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12/03 Inno3D GeForce GTX 480 cards ready to ship
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12/03 R5870 Lightning retails (at $500)
11/03 Bennylodewijk takes lead in GIGABYTE H55/H57 OC Challenge: 965 marks
11/03 HWBOT event notification feature is back! Check forums for a teaser screenshot
11/03 Review database for 980X up and running ... still adding articles
11/03 Zafiropo takes lead in OC Challenge: 56.016s
11/03 NickShih back in the lead ...
11/03 SF3D takes the lead in the Overclockers League!
11/03 Gulftown results arrive at the bot ... millions of world records!
10/03 Dasa takes the lead in the GIGABYTE IGP Challenge: P952
09/03 Nick Shih preparing 4xR5870 Lightning on Livestream
08/03 Brian Y. moving back up into the top-10
07/03 Tosunermc takes the lead in the GIGABYTE H55/H57 OC Challenge!
07/03 Ekky Jenkol takes lead in HWBOT OC Challenge: 57.125s at 4380MHz
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06/03 NickShih hits 214272 in 3DMark03 using 4 graphics cards ... live on Livestream!
06/03 NickShih benching live on Livestream
05/03 Unlocked Clarkdales and Lynnfields coming our way?
05/03 E-killer takes the lead in the Gigabyte H55/H57 OC Challenge!
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05/03 Seems like the community is preparing for the launch of Gulftown ...
04/03 Pictures of the GTX470 over at ComputerBase.de

GIGABYTE Announces USB 3.0 & 3x USB Power

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.

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AMD Phenom II X6 slides leaked

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.

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New player on the LN2 container market named Reeven

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.

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Geforce GTX470 works using 196.78 beta drivers

Just a week ago, Nvidia re-confirmed the rumors that Fermi will be available in retail the 26th of March. Although only very little information has been spread so far (read: serious lack of performance numbers), it seems that the drivers supporting the upcoming GTX470 are already available.

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Intel Core i7 980X available in retail

Different sources have already confirmed this message: the newest Intel processor, the 6-core/12-thread counting product codenamed Gulftown Core i7 980X, clocked at 3.33GHz and armed with 12MB of L3 cache, is now available in the retail stores.

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Sapphire most popular VGA manufacturer amongst overclockers

We have a quick peek at the popularity ratings (or: market share) of the VGA manufacturers and see that since HWBOT Rev3 Sapphire has been the most popular brand ...

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Cedar Mill Overclocking Champion on air, phase-change and LN2

The HWBOT database consists of 400,000 results which all contain valuable information, provided by the overclocking community. Of course, we can rank your results and give you points for them, but we can also gather all that information and provide you insightful information. Today, we have compiled a list of the overclockability of CPU architectures based on cooling ...

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Placid takes February OC Challenge Crown - S754 WR shattered!

Last month, HWBOT held another low-level OC Challenge in the form of a S754 reference clock competition. The aim was to get the highest HTT clock frequency and, if possible, breaking the former record of 469.41MHz. To our surprise, no less than FOUR overclockers managed to beat this record and go well beyond 470MHz HTT frequency. In the end, it was Placid who took the win having a mere 0.73MHz more than Bones.

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Overclocking-TV interviews Intel's Steve Peterson: Gulftown and Sugar Bay information

A lot of the European overclockers are currently either already in Hannover or traveling to Hannover to visits the CeBit 2010 event. Overclocking-TV is also present with a delegation of 4 people and had an interview with Steve Peterson about the upcoming release of Gulftown and other topics. Worth to take a look!

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USB-IF Certifies Multiple GIGABYTE SuperSpeed USB 3.0 Motherboards

TAIPEI, Taiwan - March 2, 2010 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced that the USB Implementers Forum (USB-IF) has certified the GA-P55A-UD7 and GA-P55A-UD5 motherboards as compliant with the USB 3.0 specification, and has listed these motherboards on the SuperSpeed USB Compliance Web page. The motherboards represent a high-end and mainstream option, respectively, while the GA-P55A-UD3, which achieved certification at the end of 2009, completes the range with an entry level USB 3.0 motherboard option.

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08/02 hwbot.org news: GIGABYTE officially supports HWBOT
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07/02 hwbot.org news: Gyrock brings AMD below 10 seconds SuperPI 1M
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31/01 hwbot.org news: HWBOT OC Challenge February 2010.
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29/01 hwbot.org news: Clarification regarding unreleased technology and HWBoints.
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14/01 hwbot.org news: Chinese OC team breaks GT 240 world record
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13/01 hwbot.org news: Gigabyte provides prize for HWBOT OC Challenge
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13/01 hwbot.org news: TIP: submit new scores instead of updating
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11/01 hwbot.org news: HWBOT Country Cup 2009, the statistics.
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10/01 hwbot.org news: HWBOT Updates: team members tab and various improvements
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09/01 hwbot.org news: Asus M3F, Clarkdale and Turbo-V software issue
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06/01 hwbot.org news: HWBoints Update: two adjustments suggested in forum
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