Youngpro posted some huge scores the other day in PCMARK05 taking the new World Record in the benchmark. Last night his focus was big Pifast clocks at 6816MHz with the X58A-OC board and 990X.
He also did some 3D with the second fastest run in Aquamark3 at 474K with CPU running at 6.65GHz. Read more about it here.
Finally, the day has arrived for full disclosure about the world’s first overclocking motherboard. Local international media already have first looks coverage online while OC results from Hicookie and Pro speak for themselves. Check out the articles from Tweaktown and Semiaccurate for their unbiased take on the MB that’s blazing the trail for this new market segment.
Here are some relevant links:
Tweaktown’s video intro: http://www.tweaktown.com/news/18978/gigabyte_s_x58a_oc_motherboard_gets_full_introduction_on_video/index.html
Semiaccurate’s photo intro with Lars’ commentary: http://semiaccurate.com/2011/02/28/hands-on-with-gigabytes-x58a-oc-motherboard/
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-OC microsite: http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/265/x58a-oc.html
GIGABYTE X58A-OC official press release: http://www.gigabyte.com/press-center/news-page.aspx?nid=992
X58A-OC microsite downloads section: http://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/265/x58a-oc-downloads.html
GIGABYTE’s first dedicate overclockers board has its own microsite. Check it out here. There is lots of information about its key features, unique specifications and sweet wallpapers. Here are a couple of screenshots with highlights.
Mad222 posted a thread on XtremeSystems to show a video and some photos of an OC demo in one of Hong Kong’s PC stores with a nice overclock on 990X CPU hitting 7146MHz. You can read more here.
It didn't take long for James, youngpro, to demolish the now former 38K W.R. from Germany with a whopping 41.4K score! Whooooshka, congrats man!
Result can be viewed at HWBOT.ORG
http://hwbot.org/community/submission/2131788_pro_pcmark_2005_core_i7_extreme_990x_41465_marks
Tweaktown just put up a first full video introduction of the new X58A-OC board. Hicookie and Colin explained the main features and also gave a price indication to Cameron as well, check out the full story here!
Bigfoot network guys made a nice video that talks about G1 KILLER motherboard series features including the E2100 network card embedded onboard. Check it out!
Duck-san is a famous Japanese overclocker and a world record holder on numerous occasions. His shares his wealth of knowledge from time to time on forums and blogs.
Duck uses the P67A-UD7 to hit close to 5.6GHz OC and talks about some interesting peculiarities when it comes to overclocking the new generation boards and CPUs.
As the new B3 stepping GIGABYTE 6 series motherboards start to ship, we have updated the GIGABYTE 6 Series SATA Check utility so that it also identifies the chipset and its stepping as either ‘Revision: B2’ or ‘Revision: B3’ as can be seen in the screenshots below.
The new 6 Series SATA Check utility is available for download now from the utilities section of the GIGABYTE website.
James, youngpro, from TeamAU did a quick preview of the new X58A-OC board on Xtremesystems while he waits for his LN2 to come I hear and did a quick performance comparison between a few different boards as well as a video showing OC-Touch.
One of the images on the forum linked above shows a 32M SuperPi (RAM benchmark) with ram running at 1272Mhz on air cooling in dual channel (Corsair GTX6 1GB modules). He says he would normally use 1GB modules in dual channel rather than a single channel 4GB for LN2 CPU testing to reduce load on IMC. Good thinking 99!
I can’t wait to see what he’ll do with some LN2 and a 990X
