Gigabyte has unveiled its new line of motherboards G1-killer, which is positioned as a gamer and executed based on the Intel X58 Express. For the very first modification G1.Assassin user simply must buy the biggest housing.

The board itself has the power system, which uses in its work 16 phases. Provides a powerful cooling system, as the developers decided that the optimal number of PCI Express x16 slots is 4, and Port USB 3.0 – 8. Besides all this, the board is present and the Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi – A new audio system. All this is done in the XL-ATX.

More than a simple modification G1.Sniper basically kept all the basic technical solutions, but this option is a smaller size (ATX), and has fewer slots, PCI Express x16. Everything else is present, as in the previous version, except the power supply subsystem uses only 6 levels.

And the cheapest option – G1.Guerrilla. This motherboard is for those who appreciate the benefits of the new line, but in principle it is not able to purchase more expensive and napichkanye "modifications. Its characteristics tend to option G1.Sniper, but he already cleaned X-Fi, though, and left 8 phases of the power subsystem and is the same as the older sister of PCI Express x16.

Source: electronista.com