The magic of building your own custom PC

There is something magical about rolling up your sleeves and getting stuck into a custom PC build of your own. Every person has an interesting take on how to do it best and the greatest part is that there is no right or wrong way. That is what I personally love the most when I’ve done my own builds. I’ve shared them on social media and seen the praise and criticism. Nothing wrong with either. I want to share a really interesting build for you today done by Hans Peder Sahl. I have to say, this video that I’ve come across is one of the finest looking works of custom PCs I have seen. If this doesn’t fire you up to try do something with your next PC build, I don’t know what will....

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GIGABYTE's Latest OC Contest Let's You Overclock on Your Favorite Chipset!

Every Overclocker has their favorite chipset that allows them to perform their best. This is why GIGABYTE is allowing overclockers to use whatever chipset they please in its next overclocking competition, Target OC: Open Target.In this competition Overclockers will be tasked with hitting challenging targets in XTU and Geekbench 3 from November 8 until December 27. New targets will be revealed weekly, and users will be able to compete in both Extreme and Ambient categories. Overclockers are free to use any GIGABYTE motherboard and there are no restrictions on chipset.We're giving away some big prizes for this contest that you don't want to miss out on. Contestants will have a chance to win awesome GIGABYTE prizes like GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming...

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Gotta Have SLI On A Budget? Check Out This Review of The GIGABYTE Z170XP-SLI

Not everyone has the same budget when they are building a PC. While some enthusiasts might have be willing to spend a lot to ensure that they have the best that money can buy, others are on more modest budgets that require some restraint when purchasing parts.GIGABYTE understands and has a number of motherboards geared towards users on a budget. Recently TweakTown's Steven Bassiri has a chance to review one of these boards, the GIGABYTE Z170XP-SLI, and gave it top marks. For those that don't know, the Z170XP-SLI is a value-oriented board that has support for NVIDIA's SLI as well as AMD's CrossFireX technology. This means that the board will support more than one NVIDIA or AMD card, which is great for users that want the power...

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8Pack Shatters New Records On A X99 Champion

We are always excited when overclockers break records, especially when it's on our hardware. Our friend 8Pack recently crushed a number of World Records and Global First Place with 3D Mark Fire Strike and 3D Mark Vantage on a GIGABYTE X99 Champion motherboard.Let's take a look at at the records 8Pack crushed.First up is his Fire Strike score of 44583, which is a World Record. Aside from his GIGABYTE motherboard, he hit this score using 4x NVIDIA GTX 980 Ti cards and a Intel Core i7-5960X CPU clocked at 5,860 MHz.On FireStrike Extreme, 8Pack was able to attain equally impressive results. Check it out below:Next up lets take a look at his Vantage score. This was done on the same hardware, and as you can see the result was nothing short of...

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TweakTown Reviews the GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC FORCE

The Z170X-SOC Force is GIGABYTE's overclocker-focused board for the Intel 100 series chipset.While you can overclock on any of our boards, the SOC Force is specially tuned for overclocking and provides features like the OC Touch panel on the front which make adjustments easy for those that have the motherboard out on a test bench.Recently Steven Bassiri from TweakTown reviewed the Z170X-SOC Force and gave it a rating of 93%. Steven said that he liked the 4-Way SLI and three M.2 32Gb/s Slots, the High-Quality VRM, and excellent overclocking features available on the board.Here's a summarized version of his final thoughts on the board:The Z170X-SOC Force is built to be the largest, and most equipped overclocking motherboard GIGABYTE...

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The Innovative Tech Behind the Killer Ethernet Controller

The GIGABYTE 100 Series motherboards have a number of exciting features, but one of the most interesting has to be the Killer Network Controller from Rivet Networks.Now normally network controllers aren't a huge source of innovation. People simply don't think of them as they do the CPU, GPU, or memory connectivity like M.2 or PCI-E. But the Killer NIC, found in select GIGABYTE Z170 boards, isn't an ordinary network controller. Its proprietary software can classify and prioritize traffic ensuring that latency sensitive applications, such as multiplayer games, will not be impacted while other things like downloads run in the background.Recently Mark Nelson from The Tech Report visited Rivet Networks' headquarters for a briefing and posted...

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Don't Miss Out on Your Chance to Go to Blizzcon!

As you might remember, we recently announced the Grand Prize Winners of the GIGABYTE Heroes of the Storm™ Sweepstakes as well as the 2nd Round of Winners for GIGABYTE Prizes. There are some great prizes on the list, which include GIGABYTE motherboards and a trip to Blizzcon in California!We sent out an email to winners recently, but sometimes these get stuck in spam filters and won't make it to your inbox. You can check the full list of winners here.If you won the Grand Prize of a free trip to Blizzcon we'll need to hear back from you ASAP! Don't lose your chance to go to Blizzc...

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GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher for Z170 chipset

Hey guys, I have for you the GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher (GTL) software to use on the Z170 chipset GIGABYTE motherboards to help you overclock in Windows. We’ve tested it on all versions of Windows OSes and it operates well. You can change various frequencies including base clock, CPU and Uncore ratios, various volts and voltage related parameters. Happy OCing and be careful with this software, don’t go setting crazy voltage because you can kill hardware (for example, the settings in the screenshot were done using liquid nitrogen so we could use high voltage such as 1.45vcore on CPU and 1.84v on memory). On air cooling, these settings are not advisable. I would stick to 10% overvolt at most for regular OC rigs. Download link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/f4loxilzn1prbhg/gtl%202.2%20b15.0923.1.rar?dl=0...

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More Recognition of GIGABYTE's Overclocking Leadership

Over at eTeknix, Ryan Leiserowitz posted a review of our GIGABYTE GA-X99-SOC Chamption motherboard. Ryan is a hardcore overclocker, and this was his chance to put the board through its paces.Ryan mentions in his review that the board has enough features for pro-overclockers, and is priced competitively enough that amateur overclockers don't have to think twice about including one in their next system build.“From pro-overclockers to enthusiast system builders, if you’re wanting to push your hardware to the limit, the GX-X99-SOC is the perfect tool for the job,”  Ryan writes. In the end eTeknix gave the board their "Overclockers Dream" award. Thanks gu...

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Another Record Broken on a GIGABYTE SOC Champion

GIGABYTE continues to lead the way with world records and global first places.Over at 3D Mark, you can find the latest benchmark scores posted for FireStrike Extreme. The top score belongs to "Mad" and as you can see, he hit 34665 using a GIGABYTE X-99 SOC Champion-CF motherboard. Check it out below:Aside from being a world record this score is remarkable for two reasons. It's the first time that the 34,000 barrier has been broken with a quad-VGA card setup, and it's also a full 1,000 points above the competition. Next up is a Global First Place for Fire Strike Extreme with just one GPU. As you can see, the 14,000 barrier has been broken. A first for a single card setup. And finally the regular Fire Strike with one GPU:For those...

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Add Some Color and Illumination to Your System Build With GIGABYTE

Case modding is growing in popularity as many look to create that finishing touch on their PC to make it unique and original. The possibilities are really infinite, some people want a complete redesign of their case while others just want to add an enhanced water cooling solution.Regardless of how extensive you want your case mod to be, you will need one thing: light. Without illumination you can't appreciate the clean cable runs, elaborate water cooling setups, or simply the components themselves. GIGABYTE has a solution: LED lights along the motherboard. On select GIGABYTE 100 series models, including the Gaming G1, there is a multi-color LED trace path around the board. With the Ambient LED app in the GIGABYTE APP center you can customize the light pattern, with three different options,...

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Let's Build a CustoMac With GIGABYTE Parts

MacOS X has a loyal following, even among PC users. While many PC users, especially enthusiasts, would never buy an Apple computer because of the price premium they command and lack of upgradeability it would be hard to find someone that won't admit even a slight affinity for OS X.But unfortunately for PC loving fans of OS X, Apple has ruled out ever officially licensing its operating system to PC vendors. However there is a solution if you want to run OS X on your PC: build a CustoMac.A CustoMac is a PC that the user builds specifically for running OS X. TonyMacx86 is one of the largest communities on the web dedicated to building CustoMacs. Recently we covered their guide on how to turn a GIGABYTE Brix-S into a CustoMac-mini. Of course not...

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Here's Why It's Time to Upgrade Your Gaming System

The average PC refresh cycle is getting longer and longer. While at one time a person was likely to refresh their PCs every two-to-three years, this cycle has stretched on to now be between five to seven years. While hardcore gamers might update their hardware on a 12 month cycle, the average person that doesn't have a budget to do yearly upgrades might still be using hardware form 2010.And for the average person this might work -- but it won't work well. While hardware from 2010 might be able to play 2015's latest games, it will only do so with choppy frame rates at the lowest resolutions and graphics settings. This is far from an enjoyable gaming experience, and is not how the developers intended the games to be played.Just to show you the...

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Having Trouble Installing Windows 7 By USB With Your GIGABYTE 100 Series Motherboard?

We understand that some users are having trouble installing Windows 7 by USB drive on their systems that have a  GIGABYTE 100 series motherboard inside.The problem lies in the fact that Windows 7's installer is only compatible with an older type of USB driver. The GIGABYTE 100 series motherboard uses a newer kind of USB driver, meaning you will get an error when trying to install Windows 7.Thankfully there is a fix for this which allows you to package the updated driver on to your USB driver.In order to build the patched version of Windows 7, you'll need a few things:1) A genuine copy of Windows 7 or iso file2) A USB drive with over 4GB of storage3) A separate computer4) The Windows Image Tool available for free from GIGABYTE Once...

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Here Are Your Winners of the GIGABYTE Z97 Last Hurrah Contest!

The GIGABYTE Z97 Last Hurrah wrapped up last week and now the results are official.We would like to congratulate Xtreme Addict and Arhaam for winning the contest. Xtreme Addict took first place in the Extreme Cooling category with 79 points and won a GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force motherboard. Arhaam won the ambient cooling category with 73 points and is also taking home a GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force board.For more information on the contest and the official results, head on over to HWBOT's OC E-Sports port...

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Win a Trip to BlizzCon From GIGABYTE and Blizzard

Heroes of the Storm™ is one of the hottest games to come out of Blizzard® in a long time. Using familiar gameplay mechanics found in games such as DOTA, Heroes of the Storm allows players to battle it out with their favorite characters from the Blizzard universe. The game is free-to-play and supported by micro-transactions for in-game character upgrades.Heroes of the Storm will be one of the highlights of Blizzard's BlizzCon expo which kicks off in November in Anaheim, California. GIGABYTE is the official motherboard partner of BlizzCon and we want to send you to the show!While supplies last, when you purchase select GIGABYTE motherboards you are eligible for participation in the sweepstakes where you could instantly win a variety of prizes...

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Want to Learn More About the Killer Wireless AC-1535?

The GIGABYTE Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard certainly is an exciting product, and one of the most interesting parts on the board is the Killer Wireless AC-1535 controller from Rivet Networks.Wireless network controllers are a part that's often forgotten about on the motherboard. For the most part they work, and work well, so that's good enough for most users. However, the Killer Wireless AC-1535 brings a load of new features that goes above and beyond what a standard built-in adapter can offer.Recently Forbes' contributor Marco Chiappetta had a chance to review a  Killer Wireless AC-1535 and he had this to say about it:Virtually across the board, the Killer Wireless-AC 1535 outpaced the Intel solution. To give some...

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GIGABYTE OC Guru Dinos22 is Livestreaming Now!

For the next few hours Dinos22 will be livestreaming an OC tutorial and answering your questions. Check it out on YouTube Gaming! If you like what you see let us know and we'll be sure to do more livestreams in the futu...

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Congrats to all the Winners of the GIGABYTE Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge!

The GIGABYTE Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge wrapped up over the weekend, and you can view the leaderboard over on HWBOT. As with any GIGABYTE overclocking challenge, the results were more than impressive and we wish to congratulate both the winners and everyone who entered.The official results are still being tabulated, and HWBOT will release the official results and overall winners soon. But for now we can share who got first place in the Extreme Challenge and Ambient Challenge.For the Extreme Challenge, team PURE's Xtreme Addict took first place with 79 points. He was followed closely by Jagat Review's Lucky_noob who scored 63 points.Over at the Ambient Challenge, arhaam from Indonesia's team OC-44 took first place with 73 points while Coldest...

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GIGABYTE OC guru from Australia does a 1v1 interview with OCTV, an interesting watch!

Overclocking TV (OCTV) conducted a series of one-on-one interviews with some of the world’s best known overclockers during the recent Computex 2015 overclocker gathering. This week they’re focusing on dinos22 who is one of GIGABYTE’s OC gurus. Check it out!...

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The Awards Keep Coming in For GIGABYTE

GIGABYTE is pleased to receive two more awards for its 100-series motherboards.First up, our friends at HiTech Legion recently gave the GIGABYTE GA-Z170X-Gaming 7 a GOLD award.They give the motherboard the highest of praises:Gigabyte designed the Z170X Gaming 7 motherboard well it is stable, it performs as expected for a high end gaming board it doesn’t skimp on connectivity and is remarkably one of the sexiest motherboards they have ever produced.Now over at ThinkComputers our Z170X Gaming G1 motherboard was bestowed with a very high score.During the review the author pointed out some of the industry leading features that allows GIGABYTE motherboards to stand apart from the competition:As I said in the introduction of this...

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Turn Your GIGABYTE BRIX-s Into a CustoMac!

Ever since Apple announced it was joining the world of x86, people have been building 'Hackintosh' computers. For those that don't know, a Hackintosh is a regular PC that's running Mac OS X.Of course Apple doesn't officially support such efforts which is why communities have sprung up to help fill this gap. After all, without Apple's official support the process isn't quite a walk in the walk in the park that you'd expect.Our favorite community to support such efforts in making what they call "CustoMacs" is TonyMacx86. Recently they published a guide on how to run MacOSX Yosemite on a GIGABYTE BRIX-s. You can check the guide out there but be warned: it's not exactly for beginners but anyone that's comfortable tweaking some settings in...

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TweakTown Gives The Z170X-Gaming G1 Top Marks!

It always feels good to be recognized for good work. As you know, we recently released our 100-series motherboards based on the Intel® 6th generation CPU and the Z170 chipset. Our board for gamers that demand the best, the Gaming G1, was recently reviewed by TweakTown where it received an Editor's Choice award and a score of 95%. Here's what Steven Bassiri from TweakTown said about the board: Apart from having one of the highest capacity VRMs for the Intel Z170 chipset, the Z170X-Gaming G1 has to be one of the most feature packed motherboards. While this is kind of expected since the Z170 chipset is the most feature packed, GIGABYTE went above and beyond the call of duty when it comes to adding features. They not only added 4-way...

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GIGABYTE Z170X Gaming G1 Custom Build

Here is a GIGABYTE Z170X Gaming G1 custom build we've been working on for our Intel Roadshow. Share it with your friends if you like it! SYSTEM SPEC: GIGABYTE Z170X Gaming G1 Intel 6700K @4.5GHz GIGABYTE 290X GPU Corsair H110i watercooling Corsair 16GB Vengeance DDR4 3200MHz Corsair AX760 PSU Corsair 512GB Force SSD Inwin 805 case Bitfenix LEDs Bitfenix LED Fans Bitfenix Cable Sleeving Windows 10 Pro   View Full Album...

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GIGABYTE’s 100 Series Motherboards Come With Intel's USB3.1 Controller

At GIGABYTE we hope you are as excited as we are about the launch of our 100 series motherboards, based on the Intel® Z170 chipset with support for Intel’s new 6th Gen. Core™ processor.One of the new features that our 100 series motherboards bring to the table is USB 3.1 over the USB Standard A connector and the new USB Type-C™ connector. You've probably heard quite a bit on the USB Type-C connector and know already about how it's making it easier to connect devices to it by being reversible and heard that it can be much more than a simple data transfer port.As GIGABYTE is always on the lookout to bring the latest innovations to its new boards, with the 100 series motherboards we are introducing the WORLD'S FIRST USB 3.1 solution powered...

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Win Two Z170X-SOC Force Motherboards With GIGABYTE and HWBOT

The Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge is in full swing right now over at HWBOT, with around three weeks to go before they declare a winner. Right now Lucky_N00b is leading the pack, but it's still anyone's contest to win. GIGABYTE is pleased to announce that the mystery motherboards up for grabs are two of our Z170X-SOC Force which are designed with overclockers in mind. There's also up to $2,000 USD in cash prizes to be won. For more on the contest, and to check out the current leaderboards, head on over to HWBOT....

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Here's Why GIGABYTE's 100 Series Motherboard is a KILLER

On some motherboards the network controller is a part often looked over. Most network controllers are good enough, and don't get the attention that other parts do. But here at GIGABYTE we took a different approach to the network interface controller with our 100 series boards, which is why we partnered with Rivet, makers of the Killer™ line of network controllers, to integrate its advanced traffic management solutions into our boards. The first layer of intelligent traffic management comes from the Advanced Stream Detect 2.0 function found in the Killer™ E2400 Network Interface Controller. Advanced Stream Detect 2.0 separates traffic into six levels based so that the user has a seamless, lag-free experience while...

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Want to Learn How to Overclock? Check Out These Videos From HWBOT

Overclocking is a hot (so to speak) topic in the hardware enthusiast community. But for those that are new to the community, or unfamiliar with overclocking, getting started might be a little intimidating. But fear not, our friends at HWBOT have put together a series of guides on their SkatterBencher YouTube channel that goes through the basics of setting up a system for overclocking and doing your first overclock. Check them out he...

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GIGABYTE BRIX S BXi5H-5200 Gets a Recommended Award From Legit Reviews

The GIGABYTE BRIX is one of the most unique and exciting products we've released in a long time, and we are always pleased when it gets recognized by the press. Legit Reviews recently reviewed our GIGABYTE BRIX S GB-BXi5H-5200 and had this to say:Gigabyte has you covered regardless of your needs.  If you want a more powerful processor, they have BRIX models with Intel i7 processors.  If you want more gaming power, the BRIX Gaming with a discrete graphics card would be for you.  The BRIX s GB-BXi5H-5200 is the middle of the line model, that is powerful enough for the average home or business user.  It would make a great mini desktop for a home theater system or for people with tight living space.The Gigabyte BRIX s has a lot to offer for those that...

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Check Out This Beast of a PC From NCIX Powered by GIGABYTE

EKWB always manages to impress with its watercooling setups. But the GIGABYTE SOC CHAMPION system, built in collaboration with Canada's NCIX, is truly something special. Just check out this video below: (function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = "//connect.facebook.net/en_US/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.3"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));The new custom Gigabyte SOC Champion Edition NCIX PC. See more of the system: http://www.ncix.com/article/SOC-Champion.htmIt's on display at EXP Bar in Vancouver, check it out!Posted by NCIX on Saturday, July 18, 2015  The X99-SOC CHAMPION...

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