Following up on a First Look video a few weeks ago, Tiny ‘Tom’ Logan has now given our new GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87 motherboard a really good going over with a full review, and it’s great to see the board pick up both ‘Gamers Choice’ and ‘Value for Money’ awards. Check out his video below.



In fact Tom was pretty much blown away by the sheer value of the board, offering really solid performance and a pretty full feature set for a very, very competitive price point.

“For a barely believable price you're getting equally barely believable performance. You have to overclock the Gigabyte G1.Sniper Z87 to make the most of it, but if you're willing to put a little effort in then there is a monster motherboard just waiting to be discovered and if you buy a K-series CPU you should be getting dirty in the BIOS anyways!”

Check the full written review here:

More info on the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87

Last weekend saw an annual winter meet up of pretty much all the top Overclockers in the UK. Attendees (many of which are virtually household names in UK OC circles) included el_gappo, K404, Scooter.Jay, topdog, borandi and Driftingforlife. Noobs and spectators also made the trip to Long Eaton Nottinghamsire where it is fair to say, a good time was had by all.
Check out the video below for some really UK-style OC banter!

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As one of the event’s sponsors, it was great to see plenty of Country Club submissions being made on GIGABYTE motherboards. Here are a few you check out:
Topdog using our 990FXA-UD3 an Z77X-UD7

• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467110_
• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467147_
• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467137_
• http://www.hwbot.org/submission/2467172_

Scooterjay pushing his i7 4770K on the Z87X-OC

• http://hwbot.org/submission/2467011_
• http://hwbot.org/submission/2467008_
• http://hwbot.org/submission/2467003_

  
Somewhere under all that ice there lies a GIGABYTE Z87X-OC board…

 

Check out more pics from the two-day event here:

http://www.overclock.net/g/a/1084744/christmas-uk-ln2-overclocking-meet-14th-15th-of-december/flat/1/page/0

For those of you attending CES this year, be sure to stop by our OC event starting at 2PM on January 6th. We’re bringing ice to the desert and chips to a casino…cuz that’s how we roll.

Tom’s Hardware are offering some pretty decent prizes to tempt all and sundry to take part in their Reader’s choice Sweepstakes. In fact there are 22 prizes including full PCs, Tablets, SSDs, chassis and keyboards and more.

But of course, the most important part is that you remember to vote for GIGABYTE!

Here’s the link: http://tomshardware.readers-choice-sweepstakes.sgizmo.com/s3/

Here’s a cool unboxing video from ThinkComputers.com where Bob Buskirk takes a pretty thorough look at our Z87X-UD3H board

 

Check out the Z87X-UD3H here.

This week saw the conclusion of our latest HWBOT OC contest, the ‘GIGABYTE Feel the Force’ contest. Based on the Intel Z87 platform we teamed up with Corsair to award the contest winners with some pretty tasty prizes including a GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force motherboard, some CORSAIR Force Series SSDs and Corsair Graphite Series chassis.

After a month of failry intense competition, Vivi from South Africa came out on top with Overclockers Hero and laoshu1919 of Mainland china taking 2^nd and 3^rd places respectfully.

You can check out the contest conclusion at hWBOT.org

Info about the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Force can be found here.

Our buddy Tiny ‘Tom’ Logan managed to get his hands on our new socket 1150 gaming motherboard, the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper Z87. Of course Tom being Tom, the first things he did was shoot a quick ‘First look’ video. As ever Tom goes through the main features, of which there are many, including our signature AMP-UP audio which includes an upgradable OP-AMP, gain switches, a Creative Sound Core3D audio processor and more.

Just to generally sum up Tom’s feelings about the board, he is totally impressed with the overall spec of the board and the more high-end features that you’re getting for your money. In a nut shell, it’s ‘wicked’ value!

Introductory OC3D.TV article.

More info about the GIGABYTE G1. Sniper Z87