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ah the last member of the g1 series for me to unbox this is the g1 gorilla so we've already done the assassin and the sniper this is the most value oriented of the g1 series boards although they're not really value boards these are performance gaming boards but this is the least expensive of the lot of them and let's get started it comes with a three-year warranty in the US and Canada it supports Intel Core i7 processors on LGA 1366 so that is nine 20s 939 40s 950 s9 60s nine 70s 980 X's and 990 X's yes that includes Extreme Edition ok it has the intellect 58 chipset it includes an x5 built on sound card as well as a killer 2100 gaming networking card so those are pretty good values considering the fact that you do not have to now buy and add a network card or in theory and add in sound card because the add in sound card not only has an x5 processor but also a built in front audio headphone amp which is pretty sweet as well as high-end audio capacitors so this is pretty important because I've always been a huge advocate of better onboard features such as say for example sound and networking and it's good to see somebody moving in that direction alright so we got the big foot networks killer game networking platform we have a front access control panel let's see say two three six gigabit per second USB 3 locked and loaded heat pipe design which we'll have a closer look at later five smartband connectors which can be easily controlled with the easy tune 6 software it includes ultra-durable 3 maximum CPU power and now there we go dual BIOS with 3 + terabyte hard drive support a super sight what's a super site with multiple GPU delivers maximum FPS allowing gamers to see more clearly and faster and move more quickly ok ok basically they're just saying it has support for up to 3 Way SLI and the 3-way crossfire X that's what they mean by super all right so when we open up the box we find some digicam and put the box are there so it can pose there and look sweet and then we'll pull out the g1 gorilla itself okay see after all this I was expecting an ape themed board no I'm just kidding that's a different kind of gorilla okay there we go so we got a poster first thing just poster would look pretty sweet on my wall it's got skull and some weaponize yourself stuff on the back there's a target of a guy it's already conveniently got bullet holes in it so you won't have to bother shooting at the target next we have some stickers g1 killer bullet hole stickers bullet stickers some more g1 killer stickers more bullets and more bullet holes alright we've got that convenient USB 3.0 front panel between a half inch guy that connects to an internal USB 3 header since most cases these days still don't have front USB free via a header that's an awesome feature here we've got a 3-way SLI bridge we have a two-way SLI bridge as well as for static cables to straight and to right angles we also have a user's manual with a drivers and utilities DVD download the latest off the gigabyte website rather than using that we have a multilingual installation guide book as well as an i/o shield that looks pretty cool because it says do you want color on the back it's not color coded but it's black so it looks better so you know you got to make sure you got to make a judgement call now do you prefer a good-looking back panel or do you prefer a labeled one it all comes down to whether you can find out where things plug into without the color coding or whether looks are important to you and all that personally I prefer the black one just because I have no problem finding my USB ports I know what they look like and since the USB 3.0 ones are color-coded blue inside the connector anyway that's not a big deal uh neither so let's go ahead close the box here and let's have a look at the t-one gorilla itself so one of the first things I noticed about this board versus its bigger brothers is that it doesn't have as many power phases so this is only looks like an 8 plus 2 phase power design for the 1366 socket it's still a sweet-looking board and it has a very similar looking cooling system so why don't we do yeah let's do cooling first so you got your barrel of a pistol thing going on here then you've got all of these LEDs light up and look cool and this says gaming motherboard on it so this looks really good and then you've got your magazine right here with a bullet sticking out of it as well as a helpful warning not a weapon cannot be assembled as a firearm so please be aware of that you may not recycle this board once it's you know old and slow and make a gun out of it it doesn't work that way all right at the top left we've bought an 8 pin power connector moving over we've got our CPU fan connector we've got six ddr3 slots supporting triple channel ddr3 our 24-pin power connectors in its ideal location along the right-hand edge of the board moving down some more we've got our SATA connectors so there are six SATA to three gigabit per second connectors and to say two three six gigabit per second connectors here is our South Bridge heatsink which we've already looked at there's our North Bridge heatsink MOSFET heatsink I don't think I ever said what they were cooling before front panel connectors are here we've also got three front USB headers we've got one front USB 3.0 header another fan we've got our front audio connector in its ideal location along the bottom left not here where we used to often find them on gigabyte motherboards our PCI slot layout is fairly ideal looking let me have a look at what these are okay so it looks like what we got here is 16 X 16 X 8 X now the way I would probably use this board if I was to use it in my personal system is I'd throw one of my cards in here I'd throw my other one in here taking that bandwidth hit because it actually doesn't affect performance then that would leave me with a 16x lot and a 1 X slot for any Edition expansion cards this is a standard size motherboard although it's a touch wider than standard ATX it should fit in most standard ATX cases but it doesn't have any additional lengths like the XL ATX g1 assassin does here is our built-in creative sound card so you can see here it's actually isolated where on the PCB all of those components are located so that's where you're gonna get better sound quality from we've got also the headphone amplifier is built into that particular part of the board here is our killer 2100 with its dedicated cache so that's going to take care of the ethernet capabilities of this motherboard here on the back we will find two ps2 ports one for the keyboard one for the mouse optical audio as well as coaxial audio out and OC button which as you may or may not be able to figure out based on the name of it will OC your board that is overclock your board all right we've got Wow looks like two USB eSATA combo ports I love those those are awesome we've got four more just plain USB 2 ports two USB 3 ports this is a great mix actually of USB 2 eSATA ports fantastic because you can do lots of external devices you can do lots of USB to all that good stuff we've got a Gigabit Ethernet as well as 7.1 audio and nothing much to say about the back of the board except that it has a matte black PCB which every single motherboard in the world should have because it looks great just want to give gigabyte kudos for this they've done such a good job of improving the overall look and feel of their boards versus their last generation stuff I mean I bought and at the x58 extreme back when it first launched so this was their first x58 high-end board and I actually ended up getting rid of it to change up for something that had a very similar color scheme to this even though I knew it was an inferior board it was a dfi t 3h eight or something along those lines so yeah if I'd had one of these I definitely would have just kept it thanks for checking out this unboxing of the g1 gorilla forget to subscribe to Linus tech 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