Atomic & GIGABYTE's OC and games night a hit, TeamAU takes global world records with left over LN2!

Atomic Magazine and GIGABYTE put on a show for its lucky readers at AtomicHQ in Sydney overnight. The LN2 flowed free and fast last night, at our first sub-zero overclocking event here at Atomic HQ! We opened the doors as the rest of Haymarket's staff were leaving, after casting a rather curious eye over the mess of gaming systems being set up by Team Immunity, and at the arcane tools of the serious overclocker. As folks showed up, both youngpro and dinos22, from TeamAU, got down to the action. After a brief safety intro from Dino (essential when dealing with stuff as chillingly cold as LN2), our guests split into teams and got to work on two GIGABYTE boards, a UD3 and a UD5, each with a new Ivy Bridge processor, while some of the staff...

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GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher for new 7 series motherboard OC

For those of you closely watching the 7 series motherboard launches together with Intel’s 3rd gen Core CPUs, you may have noticed in the 7 series MB OC guide that mentions the new GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher (GTL) utility. GTL is meant as a quick and easy way to type in OC settings when inside a Windows environment. It’s not as flashy as EasyTune 6 with all it’s sliders, buttons, fan speed control, etc…, but that’s just the point: it’s for tweakers who know what settings they want to arrive at. This would be a great tool for overclocking teams who’s members are based in different locations and may be IMing settings to each other as they test common components. GTL can be downloaded from the utilities section of the GIGABYTE website, or from...

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Overclocking guide to rule them all (Z77 platform)!

Good morning to you all. I want to give you heads up about an insanely detailed and well thought out overclocking guide for Ivy Bridge and Z77 platform that sin0822 put together and posted about on forums yesterday. The guide is fit for beginners and LN2 overclockers and has some detailed information about various aspects of this new platform from voltage scaling, LN2 or water OC, voltage guidelines, digital power option setup & tweaking, RAM overclocking tips, LLC analysis, bios profiles, insulating boards for subzero, you name it…. I’ll leave a couple of screenshots but for the full story check out this link. He ends the article with a quick taste of a little GIGABYTE SniperM3 doing some multithreaded benchmarking past 6GHz. Even the...

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GIGABYTE UEFI BIOS: The perfect fit for Hackintosh builds

Just a few days ago, tonymacx86, (not surprisingly the chief writer for tonymacx86.com – arguably the best Hackintosh site on the web) announced to the world that GIGABYTE UEFI BIOS on our Z77 boards was offering better OSX support than previously possible, making Hackintosh building easier than ever: “Big news! The Gigabyte UEFI on the Z77 chipset works natively with OS X power management- you don't need a DSDT to wake/sleep, and no kernel panics on power management whatsoever!!” The reason for this lies with our unique UEFI BIOS coding, which allows for an OSX install without needing a DSDT file. As LG Nilsson at VR-Zone explains: “Normally when you build a Hackingtosh you need something called a DSDT (Differentiated System Description...

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Z77+Ivy Bridge crazy overclocking bonanza is finally here!

This must be one of the toughest couple of months as an overclocker and enthusiast to have had to go through I swear! We all had to respect the NDA until early hours this morning when it finally lifted. What an amazing new platform (for lack of a better word)! Intel has finally given overclockers the jackpot! The new king is in town and geeks call it IVY BRIDGE. Today marks the day when just about any overclocking world record you can imagine will get smashed due to Intel’s ability to finally figure out and remove cold bug from the processors and cold scaling. We are talking 3D benching up to 7GHz on the most efficient platform in history. I’d like to congratulate a friend, youngpro, for clinching some really nice records himself today, single...

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PC PowerPlay gives GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5 WB 10/10!

PC PowerPlay magazine reviewed the new GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H WiFi  board and says GIGABYTE’s thrown everything in the package but the kitchen sink, calling it their new Z77 motherboard of choice! You can’t go wrong with the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H-WB. Gigabyte really has thought of everything with this motherboard ­ it has even included its own software package that makes installing Intel’s Smart Response, Rapid Start and Smart Connect suite a breeze. The price might seem a little high at first glance, but when you realise how much you’ll save on a WiFi card, Bluetooth dongle and soundcard, it’s actually damn good value! This is our new Z77 motherboard of choice. Source...

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GIGABYTE at Intel LANfest

Every year intel hosts a large (300+ gamers) weekend long LAN gaming event at the Intel office in Folsom California. This year I'm fortunate to be able to show our latest Z77 and X79 motherboards including the new Sniper 3 and Sniper M3 G1-Killer gaming motherboards. Special thanks to all the guys at Intel and Lee Harrington for the awesome case mods. ...

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Sin0822 reviews the GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H motherboard

Following up on his physical inspection of our brand new Z77X-UD5H, power user and all round motherboard expert Sin0822 has now published his full and complete performance review, covering pretty much every performance-related aspect possible. Here’s a sample of what Sin has to say: “If you are looking for a Z77 board without headaches and great performance and overclocking, take a look no further than the Z77X-UD5H. At $200 without Wifi & BT, and $230 with the Wifi& BT the price and performance of this proper Z77 board are hard to beat. GIGABYTE could have easily charged more, but this time I guess they are being really nice.” You can check the full review at several forums where Sin can be found, including xtremesystems.org, overclocker.net,...

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IVY”BEACH” INVADERS–“UN”OFFICIAL AWARDFABRIK TECHDEMO!

Awardfabrik put up what they call a tech demo with some new Intel CPUs. Awardfabrik is a well known German enthusiast forum. Anyone here remember endless time and coins we wasted playing this game on the old school arcade machines? Hah hah hah, good one boys! <\/param><\/embed><\/object><\/div>";" alt=""> You guys notice the 12 unreleased Intel CPUs in the midst of action, EEEEEK? Didn’t realise they are on sale yet, LOL! createSummaryAndThumb("summary3366313677748520254...