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Motherboards are rarely the bottleneck of system performance, but at the top end of the market you'd expect maximum bang for your buck.

Outperforming the much cheaper Asus P6X58D-E mobo by such a small margin is discouraging enough, but being outperformed in gaming and memory bandwidth tests makes our wallets slam shut.

Video encoding performance

Gigabyte g1.assassin x58 - benchmarks

3D rendering performance

Gigabyte g1.assassin x58 - benchmarks

Gigabyte g1.assassin x58 - benchmarks

1080P gaming performance

Gigabyte g1.assassin x58 - benchmarks

Networking performance

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Phil Iwaniuk
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Ad creative by day, wandering mystic of 90s gaming folklore by moonlight, freelance contributor Phil started writing about games during the late Byzantine Empire era. Since then he’s picked up bylines for The Guardian, Rolling Stone, IGN, USA Today, Eurogamer, PC Gamer, VG247, Edge, Gazetta Dello Sport, Computerbild, Rock Paper Shotgun, Official PlayStation Magazine, Official Xbox Magaine, CVG, Games Master, TrustedReviews, Green Man Gaming, and a few others but he doesn’t want to bore you with too many. Won a GMA once. 

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