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This will be our last post on GIGABYTE Tech Daily. We are moving to a new home on the Aorus.com page. I would like to thank everyone for visiting our blog and reading and sharing our stories and we hope that you’ll continue supporting us by moving over to Aorus.com page.

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GIGABYTE Safeguards Users From Speculative Execution Vulnerability

We want to make an announcement that all our major platforms have received bios updates to keep your systems protected against Speculative Execution Vulnerability threats.

Taipei, Taiwan, January 11st, 2018 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has promptly implemented safety and precautionary measures aligned with Intel®’s response to safeguard customers against security vulnerabilities on systems utilizing Speculative Execution and indirect branch prediction.

The newly released BIOS updates from GIGABYTE integrate the latest Intel advised CPU Microcode versions to mitigate issues potentially caused by the security vulnerability. Customers who have purchased a GIGABYTE board are strongly recommended to visit the GIGABYTE official website immediately for the latest BIOS updates. Please refer to the following micro link for the list of available BIOS updates by models (currently offers updates for models that support 6th/7th/8th generation Intel® Core™ processors and X99/X299 platform): https://www.gigabyte.com/MicroSite/481/intel-sa-00088.html

The security vulnerability arises from a new side-channel analysis method developed by external researchers that gathers information by observing the physical behavior of certain processing techniques that are common to modern computing platforms. Malicious code using this method and running locally on a normally operating platform could infer data values from memory. Based on GIGABYTE and Intel’s current assessment of these exploits we believe that they do not have the potential to corrupt, modify or delete data.

After being notified about this industry-wide potential security issue, GIGABYTE is working with our silicon providers in developing solutions to mitigate these issues as soon as reasonably possible. Updated software and firmware mitigations should be available in the next few days and will continue to be released over the next few weeks.

For more information on the Intel security vulnerabilities, please visit the Intel Security Center website for further details: https://security-center.intel.com/advisory.aspx?intelid=INTEL-SA-00088&languageid=en-fr

Any issues affecting the user’s experience with GIGABYTE motherboards is of the utmost importance. GIGABYTE is committed to fulfilling the highest standards for quality and service of its motherboards.

To learn more about GIGABYTE: http://www.gigabyte.com

Designed by IFR is at it again with this beautiful PC mod

You have to check out this amazing mod from IFR based around Rocket League and Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming. We love it!

Are you in the market for an awesome Z370 board, check out Tech Yes City review!

Tech Yes City YouTuber did a roundup of Z370 motherboards and really liked the Z370 Aorus Ultra Gaming board. 

He found it had the best auto OC functionality in bios and was the only one of the roundup to reach 5GHz. He also said he "loved the RGB lighting on the motherboard as well as audio."

Grab yourself a bargain gamer board based on Z370 chipset and frag away!
 

HWBOT Country Cup 2017 is on (aka World Cup of Overclocking!)

It's that time of the year again, HWBOT Country Cup 2017 is upon us and we are about to find out who the best overclocking nation in the world is very soon. If you haven't seen these overclocking competitions in the past, it's basically the world cup of overclocking. Nations get together and complete in numerous stages set by HWBOT.

There are six stages this year ranging from SuperPi, Cinebench, X265, GPUPI, 3DMARK11 and 3DMARK Time Spy. It's a mixed bag of 2D and 3D stages with some even dedicated to the latest AMD platforms.

The top10 leaderboard is looking interesting at this point. USA is in the lead and we can see last year's winner (Greece) and running up (Australia) down in 9th and 8th places respectively. These competitions are tend to change rankings considerable, particularly near the end of each stage but it's good to see a nice mix of countries. Germany is always a bit performer as is France. Good to see Ukraine and UK pushing up rankings. I wonder if Indonesia will make a play this year as they always have a strong showing.



Prizes never disappoint and this year we see some awesome GIGABYTE Z370 boards up for grabs, alongside Intel CPUs, Kingpin cooling and Seasonic.

 

 Keep an eye on the competiton via this link. First stage is due in about 9 days. It should get the party started: http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/country_cup_2017!

[YouTube] Need a mini ITX motherboard, Z370N WIFI is a good choice!

Check out Gigabyte miniITX Z370N WIFI, full unboxing and feature overview!

 

The Overclocker Issue 42 is out

Here we go, The OverClocker issue 42 is out and we've noticed a cheeky article on the Aorus X299 SOC Champion board. It's a fine piece of kit!

Link: https://view.joomag.com/mag/0159222001505891434/p1

Z370 overclocking guide (written)

Check out the GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS overclocking guide!

Link: https://view.joomag.com/z370-oc-guide/0865178001507187695?short

Overclocking guide, Z370 AORUS GAMING 7 and Intel Core i7 8700K overclocked to 5GHz

Overclocking guide is here!!! Z370 AORUS GAMING 7 and Intel Core i7 8700K overclocked to 5GHz!

 

AMD Ryzen 3 1200, is it good enough for major gaming titles, Techcity does the testing!

We've noticed that Techcity did some good testing on the AMD Ryzen 3 1200 paired with a GIGABYTE AB350 gaming board. It turns out that overclocking the CPU really gives it a serious performance boost, check it out!

X399 overclocking guide is here!

Here we go guys, the X399 overclocking guide is ready. Check it out the following link for more details.

Intel Core i9 7960X 16-core monster spotted doing 5.6GHz, setting records!

The new Intel Core i9 16-core, 32-thread monster is out and about. We noticed a whole bunch of overclocking records being set in the 16 core processor category and 7960X is the new king. GIGABYTE X299 board was once again the go to weapon to help achieve these records. The craziest part was that it ran as high as 5.6GHz in a multithreaded benchmark (all cored loaded). Liquid nitrogen was obviously needed to keep this bad boy cool.

Congratulations to all!

The king of 3DMARK01 is back, TeamAU with a monster world record showing how it's done

TeamAU is back at it with 3DMARK01 world record going down today. They also broke a historic 72K points in 3DMARK06 to retake the world record in that benchmark as well.

GIGABYTE X299 and Intel Core i7 7740X powered these records and we want to congratulate TeamAU on this achievement.

3DMARK01 Link

3DMARK06 Link

X299 OC (overclocking) guide for Skylake CPUs

We haven't forgotten about the Skylake CPU owners either so here is your copy of the X299 OC guide for Skylake CPUs!

Link: https://view.joomag.com/x299-oc-guide-skylake-skylake/0852066001501572108

X299 OC(overclocking) guide for Kabylake CPUs!

Don't forget to pickup your copy of the X299 OC guide for Kabylake CPUs guys!

Link: https://view.joomag.com/x299-oc-guide-kabylake-kabylake/0887188001501558889 

 

 

Who's up for some GIGABYTE GeekRap Competition?

Yes, you've read that right, Overclockers Australia forum is hosting an overclocking competition with a bit of geek rap in the mix as well! We've seen these before and they were hilarious, ended up in some seriously funny (and a little foul) roasting rap sessions between OCers. 

Here is a link to the forum for those interested: http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1226743

GIGABYTE Beat the Heat: Contest Update – Noliso (Germany) Leads

HWBOT news

With Summer temperatures soaring in many regions around the world at the moment, it’s an apt time to take a look at how the GIGABYTE Beat the Heat contest is panning out over on OC-ESPORTS. The contest is GIGABYTE’s fifth contest of the year so far and as with previous contest, the company is not shy when it comes to offering attractive prizes. Winners can expect to walk away with really nice hardware that in total amounts to more than $2,500 USD. Let’s a take a quick look at the standings and scores as they stand at the moment with around eleven days to go:

GIGABYTE Beat the Heat: July 1st to July 31st 2017

The GIGABYTE Beat the Heat contest runs throughout the month of July here on OC-ESPORTS and is centered on 2D benchmarks and the latest non-HEDT platforms. All contestants must use a GIGABYTE motherboard. The contest is divided into the following four stages each featuring a 5GHz CPU frequency limitation and a specific benchmark:

Stage 1: XTU 5GHz
Stage 2: GPUPI for CPU–1B 5GHz
Stage 3: Geekbench3 Single–Core 5GHz
Stage 4: HWBOT x265 Benchmark–4k 5GHz

Catch the full update article here on OC-ESPORTS.

Intel Optane Memory installation guide (YouTube video by dinos22)

We have a video for you guys if you are looking to install the new Intel Optane memory to accelerate your HDD speeds and responsiveness. You will require a few steps to get it working properly so have a good look at the video before you go about it!

Sofos breaks 6GHz stable barrier with Intel Core i9 7900X to retake HWBOT record

We noticed that sofos1990 has broken the almighty 6GHz barrier with a multithreaded benchmark called HWBOT Prime to retake his record with GIGABYTE X299 board and Intel Core i9 7900X CPU. We are talking about all 10 cores and 20 threads running past 6GHz stable, using liquid nitrogen to achieve the frequency OC! New HWBOT Prime reword with a 10 core CPU is now at 12,189.52pps!

Wow and congratulations!

GIGABYTE dominates X299 platform, XTU world record (5 WRs & 27 global first places)

GIGABYTE X299 platform is looking incredibly strong with 5 World Records broken as well as 27 Global First Places! Sofos recently posted the Big Mac of all records, XTU World Record, using Intel Core i9 7900X and a GIGABYTE X299 board.

GIGABYTE is setting the bar very high for its competitors with a dominant five world records and twenty seven global first places on GIGABYTE X299 platform well over a month from original platform launch. This means that the scores have reached a peak and by this time we get to see the scores solidify and gives us an opportunity to see who's got the best platform available on the market.

Enthusiasts worldwide who expect the best performance are now pushing the X299 platform to the max and while overclocking isn't for everyone, the records do show GIGABYTE X299 motherboards are leading the way and are best choice of hardware to power your next overclocking, gaming, video editing, VR and any other high performance PC you dream of!

The records set on the new platform are both 2D and 3D in nature. The 3D scores have all been set with Intel Core i7 7740X, while the global first places are 3D based with multi-threaded performance CPUs in 6 Core (Core i7 7800X) 8 core (Core i7 7820X) and 10 core categories (Core i9 7900X).

XTU WORLD RECORD FROM SOFOS1990!