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!

Happy Holidays from GIGABYTE

Wanna catch a glimpse of one of the new G1-Killer motherboards?

Visit the GIGABYTE website and and download the latest GIGABTYE G1-Killer wallpapers.

To download, please click Here.

 

Bit-tech Gets a Sneak Peak at GIGABYTE’s New OMG-ATX Form Factor Motherboards

No, that is not a “little person” holding a motherboard (he’s not related to Ricky Gervais either), but rather the Deputy Director of motherboard marketing here at GIGABYTE, Tim Handley.

There's no word on the official specs yet either, although we've heard rumblings about on-board SSDs striped together in RAID 0 configuration, as well as an army of solid state capacitors. Heck, given the size of the box, maybe it will even feature flux capacitors.

Please visit Bit-tech HERE to find out more about this mysterious board.

GIGABYTE’s H55N-USB3 Mini-ITX scores an outstanding 9/10 from MaximumPC.com in CyberPower’s LAN Party Mini EVO

Ever wondered why the H55N-USB3 has a VGA card slot (seeing as it’s supposed to be a low profile HTPC board)? We included a VGA card slot to provide our customers with options, and CyberPower has optioned to use the little board that can in their LAN Party Mini EVO gaming system.

“In the end, the CyberPower LAN Party Mini EVO is a sweet, compact little rig. It’s also pretty palatable at $1,250—a nice discount over our WAKM, which tilted the scale to $1,653. So, it’s cheaper, just about even in performance, and it’s even water-cooled. In our book, that’s a win.”

Read the whole review here.

Tom’s Hardware selects GIGABYTE’s X58A-UD3R for their System Builder Marathon, December 2010: $2000 PC

The motherboard of choice in the THG Bugatti-like Bentley PC is none other than the GA-X58A-UD3R, GIGABYTE’s top selling X58 chipset motherboard model.

“We wanted a motherboard with at least 32 PCIe 2.0 lanes, high overclocking stability, and enough features to justify existence in a PC that cost nearly $2000. The two best-priced models to fill those criteria were Asus’ Sabertooth and Gigabyte’s X58A-UD3R.

The X58A-UD3R’s advantages are few, such as its support for x8 mode on the third slot by lane-sharing, and its support for two more hard drives. But those extra features combine with our extra experience with this model to make it the easiest choice.”

Read the whole article here.

P67A-UD7 Most In-Depth Preview/Review, a must read!

Steven B. is going about his reviews/previews a little differently and almost dissecting the board in the quest to uncover and explain every significant part of board design. Check out this extremely detailed preview of P67A-UD7 board.

I love the attention to detail and a really interesting ghetto stock heatsink testing setup. He also writes a fair bit about analogue vs digital PWM as well as a whole host of other R&D inspired changes that the new board generation brings.

This is a very enjoyable read for hardware enthusiasts. Check it out, it won’t disappoint! Make sure you put aside a good 15 minutes as there is a lot of interesting info to read about! Read more about it over at i4mem > http://i4memory.com/f90/p67a-ud7-most-depth-preview-review-27173/.

Jeffery Stephenson’s Level 12 mod powered by a GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 mobo

No stranger to Mini-ITX case modding, Jeffery Stephenson’s latest creation incorporates the award winning GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 motherboard with two USB 3.0 ports in the rear I/O panel. Remarkably he has also incorporated two USB 3.0 hubs, so this system is a SuperSpeed USB beast that is way ahead of it’s time if you consider the USB 3.0 port count!

Check out his website and don’t forget to vote for his mod on the Lenovo/Intel Mod Building Contest. You can also have a look at his picture blogs on:

- http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1559095 

- http://forums.bit-tech.net/showthread.php?t=197293 

- http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=915731

Getting Closer…You Can Almost Smell the Gunpowder

GA-890FXA-UD5 Featured in Tom's Hardware's 2010 Gift Guide

Tom’s Hardware has published their annual Holiday Gift Guide. Aside from the usual bevy of beauties, there are some great tech featured including the GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD5 motherboard.

We specifically chose the 890FXA-UD5 because its relative value, reasonable price tag, and modern features. It's nice to get the SATA 6Gb/s support for future upgrades to SSDs able to move more than 300 MB/s, plus USB 3.0 is a welcome addition after waiting for our 64 GB flash drives to transfer disk images over USB 2.0. Gigabyte's On/Off  support for charging iPads/iPhones/iPods, even when the PC is turned off, is a super-convenient addition, too.

To see the girls (come on, let’s be honest…tech is great, but pretty girls holding tech is even better), please visit HERE