welcome to my unboxing of gigabytes 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 the all the good stuff we
will be updating that with this board
once we are finished unbox ing it and once I have the LGA 2011 Mount that I
need for swifttech water Block in order to rebuild our extreme buyers guide
system so this guy's got a 5-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 uh gigabytes way of saying that they have three-way digital
power delivery on this particular board it's not see 3D is more like three
digital rather than threedimensional whereas this is more like three-dimensional so um 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 out
of and I know someone someone is going
to make a comment on that on YouTube I no 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 leted out a huge fart when I open 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 oh 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 uh PCI Express 1X
adapter which in 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 ad we have a crossfire Bridge a three-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 uh 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 and 1/2 in
USB 3 doad 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 IO Shield uh some documentation including
some discs that you're going to want to go ahead and download the latest from the Gigabyte website so one disc for the
board one disc for your GC Wi-Fi that is that wireless Bluetooth guy
you got your manual you got a manual for the G GC Wi-Fi and that pretty well does
it looks like that probably went in there haha 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 cuz 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 rewatch so to
speak uh 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 XL at is it XL ATX hold on just gosh
don't minute here no it's
not I'll be back in a moment so I
thought this was the XL ATX board but it turns out I was wrong the ud7 is the XL
ATX 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 dims
in Quad channel so that means you have support for up to 32 gigs of memory if
you're using 8 gig dims 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 usb3 connector in its ideal location along the right hand Edge we've
also got our SATA 36 GB per second ports right about here R SATA 2 3 gbit 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 gbit 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
and then 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
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 usb2 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
a 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
apps 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 with dedicated
RAM killer e2100 Nick card and up here
we find all kinds of like fascinating little chips most of which I don't know
what they do here's our Fresco logic there's our Marvel which I would say is
probably powering raid but my guess would be that it's not and probably
powering the EA we got another Marvel 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 so 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 IO so we have a PS2 PS2
keyboard mouse combo Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
eight USB 2.0 ports and OC button that
is a OneTouch overclock a BIOS selector switch that is very very handy and very
cool to see we've also got a SOS clear button two Es SATA 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 microphone in a dedicated
microphone in import 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 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
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