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GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard Review

Manufacturer: Gigabyte
Product: GIGABYTE G1 Assassin
Date: Tue, Apr 19, 2011 - 12:00 AM
Written By: Dan Stoltz -
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Legit Reviews Test System

All testing was done on a fresh install of Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit with all the latest updates installed. All benchmarks were completed on the desktop with no other software programs running. The Corsair Vengeance memory modules were run in Dual-channel mode at 1600MHz with 9-9-9-24-2t timings. The XFX Radeon HD 6950 graphics cards were run with 10.12A CATALYST suite drivers. The Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 1Gb Graphics cards were running driver version 260.99. The Intel Core i7 950 processor was running at the default clock of 3.07GHz with turbo enabled. The GIGABYTE G1 Assassin was running BIOS revision f3d.

Intel X58 Test Rig

 Processor  Intel Core i7 950
 Live Pricing
 Motherboard  GIGABYTE G1 Assassin
 
 Memory  6gb Corsair Dominator CMP6GX3M3A1600C8  Live Pricing
 Hard Drive  Kingston SSDNow 96GB SSD  Live Pricing
 Video Card  XFX Radeon HD 6950  Live Pricing
 CPU cooler  Corsair A70  Live Pricing
 Chassis  None - Open Bench  
 Power Supply  Corsair TX750   Live Pricing

Intel P67 Test Rig

 Processor  Intel Core i5 2500K  Live Pricing
 Motherboard  See Above  
 Memory  8gb Corsair Vengeance CMZ8GX3M2A1600C9  Live Pricing
 Hard Drive  Kingston SSDNow 96GB SSD  Live Pricing
 Video Card  XFX Radeon HD 6950  Live Pricing
 CPU cooler  Corsair A70  Live Pricing
 Chassis  None - Open Bench  
 Power Supply  Corsair TX750   Live Pricing

GIGABYTE G1 Assassin Test Bench

GIGABYTE G1 Assassin System Settings

Next Page - SiSoft Sandra 2011c Memory Bandwidth


Review Index
Page 1 - The Gigabyte G1 Assassin Motherboard
Page 2 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin Retail Packaging and Bundle
Page 3 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard Layout
Page 4 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin System BIOS
Page 5 - Legit Reviews Test System
Page 6 - SiSoft Sandra 2011c Memory Bandwidth
Page 7 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin NVIDIA SLI Scaling
Page 8 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin AMD CrossFireX Scaling
Page 9 - Futuremark 3DMark 11 Synthetic Benchmark
Page 10 - Rightmark Audio Analyzer
Page 11 - Network Throughput
Page 12 - SATA 6 Performance Testing
Page 13 - USB 3.0 Performance Testing
Page 14 - System Power Consumption
Page 15 - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin Overclocking
Page 16 - Final Thoughts and Conclusion