Fancy walking away with a top-of-line Z68 gaming motherboard? well, today might just be your lucky day. In an attempt to get close and personal with our loyal customers, we’ve just launched a simple questionnaire on the GIGABYTE website. Of course as a tempter, all entrants will have their names added to a prize draw where one lucky winner will receive a G1.Sniper 2, a gamers dream motherboard replete with discrete Creative Audio and an advanced Bigfoot networking.

Interested? Sure you are. All you have to do is hope along to our Facebook page, give us a ‘like’ and move on to the questionnaire itself.

Click the icon below to get started.

You can also visit the GIGABYTE Motherboard Facebook page (check the icon on the left side).

You can learn more about the G1.Sniper 2 motherboard here.

Today we are delighted to announce that a Portuguese language version of our beloved GIGABYTE Tech Daily blog has been launched. If you’re more apt to enjoy your motherboard musings in português, then be sure to check out Muno GIGABYTE at http://mundogigabyte.blogspot.com

We recently wrote an article highlighting how much better the game play experience is on the PC vs consoles and showed a youtube video highlighting massive differences in quality from Xbox360 to PS3 to PC. I wanted to follow up that article and tell you what Risen 2’s brand manager Daniel Oberlerchner spoke out about recently. He thinks there is an obvious technology gap in different gaming platforms these days saying some studios are ignoring or cutting quality on PC platform to be able to provide a similar gaming experience across all platforms.

It is good to see an industry rep put a foot down and say they will stick to making the absolute max quality for every platform (hence if you want best gaming experience, PC platform is the way to go).

Here is a quote from Mr. Oberlerchner that can be found at Strategy Informer website

Some studios say they are going to have the same quality across all platforms, which is to say you take the weakest platform - the Xbox 360 - and you have the same crappy textures for the Playstation 3 and the PC.

We want to make sure everything is maxed out on every platform - for example on the Playstation 3, it is a bit better in terms of Aliasing, but then extra memory is going to be better on the Xbox 360 because the PS3 doesn't have direct memory - so it has to share everything.

PC gaming is and always will be way ahead of consoles. Ignoring this fact will make developers’ tech obsolete sooner rather than later.

 

As we mentioned yesterday, Dino, one of our in-house Overclocking gurus, was in attendance last weekend at the London International Technology Show in the UK. While we knew that Dino had been turning on the style doing some live audience overclocking, what we didn’t know until a few hours ago is that, on Sunday he actually managed to get perilously close to some world records, hitting 8150MHz on LN2 using our GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 board!

Ok, so the world record is slightly higher, but those guys had the pick of a big bunch CPU-wise, plus they were using Liquid Helium (theoretical low temp of -269 °C), not Liquid Nitrogen (-196 °C). Huge kudos to Dino for his efforts during a live public show. This puts Dino 9th in the world for CPU frequency ranking, 3rd for FX-81350 ranking. Outstanding work.

Validation URL here. HWBot page here.

GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 board here.

Last week we gave you all a sneak preview of our forthcoming G1. Assassin 2 board on our facebook page, today we’ve just uploaded some more X79 series motherboard images. Aside from letting us engage with you in some blatant and gratuitous board-voyeurism, it’s also a cool way for us to introduce you to the whole GIGABYTE X79 family.

Because we still have to be very respectful of Intel’s launch plans, all we can really say at this point is that all of these boards will Rock!..and of course that they will support Intel® Core™  processors for the 2011 socket…

Check out the full photo set on our Facebook page here. And remember to click ‘Like’ if you’re feeling the GIGABYTE love…

Tom Logan from Overclock 3D met up with team GIGABYTE during the London International Trade Show (LITS) this weekend. Tom was impressed with our efforts to break Bulldozer records live at the show in front of the British public, firing up some serious LN2 and pushing hard on the tails of that record. Check out the video below where you can also see our pal Dino cherry picking some freshly plucked 2700k i7 chips.