DDR4 Memory Clock Reaches New High, GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion rocks!

Yes, the GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion is really making a strong debut. With it’s unique design, the new board is already building itself quite the resume. A few weeks ago, a Secret OC session took place at the GIGABYTE HQ where a total of 9 World Records, 22 Global Firsts and 25 Hardware Firsts were accomplished by 7 of the world’s finest overclockers, all using the X99-SOC Champion. Within these achievements, an impressive performance was submitted by HiCookie with the Highest DDR4 Memory Clock at 4014.6 MHz!! Well ladies and gentlemen, our famous overclocker just can’t be stopped! Yesterday, HiCookie with the help of Jake and Sofos1990 managed to push this limit to an incredible 4184MHz using Corsair’s Dominator Platinum memory modules. ...

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HWBOT Country Cup is over, Australia wins again!

HWBOT held another crazy Country Cup tournament or “World Cup of overclocking” as they refer to it and it another stunner in 2014. Australia has successfully defended their title this year in a convincing style, winning all 5 stages. France, Indonesia and Romania made sure that at least some of the stages went down to the wire and no doubt will set precedent for another huge clash in 2015. Let’s talk about this competition a little for those of you who were not aware there was “an overclocking World Cup” on and how you could get involved next year. First of all for any of you unfamiliar with the biggest and best known overclocking competition website in the world, make sure you visit HWBOT.ORG. For overclockers, this is a familiar website but...

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Hardware Asylum podcast on evolution of overclocking motherboards

Yay, Hardware Asylum podcast is out. In case you guys have not heard of these guys before, make sure you visit their website. I would describe them as a down to earth tech website/podcast geared towards a novice and pro level overclocker or enthusiast alike. The podcast is easy to follow and dissects fairly complex topics and talks about interesting hardware, developments and competitions in this particular episode. GIGABYTE has been the leading market innovator in the dedicated overclocking motherboards and it’s good to see someone put it into perspective (i.e. overclocking boards existed well before our first series but there was no dedicated product serious which focuses features specifically towards enthusiasts and overclocking until GIGABYTE...

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X99-SOC Champion – Let it Rain Records

Along with our in-house overclockers HiCookie, Sofos and Dino, we invited 4 of the world’s best overclockers to the GIGABYTE OC lab to test the new X99-SOC Champion motherboard and see if it really lives up to its Champion name. The results are impressive; after 7 days of almost nonstop benching, the team of elite overclockers achieved a total of 9 World Records, 22 Global Firsts and 25 Hardware Firsts all using the X99-SOC Champion. On top of that, HiCookie also managed to reach the Highest DDR4 Memory Clock Worldwide Overall Ranking for X99 motherboards with a frequency of 4014.6 MHz (Quad Channel). Here is the summary:9 World Records (Also Global 1st and Hardware 1st) 3DMARK11 – Entry3DMARK11 – Performance3DMARK Vantage3DMARK Fire...

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GIGABYTE Goodbye 2014 OC Challenge

This is it guys, the last OC competition of 2014!  So get ready, tune your GIGBAYTE Z97 motherboards and run for the best performance. Here are the details for this challenge. You can also visit the competition page on HWBOT for all the rules and tracking of all scores. http://oc-esports.io/#/round/gbt_goodbye2014_challenge Contest Stages Stage 1: XTU Highest score wins CPU Speed must be set at 4.5GHz (4497MHz to 4503MHz) Must submit before midnight on Sunday, December 21st (following the UTC+08:00 time zone) Stage 2: Highest CPUz Highest score wins Must submit before midnight on Sunday, December 28th (following the UTC+08:00 time zone) Stage 3: Super Pi 32m The target score is to be revealed on HWBOT on Monday, December 29th Submission...

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Global BRIX Giveaway Winner

Earlier this year we posted a great story of how a BRIX Pro was used for the automation/remote control process of a trimaran, part of a sailing promo run by Vodafone NZ. (here)After reviewing all submissions, we are happy to announce that Ryan Paul Hooper won! The winner takes home a GIGABYTE BXBR-1900 Brix PC , a 4GB DDR3L memory module and a Force LX 128GB SSD drive from Corsair. Congratulations Ryan and thanks to everyone for your participation!You can review all other submissions here: https://www.facebook.com/GIGABYTE/posts/10152820275576...

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Project Addison, SlipperySkip’s Compact Gaming PC feat. GIGABYTE mobo and VGA

In terms of retro and most unique looking case mod, it’s hard to find more skilled than Jeffrey Stephenson’s hands. Also known as SlipperySkip, Jeffrey started a new project this year which featured a GIGABYTE Z97N-WIFI Mini-ITX motherboard and a Mini-ITX sized GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. With this kind of hardware, it was easy for him to achieve his project goal which was “to design and build a powerful as possible gaming rig into a small as possible enclosure”.  This project was inspired by the Canadian radio design from the 1940s, the Addison Model 2Here are the full specs of this unique build:Intel Core i7-4770K CPUGigabyte Z97N-WiFi Mini-ITX MotherboardGigabyte GTX970 Video CardHyperX Fury 8GB System MemoryHyperX 480GB SSDSilverstone...

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