Layout

At first we noticed two things with the Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2: the southbridge cooler as well as the power design cooler which have both been shaped like weapons as well as the black PCB with the grenn expansion slots. The weapon cooler really are a matter of taste and you might either love or hate them. The layout itself has been well thought and there is for example plenty of space around the CPU socket to install even todays largest CPU coolers. The fact that there are SATA connectors which have been angled by 90 degrees, allow an easy installation of oversized graphics cards like for example a Radeon HD 6990.

Gigabyte equipped the Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2 with a 16 phase power design. In this case there aren't phases dedicated especially for the CPU and DIMM slots. Each of the eight pahses comes with high quality POScaps as well as PowerPAK MOSFETs.

Totally you'll find four DIMM-slots on the Gigabyte G1.Assassin 2. Officially supported are the following clock speeds: 2400 / 2133 / 2000 / 1866 / 1600 / 1333 / 1066 MHz. There is also engough space between the DIMM-slots and the CPU socket which means that you wont encounter compatibility problems with big coolers even when you choose to install RAM with big heatspreaders.

Southbridge as well as current converters are being held at adequate temperatures via a passive cooling blocks. The cooling blocks have been positioned well, which means that they don't collide with memory or CPU coolers. Fortunately Gigabyte decided to not install an active southbridge cooler. Like this the board can be used noiseless right out of the box.