WEBVTT 00:00:00.919 --> 00:00:06.399 by popular request this is my unboxing 00:00:04.799 --> 00:00:13.639 of the Gigabyte G1 killer series of gaming motherboards 00:00:09.880 --> 00:00:15.440 G1 assassin it has a really cool box for 00:00:13.639 --> 00:00:20.439 starters it comes with a three-year warranty it is an LGA 00:00:17.600 --> 00:00:26.519 1366 motherboard which means it's got full support for Intel's core i7 and 00:00:22.760 --> 00:00:30.080 core i7 extreme processors on the LGA 00:00:26.519 --> 00:00:33.239 1366 Intel x58 platform so don't go 00:00:30.080 --> 00:00:35.680 trying to put your 1155 or 1156 CPU in 00:00:33.239 --> 00:00:39.879 here it won't work okay other technologies that we're going to see 00:00:37.040 --> 00:00:45.360 right off the bat here are xfi sound killer gaming networking okay so this is 00:00:42.760 --> 00:00:49.199 probably the most featur rich gaming motherboard I have ever had the 00:00:47.079 --> 00:00:55.879 opportunity to have a look at because Gigabyte has not only you know added 00:00:52.160 --> 00:00:58.559 more USB ports and uh you know added 00:00:55.879 --> 00:01:01.840 more bullet points to the back of well it's funny I should say bullet because 00:01:00.039 --> 00:01:07.159 it's all about bullets uh this particular theme here but they've 00:01:04.199 --> 00:01:12.320 actually included technologies that are highly relevant to Gamers and to me 00:01:09.880 --> 00:01:17.200 better sound is one that most Gamers don't really seem to understand that 00:01:14.000 --> 00:01:19.799 they need but they do including a 00:01:17.200 --> 00:01:26.040 built-in front audio headphone amplifier that's huge that's enormous they've also 00:01:23.640 --> 00:01:31.880 taken care to use higher quality capacitors on all of the sound or the 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 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 00:01:37.960 --> 00:01:44.320 higher uh sound to noise ratio here we've got okay we've got an onboard 00:01:42.240 --> 00:01:47.240 creative Sound Blaster xfi digital audio processor so all of that is included 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 00:01:51.520 --> 00:01:57.119 networking platform so you guys have probably heard of the killer Nick we 00:01:55.119 --> 00:02:00.439 actually did an episode about it this basically for all intents and purposes 00:01:59.159 --> 00:02:05.560 has a dedicated killer Nick built onto it front access 00:02:03.079 --> 00:02:11.760 control panel for two USB 3.0 ports and powered e SATA it includes support for 00:02:08.000 --> 00:02:13.680 SATA 3 6 GB per second and USB 3 super 00:02:11.760 --> 00:02:17.120 Shield here so this is actually just the heat sink design which looks pretty 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 00:02:19.200 --> 00:02:25.480 this is another feature that I've wanted to see on more gaming motherboards smart 00:02:23.120 --> 00:02:30.400 fan connectors so those are going to allow 00:02:26.440 --> 00:02:32.840 you to actually configure 00:02:30.400 --> 00:02:38.680 sorry about that to actually configure how the fans connected to all of those 00:02:34.959 --> 00:02:40.080 headers behave and I don't see it yet 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 00:02:42.319 --> 00:02:47.200 standard three pin connectors okay the board itself no no 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 00:02:53.159 --> 00:02:57.560 poster this is the G1 killer gaming 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 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 00:03:04.840 --> 00:03:11.519 the back of the poster is a target next we have some stickers these are pretty 00:03:09.159 --> 00:03:14.159 sweet stickers so we've got uh bullet stickers these are all individual 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 00:03:16.560 --> 00:03:22.959 got a G1 killer sticker okay oh we've 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 00:03:24.959 --> 00:03:32.000 more bullets more bullet holes next we have a users manual as as 00:03:29.879 --> 00:03:37.200 well as a driver disc so don't use this download the latest from the Gigabyte 00:03:33.599 --> 00:03:39.000 website Box contents okay nice 00:03:37.200 --> 00:03:43.080 multilingual installation guide book just in case you need it next we have 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 00:03:45.480 --> 00:03:53.159 got quick boost which is an overclocking button esata/usb so that's a powered 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 00:03:55.319 --> 00:04:00.840 Gigabyte sticker although that's not as cool as all those other stickers we saw 00:03:58.599 --> 00:04:04.799 duby Home Theater sticker and we've got an IO Shield which is 00:04:02.599 --> 00:04:09.560 conveniently labeled in terms of all the different connectors on the back we have 00:04:07.239 --> 00:04:13.799 a three-way SLI bridge in gigabytes classic color scheme so you might want 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 00:04:15.159 --> 00:04:23.479 install that as well as one crossfire bridge and one SLI bridge and finally we 00:04:20.600 --> 00:04:28.680 have four SATA cables two are straight and two are right angle cables so I'm 00:04:26.880 --> 00:04:34.280 going to go ahead and close this because it makes for a great 00:04:31.240 --> 00:04:37.520 digicam that is digital camouflage not 00:04:34.280 --> 00:04:40.440 digital camera uh digicam background for 00:04:37.520 --> 00:04:44.759 the motherboard itself which I will eventually extract 00:04:43.360 --> 00:04:50.759 from the packaging there we go we got a little 00:04:46.639 --> 00:04:51.840 cover there and this is a huge board 00:04:50.759 --> 00:05:00.680 like enormous okay here we go so the first thing you 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 00:05:01.800 --> 00:05:07.320 standard approach to this so the first thing we find is the CPU socket here in 00:05:05.680 --> 00:05:13.400 the middle of the board that is an LGA 1366 socket as I mentioned before over 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 00:05:15.759 --> 00:05:22.520 ton that is to say a ton of juice to 00:05:20.319 --> 00:05:27.840 that CPU socket without running into any power delivery instability let's count 00:05:24.720 --> 00:05:34.160 the CPU power phases we got 1 2 3 4 5 6 00:05:27.840 --> 00:05:36.759 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 16 oh hold 00:05:34.160 --> 00:05:42.759 on give me a moment on this one so that is a 16 phase power design 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 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 00:05:49.120 --> 00:05:55.520 channel so that is up to 24 GB of memory 00:05:53.039 --> 00:05:59.160 on this particular board you can see here that the first ones we're going to 00:05:57.080 --> 00:06:02.919 need to populate are the green ones and once you've populated all of the green 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 00:06:04.960 --> 00:06:11.400 space around the CPU socket in general which is so important for a board like 00:06:08.840 --> 00:06:15.520 this where the reality of it is nobody's using stock cooling on a motherboard of 00:06:13.919 --> 00:06:19.479 this caliber so you need lots of space around for aftermarket cooling on the 00:06:18.000 --> 00:06:24.400 right hand side of the board we've got our 24 pin connector in its ideal 00:06:21.680 --> 00:06:28.160 location we also find moving on down the right that we have all of our SATA 00:06:26.120 --> 00:06:32.680 connectivity so these six are going to be running at SATA 2 3 gbit per second 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 00:06:35.599 --> 00:06:41.199 the x58 platform and i1r do not natively 00:06:39.360 --> 00:06:46.919 support SATA 3 so these are running off of a thirdparty chipset and that is why 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 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 00:06:54.960 --> 00:07:02.319 front USB 3 headers and then we have a 00:06:59.599 --> 00:07:07.319 an auxiliary Molex power connector our front audio in its ideal location this 00:07:05.199 --> 00:07:12.120 is the first time I've seen front audio here on a Gigabyte motherboard uh 00:07:09.840 --> 00:07:15.840 usually it's up here over by the audio chipset but you can actually see the 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 00:07:18.319 --> 00:07:26.400 terms of expansion here we go so we got 00:07:21.759 --> 00:07:29.000 1 2 3 4 PCI Express 16x connectors none 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 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 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 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 00:07:44.879 --> 00:07:54.000 be quite obvious 1 2 3 4 additional connectors we have two PCI e1x one PCI 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 00:07:57.080 --> 00:08:04.720 e8x one PCI e1x and and a final PCI 00:08:01.479 --> 00:08:07.039 e8x so here's all of the circuitry that 00:08:04.720 --> 00:08:12.800 is involved in the builtin 00:08:08.960 --> 00:08:16.319 Amplified um Amplified motherboard audio 00:08:12.800 --> 00:08:19.560 okay we also have up here the killer 00:08:16.319 --> 00:08:22.520 e2100 with its dedicated 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 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 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 00:08:34.000 --> 00:08:40.680 any decently high-end motherboard we've also got some kind of neat uh Design 00:08:38.479 --> 00:08:44.560 Elements here so you can see that this particular heat sink is the front of a 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 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 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 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 00:09:00.079 --> 00:09:07.240 our Northbridge heat sink is very very solid the reality of it is the x58 00:09:04.880 --> 00:09:11.480 chipset doesn't require a ton of cooling so gigabytes not concerned about the 00:09:09.120 --> 00:09:14.640 thermal efficiency of this design I mean it's more than adequate for cooling 00:09:13.399 --> 00:09:18.440 everything we got here but they just want it to look sweet and they have 00:09:16.560 --> 00:09:22.800 definitely achieved that now the self Bridge heat sink is just uh one slab of 00:09:20.959 --> 00:09:26.839 metal and unlike some of the motherboards I've seen with huge cooling 00:09:25.320 --> 00:09:31.079 heat sink Solutions on them in the recent past this one everything is 00:09:29.399 --> 00:09:36.120 constructed entirely of metal so it's actually going to contribute to cooling 00:09:32.880 --> 00:09:37.920 now this bottom one is uh is a a clip 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 00:09:39.920 --> 00:09:46.399 and then on the bottom a convenient little warning just just for the special 00:09:44.000 --> 00:09:50.399 uh purchasers out there heat sync not a weapon cannot be assembled as a firearm 00:09:49.519 --> 00:09:54.600 so please put that out of your mind you 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 00:09:56.640 --> 00:10:03.600 yeah another thing I wanted to show you guys is yes those controllable fan 00:10:00.680 --> 00:10:06.519 connectors are all four pin pwm so there's one here actually here just back 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 00:10:10.279 --> 00:10:16.959 here and finally one here I also didn't point out this other auxiliary 4 pin 00:10:15.079 --> 00:10:21.720 power connector now the reason these two are here is because all of the 00:10:19.760 --> 00:10:25.880 motherboard power comes from the 24 bin connector traditionally these are just 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 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 00:10:32.640 --> 00:10:38.279 only pull the extra that they need from those connectors at the back so if you 00:10:36.360 --> 00:10:41.120 plug in four high power gpus and you don't use these auxiliary power 00:10:39.760 --> 00:10:44.399 connectors you can actually burn the connectors here from so much current 00:10:42.959 --> 00:10:49.240 running through them so that's what Gigabyte is trying to prevent on their 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:52.399 nice shiny high-end motherboard so we've got some more power delivery back here 00:10:50.600 --> 00:10:57.200 and this is a nice touch I always like to see this proper screws attaching the 00:10:55.519 --> 00:11:01.040 cooling solution from the motherboard rather than push pins cuz that's going 00:10:58.639 --> 00:11:06.560 to make sure that if it gets hot or cold expends contracts no matter what happens 00:11:03.519 --> 00:11:08.800 everything is going to stay properly 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 00:11:10.279 --> 00:11:16.800 think is great they're using their new matte black PCB which I think looks 00:11:14.320 --> 00:11:21.639 better than anyone else's PCB out there the color scheme is phenomenal with a 00:11:18.839 --> 00:11:25.440 nice gunmetal appearance to everything and then a couple of green and black 00:11:23.680 --> 00:11:30.240 accents I think it looks absolutely outstanding it would actually be a great 00:11:26.959 --> 00:11:32.839 pair for that uh half X NVIDIA Edition 00:11:30.240 --> 00:11:37.279 right back there because this is not a standard siiz motherboard this is 00:11:34.880 --> 00:11:41.440 actually a nine expansion slot motherboard so you can see there's two 00:11:39.240 --> 00:11:45.600 missing slots up here and then seven expansion slots so this is longer than a 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 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 00:11:56.079 --> 00:12:02.959 can see that it is substantially shorter and and it is also substantially 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 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 00:12:07.839 --> 00:12:13.760 mounting holes here and here there are your mounting holes well yeah there's 00:12:11.680 --> 00:12:17.399 more board to the side of this one than there is on a standard sized ATX 00:12:16.279 --> 00:12:21.160 motherboard so you're going to make sure you need to have a special case to 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 00:12:22.480 --> 00:12:27.560 of connectors and I think that's pretty much it we've got two dedicated PS2 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 00:12:30.240 --> 00:12:36.760 USB 2.0 four USB 3.0 gigabit Ethernet 00:12:34.839 --> 00:12:43.040 powered by Bigfoot networks and then we have 7.1 audio as well as an additional 00:12:40.600 --> 00:12:46.920 digital audio output and that is Optical thank you for checking out my unboxing 00:12:45.000 --> 00:12:50.079 of the G1 assassin don't forget to subscribe to lineus Tech tips for more 00:12:48.320 --> 00:12:53.079 unboxings reviews and other computer videos