Video: GIGABYTE G1. Sniper Z87 Motherboard Awarded ‘Gamers Choice’ on Overclock3D.net

Following up on a First Look video a few weeks ago, Tiny ‘Tom’ Logan has now given our new GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87 motherboard a really good going over with a full review, and it’s great to see the board pick up both ‘Gamers Choice’ and ‘Value for Money’ awards. Check out his video below.



In fact Tom was pretty much blown away by the sheer value of the board, offering really solid performance and a pretty full feature set for a very, very competitive price point.

“For a barely believable price you're getting equally barely believable performance. You have to overclock the Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 to make the most of it, but if you're willing to put a little effort in then there is a monster motherboard just waiting to be discovered and if you buy a K-series CPU you should be getting dirty in the BIOS anyways!”

Check the full written review here:

More info on the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87

GIGABYTE Sponsors UK Overclockers Meet Up in Deepest Darkest Nottinghamshire

Last weekend saw an annual winter meet up of pretty much all the top Overclockers in the UK. Attendees (many of which are virtually household names in UK OC circles) included el_gappo, K404, Scooter.Jay, topdog, borandi and Driftingforlife. Noobs and spectators also made the trip to Long Eaton Nottinghamsire where it is fair to say, a good time was had by all.
Check out the video below for some really UK-style OC banter!

Watch live video from OverclockTV on TwitchTV

 

As one of the event’s sponsors, it was great to see plenty of Country Club submissions being made on GIGABYTE motherboards. Here are a few you check out:
Topdog using our 990FXA-UD3 an Z77X-UD7

• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467110_
• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467147_
• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467137_
• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467172_

Scooterjay pushing his i7 4770K on the Z87X-OC

• http://hwbot.org/submission/2467011_
• http://hwbot.org/submission/2467008_
• http://hwbot.org/submission/2467003_

  
Somewhere under all that ice there lies a GIGABYTE Z87X-OC board…

 

Check out more pics from the two-day event here:

http://www.overclock.net/g/a/1084744/christmas-uk-ln2-overclocking-meet-14th-15th-of-december/flat/1/page/0

OC Vegas Style

For those of you attending CES this year, be sure to stop by our OC event starting at 2PM on January 6th. We’re bringing ice to the desert and chips to a casino…cuz that’s how we roll.

Vote for GIGABYTE at the Tom’s Hardware Reader’s Choice Sweepstakes

Tom’s Hardware are offering some pretty decent prizes to tempt all and sundry to take part in their Reader’s choice Sweepstakes. In fact there are 22 prizes including full PCs, Tablets, SSDs, chassis and keyboards and more.

But of course, the most important part is that you remember to vote for GIGABYTE!

Here’s the link: http://tomshardware.readers-choice-sweepstakes.sgizmo.com/s3/

Think Computers unbox and examine the GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H motherboard

Here’s a cool unboxing video from ThinkComputers.com where Bob Buskirk takes a pretty thorough look at our Z87X-UD3H board

 

Check out the Z87X-UD3H here.

GIGABYTE ‘Feel the Force’ Winners Announced – Vivi Takes Top Spot

This week saw the conclusion of our latest HWBOT OC contest, the ‘GIGABYTE Feel the Force’ contest. Based on the Intel Z87 platform we teamed up with Corsair to award the contest winners with some pretty tasty prizes including a GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force motherboard, some CORSAIR Force Series SSDs and Corsair Graphite Series chassis.

After a month of failry intense competition, Vivi from South Africa came out on top with Overclockers Hero and laoshu1919 of Mainland china taking 2^nd and 3^rd places respectfully.

You can check out the contest conclusion at hWBOT.org

Info about the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force can be found here.

OC3D Take a First Look at the GIGABYTE G1. Sniper Z87 Motherboard

Our buddy Tiny ‘Tom’ Logan managed to get his hands on our new socket 1150 gaming motherboard, the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87. Of course Tom being Tom, the first things he did was shoot a quick ‘First look’ video. As ever Tom goes through the main features, of which there are many, including our signature AMP-UP audio which includes an upgradable OP-AMP, gain switches, a Creative Sound Core3D audio processor and more.

Just to generally sum up Tom’s feelings about the board, he is totally impressed with the overall spec of the board and the more high-end features that you’re getting for your money. In a nut shell, it’s ‘wicked’ value!

Introductory OC3D.TV article.

More info about the GIGABYTE G1. Sniper Z87

Brix on BRIX – Colin talks to Newegg about the latest in our BRIX series

Our man Colin was in the US recently and took time to visit Newegg, specifically to chat about our new line of BRIX compact PC kits. In case you missed it, the GIGABYTE BRIX is an ultra compact kit that provides you with a small, and I mean literally ‘in the palm of your hand’ small, chassis containing a custom motherboard with a choice of 4th gen Intel Core CPUs. We provide a WiFi/Bluetooth Mini-PCIe module too so all you need to add is some SO-DIMM DRR3 modules, and mSATA SSD for your OS and bingo, you have a very small, very cool looking PC that actually has plenty of performance punch.

Watch the video to see the complete BRIX package, plus a few of the new models we’re adding to the series.

GIGABYTE BRIX: http://www.gigabyte.com/products/list.aspx?s=47&ck=104

Newegg: http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&DEPA=0&Order=BESTMATCH&Description=brix&N=-1&isNodeId=1

HWBOT Country Cup looking to be the most popular OC contest ever organised, how is your country fairing?

HWBOT is in its 5th edition of the famous Country Cup competition where overclockers from nations worldwide compete to give their country the best chance of walking away with the highest honours. HWBOT is saying they are expecting submission numbers to surpass the most popular Country Cup 2011 competition considerably this year.

Being an Australian I can tell you we love our sports and do pretty well against the big guns despite being a relatively small nation (size of population). Overclocking is just like any other “sport”, it has its stats and ranking systems that immediately give you an idea how well (or badly) you stack up against others.

How about you jump over to the competition first and check it out. Here is the web page you need to go to.

Countdown timer gives you an indication how long a time there is left. Currently we’re looking just over a month to go. The leaderboard is tightly stacked and some of the countries are there that always do well and then there are a few surprises. Australia is one of those countries that has not faired too well in the past finishing well down the ladder in 30+ spots. Well, this year things are different. Boys from OCAU HWBOT team and Team Australia Extreme OC team are joining forces and looking for a strong finish.

Americans have also not been as active in this comp in the past but this year they are looking very strong. The usual suspects of Germany and Indonesia are in top 5. We are yet to see some of the previous champions including Romanian, Greek and Polish teams step up their game. I have no doubt the leaderboard will take many twists and turns yet, best to keep an eye on the latest submissions and team movements daily. I love checking out people’s OC rig setup pics that are compulsory in result submissions. I’ll put up a couple of cool shots here!

GIGABYTE is the proud sponsor of Country Cup competition and is offering some nice prizes for the winners as are other companies including G.Skill, Intel and Cooler Master.

Thumbs up to all and have fun.

GIGABYTE ‘Feel the Force’ Star Wars Quote Contest - Quote and Winner Revealed

Earlier this week we asked all our Facebook fans and followers to try and guess which quote from the original Star Wars movie we had hidden in an envelope… a big thanks to the hundreds of you that took part, but before we announce the winner, let’s open said envelope and reveal the quote:

Winning Quote: Han Solo - “It’s the ship that made the kessel run in less than twelve parsecs”

As I mentioned in the comments on Facebook, it is kind of (hmm…very loosely) related to overclocking and benchmarking… if you consider the kessel run to be benchmark of course. According to Wookieepedia:

“The Kessel Run was one of the most heavily used smuggling routes in the Galactic Empire. Han Solo claimed that his Millennium Falcon "made the Kessel Run in less than twelve parsecs". A parsec is a unit of distance, not time. Solo was not referring directly to his ship's speed when he made this claim. Instead, he was referring to the shorter route he was able to travel by skirting the nearby Maw black hole cluster, thus making the run in under the standard distance. By moving closer to the black holes, Solo managed to cut the distance down to about 11.5 parsecs. The smuggler BoShek actually beat Solo's record in his ship, Infinity, but without cargo to weigh him down. A few months later, Han Solo beat both his own and BoShek's records in a run he made with Luke Skywalker.”

Three people correctly guessed the quote:

1. Luie Arellano
2. Jesse Que
3. Sergio Nergal

Well done guys. Each person was designated a number from one to three (same as above), and using a random number generator at random.org, the number 2 was chosen. Congratulations to Jessie Que in Australia who will shortly be the proud owner of a GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard - a Millennium Falcon in motherboard form you might say… ;)

Thanks once again folks for all who took part…

Check out the ‘Feel the Force’ Overclocking contest at HWBOT.org

Learn more about the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard here.