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As we showed off the red color scheme the other day, here is the world’s first look at the new G1 gaming logo. What other GIGABYTE product uses a similar design?...
Monday, March 31, 2014
Power On!
Here is another update from our factory. First power on test happened last week, and we had a film crew on hand to record the milestone. Stay tuned!...
GIGABYTE New Ultra Durable Heatsink Design
Here is a first look at the heatsink of one of our upcoming motherboards. Can you spot some other interesting features on this Ultra Durable series board?...
Tuesday, March 25, 2014
Who Says You Shouldn’t Turn on the Red Light?
In case you haven’t noticed, GIGABYTE is getting ready to launch a bunch of new boards into the market very soon. While we aren’t allowed to say too much yet (don’t you just love NDA’s), we thought we’d drop a few teasers in the upcoming weeks to give some hints at what we have in store. Some of the boards are a bit of a departure from our normal lineup. ...
Monday, March 24, 2014
Something Big Happening at GIGABYTE Taiwan Factory
Excuse the dust, but GIGABYTE has something big happening at out Taiwan factory. Any guesses as to what? Whatever it is, it’s going to need a lot of power!...
Thursday, March 20, 2014
Great news from Intel camp, performance CPUs at budget prices coming soon!
HWBOT just put up an interesting story with Intel slides talking about some upcoming Intel CPUs which will finally bring back the hardcore enthusiast CPUs at affordable prices. Intel has really been listening to enthusiasts lately and hopefully they keep up with this trend. ...
Sunday, March 16, 2014
Catzilla version 1.2 is out
AllPlayer Group people have released the Catzilla 1.2 version today. Have you guys tried this benchmark yet? It has a wicked sound track and interesting graphics. It also scales with multiGPUs very well. Good way to test your system and if you feel competitive, you can also jump to HWBOT and submit a score and see how well you do against thousands of other scores on their database. Check it out on YouTube as well to see what it looks and sounds like....
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Steponz from USA smashes 3DMARK05 global WR today!
Hot off the press as they say, Steponz just took out the highly contested 3DMARK05 world record today with a new score at 73,835points. 3DMARK05 is one of the 3D benchmarks which is heavily system bound. Basically you have to get your frequencies right and tweak the memory and OS to perfection and execute a top notch score as it’s always a highly contested one. It took Joe a couple of days of trying as I noticed a #3 score yesterday only to dry things off and make it the best we’ve seen in history. Joe uses GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard and an Intel 4770@6.5GHz cooled by liquid nitrogen along with a Nvidia GTX780Ti and Corsair Dominator Platinum (Samsung IC) memory. All these components are critical in achieving such a killer score. Respect...
Wednesday, March 12, 2014
Hardware Asylum podcast is out, sandbagging and consoles are on the menu!
Hey guys, Hardware Asylum have come out with anther interesting podcast today. They are talking about the world of overclocking and a strategy coined “sandbagging” which gained some prominence during the last HWBOT Country Cup (aka. World Cup of Overclocking) in which a lot of teams waited to post some of the final scores on the last day. Some didn’t like this and other had no issues with it. For those who are still scratching your head what sandbagging actually is, tune into the podcast where they compare it to Ebay, Poker and a couple of other things you may be able to relate to better! It’s an interesting discussion and while I don’t particularly agree with some of the ideas on current topics, I always like to have a listen to Dennis’ and...
Thursday, March 6, 2014
Haswell Real World Performance: DDR3-1600 RAM Speed Is Not Enough
Our friends from Corsair published an informative blog which I’ve decided to repost here in full to show you how memory speed past DDR3-1600 benefits your daily PC usage on Haswell (Z87) platform. A lot of people are not well informed about this and it’s time to show some testing and examples to inform you why having high speed RAM and a motherboard that is well tuned to run such speeds and timings is important for your daily PCs and why DD3-1600 is just not good enough any more! It’s a very nice read and for those that are unaware you are literally a few clicks away from getting high speed on your rigs with Gigabyte motherboards provided your memory is capable. In my event hopping outings I occasionally hear confessions from people at LANs...
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
sofos1990 visits GIGABYTE OC lab and takes out some scores with HiCookie
GIGABYTE OC lab occasionally accepts visitors from travelling overclockers, enthusiasts and people who love their overclocking in general. This week I noticed sofos1990 from Greece visited HiCookie at GIGABYTE HQ and it didn’t take long before they broke out the LN2 and started taking some scores down. Sofos1990 is world No.2 overclocker in HWBOT’s OC league and a well respected member of OC community. HiCookie just posted a dual card DX11 Heaven Unigine world record (it’s also #11 overall in global rankings). They used a GIGABYTE Z87X-OC with 2x Radeon R9 290X graphics cards on LN2. Nice work guys, keep at it! ...
