Gigabyte Teases with G1.Assasin 2 LGA2011 Motherboard Pictures

[Disparia]

Intel had an "errata" with the chipset last minute, so the X79 gets to make do with six ports in total from the AHCI, as the additional ports would've been via the SCU which is now entirely disabled. Initially the X79 chipset was meant to have eight SATA/SAS ports which were cut back to four SATA ports and finally nothing...

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 know of the errata, but have only read that it affected the dedicated link, not the SCU entirely. That's why at last report, -X was going to be a desktop market version of -B, not -T as originally planned. However, the two boards we've seen make me question that (the 2port SATA/eSATA controllers)

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.

 

[Batou1986]

This looks 1000x better, Intel+Gigabyte be e-thug'n it up
I like the black an neon green just not the lets make everything look like a gun part.

 

[Raptor_i]

the gun looks like a plastic toy ..... EXTREME FAIL

 

[mlee49]

Hmmm... wonder what Asus has for LGA2011...

 

[n-ster]

I am going against the flow here and saying the Gun is pure win. Why shouldn't they build themed boards? What are these boards used for 9/10s of the time? For playing shooter games amirite?

I'm 49 (no tween left in me) and I like it.

If it were a badass gun that didn't look like a kindergarden kid pasted his 1$ gun to a mobo, I do like the idea of being different and perhaps adding themes.

But it looks like a 1$ toy

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I must rage over this. RAGE!!! I was thinking woah finally an assassin that's actually purchasable when I saw the prototype. This.... this is just an abomination like it's predecessors. Someone make them understand the horror... this can't be released as is.

 

[Bjorn_Of_Iceland]

No, it's because http://www.techpowerup.com/149224/I...11-But-With-Reduced-Platform-Feature-Set.html

lol yeah, i know. Twas' for teh lols

 

[WarraWarra]

Is this ready for 2nd gen socket2011 with full sandy-e pci-e3.0 fixes or only the half egg half pci-e3.0 socket2011 sandy-e 1st gen / 1st release versions.

If only half egg then I presume this would need to be replaced by Jun 2012 with another mboard ?

 

[Hayder_Master]

Ohh my dear baby guess what? I bring a chocolate gun.

 

[[H]@RD5TUFF]

fugly and gimmicky:shadedshu

 

[LAN_deRf_HA]

I've been looking for a place to contact gigabyte about the whole "this is shitty and nobody likes it" thing but they seem pretty walled off from the outside world.