Gigabyte G1 Killer - CES 2011 Press Event

I attended the Gigabyte Pre-CES press conference tonight and was pleased to see they finally unveiled the new line of high end gaming motherboards dubbed the G1 Killer.  It is actually unclear as to why they called the series G1 however the "Killer" part is comprised of two parts.  First they wanted to give the board a powerful name and "Killer" seemed like a good place to start. Each of the three skews follows a "killer" theme such as "Assassin", "Sniper", and "Guerrilla".  The second part comes from the network PHY they used to replace the typical Gigabit controller.  To help increase throughput and gaming performance they are using the E2100 controller from Bigfoot networks.  Yes, that means there is a Killer NIC on board, complete with buffer memory.

Other cool items found on these boards,  Multi GPU support, "real" Creative audio chips, and smart fan headers for better cooling.

While the board does look super cool you have to wonder, did they choose the old EVGA colors on purpose or did it just happen that way.