 80 00:05:44,319 --> 00:05:53,039 our way over to the RAM we have support for up to six dims in running in triple 81 00:05:49,120 --> 00:05:55,520 channel so that is up to 24 GB of memory 82 00:05:53,039 --> 00:05:59,160 on this particular board you can see here that the first ones we're going to 83 00:05:57,080 --> 00:06:02,919 need to populate are the green ones and once you've populated all of the green 84 00:06:00,680 --> 00:06:06,880 ones then you can begin to populate the black ones you've got a fair amount of 85 00:06:04,960 --> 00:06:11,400 space around the CPU socket in general which is so important for a board like 86 00:06:08,840 --> 00:06:15,520 this where the reality of it is nobody's using stock cooling on a motherboard of 87 00:06:13,919 --> 00:06:19,479 this caliber so you need lots of space around for aftermarket cooling on the 88 00:06:18,000 --> 00:06:24,400 right hand side of the board we've got our 24 pin connector in its ideal 89 00:06:21,680 --> 00:06:28,160 location we also find moving on down the right that we have all of our SATA 90 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:32,680 connectivity so these six are going to be running at SATA 2 3 gbit per second 91 00:06:30,919 --> 00:06:39,360 and these two are going to be running at SATA 3 6 gbit per second remember guys 92 00:06:35,599 --> 00:06:41,199 the x58 platform and i1r do not natively 93 00:06:39,360 --> 00:06:46,919 support SATA 3 so these are running off of a thirdparty chipset and that is why 94 00:06:44,120 --> 00:06:50,759 you don't see more SATA 3 6 GB per second connectors on this board down at 95 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:59,599 the bottom we've got our front panel connectors we've got two front USB 2 two 96 00:06:54,960 --> 00:07:02,319 front USB 3 headers and then we have a 97 00:06:59,599 --> 00:07:07,319 an auxiliary Molex power connector our front audio in its ideal location this 98 00:07:05,199 --> 00:07:12,120 is the first time I've seen front audio here on a Gigabyte motherboard uh 99 00:07:09,840 --> 00:07:15,840 usually it's up here over by the audio chipset but you can actually see the 100 00:07:13,919 --> 00:07:21,759 creative chipset being used is down here so maybe that's why they put it there in 101 00:07:18,319 --> 00:07:26,400 terms of expansion here we go so we got 102 00:07:21,759 --> 00:07:29,000 1 2 3 4 PCI Express 16x connectors none 103 00:07:26,400 --> 00:07:34,840 of them or two of them are only wired for PC p e 8X so these two are wired for 104 00:07:32,479 --> 00:07:39,120 full PCIe 16x and you can see from the spacing that those are the two you're 105 00:07:36,639 --> 00:07:43,000 intended to use for two-way SLI and then if you were to run three-way SLI you're 106 00:07:40,919 --> 00:07:47,680 probably going to go 1 two three and for four-way well I think the answer should 107 00:07:44,879 --> 00:07:54,000 be quite obvious 1 2 3 4 additional connectors we have two PCI e1x one PCI 108 00:07:51,159 --> 00:08:01,479 slot so if you are running dual cards in SLI you're going to be left with one PCI 109 00:07:57,080 --> 00:08:04,720 e8x one PCI e1x and and a final PCI 110 00:08:01,479 --> 00:08:07,039 e8x so here's all of the circuitry that 111 00:08:04,720 --> 00:08:12,800 is involved in the builtin 112 00:08:08,960 --> 00:08:16,319 Amplified um Amplified motherboard audio 113 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:19,560 okay we also have up here the killer 114 00:08:16,319 --> 00:08:22,520 e2100 with its dedicated 115 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:25,520 RAM and so I think that's pretty much it for the overall features okay you know 116 00:08:24,199 --> 00:08:31,440 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 117 00:08:29,479 --> 00:08:36,080 heat pipes with eat sinks as we've come to pretty much expect at this point from 118 00:08:34,000 --> 00:08:40,680 any decently high-end motherboard we've also got some kind of neat uh Design 119 00:08:38,479 --> 00:08:44,560 Elements here so you can see that this particular heat sink is the front of a 120 00:08:42,599 --> 00:08:48,640 pistol okay so if you look at it from that angle you can see that's the site 121 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:52,680 from the other side you can see that's the barrel so that's kind of neat the 122 00:08:50,720 --> 00:08:57,519 one over here at the top doesn't seem to have uh have that kind of a shape going 123 00:08:55,519 --> 00:09:02,480 for it here we've got gaming motherboard we've got some LEDs built in here okay 124 00:09:00,079 --> 00:09:07,240 our Northbridge heat sink is very very solid the reality of it is the x58 125 00:09:04,880 --> 00:09:11,480 chipset doesn't require a ton of cooling so gigabytes not concerned about the 126 00:09:09,120 --> 00:09:14,640 thermal efficiency of this design I mean it's more than adequate for cooling 127 00:09:13,399 --> 00:09:18,440 everything we got here but they just want it to look sweet and they have 128 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:22,800 definitely achieved that now the self Bridge heat sink is just uh one slab of 129 00:09:20,959 --> 00:09:26,839 metal and unlike some of the motherboards I've seen with huge cooling 130 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:31,079 heat sink Solutions on them in the recent past this one everything is 131 00:09:29,399 --> 00:09:36,120 constructed entirely of metal so it's actually going to contribute to cooling 132 00:09:32,880 --> 00:09:37,920 now this bottom one is uh is a a clip 133 00:09:36,120 --> 00:09:41,240 right there so you can see it's actually got a bullet sticking out the top of it 134 00:09:39,920 --> 00:09:46,399 and then on the bottom a convenient little warning just just for the special 135 00:09:44,000 --> 00:09:50,399 uh purchasers out there heat sync not a weapon cannot be assembled as a firearm 136 00:09:49,519 --> 00:09:54,600 so please put that out of your mind you 137 00:09:52,760 --> 00:09:57,959 won't be doing it that won't be happening what else do I want to show oh 138 00:09:56,640 --> 00:10:03,600 yeah another thing I wanted to show you guys is yes those controllable fan 139 00:10:00,680 --> 00:10:06,519 connectors are all four pin pwm so there's one here actually here just back 140 00:10:05,160 --> 00:10:12,880 out and I'll show you where they are so we got one here one here one here one 141 00:10:10,279 --> 00:10:16,959 here and finally one here I also didn't point out this other auxiliary 4 pin 142 00:10:15,079 --> 00:10:21,720 power connector now the reason these two are here is because all of the 143 00:10:19,760 --> 00:10:25,880 motherboard power comes from the 24 bin connector traditionally these are just 144 00:10:23,680 --> 00:10:30,880 for the CPU so that means if you install four graphics card by spec all of them 145 00:10:28,920 --> 00:10:34,640 need to to pull a pretty decent amount of power out of the board and then they 146 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:38,279 only pull the extra that they need from those connectors at the back so if you 147 00:10:36,360 --> 00:10:41,120 plug in four high power gpus and you don't use these auxiliary power 148 00:10:39,760 --> 00:10:44,399 connectors you can actually burn the connectors here from so much current 149 00:10:42,959 --> 00:10:49,240 running through them so that's what Gigabyte is trying to prevent on their 150 00:10:46,440 --> 00:10:52,399 nice shiny high-end motherboard so we've got some more power delivery back here 151 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:57,200 and this is a nice touch I always like to see this proper screws attaching the 152 00:10:55,519 --> 00:11:01,040 cooling solution from the motherboard rather than push pins cuz that's going 153 00:10:58,639 --> 00:11:06,560 to make sure that if it gets hot or cold expends contracts no matter what happens 154 00:11:03,519 --> 00:11:08,800 everything is going to stay properly 155 00:11:06,560 --> 00:11:12,519 attached I'm just looking at the board I mean the overall color scheme of it I 156 00:11:10,279 --> 00:11:16,800 think is great they're using their new matte black PCB which I think looks 157 00:11:14,320 --> 00:11:21,639 better than anyone else's PCB out there the color scheme is phenomenal with a 158 00:11:18,839 --> 00:11:25,440 nice gunmetal appearance to everything and then a couple of green and black 159 00:11:23,680 --> 00:11:30,240 accents I think it looks absolutely outstanding it would actually be a great 160 00:11:26,959 --> 00:11:32,839 pair for that uh half X NVIDIA Edition 161 00:11:30,240 --> 00:11:37,279 right back there because this is not a standard siiz motherboard this is 162 00:11:34,880 --> 00:11:41,440 actually a nine expansion slot motherboard so you can see there's two 163 00:11:39,240 --> 00:11:45,600 missing slots up here and then seven expansion slots so this is longer than a 164 00:11:43,839 --> 00:11:51,760 standard motherboard actually by a fairly substantial margin you know what give me a sec I'll go grab one so just 165 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:59,000 for comparison's sake here's the p67a ud4 next to the G1 assassin okay and you 166 00:11:56,079 --> 00:12:02,959 can see that it is substantially shorter and and it is also substantially 167 00:12:01,560 --> 00:12:06,720 narrower so I'm going to go ahead and put it on top and I'll get the cameraman 168 00:12:04,760 --> 00:12:09,839 to come have a look at how much wider this board is so you can see the 169 00:12:07,839 --> 00:12:13,760 mounting holes here and here there are your mounting holes well yeah there's 170 00:12:11,680 --> 00:12:17,399 more board to the side of this one than there is on a standard sized ATX 171 00:12:16,279 --> 00:12:21,160 motherboard so you're going to make sure you need to have a special case to 172 00:12:19,279 --> 00:12:23,839 accommodate a board like this let's go ahead and have a look at the back panel 173 00:12:22,480 --> 00:12:27,560 of connectors and I think that's pretty much it we've got two dedicated PS2 174 00:12:25,639 --> 00:12:34,839 connectors I do still like to see these we've got coaxial audio out we have four 175 00:12:30,240 --> 00:12:36,760 USB 2.0 four USB 3.0 gigabit Ethernet 176 00:12:34,839 --> 00:12:43,040 powered by Bigfoot networks and then we have 7.1 audio as well as an additional 177 00:12:40,600 --> 00:12:46,920 digital audio output and that is Optical thank you for checking out my unboxing 178 00:12:45,000 --> 00:12:50,079 of the G1 assassin don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more 179 00:12:48,320 --> 00:12:53,079 unboxings reviews and other computer videos