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With the G1.Assassin, Gigabyte clearly targets gamers. Therefore the second biggest motherboard manufacturer in the world tries this with a very catchy design as well as some unique features made especially for gamers.The G1.Assassin currently is Gigab...
General With the G1.Assassin, Gigabyte has a motherboard in its portfolio that is tailored especially to the needs of gamers. Therefore we liked the high quality creative sound card delivers crisp and clear sound as well as realtime encoding. Futhermor...
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What is your primary use for a computer? Some people hate computers, they avoid using them as much as possible. We all know those types although I highly doubt any of them ever stumble upon our home here. People of OverclockersClub seem to be a differ...
Price, USB 3.0 & SATA 3, Bundled Programs & Gigabyte Software, 4x CrossFire & TriSLI Support, Overclocking, Integrated Hardware Cards, Crazy Flexability, Size...
Price, Size...
Well, it's easy to say that Gigabyte showed up to the fight with this board. Beyond now industry standard features and high quality reference components, the G1.Assassin heaps on two additional cards onto the PCB and ups the size to the gigantic XL-A...
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atomicmpc.com.au Updated:
2011-11-05 02:17:50
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Gaming has nabbed another victim, and no, it's not an addicted WoW player on an extended binge. GIGABYTE has come to the table with a new range of appropriately named G1.Killer motherboards. The Assassin model in our hot little hands (and in a gallery...
One for the very dedicated gamer...
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“Gaming” motherboards seem to be a dime a dozen these days but it’s rare to see a product that’s built from the ground up to cater to the unique needs of the gaming community. This is exactly what Gigabyte is looking to accomplish with the G1 Killer s...
First and foremost, GIGABYTE have to be commended for undertaking such ambitious product. We are not saying this because they made a motherboard series targeted towards gamers, but because they did it right. When we look at the G1.Assassin it is immedi...
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The market for top-of-the-line X58 boards should have dried up with the release of the Sandy Bridge chips, but the Gigabyte G1.Assassin X58 board is looking to get people excited again.The latest Intel Sandy Bridge chips have dominated CPU-related column...
High performance, 'Specialist' visual appeal...
Hugely overpriced, No incentive to ignore Sandy Bridge...
A pumped up grunt of a board - power mad, unjustifiable and a waste of fiscal resources...
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Enthusiast customers are spoilt for choice when buying a new motherboard. Asus, MSI and Gigabyte are all going head to head to create the most eye catching, feature packed, overclocking friendly boards to suit those with deeper than average pockets...
Expensive products, but the performance available is incredible. Well worth the money. Both products earn our highest award, if you have the disposable budget then this should be your next system...
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pcauthority.com.au Updated:
2013-09-27 12:37:34
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Gaming has nabbed another victim, and no, it's not an addicted WoW player on an extended binge. GIGABYTE has come to the table with a new range of appropriately named G1.Killer motherboards. The Assassin model in our hot little hands ( and in a gallery he...
One for the very dedicated gamer...
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Back during CES we were given the chance to see the launch of a very exciting product. This was the G1 Killer series. From the beginning of the event you could pretty much tell this was going to be something a little different from the norm. Wheth...
Ok, we are not going to do a full walk around, but let's take a look at some of the impressive features here on the board. The board is a mixture of green and black and looks quite sharp. The cooling has been formed to look like the weaver comba...
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ocaholic.ch.english Updated:
2014-07-03 01:28:55
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With the G1.Assassin Gigabyte wants to present the ultimative gaming motherboard. Therfore you'll find a high quality creative sound chip onboard as well as a Killer NIC. Furthermore the design targets gamers too...
ly the Gigabyte G1Assassins layout is very well thought Once more very practical are the angled SATA Unfortunately there are no power and resetbuttons You also wont find a debug display which would become very useful in case you should have issues with a...
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tbreak.ae Updated:
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With Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors all the rage, let’s not forget that their (previous generation) LGA 1366 CPUs are still one of the highest end processors available on the market, the i7 980X being a particular force to be reckoned with.It was...
3/4way SLI/CrossFire, Great looking heatsinks with LED, Multiple sound adapters, Easy overclock, Great additional Front Panel...
BIGFOOT network card doesn't make much difference, Audio feedback suffers from minor static, No onboard buttons, only 2 SATA III ports...
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When it comes to PC gaming hardware, ASUS' Republic of Gamers brand comes to mind, offering motherboards, graphics cards and even notebooks. Although we have always felt that ASUS' ROG boards are targeted more at overclocking enthusiasts than actual gamer...
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It's becoming more difficult to justify the purchase of Intel's X58 Express chipset with all the new technology looming on the horizon. This chipset came out almost three years ago. Time sure flies, especially in the hardware industry. We still like th...
Unique heatsink design, SATA 6Gb/s and USB 3.0, Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100 NIC...
Expensive, Aging platform...
The market for X58 motherboards is filled with mature products that have been available for some time. There are lots of options for those who want to upgrade their current platform. ASRock sells a board starting at $154, and every major company offers ba...
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rwlabs.com Updated:
2011-11-05 02:17:57
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It is quite rare for us to receive a product that actually leaves us with our mouths open mainly because naturally people such as us have seen, used and tested pretty much everything. However today we will be taking a look at such a product and...
Build Quality, Performance, Overclocking Performance, Onboard Killer 2100 NIC, Onboard Sound Blaster XFi Titanium HD, USB 3.0/ SATA 3 Support, Front 5.25" USB 3.0/eSATA/Quick Boost Bay, Design, 3Way SLI/ 4Way Crossfire, Plenty Of Space Between PCIex Slots...
Price (For Some), XL ATX Factor (Not Many Cases Support It)...
Most people never thought that Gigabyte could produce something better than the legendary GA-EX58A-UD9 mainboard targeted towards enthusiasts and hardcore overclockers but that was obviously not the case after all. The G1.Assassin may lack some...
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The G1.Assassin is a motherboard designed exclusively for extreme enthusiasts who value performance and features above all else. This makes this board a rarity in today's market, as most products maintain a balance between the amount of features availa...
Instead of doing the standard summary where I list all the pros and cons of a product prior to giving my final recommendation, I am going to just come out and say that the G1.Assassin is one of the more innovative and unique motherboard we have tested...
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proclockers.com Updated:
2011-11-05 02:18:06
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to the Gigabyte G1.Assassin Socket 1366 MotherboardThe gaming industry is big business. Originally it was the video game makers who obviously reaped the rewards, but now the hardware/peripheral manufacturers of the products we consumers game with are...
The Gigabyte G1.Assassin is a 'no holds barred' type of motherboard. Gigabyte wanted the best of everything in order to give the gamer all they needed in one package. They did such a good job at this that if you can't tell this motherboard is geared t...
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The G1 Killer, as the name suggests, is Gigabyte's first series of motherboard aimed solely at professional gamers. The G1 Killer comes in 3 flavours, namely the Assassin, Sniper and Guerrilla. +1 to Gigabyte for renaming the motherboards into somethi...
Final thoughts It all comes down to the perspective of the manufacturers. Does it make more sense to have all features added onto the motherboard, making the motherboard physically larger, or provide an add-on card for a more universally accepted mothe...
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The G1.Assassin is the most high-end socket 1366 motherboard from the Gigabyte series "G1-Killer," which has a "gun-like" design and is aimed at gamer enthusiast users. It has eight SATA ports (six SATA-300 and two SATA-600), eight USB 3.0 ports, six m...
The Gigabyte G1.Assassin may be classified as a "wow" motherboard. It could be a "simple" high-end socket 1366 motherboard, just because it has six memory slots, a high-end voltage regulator, four PCI Express x16 slots, support for SLI and CrossFireX a...
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Super Sight, Super Hearing, Super Speed, and Super Shield are the four killer instincts that and true warrior needs. In the middle of battle they all count. These four features are what define the new GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 motherboard! If one of...
If you happen to be building an Intel X58 system and plan on upgrading the audio and installing a Killer E2100 NIC, the GIGABYTE G1 Assassin may just fill your needs perfectly!...
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I was there… I heard the loud noises and saw the grenades being thrown. My partner and I went to war and back that night. Some of the things we saw that night can and will never be un-seen. The night that Gigabyte invited us out for the launch of their...
In a market where almost every X58 motherboard is the same Gigabyte was able to make the G1 Assassin stand out in a crowd. Their attention to detail with the cooling system puts the entire G1 Killer series of motherboards into a class of their own. Wit...
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If you try to please everyone with a product, then you won’t please anyone at all. And that seems to be the case with many motherboards on the market. Boards that combine gaming stability with features that overclockers want end up with an identity cri...
It’s not surprising to see the GIGABYTE G1 Killer Assassin perform similarly to their own X58A-UD5 motherboards in many respects. They share quite a bit of engineering right down to the 16-Phase power. However, the Assassin overclocks just a little eas...
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This year at CES, one of the biggest announcements was Gigabyte . This new series of motherboards has gamers in mind with a Killer E2100 Dedicated network processing unit and Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Digital Audio Processor (20K2) on the motherb...
One of the coolest looking motherboards we have seen, Bigfoot Networks E2100 chip built in, Creative 20K2 audio processor built in, SATA3 and USB 3.0 connectivity, Quad CrossFireX and Triple SLI support, 16 Phase Power design, Easy Overclocking and Quick...
Price, XL-ATX form factor, No clear CMOS button...
When the G1 Killer motherboards were announced, I was very excited, and to me they were one of the standout things I saw at CES this year. We really have not seen that many gaming motherboards that truly have everything a gamer needs. The G1 Assassin...
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Bjorn3d.com Updated:
2011-11-05 02:18:45
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Even after the release of the new Sandy Bridge platform's P67 Express chipset (codenamed Cougar Point), vendors continue to push their older Tylersburg X58 chipsets and add features that have not yet been seen on even top of the line X58 motherboard...
Dedicated Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100 Network Processing Unit, and Creative 20K2 Audio chip built right onto the motherboard's PCB providing extra space for other add-on cards, Extra Performance gain from NPU and Creative Audio, especially when user is running a stock system with less memory, Online Gaming Experience felt smoother, and felt as if latency was a lot better even when it reported...
No 4way SLI support.
There are not many times when we run across a motherboard manufacturer that releases a motherboard that is truly worth considering for a certain market group. The GIGABYTE G1.Assassin gaming motherboard not only shines and gives more options to gamer...
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With Intel’s new Sandy Bridge processors all the rage, let’s not forget that their (previous generation) LGA 1366 CPUs are still one of the highest end processors available on the market, the i7 980X being a particular force to be reckoned with.It was...
3/4way SLI/CrossFire, Great looking heatsinks with LED, Multiple sound adapters, Easy overclock, Great additional Front Panel...
BIGFOOT network card doesn't make much difference, Audio feedback suffers from minor static, No onboard buttons, only 2 SATA III ports...
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Back during CES we were given the chance to see the launch of a very exciting product. This was the G1 Killer series. From the beginning of the event you could pretty much tell this was going to be something a little different from the norm. Wheth...
Ok, we are not going to do a full walk around, but let's take a look at some of the impressive features here on the board. The board is a mixture of green and black and looks quite sharp. The cooling has been formed to look like the weaver comba...
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With the LGA1366 socket being relatively old compared to it's LGA115x siblings, the X58 boards have been a little thinner on the ground as manufacturers have brought us P55 and then P67 based motherboards.We've seen a few minor revisions to include som...
There is no denying that todays review was slightly different than the norm. With so many modern systems being within a gnats chuff of each other we really wanted to give a range of results, rather than try and find the nth of a percentage difference betw...
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When it comes to PC gaming hardware, ASUS' Republic of Gamers brand comes to mind, offering motherboards, graphics cards and even notebooks. Although we have always felt that ASUS' ROG boards are targeted more at overclocking enthusiasts than actual ga...
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engadgethd.com Updated:
2011-11-05 02:18:52
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Tag results for Reviews subscribe Show results from: Classic / HD / Mobile SEARCH TAGS GALLERIES Gigabyte G1 Assassin motherboard is a last-gen gamer's dream come true by Terrence O'Brien Jul 25th 2011 at 12:56PM Comments 0 Comments AMD Llano deskto...
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maximumpc.com Updated:
2011-12-01 01:17:53
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Gigabyte really went all out with the weapon-themed G1.Assassin board, but for folks who don’t know: It’s a motherboard, not a weapon. Repeat: not a weapon. And just in case someone thought you could somehow slap the magazine-shaped heatsink into your...
A “free” Killer NIC and XFi make for a nice bonus.
Where’s the fourway SLI?...
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Targetted at gamers, the G1.Assassin Motherboard is an extremely popular product in the market. Today, the G1.Assassin Motherboard is put side by side with one of their competitors and we will find out just which of the two is better. Get ready for some c...
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With killer looks and killer features including the Bigfoot Networks Killer E2100 and true Creative X-Fi audio onboard, GIGABYTE is set on killing the competition with its new G1-Killer Assassin motherboard. In this preview, VR-Zone.com checks out the lat...
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