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.

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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…

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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!

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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.

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