HWBOT held a competition for the month of September called GeIL FFA II Overclocking Challenge. One of the stages was highest frequency with 16GB RAM configuration. Youngpro joined the race with a GIGABYTE X58A-UD7 and 16GB of G.Skill Trident RAM with a stunning 2720MHz overclock. How awesome is that!
He wins a kit of GeIL 2133MHz C9 Evo Corsa 8GB (2x4GB) Dual Channel Memory Kit, congrats.
Battlefield 3 is going to be a big gaming title but what platform should you choose to play it on. Check our this video comparing what you get with XBOX360, PS3 and PC.
I know which platform I’m playing BF3 on hehehe.
Windows 8 is around the corner and it looks really cool. I haven't seen much of these demos until I came across this youtube video by an end user in Korea going through the menus on a GIGABYTE T1125 Touch-Notebook.
Looks nice and it seems pretty responsive. I’m thinking touchscreen LCDs might become popular soon on desktop PCs, yay TouchBIOS (dreams of The Island movie scene office desk powered by Win8 hahaha)
High-end technologies usually take some time to trickle down to mainstream products due to the slow rate at which prices come down to everyday user affordability. In the case of easy network management, it has taken a lot less time than we would have expected, and we have just announced GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer that allows you to prioritize programs accessing your Internet connection, offering more bandwidth control than has ever been available on mainstream platforms. Check out the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer press release for a full list of supporting motherboard models (at least 27 of them).
We first saw this kind of feature on the extremely high-end G1-Killer gaming motherboards from the feature-packed Killer e2100 gaming LAN solution from Big Foot Networks. GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer is a somewhat simpler, yet effective and fun solution. There are 4 modes that allow you to optimize bandwidth for gaming, video streaming or browsing, and of course there is also an auto mode that dynamically optimizes bandwidth as you go.
Check out the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer video, the GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer press release or our GIGABYTE LAN Optimizer microsite the for more.
Vivi is a well known South African overclocker, well regarded in extreme overclocking circles. It’s nice to see him spend time showing his readers how to understand more about hardware we use for gaming these days without taking himself too seriously.
It is not often you see a pretty straight forward and easy to read article on power delivery for a piece of hardware. No need for a degree in electrical engineering to figure this one out, check it all out at Xtreme Systems forum.
Our good friends over at Cooler Master have posted some really cool pictures of a G1.Assassin case mod on their facebook page. The original article is from PConline in China. This is without a doubt one of the most impressive military style case mods that I’ve seen and is a tribute to the growing talent and enthusiasm for case modding that we are seeing from China. Here are some more shots for your viewing pleasure:
Feel free to post more case mod links below. We’ll post ‘em if we like ‘em!
Yesterday we posted an article that outlined the mechanics of how Intel’s forthcoming Sand Bridge E processors will be overclocked – thanks to Bit-Tech for that one. Today we’ve come across an Intel slide that appears to have gotten into the hands of Taiwanese techies at TopPC.com.tw which outlines a ‘theoretical’ upper limit to the Sandy Bridge processor architecture. According to the slide, which offers details about base clock speeds and Turbo speeds, when you take into account the Base Clock (blck) maximum, and maximum processor multiplier, a CPU core clock ceiling of exactly 9.5GHz is apparent. Check the image below.
Clearly interesting times lie ahead for overclockers and extreme system tuners once Sandy Bridge E arrives. But let’s also be realistic; a theoretical limit is exactly that, it basically means that the processors microcode will understand instructions and offer BIOS configurations that will end at 9.5GHz. It is however unlikely that anyone will ever get to that speed. Look at it this way. Previous gen Gulftown processors had a theoretical limit of approx 16GHz! However, we rarely ever saw one push 7GHz…
Interesting to note that AMD just broke the world record a week or so ago for the "Highest Frequency of a Computer Processor" using a new Bulldozer FX processor doing at an astonishing 8.429GHz on liquid helium.
So yeah, we’re living in very interesting times indeed, with two new and competing enthusiast platforms just around the corner. It’s safe to say that we’re more than looking forward to launching a range of motherboards that’ll give you every excuse to Overclock your Bulldozer or Sandy Bridge E CPU to the limit, including one particular X79 board model which is optimized precisely for that purpose – watch this space!
News sources at Top PC.com.tw and VR-Zone.
