I know, I know, GIGABYTE's name-tag has been visible in the upper right corner of HWBOT for a couple of weeks now, but as of today GIGABYTE is officially supporting HWBOT and by extent also the overclocking community ...
Just found this thread over at the Xtremesystems.org forums where Japanese overclocker Gyrock showcased the first sub-10s 1M using AMD ever. For that, he needed an AMD Phenom II X4 965BE C3 clocked at 6.8GHz. Screenshot and more information inside ...
Taipei, Taiwan, February 4, 2010 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly launched their new flagship motherboard for the P55 chipset platform, the GA-P55A-UD7. Continuing in the UD7 tradition (after the launch of the GA-X58A-UD7), the GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD7 delivers awesome features for power users and gaming enthusiasts such as a 24 phase power design , NVIDIA 3-Way SLI/ATI CrossFireX, as well as support for USB 3.0, 3x USB Power Boost (unique to GIGABYTE), and SATA 3.0 (6Gbps).
I was sent this video of a slowly dying Clarkdale. Although the heartbeat suggests it's still alive in human terms, not being able to wake up after reaching status 34 is not a good sign. We wish the owner of this CPU a lot of strength during this difficult period.
Turrican, Austrian top-overclocker, has won the first edition of the HWBOT OC Challenge. In a competition which was long dominated by Romanian overclocker ZM, the last 24h proved to be (once again) the most important part of the competition. Showing of excellent overclocking capabilities of his Gainward Ti4600 Golden Sample, Turrican went up to an astonishing 424/417MHz, resulting in a score of 3330 marks.
We're continuing our series of monthly OC Challenges in February. In the contrary to January's challenge, this time we will be focusing on mainboards and more specifically the overclockability of mainboards ...
A few months ago, HWBOT introduced a new rule which stated that unreleased technology would not be awarded any points. Very recently, we became aware that this new rule is confusing a lot of HWBOT members. Therefor, we want to set elaborate, explain and set some things straight in this newspost.
I came across this nifty solution for one of the biggest problems of the PCMark05-benchmarker. TiN, the Ukrainian overclocker and hardware modification master who has been featured on the HWBOT front page more than once in the last couple of months, posted his solution for the need of PCI lane power when using a series of GIGABYTE i-Ram modules.
We often forget that in the shadows of the recent 8.2GHz CPU-Z world record of TiN and SuperPI 1M 6.062s of NickShih, some people are fighting hard to get a local record down. A few days ago, we were contacted with the news that Patagonian, currently ranked 2nd in Argentina, broke the national CPU-Z world record of Blizzard. The Argentinian record is now set at 6753.25MHz.
Taipei, Taiwan, January 18, 2010 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions proudly announce Team Australia using a GIGABYTE GA-790FXTA-UD5 motherboard set a new Super Pi 8M world record for the AMD platform, giving them the number one spot for the last challenge in this season of F1 OC, making this the 4th month in a row a GIGABYTE motherboard was used to win the challenge.