Here are a couple of shots from the gallery!

You can see the rest at this website.

TeamAU had a get together a week ago in Adelaide to put the new GIGABYTE X58A-OC motherboard through its paces and hopefully break some records while having fun. Records tumbled, LN2 vaporised and fun was definitely had by all.

You can read the full report here!

Here are some a couple of shots

Three months ago Sandy Bridge launched and overclockers went out and bought hardware to compete on world’s biggest overclocking league, www.hwbot.org. We had a glance at the results today under Core i7 2600K CPU and found that GIGABYTE tops every single 2D category which obviously tests system performance.

The most popular board that tops the record charts is the P67A-UD7 and the new UD7-B3. P67A-UD4-B3 also holds the PCMARK05 record. SuicidePhoenix, Mad222, dumo and SteveRo are pushing the boards the hardest. Congratulations men, keep overclocking it!

I wanted to point out to some nice changes which overclockers will appreciate on the latest B3 chipset board from GIGABYTE. B3 chipset change was obviously the major change however the team also used the opportunity to implement a lot of feedback from the community to improve certain parts of the performance and generally better end user experience. One of such nice changes is related to LLC.

LLC refers to LoadLine Calibration or otherwise a bios option that control the voltage droop when different loads are introduced. For some of you still scratching your head what this means if you have an overclocked system, for example, and have set 1.6vcore voltage in bios you would expect LLC enabled option to control that vcore to be very close to what you have set in bios whether you are browsing internet or doing video encoding on your PC. What Marko (Bullet92) found is that 1.6v in bios with the P67A-UD4-B3 is 1.611v in idle and 1.609v under load (measured with a digital multimeter) which is incredibly tight voltage regulation from Max Power VRM GIGABYTE uses on their P67 Sandy Bridge boards.

UD4 range is usually a very popular bang for buck OC board so when we finally see coldbug-less CPUs in Sandy Bridge this may become a very important subzero OC aid as well.

B3 series of motherboards from GIGABYTE have been fine tuned some more and certain models have had a spec increase as well but how do they overclock. Mad222 took his old chip and improved his results with his golden 2600K running at 5.86GHz. Memory is running near 1.1GHz 7-7-6-20-1T timings as well.

Taipei, Taiwan, March 24, 2011 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and computing hardware solutions today officially announced the availability of the 3TB+ Unlock Utility that allows GIGABYTE motherboards without Hybrid EFI Technology to recognize and use unallocated space on new 3TB and larger hard disc drives (HDDs). The utility is freely available from the utilities page of the official GIGABYTE website: http://www.gigabyte.com/support-downloads/Utility.aspx.

Following up on their ‘first look’ video a few weeks ago, the guys over on Futurelooks.com have now had plenty of time to get more intimate with our G1. Assassin gaming motherboard, giving it a 9/10 rating and high praise for its gaming prowess and attractive weaponized theming.

The GIGABYTE G1.Assassin is an impressive culmination of planning and creativity designed to accommodate the most serious of hardcore gamers. And unlike other brands, there is no confusion about whether this is for a gamer or an overclocker, even though we’ve proven it can.

Read the full and detailed review here.

 

For all you smart shoppers in North America, Newegg is currently running a promotional bundle deal with Intel® Core™ i7 CPUs and GIGABYTE G1-Killer motherboards. Pick any G1-Killer motherboard including the G1.Assassin, G1.Sniper and G1.Guerrilla and pair it with an Intel Core i7-950, Core i7-960, or Core i7-970 and save up to $65 dollars. The promotion is running from March 16 – March 31.

For more information on the bundle deal, please visit HERE.

Clare build a new gaming rig recently and went with the G1 Sniper board and a bunch of really nice parts. Check out the full writeup here.

Overclockingstation recently put the G1.Assassin motherboard through it’s paces and it’s nice to see that they get the idea that this board was designed for gamers.

The G1.Killer Assassin isn’t a overclocking motherboard and didn’t try to be. It was developed for gamers and offers special components for them. We have to ask for the costs. Actually the price is 426 Euro (price comparison). If you have a look on each single component like sound and network card the price is fair. Overclockingstation was impressed by this motherboard and awarded it with Gold-Award.

To read the full review (in German), please visit Overclockingstation

Dinos22 chimed in on TeamAU blog to give a heads up to an overclocking event TeamAU is putting together on the weekend. Deanzo, youngpro, bob(nz), Uncle Fester, T_M and dinos22 are flying in around the country and Asia to meet up in Adelaide for this special occasion.

It will be on livestream throughout the weekend at THIS ADDRESS.

Adelaide V8 Supercars race is on at the same time, who knows there might be a report from the track with the grid girls too hehehe

One other special guest making an appearance will be the new X58A-OC motherboard from GIGABYTE heheh.

Dinos22 and youngpro have done some preliminary testing with the board and got some mighty scores in 2D and 3D in practice runs. Plenty more to see during the event itself but here are a couple of notable scores to wet your appetite…

 

Chime in and say hello on the livestream

With the G1.Sniper gaming motherboards starting to hit the store shelves, Linus gives a first hand account of what buyers can expect when taking out their Killer for the first time. We really need to put a warning on the cover, “Use extreme caution when removing inner box, as box flatulence may occur.” lol

We recently reported on an overclocker from Germany approaching the magic 6Ghz mark on Intel’s new Sandy Bridge i7 2600K and P67A-UD7. Jan wasn’t wasting any time and is on a mission to enter into world’s top10 overclockers on HWBOT.ORG. He is currently sitting in 11th spot and put some crazy overclocks. I really love this 3DMARK01 result, just wow!

Sin0822 (Steven B) just posted his performance review of the GIGABYTE G1 Killer Assassin motherboard including some overclocking with a 990X on air. You can read the full writeup here.

GIGABYTE Australia announces E-Sports Championships 2011 for CALL OF DUTY: BLACK OPS with finals to be played at RESPAWN in Melbourne. The prize pool will feature over $4500 in cash and prizes which will create a high level of competition. LAN Qualifiers will be held in Sydney, Brisbane, Melbourne and New Zealand. Registration opens Sunday the 13th of March!

Competition website: http://gigabyte-esc.com/

This competition is brought to you by G1 KILLER ASSASSIN motherboards.

Massman from HWBOT.ORG gives his personal analysis about X58A-OC and what it means to the overclocking community.

I’ll provide a couple of excerpts but most definite CLICK TO READ THE FULL ARTICLE HERE 

Introduction

Before I get started with this editorial and presenting you my personal reasons for buying this mainboard, let me get one thing very clear: I am not getting paid to write this article. In fact, this editorial is nothing more than my personal view on the launch of this mainboard and how it could affect the manufacturer of this product or any other manufacturer of hypothetical future products. At the end of this article, I will also try to give a couple of arguments that should make clear the sole purpose of this text is to explain how I believe this board can change the overclocker’s future.
As always, feel free to comment on any of the paragraphs of this editorial if you think I’m wrong, right, incomplete or just mental. Okay, let’s get started.

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Just for fun, open your instant messenger and ask any of your overclocking friends (or enemies) how they got into overclocking. Chances are high most of them will reply that they used to play games and wanted more gaming performance for the same amount of money. More bang for the buck, as trained hardware reviewers would say

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The question was simple: how do we integrate features that overclockers want into our current product line-up? As the overclocking community is, historically speaking, a subgroup of the gaming industry, it seems like a very logical step to add the overclocking features to the product line-up designed for and targeted at the gaming community.

I wonder, though … are we, overclockers, really similar to hardcore (video-) gamers?

The answer to this question is, in my humble opinion, definitely no.

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Much like the hardware enthusiasts, the people who are buying server hardware know exactly what they want; the gaming and normal consumers don’t.

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That is exactly the reason why I’m going to buy this board, in retail, with my own money.

Continue reading here…

Guys at Tweaktown ran a fundraiser to help the recent Queensland flood relief and raised over $6,000. One of those luck donors was drawn out randomly as the winner of a Dream System assembled from parts donated by various manufacturers. GIGABYTE Australia donated the flagship P67A-UD7 motherboard towards this good cause. The lucky winner is Andrew van Slageren. Congratulations Andrew and thanks to everyone that donated!

We had the pleasure of meeting Zaccubus from Team Dignitas at CES where he explained the importance of having solid networking while playing online games. Well, he now has a GIGABYTE G1.Assassin motherboard with the best possible onboard networking solution, the Killer e2100, and provides his impressions of the board and the other contents of it’s package in this short unboxing video.

Note: For a complete list of 12 available XL-ATX cases, please visit the GA-G1.Assassin web page and select the Chassis Support List button.