Full range of GIGABYTE’s P67 boards support Intel Internal PLL overvoltage in overclocking

To get the most out of i5 2500K and i7 2600K you will need to Enable PLL overvoltage option in bios and get an extra 300-600Mhz overclock on your CPU.

GIGABYTE has just updated the website and provided the necessary bios option on all P67 series boards.

P67A-UD3

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3651&dl=1#bios

P67A-UD3P

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3649&dl=1#bios

P67A-UD3R

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3650&dl=1#bios

P67A-UD4

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3648&dl=1#bios

P67A-UD5

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3647&dl=1#bios

P67A-UD7

http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=3646&dl=1#bios

Intel says even your grandma can overclock Sandy Bridge, it’s that easy!

Forums worldwide are going absolutely mental with everyone upgrading and asking about Sandy Bridge. Intel reckons even your grandma can overclock, it’s that easy so be careful what you ask people on forums or you might get one upped by this fraggster granny heheh!

lol

Ultimate Sandy Bridge Overclocking Guide by sin0822

We’ve recently reported about a very detailed hardware overview that sin0822 did with the P67A-UD7 board. This forum user went one step further with a great overclocking guide which is based on a GIGABYTE Sandy Bridge board but it certainly has a universal feel to it and explains some of the new bios options and overclocking with the new chipset in general. This one’s a must read!

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=264847

dinos22 plays with new GIGABYTE Sandy Bridge P67A-UD5 with some general OC info

Check out the OC video on the new P67A-UD5. It gives some info and tips on a straight forward overclock which may help those that are still new to Sandy Bridge.

P67A-UD5 OC video

GIGABYTE Launches G1-Killer Motherboards at CES

While there has been a lot of news pouring out of CES these past few days, one of the most exciting is the launch of the GIGABYTE G1-Killer series gaming motherboards. GIGABYTE has launched 3 new boards, the G1.Assassin, G1.Sniper and the G1.Guerrilla and already they are generating a lot of interest in the gaming community. Below are a few pictures from the launch event on Wednesday. Notice a theme?

Welcome to the event

Henry Kao VP, GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit greeting Joseph Nielson from Intel, Michael Howse, CEO, Bigfoot Networks and Steve Erickson, Vice President and General Manager Audio/Video, Creative.

Tim Handley, Deputy Director of marketing at GIGABYTE introducing the new series.

Henry unveils the G1.Assassin

Dan Bingham, Intel Processor Marketing Manager, Intel

Steve Erickson, Vice President and General Manager Audio/Video, Creative

Michael Howse, CEO, Bigfoot Networks

Standing room only

Zaccubus, professional gaming from the UK, showing off his skill on the G1.Assassin

Ready for War

To find out all about the G1-Killer gaming series motherboards, please visit HERE.

Sandy Bridge is in town! Forum guys showing their new gear, check out this new stealth rig with P67A-UD3R!

PC enthusiasts around the world are all excited about the new Sandy Bridge Intel platform and showing up on forum with photos of their new rigs. Our radar picked up this stealthy looking machine on OCAU using GIGABYTE P67A-UD3R. How cool is that! Check it out here.

HWBOT Unigine Heaven overclocking fun today ending with the Xtreme Preset (DX11) World Record

HWBOT released their final version of Unigine Heaven benchmark recently to test DX11 graphics performance. It’s a bit of a breath of fresh air from Futuremark products i must say. It looks amazing this benchmark.

The end result today was a score of 4804 and first place using GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 and 4x GIGABYTE GTX580 graphics cards on watercooling. It should be fun testing on LN2.

Check out the new benchmark here.

P67A-UD7 is tha gangsta of Sandy Bridge boards says chew*

Looks like the P67A-UD7 has a bit of a reputation for it’s new looks, black and gold with a theme song as far as US overclocker chew* is concerned. We like the theme song he suggested below hahaha

Gangsta

By the way, we are running a board give away on OCAU (overclockers Australia) forum to Aussies for being most creative with the latest Sandy Bridge boards. Here is the first entry, pretty hilarious!

Forum thread http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=929634!

This one is hilarious as well hahahah…

Is Sandy Bridge the answer to massman’s never ending quest to replace socket 775 platform in 3DMARK2001?

Hwbot supremo, massman, just showed off a highly efficient 3DMARK2001 run on KP forum using a GIGABYTE P67A-UD4 and 2600K running at 5.3GHz. It seems that the new platform is much more efficient than the socket 775 (P45/X48) in the most popular 3D benchmark. Sandy bridge is about to dethrone the 3DMARK01 king it seems or is it. Stay tuned.

If you want to show off your overclocking skills there is a really fun competition organised at HWBOT this month. Here is the link:http://hwbot.org/competition/hoc_jan11

Pickup your GIGABYTE Sandy Bridge boards and some K SKU CPUs such as 2500K or 2600K and go crazy. All you will need is a high end air cooler to max out the platform.

Not a fan of Intel platform? OK, there is an even more exciting AMD platform competition going on this month at HWBOT. GIGABYTE is giving away some new GA-E350N-USB3 fusion boards. Check it out here http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_amd_highclock.

nacho_arroyo from Argentina clocks to 6.9Ghz with the UD9

Nacho_arroyo seems to be really enjoying his new toy, namely X58A-UD9. He just put up some overclocking scores on Xtreme Systems. 6.9GHz frequency and 6.4GHz 1024M Wprime are particularly impressive. Well done!