GIGABYTE team up with TweakTown to give boards away!

TweakTown are giving away a pair of GIGABYTE boards this week in their aptly named Weekly Giveaway Competition.  The catch? Well it’s all actually rather simple and straightforward; just head over to the TweakTown Facebook page, hit up the old ‘Like’ button, write this comment “I want to win one of two new GIGABYTE motherboards at TweakTown!” and you’re done for the day. Sit back and count down the hours til our buddy Cameron announces the winners on March 5th next week. The prizes are a Sandy Bridge-ready Z68XP-UD3, and a Llano toting A75-UD4H motherboard. How could you possibly resist? Check out the competition page here on the TT forums....

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Christian Ney SMASHES the global memory frequency world record with GIGABYTE A75-UD4H!

You don’t see this every day I must say. Overclockers push their systems so hard to reach the ultimate frequency and give it absolutely every last bit of “juice” and cold to extract the most they can out of their hardware. Christian Ney from Switzerland did a remarkable job yesterday smashing the global RAM frequency on the Llano based GIGABYTE A75-UD4H. Yes that’s right, he beat the big boys (with their 990FX boards) using a GIGABYTE Llano board which are meant to be low end. Now that’s overclocking!!! Christian did a writeup on OCAHOLIC website, check it all out HERE and HWBOT submission can be found HERE Final result was a RAM frequency of 1868.3MHz (DDR3-3737) FAINTS!!! Congrats man, you are killing it right now!...

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GIGABYTE Spring Extreme Competition is heating up

I.M.O.G from USA just broke the 8 core CPU PCMARK05 world record while benching for the HWBOT’s GIGABYTE Spring Extreme Competition. He used a GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7. He forgot to use the competition screenshot guidelines in all that excitement and promised to come back with an even higher score. I like that! hehehe Check out the competition HERE Check out the world record score HERE...

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Lucid Virtu MVP: What it is, and why you’ll want it on your motherboard

One of the real standout features of our Z68 series motherboards, was the inclusion on Lucid’s Virtu software on several models. For those of you who are new to Lucid Virtu, the elevator description would be that …“it basically allows you to switch between your onboard graphics and your discrete graphics card”. HHmm… and why exactly do I need that? Switchable Graphics Well there are a few reasons. The main benefit from this ‘Switchable Graphics’ feature, is that you can power down your graphics card when running less GPU-intensive 2D tasks like web browsing, watching video and general purpose productivity tasks, but then engage the discrete card when you need it, i.e. when cranking up your favorite 3D games. One of the more obvious benefits...

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Really cool GIGABYTE mobo warranty checker

I was just helping our India marketing team with some English text for their support website and came across this really easy to use GIGABYTE motherboard warranty tool: http://ggcs.gigabyte.com/service/CheckWarrantyStatus_IN.aspx. Simply type in the serial number on the retail package of your motherboard (include the full serial: e.g. SN111900003001), and select the country where you bought it. After clicking on the ‘Submit’ button it should tell you what motherboard you have, and how much time you have left before the warranty runs out. You can see from the screenie below that they P67A-UD7 that I’m using is under warranty until April 24th, 2014. Enjoy! Let us know what you think of this tool on our facebook page....

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Overclock 3D give away GIGABYTE-based rigs in 2012 Competition MADNESS!

Tiny Tom Logan at overclock3D.net is running what has now become an annual event with his 2012 Competition Madness. He’s giving away three fantastic enthusiast systems that feature the GIGABYTE G1.Assassin 2, X79-UD3 and Z68XP-UD4 respectively. The competition is open to people of all regions of the world and simply requires you to submit your email address and sign up for a monthly newsletter. What could be easier? Competition closing date is Feb 28th, so you have about 6 days left… Whet your appetite and check out the specs of the 1st Prize: Custom BitFenix Collosus   Gigabyte G1 Assassin 2Intel i7 3960XKingston HyperX 2133MHz 16GBKingston HyperX 120GB SSD x2 in RAID-0Enermax Platimax 850w PSUGTX580 Graphics Card & 27" 3DV2...