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so I noticed something interesting while I was looking at the G1 sniper box

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preparing to do my unboxing check this out the boxes are actually patterned

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identically oh here it's probably easier if I stack them save for the

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color so every little like Mark is

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exactly the same on both boxes see like this Mark and this Mark see so it's just

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a color difference however there is more difference between these two

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motherboards than just the color so we

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are going to be doing an unboxing of the G1 sniper we've already done the G1

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assassin and let's have a look at what

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is special about this member of the Gigabyte G1 gaming Series so it has a

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three-year warranty which we've come to expect from Gigabyte in the US and

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Canada it has extreme Fidelity x52 or XF

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rather powered audio okay it supports the latest Intel Core i7 processors on

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the LG 1366 platform that includes the 990x extreme Edition we've got powered

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by creative audio including uh onboard

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amplification as well as a killer e2100 networking solution okay let's

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move around to the back where there's a bunch of stuff that really we're going

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to get more into as we look at the board itself so let's open up the box here

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where we find some Digi Cam

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and some flatulence okay

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and there's the board itself we're not going to look too closely at that yet we

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are going to check out the accessories so first thing we got here

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is three dudes who are G1 Killers we

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have the I believe it's the Assassin the

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gorilla and the sniper okay then on the back we have a target with some bullet

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holes conveniently already in it next we have stickers

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bullets bullet holes skull with flames

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coming out of his eyes and a knife and more bullets more bullet holes and some

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G1 see these these two would actually probably look pretty cool on on your

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case the rest of them I don't know you might just look like you live in Siri

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and you drive a truck okay here we go users manual

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including a chipsets and utilities DVD

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throw it away download the latest off the Gigabyte website multilingual

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installation guide book okay we've got

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an IO Shield which is not colorcoded but it is black so it looks sweet we've also

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got a Gigabyte sticker yeah that sticker sucks compared to the other ones sry

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Gigabyte then we have Dolby Digital home theater logo all right we've got a front

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panel USB 3 which is pretty nice okay using an

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internal header since most cases don't have front USB 3 uh that's that's a

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pretty good feature to have so it just mounts in a 3 and 1/2 in Bay all right

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we've got an SLI Bridge freeway s

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ibridge and we've got four SATA cables

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so two of them are right angle and two of them are straight okay I'm just going

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to put this back in here bear with me while I do some reboxing to go with my

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unboxing and there we go and that will

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give me a convenient place to put the motherboard while we talk about that

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okay so the motherboard the biggest difference that

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I can see between the G1 assassin and

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the G1 sniper at first glance anyhow is

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the form factor so the G1 assassin uses

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that XL ATX form factor which has nine

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expansion slots and only fits in a handful of cases whereas the G1 assassin

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seems to have a pretty similar feature set but fits in a standard ATX case oh

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it also only has six expansion slots compared to the seven expansion slots on

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the Assassin afforded by the longer form

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factor so let's do sort of my standard Spiel where we start in the Middle where

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we've got our LGA 1366 socket supporting

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core i7 core i7 extreme processors we've got our four pin power connector up here

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in its ideal location we've got six

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memory slots supporting triple Channel DDR3 memory we've got our 24 pin

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connector and its ideal location along the right hand Edge we have six SATA 2 3

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gbit per second ports and two SATA 3 6

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gbit per second ports and then we've got

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all of our front panel connectors uh one of the things that Gigabyte has fixed

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about their G1 series boards as we move along we got USB 2 oh wow three USB 2s

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One USB 3 front header and then we've also got our audio header look at that

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Gigabyte is putting their audio header in the correct location at the very

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bottom left of the board unlike some of their previous boards where it's here

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and that's very difficult to get a front panel cable over to all right we've also

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got our expansion slots so we have 1 2 3 PCI e6x we have two PCI e1x and one PCI

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based on the PCI or based on the SLI

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bridge I saw included it looks like the full speed PCIe 16x slots are actually

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going to be these two and this last one runs at 8X as is standard on x58 boards

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it's going to be 16 16 and 8 okay we've

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got cooling let's talk cooling for a minute here so this boys and girls is

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not a weapon it is a heat sink and it cannot be assembled as a firearm I have

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been notified that this is not a clip

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based on my uh G1 assassin unboxing

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actually this is a magazine so my bad I

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don't know why crazy Russian keeps moving the camera around so much hold it

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still okay then we've we've got our North Bridge heat sink not like that

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okay which has LED lights on it which look cool it also says gaming

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motherboard on it and finally we have our mosfet heat sink which I think is

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actually the coolest one because it's the barrel of a gun check that out so

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you got your sight there you got your Barrel which will have a bullet coming

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out of it probably not cuz it's a heat sink not a weapon bear that in mind

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folks okay uh you know what let's not do the back iio yet let's talk about the

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special features that make G1 special so

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here we have all of the circuitry that is dedicated to the onboard sound onboard

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sound is something that I really feel has gotten ignored while we are

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innovating in so many other ways on motherboards so this has a built-in

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amplifier which means that you can run even high impedance headphones on this

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motherboard and still get a satisfactory listening experience okay it also has as

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I said before dedicated circuitry for the onboard sound that's going to

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provide you with anytime you have better quality components being used for sound

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you're going to get a better overall listening experience better signal deloise ratio all of that good stuff and

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up here we have the killer which actually has dedicated RAM as a cache

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and it is capable of according to

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Bigfoot networks reducing your overall latency and that is a good thing no I

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don't care about that okay uh what else do we have on here to talk about oh yeah

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fan control okay so we got one two just back out and I'll point at them 1 2 3

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three four and I'm sure there's one more

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five uh fan fan headers those are all four pin pwm fan headers and they are

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conveniently located where you actually might need them unlike some motherboards

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so here's your back fan here's your CPU fan here's one two three that are kind

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of at the Front Bottom so that should be pretty handy and pretty usable compared

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to some of the stuff I've seen in the past on the back of the motherboard you can clearly see the matte black PCB

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which I have not harped on yet in this video although I do talk about it every

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time I see one because matte black pcbs are the shizzel everything should have a

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matte black PCB period okay we also have

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screws on the back which I'd really like to see not only screws but isolated

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screws so they've got little washers little plastic washers that will prevent

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those from ever shorting out and causing a problem with this motherboard the fact

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that we're using screws also means that cheap plastic push pins can't pop out

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and accidentally make it so that your mosfet who or your North Bridge cooler

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isn't making proper contact anymore and not cooling something properly so that

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is just one of those nice little touches that I do like to see finally let's have

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a look at the back panel where we have two PS2 ports we've got coaxial audio

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out we have an OC switch wo okay so you

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know what give me a moment I'm going to find out what that does just wanted to

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correct myself really quick cuz I think I I okay clarify myself really quick so

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when you're running with two graphics cards these are 6 16x 16x but it's not

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actually 1668 it's when you're running with three

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graphics cards it's going to be 168 and 8 okay guys so I'm clarifying that 1616

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or 1688 so this one is capable of doing

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either depending on the configuration so this OC labeled switch at the back is

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according to the

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manual an OC button okay press this

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button to overclock your CPU to turn to the defaults press this button again

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pretty self-explanatory all right next we have two ESAT ports we have four USB

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2.0 ports two USB 3.0 ports a gigabit

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Ethernet powered by killer 5.1 audio as

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well as optical audio

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out hold on my bad 7.1 all right thanks guys for

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checking out this unboxing of the G1

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