TeamAU refresh the DX11 Heaven Unigine Global World Record

Ever since Haswell platform and AMD R9 290X GPUs came out DX11 Unigine was going to be one of the big 3D WR targets for the overclockers at HWBOT.ORG and TeamAU from Australia has been setting the pace helped with some nice overclocking from a few other countries including UK (8pack) and USA (steponz) using GIGABYTE Z87X-OC and Z87X-OC Force as the boards of choice and AMD R9 290X in 3WAY and 4WAY. The scoreboard lit up big today with a monster score from the team down under pushing the former WR set by Steponz and dinos22 during GIGABYTE booth OC session at CES2014 by a whopping 200 points to fall just shy of the all illusive 9,000 points. Jump over to HWBOT for comments and full details....

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Here's Cookie! Breaks the Heaven DX11 1xGPU WR on Z87X-OC

Some news from HWBOT.ORG just in with HiCookie taking out the single card Unigine Heaven world record using the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC and R9 290X GPU. Just so you know, the following keys are fading away on my keyboard: R, E, C, O, and D. Why? Because there are so many Orceds to write about. Just now, Hicookie from Gigabyte has submitted the WR for 1xGPU Heaven DX11. He clocked the Radeon R9 290X to 1355/1725 MHz and beat Sofos1990 by almost 40 points. He was struggling with the efficiency for a very long time. In fact, that's what prevented him from taking the record at the CES'14 overclocking event. The record is set with an interesting combination of hardware too. At least, interesting for the companies supporting the development of HWBOT....

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World Records Tumble During Las Vegas OC Session

You may well be aware of that GIGABYTE held an Overclocking contest during CES a few weeks ago, we called it the CES 2014 Extreme OC Event – seemed a good name for it. Anyway, one thing you may not be aware of is that during some pretty grueling and lengthy benching sessions, we saw three world record tumble; Cinebench 11.5, Uningine Heaven and 3DMark06. Check out the details below. Cinebench 11.5 – CPU 4x World Record - Vivi http://hwbot.org/submission/2479643 Score: 14.03 points GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard Intel 4770K CPU running 6.4GHz on liquid nitrogen G.SKILL Pi series F3-17600CL7 memory running at 2400MHz 8-11-7-25-1T GTX780Ti GPU running at 1550MHz on liquid nitrogen Enermax MaxRevo 1500 W PSU Unigine Heaven Extreme – GPU x4 Word...

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Facebook Retro OC Photo Contest Winner Announced!

To tie-in with our Retro OC contest on HWBOT, last week we kicked off a Facebook competition giving all our fans and followers the chance to join in the fun and get as ‘Retro’ as possible – The Retro OC Photo contest. The idea was pretty simple; submit a photo (or Photoshopped image) of yourself looking ‘Retro’ holding a GIGABYTE motherboard (or product box) and you’d then have the chance to win a top-end GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7 TH motherboard. After much discussion and deliberation here at GIGABYTE HQ in Taipei, we selected the above photo submission from Charles Terell from Virginia, US. Charles’ photo ticked all the boxes as far as I’m concerned – a clearly Funk-inspired scene with Charles himself in an alien spaceship sporting crazy silver...

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CES 2014: JayTwoCents Checks Out the GIGABYTE BRIX Pro

If you’ve never heard of this guy, JayTwoCents is a technology videoblogger that likes to take a more humorous angle on the gadgets, devices and technologies that he covers. In the video below, Jay talks to our man Colin about our new addition to the BRIX family, the BRIX Pro, as well as an overview of the series as a whole.  GIGABYTE BRIX Pro product p...

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Video: Maximum PC take a tour of the GIGABYTE Suites CES 2014

Gordon from Maximum PC shot a bunch of videos earlier this week while taking a tour of the GIGABYTE suite at Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas earlier this week. Gordon takes a hands on look at our recently launched BRIX Pro, a super compact PC kit that features Intel’s latest i7-4770R processor, most notable for its Iris Graphics 5200. Check out the video below to see the BRIX Pro being put through its places playing Battlefield 4… pretty decent no?   GIGABYTE BRIX Pro product page...

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Show us Your Retro Photos and Win a GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7 TH Motherboard

As the GIGABYTE Retro OC contest draws closer to its conclusion next week, we thought we’d have a fun competition for all of our Facebook fans. The idea is pretty simple, just go to the photo contest button on our main page, upload a photo of yourself looking as ridiculously retro as possible holding a GIGABYTE motherboard and you’ll have a chance to win one of our flagship Z87 series motherboards, the recently launched GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7 TH. The eventual winner will be chosen by us at our discretion. The criteria? Simple… more retro is more better! Just to spice things up a little, we’re also allowing (even blatant) Photoshopped images, so by all means, get creative! Contest Link here: https://www.facebook.com/GIGABYTEmotherboards/app_292725327421649...

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GIGABYTE Lands in Vegas, Starts Dishing Out the LN2: CES 2014 Extreme OC

Just as CES 2014 was kicking off, GIGABYTE invited the world’s top Overclockers to the CES Extreme OC event at Caesar’s Palace Las Vegas. Co-sponsors Intel, GSKILL and Enermax were also in attendance making sure that the Nevada desert got a taste of truly extreme Overclocking, while team GIGABYTE we’re leading a world class OC contingent with Dinos22 and Hicookie running the show. Check out the pics below.   CES 2104 Extreme OC – Facebook Photo Set (Courtesy of GSKILL)...

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HWBOT Country Cup 2013 is over, Australia crowned the new champions!

HWBOT held another crazy Country Cup tournament or “World Cup of overclocking” as they refer to it and it was something else this year. The competition was by far the largest one ever run with more countries and result submissions than any other comp in the past. In the end overclockers from Australia triumphed with an emphatic last 4 stage wins but it was not all smooth sailing for the team down under! Germany, France, Indonesia and USA made sure it all went down to the wire and no doubt will set precedent for another huge clash in 2014. 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 this year. First of all for any of you unfamiliar with...

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