Yes, this feature was announced some time ago, but since this morning it has actually reached the production phase. Every single overclocker is now able to enjoy the wonders of the bot in his or her favorite language. If you want to browse through overclocking results, rankings or other HWBOT pages in Russian, Chinese or Dutch ... no problem: just select any of these languages as your primary language.
With Gulftown released a couple of days ago, mainboard manufacturers are starting to bring out their solutions for the massive load coming from that single chip. Gigabyte already released the X58A-UD7 a few weeks before the launch and the EVGA Classified is strong enough to deal with Gulftown from the moment it got released, it seems. Asus is bringing their latest ROG-series board and over at OCXtreme bits of information were spread.
Because of the recent findings during the H55/H57 IGP competition, we have found ourselves obliged to elaborate on a long-standing rule. As from this point forward, official drivers causing a benchmark not to render correctly will no longer be accepted at HWBOT. Incorrect rendering would be defined as clear visual indications that parts of the benchmark are either not visible or in some way improperly rendered. The main effect of this kind of drivers would be an unusual boost in performance.
TAIPEI, Taiwan - March 16, 2010 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced that the GIGABYTE GA-P55A-UD4P was used by Intel and Kingston Technology Company, Inc., to certify the worlds fastest memory, Kingstons HyperX dual-channel DDR3 memory kit (Kingston part: KHX2400C9D3T1K2/4GX) running at 2400MHz.
Hold on to your panties as somewhere this week HWBOT Engine revision 3.5 will be released. It will include a few long awaited features like manufacturer rankings (eg. AMD rankings), integration with youtube and livestream, team rankings, world record bonus points, notifications and much more.
The next revision of HWBOT, Rev3.5, is nearly finished and ready to go online at the end of this month. One of the novelties is the second small adjustment to the HWBoints algorithm. As you all remember, after we received the feedback from Rev3, we already adjusted the points for unpopular hardware categories. Well, the second fix is to reward the absolute 3D world records.
We all knew it was going to happen, but when it happened we are not able to follow the mass of entries on the world record page. Since a picture says more than a thousand words, I have taken a screenshot of the the main tool of the HWBOT moderating team: the moderation backlog.
Taipei, Taiwan, Mar 12, 2010 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards today announced the start of the GIGIABYTE USB 3.0 & 3x USB Power web contest, "INCREASE YOUR SPEED, TRIPLE YOUR POWER". GIGABYTE has recently introduced two exciting new USB features to a full range of their Intel and AMD motherboard product lineup including USB 3.0 compatibility, which delivers a 10x data transfer boost over USB 2.0, and USB Power Boost, which provides additional power and stability for USB devices such as external storage devices or optical drives. In order to showcase these new technologies, GIGABYTE would like to hear from you how you would best use these technologies.
Probably not coincidentally, but two slides were leaked on the German hardware website ati-forum.de revealing some of the details of the upcoming AMD Phenom II X6 series. One of the slides tells us that the X6 series will be following the 1000-series nametags whereas the other one tells us when the Thuban is supposed to be launched.
Lab501, the leading source for hardware news and reviews in Romania, came back from Cebit with interesting news regarding the LN2 container market. Reeven, a Taiwanese company, announced a new LN2 CPU pot which has been developed in cooperation with the members of Team Japan, a world-renowned overclocking team.