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GIGABYTE Announces Winter OC Whiteout Overclocking Contest

GIGABYTE Announces Winter OC Whiteout Overclocking Contest

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces its latest overclocking competition, the ‘GIGABYTE Winter OC Whiteout’, an open overclocking competition hosted at HWBOT. The ‘GIGABYTE Winter OC Whiteout’ also features a special bonus prize for the snowiest and most festive submission photo. The ‘GIGABYTE Winter OC Whiteout’ starts today, running until January 20th 2013 and is open to all overclockers using any Intel processor on any compatible GIGABYTE motherboard. The competition centers around three key stages, each containing a 3D benchmark with specific limitations imposed to level the playing field. A GIGABYTE Z77X-UD4H motherboard plus, a Cooler Master Seidon 120M liquid cooler will be awarded for the winner of each stage.

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ASRock Z77 OC Formula Motherboard Review

ASRock Z77 OC Formula Motherboard Review

Not too long ago we had the pleasure of covering ASRock’s mid-range offering, the Z77 Extreme6. Since then, ASRock have continued to release new motherboards to fit each market segment, including the board we have in front of us today, the Z77 OC Formula.

Geared towards overclockers and tweakers, the Z77 OC Formula sports both air and watercooled VRMs, 12 CPU power phases, an 8-layer Copper PCB, dual stack MOSFETs, Multi-Filter caps and a whole slew of other features and benefits, this new board promises to be the best performing board from ASRock that we’ve seen to date.

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Unboxing the ASRock Z77 OC Formula Motherboard

Unboxing the ASRock Z77 OC Formula Motherboard

When I first heard that ASRock was coming out with a motherboard specifically made for overclockers I was excited, then I saw the color scheme they were using for the board and I was really excited! The black and yellow Z77 OC Formula Intel Z77 Motherboard features built-in watercooling, an 8 layer PCB, all digital power design, premium alloy chokes and much more. Read on to check out our unboxing and overview video!

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NVIDIA 600 Series Video Card Overclocking Guide

NVIDIA 600 Series Video Card Overclocking Guide

Welcome to the ThinkComputers overclocking guide for the NVIDIA GK104. Also known as the NVIDIA GeForce 680, 670, and 660Ti! This guide does MAY apply to other cards in the series, but, use it at your own risk, as it has not been tested on those devices. If this is your first time overclocking, we hope this guide will be useful to you. If you’re running Intel’s latest processor technology, Ivy Bridge, feel free to check out our sister guide that’ll help you in that area.

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GIGABYTE Launches Flagship Z77X-UP7 Motherboard

GIGABYTE Launches Flagship Z77X-UP7 Motherboard

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today launched their latest overclocking powerhouse Z77X-UP7 motherboard, featuring the industry’s most robust 32+3+2 power design with Ultra Durable™ 5 high current capable components including 60A rated IR3550 PowIRstages® chips from IR.

“With the Z77X-UP7 and its 32+3+2 power phase design featuring Ultra Durable 5 technology, we have created the very best CPU power design of any motherboard available today,” commented HiCookie, GIGABYTE In-house Overclocking Expert. “Not only does this help extreme overclockers to reach 7GHz+ on their Intel® Core™ i7-3770K CPUs and take down benchmark records, but it also provides System Integrators with a platform cool and stable enough to withstand the rigors of an always-on, overclocked water cooled system for their customers.”

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Intel Ivy Bridge Overclocking Guide

Intel Ivy Bridge Overclocking Guide

So you’ve picked up a Intel Z77 board and an Ivy Bridge unlocked CPU and you want to know how to make your CPU perform better.  In this guide I’ll be detailing how to overclock your CPU with both offset and fixed voltage methods, along with ideal board/BIOS parameters for your new clock to remain stable.  So are you ready to overclock? Let’s go!

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Gigabyte X58A-OC Intel X58 Motherboard Review

Gigabyte X58A-OC Intel X58 Motherboard Review

People have been overclocking computer hardware for quite some time.  Overclocking is not that hard at all, but to really get the highest achievable overclocks you need a motherboard that can take the punishment.  Over the past 2 years we have seen efforts from many different manufacturers, but these efforts were targeted at 2 different demographics, overclockers and gamers.  So you had all of these boards that had all the features that gamers and overclockers wanted, but what if you just wanted the overclocking features?  Today we are taking a look at motherboard that gives you all of those overclocking features and cuts out all the extra “fat” that is not needed.  This board has been designed from the ground up to be best overclocking motherboard for the X58 platform.  The motherboard I am talking about is the X58A-OC from Gigabyte, let’s see how far we can push this board.

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GIGABYTE Announces Core Prime Overclocking Contest on HWBOT

City of Industry, California, November 3, 2010 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today announced a new overclocking competition in conjunction with HWBOT.org called the Core Prime Contest.

The holidays are quickly approaching, so GIGABYTE thought we’d give you a break from forcing down Aunt Bertha’s fruitcake surprise with our latest GIGABYTE Core Prime contest. For the next 6 weeks (Nov 1 ~ Dec 18), submit your top Core Wprime scores to HWBOT for your chance to win a GIGABYTE X58A-UD7, GIGABYTE X58A-UD3R, or GIGABYTE H55N-USB3.

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Countdown to GIGABYTE GO OC 2010 Final Competition

Countdown to GIGABYTE GO OC 2010 Final Competition

Final Countdown to GIGABYTE GO OC 2010 Final Competition on 9/25/10! We are excited to share this great news with you! For those of you are not able to attend the final battle in Taipei, GIGABYTE, in conjunction with Overclocking TV and OCQQ, will provide a video stream live from the event, so you can be sure not to miss out on any of the extreme LN2 action.

This year, we will have both English and Chinese versions of the live broadcast for the GO OC competition at our GO OC website (http://gooc2010.gigabyte.com). You can also log in below to the following medias’ websites to see our live broadcast directly.

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