Review-Gigabyte G1.Assassin: High-end Gaming in “Military” Style, Part 1 (Features)

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Oik Yusuf Araya

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Motherboard

March 31, 2011

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Amidst the Sandy Bridge hype, Gigabyte released a new motherboard based on Intel’s older-but-proven X58 platform: the G1-Killer Series. As opposed to Gigabyte’s usual design, the G1-Killer series adopts a “military” style theme that makes it somewhat more attractive than the rest of their product lineups. And it’s not just the looks alone; the high-end motherboards in this series are equipped with some useful features meant to support their primary gaming function. According to Gigabyte’s terms, the highlighted features of choice are called ”Super Sight”, “Super Hearing”,” Super Speed”, and “Super Shield”. Keep reading this article to find out what they mean.
The G1-Killer Series consists of three different variants, namely the G1.Assassin, G1.Sniper, and G1.Guerilla, each is distinguished from the other by the difference in their features. Of all three, G1.Assassin has the most features. Our article here is based on this model. Let’s take a look at it and see what the motherboard is capable of!

Intel X58 Chipset

The picture above explains the working mechanism diagram of Intel’s X58 chipset, consisting of the X58 northbridge and the ICH10R southbridge. X58 provides up to 36 PCI-Express lanes that can be divided into different sets to allow for multi-graphics configuration (SLI or Crossfire). The ICH10R southbridge handles data transfers from I/O devices, such as those coming from the SATA and USB interface.

G1.Assassin, Specification