Wednesday, October 19th 2011
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Gigabyte Teases with G1.Assasin 2 LGA2011 Motherboard Pictures
Gigabyte teased us with pictures of its high-end socket LGA2011 motherboard featured in its G1.Killer series of motherboards designed for the gamer-overclocker market. The G1.Assassin 2, as it's called, is based on the Intel X79 chipset. We don't have landscape pictures of the board, yet, but whatever little bits of pictures we do have, reveal quite a bit. To begin with, this board will retain the black+green "weapon" styling of predecessors in the series. The LGA2011 socket is wired to four DDR3 DIMM slots, in sets of two, on either sides of the socket. Each DIMM slot has its own memory channel.
From the CPU VRM heatsink, a heat pipe is finding its way to a stylized X79 PCH heatsink. This heatsink is designed to look like a handgun. Since it's so small, it isn't looking as realistic as the clip design featured on other G1.Killer motherboards. There are just six internal SATA ports we can find from the picture, two 6 Gb/s, and four 3 Gb/s. In terms of expansion slots, we could spot three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, these could be arranged in the x16/x16/NC or x16/x8/x8 lane configuration.Connectivity is where G1.Killer edges past competition. There are two hardware onboard devices that are a $200 value if purchased as discrete addon cards: there's Bigfoot Networks' Killer E2100 network processor, and Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi. Both devices use hardware-accelerated controllers. The Killer E2100 works to lower network latencies (good for online gaming), while the Creative CA20K1 provides awesome audio. It has a high-grade OPAMP circuit that makes use of audiophile-grade electrolytic capacitors (costlier than conductive polymer). We'll need more pictures to comment on the other features.
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From the CPU VRM heatsink, a heat pipe is finding its way to a stylized X79 PCH heatsink. This heatsink is designed to look like a handgun. Since it's so small, it isn't looking as realistic as the clip design featured on other G1.Killer motherboards. There are just six internal SATA ports we can find from the picture, two 6 Gb/s, and four 3 Gb/s. In terms of expansion slots, we could spot three PCI-Express 3.0 x16 slots, these could be arranged in the x16/x16/NC or x16/x8/x8 lane configuration.Connectivity is where G1.Killer edges past competition. There are two hardware onboard devices that are a $200 value if purchased as discrete addon cards: there's Bigfoot Networks' Killer E2100 network processor, and Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi. Both devices use hardware-accelerated controllers. The Killer E2100 works to lower network latencies (good for online gaming), while the Creative CA20K1 provides awesome audio. It has a high-grade OPAMP circuit that makes use of audiophile-grade electrolytic capacitors (costlier than conductive polymer). We'll need more pictures to comment on the other features.
35 Comments on Gigabyte Teases with G1.Assasin 2 LGA2011 Motherboard Pictures
You can see how the SATA port cluster is halved in the latest pictures.
cant they make normal hsf.
after this whats next? land mines hsf?
And for me 6 sata ports are not enough for me.
Yes, there's only two boards shown so far. But it's not looking good. That EVGA that was reported on earlier only has 6 ports internal and the eSATA is from a 3rd party controller!
If it doesn't have it all, hopefully we'll see some boards with 4 or 8 port controllers to make up for Intel's bumbling.
The Gigabyte board still has the two additional Marvell ports, as if you look closely on the picture, you can see the Marvell chip next to the heatsink, you just can't see the two grey ports.
I don't see why everyone isn't angling the 24pin for better cable running. Also why in the heck are the ram slots so darn close to the cpu? theres all that room between the left ram and the rear io. With alot of memory with tall heatsinks. Its just gonna get in the way of cpu coolers. Not everyones gonna run water. They have a big cpu cooler already and once they get the board, they find out they can't use it. WTH! I don't like it. I may just skip over this gen and see what the next has for us.
personally i like the prototype design, much better than the final product :D
You do know that people who build their PCs are mostly over the age of 12 right? Do you see Barney themed mobos? no... why? wrong age group.. Like you don't see a freaking toy gun on a mob.... oh wait :p Stick to color changes instead of adding useless ugly decorations
I'm 49 (no tween left in me) and I like it.
So if you've seen some newer articles stating that the SCU was entirely disabled with -X, I'd appreciate a link (I'm searching myself too). If so, I can move on hoping for some boards with an 8-port LSI controller to make up for the loss. If not, I can start my ranting that manufacturers aren't making use of the 4 SAS 6Gb/s ports it has :)
Edit: Make that three boards, I just saw the MSI without the additional ports.