Gigabyte was able to officially launch their G1-Killer Gaming Series motherboards over at Vegas during CES 2011. Take it as something similar to ASUS’s ‘Republic of Gamers’ series. Currently in their list there are three motherboards, but awkwardly they’re all X58 motherboards, with not much of a difference in between them.

img class=alignleft title=”Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official” src=”http://www.2dayblog.com/images/2011/january/550x-gigabyte-g1-4.jpg” alt=”Gigabyte G1-Killer Gaming Series Motherboards goes official” />Gigabyte is introducing four main features in the G1-Killer Gaming Series. The first is Super-Speed, which means support for 4-way CrossFireX™ and 3-way SLI™. The second is Super-Hearing, which means Onboard Creative Soundblaster X-Fi Digital Audio Processor (20K2) that has X-Fi Xtreme Fidelity®, EAX® Advanced HD)tm) 5.0, Dolby® Digital Live, DTS™ Connect, and finally built-in front panel audio headphone amplifier. They’re also promoting the use of Nichicon High-end Audio capacitors in their products.

The third main feature is called Super-Speed. This comes in the form of the hugely advertised onboard Bigfoot Networks Killer™ E2100 Dedicated Network Processing Unit (NPU), which has 1GB of dedicated DDR2 memory to help offload network traffic from the CPU, freeing it up to do other important computing tasks. But it doesn’t end there. Super Speed also includes SATA 3.0 (6Gbps) and USB 3.0, as they provide up to 4 USB 3.0 ports (2 front panels, 2 back panels). The SATA 3.0 is sourced from Marvel.

Lastly is the Super-Shield. This is the new heatpipe design from Gigabyte, with the Southbridge heatsink looking like a magazine. You can even see a bullet there. There are also 5 fan connectors onboard and they can be easily controlled via GIGABYTE’s EasyTune™ 6 utility as well as in the BIOS. They’re also equipped with their own individual thermal sensors. The Super-Shield also includes Gigabyte’s famous Ultra Durable™ 3 and Dual Bios.

The three motherboards are called G1-Assassin, G1-Sniper, and G1-Guerilla. All three are X58 motherboards, with G1-Assassin having support for Super-Speed (4-way CrossFireX™ and 3-way SLI™). Both the Assassin and the Sniper have Creative HW audio 20k2 present, except for Guerilla which uses Realtek ALC 889. Bigfoot Killer™ 2100 NPU is present on all three boards. The G1-Assassin is the only XL-ATX board, as the rest are standard ATX boards.

SOURCE via Gigabyte