Saturday 28 May 2011

Review Gigabyte G1.Assassin: Motherboard Gaming Kelas High End Bertema Militer

Di tengah hiruk-pikuk platform Intel Sandy Bridge, Gigabyte kembali merilis motherboard dengan menggunakan chipset Intel X58 yaitu Gigabyte G1-Killer Series. Berbeda dengan motherboard Intel X58 sebelumnya dari Gigabyte, Gigabyte G1-Killer Series adalah gaming motherboard bertema militer. Ini merupakan pertama kalinya Gigabyte merilis gaming motherboard. Gigabyte G1-Killer Series dilengkapi berbagai feature untuk memanjakan gamer yang menggunakannya. Gigabyte memberikan julukan tersendiri untuk feature tersebut, yaitu Super Sight, Super Hearing, Super Speed, dan Super Shield.
Gigabyte merilis G1-Killer Series ke dalam tiga varian, yaitu G1.Assassin, G1.Sniper, dan G1.Guerilla. Perbedaan di antara ketiga varian tersebut terletak pada feature yang dimilikinya. G1.Assassin merupakan varian dengan feature paling lengkap. Pada kesempatan kali ini, kami akan me-review Gigabyte G1.Assassin. Apa saja feature yang diusung motherboard ini dan bagaimana kinerjanya? Simak pembahasannya berikut ini.

Inilah blok diagram sistem yang menggunakan chipset northbridge Intel X58 dan chipset southbridge Intel ICH10R. Chipset Intel X58 menyediakan jalur PCI Express 2.0 hingga 36 buah. Jalur ini dapat dibagi sehingga memungkinkan konfigurasi multi-graphics card Crossfire dan SLI. Sedangkan chipset ICH10R bertugas menyediakan dan mengatur perangkat I/O, seperti SATA II, USB 2.0, dan lainnya.

Spesifikasi

Processor Support Intel Core i7 series in the LGA1366 package
QPI 4.8GT/s, 6.4GT/s
Chipset North Bridge: Intel X58 Express
South Bridge: Intel ICH10
Memory 6x 1.5V DDR3 DIMM sockets supporting up to
24 Gb system memory Dual/3 channel memory architecture
Support for DDR3 2200/1333/1066/800 MHz memory
modules

Support for non-ECC memory modules
Support for Extreme Memory Profile (XMP) memory
modules
Expansion Slots 2x PCI Express 2.0 x16 slots (running @x16 speed)
2x PCI Express x16 slots (running @x8 speed)
2x PCI Express x1 slots
1x PCI slots
Support for 4/3/2-Way ATI CrossFireX and 3/2-Way NVIDIA
SLI Technology
Storage South Bridge : 6 SATA 3Gb/s ports
Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1, RAID 5, and RAID 10
Marvell 88SE9182 : 2 SATA 6 Gb/s ports
Support for SATA RAID 0, RAID 1
LAN 1x Bigfoot Killer E2100 chip (10/100/1000 Mbit)
Audio Creative CA20K2 chip (2/4/5.1/7.1-channel )
Support for Dolby® Digital Live/DTS Neo:PC/DTS
Interactive. Support for S/PDIF Out

USB South Bridge : Up to 8 USB 2.0/1.1 ports (4 on the
back panel,USB 4 via the brackets connected to the
internal USB headers)

Renesas (NEC) D720200 chip and 2 x VLI VL810 hubs:
Up to 8 USB 3.0/2.0 ports (4 on the back panel, 4 via the
USB brackets connected to the internal USB headers) *The
USB 2.0 signals of the USB 3.0/2.0 ports are from
the South Bridge.
Internal I/O Connectors 1 x 24-pin ATX main power connector
2 x 8-pin ATX 12V power connectors
2 x 4-pin PCIe 12V power connectors
2 x SATA 6 Gb/s connectors
6 x SATA 3 Gb/s connectors
1 x CPU fan header
1 x system fan header
3 x fan headers
1 x front panel header
1 x front panel audio header
1 x S/PDIF Out header
2 x USB 2.0/1.1 headers
2 x USB 3.0/2.0 headers
1 x clearing CMOS jumper
1 x Quick Boost button header
1 x heatsink LED power connector
I/O Controller iTE IT8720 chip
H/W Monitoring System voltage detection
CPU/System temperature detection
CPU/System fan speed detection
CPU overheating warning
CPU/System fan fail warning
CPU/System fan speed control
BIOS 2x 16 Mbit flash
Use of licensed AWARD BIOS
Support for DualBIOS™
PnP 1.0a, DMI 2.0, SM BIOS 2.4, ACPI 1.0
Form Factor XL-ATX Form Factor; 34.5cm x 26.3cm

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