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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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GIGABYTE G1 Assassin NVIDIA SLI Scaling

Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 1Gb SLI Kit

Since the release of the Intel P67 chipset, we decided to change a few things up in our testing. The next two pages are all about the scaling of multiple GPU's in our systems. First off, we are going to test how well the P67 chipset scales multiple NVIDIA cards. In order to do this we contacted our friends over at GALAXY and they were kind enough to send over a pair of NVIDIA GeForce GTX 460 1Gb graphics cards that are available in a two card SLI kit.

GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard NVIDIA SLI Scaling in Aliens Vs. Predator

The GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 motherboard was able to put up numbers comparable to those of our Intel P67 systems. At 1280x1024 the G1 Assassin saw a jump from 36.35 frames per second to 69 frames per second. That is an improvement of 89.8%. At 1920x1080  the Assassin jumped from 26.4 frames per second to 50.6 frames per second, that's an improvement of 91.7%.

GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard NVIDIA SLI Scaling in Metro 2033

Metro 2033 doesn't scale quite as well as Aliens Vs. Predator on any of our platforms. The GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 motherboard is no exception. At 1280x1024 running a single Galaxy GeForce GTX 460 we were able to cruise along at 26.98 frames per second, tossing in a second card the performance jumped to 45.81 frames per second for an improvement of 69.8%. 1920x1080 the performance of the GIGABYTE G1 Assassin jumped from 19.09 frames per second with a single card to 32.04 frames per second in SLI. That is a gain of 67.8%.

GIGABYTE G1 Assassin X58 Motherboard NVIDIA SLI Scaling in S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat

Stalker: Call of Pripyat shows the GIGABYTE G1 Assassin having a solid performance gain in SLI. At 1280x1024 the G1 Assassin jumped from 85.5 fps to 147.5 fps for an improvement of 72.5%. !920x1080 saw a gain of 84.4% starting at 58.3 frames per second with a single card configuration and jumping up to 107.7 frames per second in NVIDIA SLI.

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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