HiCookie is back amongst the record breakers on HWBOT.org earning a first place spot benching WPRIME 32M on an AMDFX-8350 eight core processor. Cookie did it by pushing an AMD FX-8350 processor to 7.39GHz using a revised and updated GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 motherboard which supports GIGABYTE Dual UEFI BIOS. Check Cookie’s submission screenshot below.
Check out the score submission at HWBOT.org here.
Find out more about the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD3 motherboard here.
UK techies Vortez.net recently held a ‘Best of 2012’ poll where all their loyal readership were asked to vote for the best product of the year in each PC component category. We’re delighted to see that our GIGABYTE X79-UP4 motherboard beat off some stiff competition to claim the ‘Best of’ award in the motherboard category. Pretty sweet.
Check it out here on Vortex.net
Details about the GIGABYTE X79-UP4 can be found here.
The conclusion of our Winter OC Whiteout contest was reached a few days ago, and officially announced today with Xtreme addict making his presence felt with a thoroughly dominant performance that saw him claim all three stages! Congrats! Xtreme Addict takes home three GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H motherboards with respective Seidon 120M liquid cooling kits from Cooler Master.
A bonus prize was also claimed by Perica_barii, for his submission photo application. The bonus prize winner gets a GIGABYTE Z77X-HD4 plus a Cooler Master Sirus S-5.1 gaming headset. The bonus prize winner was determined by the number of Facebook likes on the GIGABYTE Motherboard Tech Column Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/GIGABYTEmotherboards
A big thanks to all who competed, and especially to those of you who added a festive touches to your submission photos. Also a big thanks to Cooler Master for contributing some cool prizes. You can find the contest scores and standings here at the HWBOT competition page.
It’s great to see GIGABYTE connected with any tech project that really embraces the spirit of DIY computing. At the end of the day, building your own custom Mac involves a very similar approach to building any other kind of DIY PC. Speccing out the components of your build with acute attention to detail is something we all take pleasure in.
But hey. Thanks to guys like tonymacx86, there’s a heck of a lot of guidance and advice available out on the interweb for people who building with a specific usage scenario in mind.
Check out the CustoMac January buyers guide here tonymacx86.com
Today I’d like to follow up on our recent 4K collage announcement where we hooked up a GIGABYTE dual Thunderbolt motherboard to a DP to dual DP splitter outputting a 4K video signal across four standard HD displays. The remarkable thing is that his was all done using on the HD4000 processor graphics of our Ivy Bridge processor – no discrete card!
See the original config below:
We just tested a DVI-D splitter dongle from Sapphire that allows you to do a similar thing with HD displays that use DVI. This is useful for two reasons; firstly that you don’t need to use newer HD displays that support DisplayPort input. DVI-D works just as well. Secondly being a digital signal we can then also support conversion from DVI to HDMI, which means it’ll also work fine with four HDMI equipped displays. So if you have the adapters you can do 4K collage using DP, HDI or DVI-D
Finally, the adapter from Sapphire will also let you power any 4K displays that support a 4x DVI inputs for a single 4K stream – a configuration that is popular on many earlier 4K displays. Here’s an example.
You can find more info about the Sapphire adapter here.
Learn more about our 4K display and Collage technologies here.
A few days ago CPUID launched a new GIGABYTE OC branded version of their very popular CPUz application. It’s something we especially hope overclokers will appreciate – bringing our signature OC orange and black looks to probably the one app that all overclockers use on a daily basis.
Check out this screenshot. How could any GIGABYTE lovin’ CPU pusher possibly resist?
You can download the new 1.62.2 OC version at CPUID.com here.
Throughout the month on January 2013 Overclock.net are running an overclocking competition where aspiring ‘clockers can win $500 cash plus the chance to win a GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 and a Z77X-UD3H board.
Entitled the Multi-Threaded Mayhem 2013 (or MTMII), the idea is to compete on three heavily threaded benchmarks, wPrime 32M, wPrime 1024M and 3Dmark Vantage CPU score (physx disabled), on 6 classes based around cores and threads (AMD 4,6 and 8 threads, plus Intel 4, 8 and 12 threads).
The contest is open to all OCN members, and ends on January 31st. Right now as we hit the half way stage, it’s encouraging to see plenty of submissions. The cash prize will be distributed across classes according to participation (e.g. if Intel the 8 threads class has 42% of the participation, that class will receive 42% of the prize pool). The winners of two GIGABYTE boards however, will be randomly chosen at the end of the competition in a prize draw of all participants. So even if you ain’t top dog, you’re still in with a shout.
Check out this thread on Overclock.net for rules, standings and more info.
