Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2 LGA2011 SLI Gaming Motherboard Unboxing & First Look Linus Tech Tips
Linus Tech Tips
·Linus Tech Tips
·2012-05-07
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1,903 words · ~9 min read
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welcome to my unboxing of gigabytes update to the G1 assassin which we
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actually oh yeah we have our G1 assassin system over here so we will be updating
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our G1 assassin LGA 1366 machine right
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there with the Dual 590s and the liquid cooling and the all the good stuff we
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will be updating that with this board
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once we are finished unbox ing it and once I have the LGA 2011 Mount that I
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need for swifttech water Block in order to rebuild our extreme buyers guide
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system so this guy's got a 5-year warranty as well as some other upgrades
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over the original G1 assassin one of them is a Bluetooth 4.0 and Wi-Fi card
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that is included another one is their patent pending 3D BIOS dual UEFI BIOS so
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I'll be doing a video on 3D BIOS in the near future here we also have 3D power
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which is basically uh gigabytes way of saying that they have three-way digital
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power delivery on this particular board it's not see 3D is more like three
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digital rather than threedimensional whereas this is more like three-dimensional so um yes so they mean
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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
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the board let's cut to the chase skip to the good part take it out
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of and I know someone someone is going
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to make a comment on that on YouTube I no because they did it when I did my
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original G1 assassin unboxing for some reason yes both the G1 assassin 1 and
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the G1 assassin 2 leted out a huge fart when I open them up there's nothing I
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can do about it grow up no I'm just kidding you don't
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have to grow up farts are funny okay so here we go we have some bullets some
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bullet holes and a G1 killer dude we've also got some more bullets and bullet
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holes and more G1 killer logos we've got a poster which is different from the
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G1 original series posters which
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featured the gorilla the sniper and the Assassin this one is just the general G1
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logo so this has oh it has the original ones on it but not the new ones I guess
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they didn't update the poster fascinating okay we've got a Gigabyte
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sticker included and look at all these accessories that's some good accessory
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action going on here so we have our Bluetooth and Wi-Fi uh PCI Express 1X
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adapter which in incidentally doesn't only work antennas on Gigabyte
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motherboards it also works on whatever motherboard you want so if you happen to buy one of these boards and you happen
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to need Wi-Fi and Bluetooth on some other machine then you just got yourself
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an extra value ad we have a crossfire Bridge a three-way SLI Bridge as well as
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an SLI Bridge these are all long Bridges which is
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nice let's use that long spacing this is
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a USB data cable for that uh Bluetooth
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card or Wi-Fi Bluetooth card it does both we've got one right angle or two
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right angle and two straight SATA cables all right we've got a front 3 and 1/2 in
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USB 3 doad that plugs into the header of
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your motherboard so if you don't have a case that has front USB 3 now you do
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next we've got an IO Shield uh some documentation including
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some discs that you're going to want to go ahead and download the latest from the Gigabyte website so one disc for the
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board one disc for your GC Wi-Fi that is that wireless Bluetooth guy
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you got your manual you got a manual for the G GC Wi-Fi and that pretty well does
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it looks like that probably went in there haha I figured out how this
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works like a wizard I'm sure Harry Potter could
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figure out how to unbox something it's too bad those movies are
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over I enjoy the Harry Potter movies now
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I'll never get to watch one ever again cuz they're not really like they're good
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they're you know they're kind of fun to watch but I don't think they really Merit like a rewatch so to
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speak uh you know what I'm going to put it over here so yeah here we go I'm
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going to put it on its digicam camouflage box and there's absolutely
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nothing camouflage about this board this board is about as like out there as it
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gets so here we go let's start with the
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overall package so the overall package is XL at is it XL ATX hold on just gosh
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don't minute here no it's
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not I'll be back in a moment so I
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thought this was the XL ATX board but it turns out I was wrong the ud7 is the XL
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ATX board so this is an ATX board with
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an LGA 2011 socket right smack in the not quite middle but a little bit off to
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the right side and it supports four dims
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in Quad channel so that means you have support for up to 32 gigs of memory if
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you're using 8 gig dims and potentially 64 gigs in the future when that sort of
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comes out if it ever does okay what else we got here we have our 8 pin connector
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and I would say it's not quite ideal location it is on the top edge of the
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board but it is not over here in this corner which is where most cases are
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usually putting a cutout so that you have easy access to it we've also got
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our 24 pin ATX connector in its ideal location along the right hand Edge we've
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got our usb3 connector in its ideal location along the right hand Edge we've
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also got our SATA 36 GB per second ports right about here R SATA 2 3 gbit per
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second ports right about here so that's two of those and four of those and
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finally on a third party chipset we have more SATA 3 6 gbit per second ports here
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now in terms of the cooling solution we're used to seeing pretty cool cooling
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solutions on the G1 board so we've got kind of a sort of silencer muzzle
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looking thing over here that looks like kind of like a barrel and that looks
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kind of like a you know stock or not a stock what's the thing you hold I don't
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know the grippy thing where you put your left hand if you're right-handed okay
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and then we have a heat pipe going down to a
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pistol which says Gigabyte gaming motherboard and this is hilarious you
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guys are going to love this okay here here here here here here here
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here heat sink not a weapon cannot be
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assembled as a firearm so just in case you were wondering no you cannot
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assemble it as a firearm and you're dumb
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for thinking that okay not that I ever try to insult my viewers but come on
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really like really okay so front panel
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connectors are right about here on the bottom there's your powered USB 2 so
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powered USB 2 is useful for charging things like iPads and other tablets and
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good stuff like that we've also got two additional usb2 front panel headers we
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have our front panel audio and we have
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full support for up to three-way Crossfire or SLI so you're going to be
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running 16x 16x for a dual card configuration which would leave you with
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a PCIe 8X and a PCIe 1x for further
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expansion or you can run 16x 8X 8X and
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that would leave you with nothing else for further expansion unless you're using water blocks which is possible
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what we also find down here is our Amplified onboard audio so headphone
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apps I'm a big sort of advocate of using
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a properly Amplified headphone output if you are using headphones especially ones
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with reasonably High impedance which is anything that's higher end than a fairly
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basic set of headphones so that is there we also have the onboard with dedicated
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RAM killer e2100 Nick card and up here
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we find all kinds of like fascinating little chips most of which I don't know
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what they do here's our Fresco logic there's our Marvel which I would say is
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probably powering raid but my guess would be that it's not and probably
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powering the EA we got another Marvel chip over here okay lots of good
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stuff hey let's look at where all the fan headers are okay so we have our CPU
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fan header here you want to sort of back up a little bit for this part so oh yeah
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you are good job okay CPU fan header here we've got another four pin fan
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header here another one here so that's three so far we've got another one here
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so that's four we've got another one here so that's five so we have five four
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pin pwm fan headers on the G1 assassin 2
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and let's have a look at what we've got in terms of rear IO so we have a PS2 PS2
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keyboard mouse combo Port 1 2 3 4 5 6 7
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eight USB 2.0 ports and OC button that
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is a OneTouch overclock a BIOS selector switch that is very very handy and very
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cool to see we've also got a SOS clear button two Es SATA ports so those are
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those eSATA USB combo ports two USB 3.0
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ports there's your killer e2100 networking and finally 7.1 audio out
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including optical audio out although the omission of a microphone in a dedicated
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microphone in import is a very strange one to me so what you guys can probably
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see here is that this is a little bit costed down compared to the original G1
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assassin but they still have left along most of the features that I would say
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Gamers would care about most gamers are not loading up their system with 128
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gigs or 64 gigs of memory so you've still got the four slots for Quad
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Channel operation you've still got your full support for three-way SLI or
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Crossfire X you got your killer Bigfoot networking you've got your headphone amp
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sound card that is built in okay you know what bearing in mind okay I'm
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criticizing them on the mic Port missing here but you can obviously use your
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front panel mic which is probably what they're expecting you to do now that I
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think about it a little bit more so yeah
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