The G1. Assassin 2 motherboard is designed with one purpose; to equip you with the most potent technology available today including the very latest Intel X79 enthusiast processor platform, ruthless multiple discrete graphics card support & dedicated onboard audio & network processing that will take your 3D gaming experience to entirely new heights. The G1. Assassin 2 is the newest member of the GIGABYTE G1-Killer series of gaming motherboards which have been designed from the ground up to provide the edge in a close 3D gaming contest. Precision is the watch word in all areas of the motherboards design, with as much attention to detail paid to the motherboards aesthetic qualities as to its technical prowess. ** High Performance Intel Core™ i 7 processors** Packing the latest Sandy-Bridge-E processor architecture, this new breed of Intel Core™ i 7 processors are a dream come true for serious gamers. Featuring the largest ever Smart Cache with L3 cache sizes of up 16MB & Intel Turbo Boost Technology that can push clock speeds up 3.9 G Hz on up to six cores & 12 threads, you know youll be one step ahead of the competition. **4 Channel Memory Architecture** With a potential data bandwidth of up to 25GB/ Sec & 256 Bits memory addressing, the Intel X79 platform offers unrivalled memory performance. Supporting up 32GB of DDR3 1600 memory, the G1. Assassin 2 motherboard gives you the ultimate performance for todays memory-intensive 3D games. ** Most PCI Express Lanes Ever on the Desktop** The G1. Assassin 2 motherboard takes advantage of the most comprehensive PCI Express data bus ever seen on a desktop PC platform. The Intel X79 platform integrates all PCI Express lanes in to the CPU, resulting in lower latency & even faster performance for the latest discrete GPU & multi-GPU configurations. To put it simply, there is no other platform on earth with better native discrete graphics support. **3-way Cross Fire X™ & 3-way SLI™ Support**