كشف أمين مقبول، أمين سر المجلس الثوري لحركة "فتح"، عن لقاء قريب سيجمع حركتي حماس وفتح في العاصمة المصرية القاهرة.

وأكد مقبول في تصريح خاص بـ"الرسالة نت"، الأحد، وجود ترتيبات واتصالات تجري بين الحركتين لعقد اللقاء المقبل في القاهرة، لاستئناف مشاورات ملفات المصالحة الداخلية.

وأوضح أن اللقاء المقبل بين الحركتين المقرر عقده نهاية شهر أكتوبر الجاري، سيضم الوفد الخماسي المشكل من حركة فتح ووفد آخر من قادة حركة حماس.

ولفت مقبول إلى أن اللقاء بين الحركتين سيركز بشكل أساسي في معالجة ملفات المصالحة، وإزالة أي عقبات تعترض طريق الوحدة الوطنية .

وكان فيصل أبو شهلا، القيادي في حركة "فتح" كشف في تصريح سابق لـ"الرسالة نت"، عن تقدم في الاتصالات التي تجري بين حركتي "فتح وحماس" حول ملفات المصالحة الداخلية، مؤكداً أن القطيعة بين الحركتين انتهت تماماً.

ويعد اجتماع حماس وفتح المرتقب في القاهرة، الأول منذ عقد حكومة التوافق بكامل أعضائها قبل أسبوعين تقريباً، أول اجتماع لها في قطاع غزة منذ تأسيسها في مطلع حزيران/ يونيو الماضي.

ويرأس الوفد الخماسي المشكل من حركة "فتح"، عزام الاحمد وجبريل الرجوب ومحمود العالول وحسين الشيخ وصخر بسيسو.

واتفقت الحركتين على تنفيذ بنود اتفاق المصالحة الأخير كافة الذي وقع عليه في نيسان/أبريل الماضي، وتجاوز جميع العقبات التي اعترضت تطبيقه.

الرسالة نت - نادر الصفدي

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Because overclocking is not something that comes naturally to everyone, getting a little help is always appreciated. Steven Bassiri over at Tweak Town was nice enough to put together an OC guide of the new Intel Core i7 5960X Extreme Edition on X99 platform. The best bit about is that it was made on a GIGABYTE X99-SOC FORCE motherboard :)

So there you have it, a well explained way to adjust your BIOS settings in order to get more juice out of that CPU’s 8 cores!

http://www.tweaktown.com/guides/6755/intel-core-i7-5960x-extreme-edition-s-spec-qfra-cpu-overclocking-guide/index.html

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Only a couple of weeks after the end of the GIGABYTE Z97 Pentium AE Challenge, GIGABYTE has the honor to launch a new overclocking competition with the GIGABYTE TARGET OC. This time around, instead of asking the OC community to break records and reach for the ultimate limits, we selected a few benchmarks with some specific scores that participants will have to try to match perfectly. Some precise system tweaking will be in order!

Overclocking is not only about pushing the limits of your hardware, it is also about mastering the skills needed to tweak all aspects of your system to achieve the performance that you want. In this challenge we will also give you an opportunity to showcase your overclocking and downclocking skills. With TARGET OC, GIGABYTE decided to have some fun with selection of the target scores and chose some epic world records back in the day as well as some super bad scores to see how well you can tune your system to the level of performance of old time greats and super bad overclocks of today. By trying to hit every scores set, we are hoping the participants will have fun trying to search the perfect setting for the perfect score.

Contest Stages

STAGE 1: XTU

• Target score: 159 marks
• We challenge you to match the worst Pentium G3258 XTU score on HWBOT (link)
• Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, October 19th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

STAGE 2: HWBOT PRIME

• Target score: 2967.55 pps
• We challenge you to match the worst Pentium G3258 HWBOT Prime score on HWBOT (link)
• Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, October 26th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

STAGE 3: 3DMARK05

• Target score: 30257 marks
• We challenge you to match an epic world record from 2007 set by a legendary US overclocker OPPAINTER (link)
• Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, November 2nd at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

STAGE 4: SUPER PI 32M

• Target score: 20min27sec570ms
• We challenge you to match an epic world record from 2006 set by a legendary US overclocker bachus_anonym (link)
• Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, November 9th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

STAGE 5: CATZILLA 720P

• Target score: 1938 marks
• We challenge you to match a 2000th ranked score on HWBOT in Catzilla 720p (link)
• Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, November 16th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

A lot is on the line too! The winner of each stage will be rewarded a nice $400 USD. But that’s not all, in an effort to have everyone from different level of overclocking join, we’ve included 5 awesome lucky draw prizes, including two X99-SOC FORCE, a Z97N-Gaming 5, a Z97N-Gaming WIFI and a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2!! All you have to do is submit your score in at least 4 out of the 5 stages and you will be automatically entered to win.

    For all the rules and details, visit: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_targetoc

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Last week was the end of the  GIGABYTE Z97 - Pentium AE Beat the Heat Challenge, an overclocking competition organized by GIGABYTE and hosted on www.hwbot.org. After verification of all submissions, we are happy to announce the winners!

This challenge was divided into 5 stages and invited the overclocking community to push the limits of the recently launched Intel Pentium AE processor on any GIGABYTE Z97 series motherboard.

Here are the winners:

Stage	Benchmark	Winner	Prize
Stage 1	XTU	nvidiaforever2	USD $500 for 1st place
Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5	HWBOT Prime SuperPI 32M Memory Clock CPU Frequency	1: DFORDOG (78 pts) 2: Yin92 (69 pts) 3: ZeR0_Dan (46 pts)	1st: USD $1,000 + Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 2nd: USD $500 3rd: Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard
Lucky Draw #1		Hotrod717	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #2		Nelson	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #3		Bullshooter	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #4		Stubass	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #5		Joe90br	G-Powerboard kit

Also worth of mention is DFORDOG Global First  Place score on the HWBOT Prime 2xCPU http://hwbot.org/submission/2623715

And DINOS22 SuperPi 32M Hardware First Place! http://hwbot.org/submission/2627043

Congratulations to all winners and thanks to all participants for joining this challenge!

See you soon at the next comp!!

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One thing that you need to look at very closely before buying a new motherboard for your next PC DIY project is the onboard available connectivity. Having the latest connectivity such as SATA Express, M.2 or event Thunderbolt™ support means that you will not be left behind in terms of fast transfer speed or upgrades with the latest technology.

Next Generation SATA Express Connector

GIGABYTE X99 series motherboards feature an onboard SATA Express connector which provides performance far superior to that of current SATA technologies. SATA Express features data transfer rates of up to 10Gb/s, considerably higher than SATA Revision 3 (6Gb/s), which won’t bottleneck faster NAND flash technologies in cutting edge SSDs. SATA Express combines the benefits of PCI-Express and SATA to provide much higher bandwidth, allowing SATA Express based drives to perform at similar speeds as PCI-Express based drives.

Dual M.2 Technology with Onboard WIFI and Bluetooth 4.0

GIGABYTE X99 motherboards with Dual M.2 technology provides users PCI-Express connectivity for SSD devices and onboard 11AC WIFI + Bluetooth 4.0. Delivering up to 10 Gb/s data transfer speeds, M.2 offers considerably faster storage performance than current mSATA and even SATA Revision 3 (6Gb/s) storage devices. GIGABYTE’s stacked design optimizes the PCB real-estate usage, allowing more components to be efficiently added without compromising any space.

Turbo M.2 Technology

GIGABYTES X99 SOC motherboards feature a Turbo M.2 socket to provide compact connectivity for SSD devices. Thanks to the unique design from the X99 chipset, 4 PCIe (Gen.2) lanes can be allocated to the M.2 socket, unlocking up to 20 Gb/s of bandwidth.

Thunderbolt™ Ready

GIGABYTE X99 brings the expandability needed to make your system the ultimate one with an onboard pin header to accommodate the addition of a GIGABYTE Thunderbolt™ add-in card. The Thunderbolt™ controller can provide bandwidth of up to 20 Gb/s, compared to a max of 10 Gb/s on previous generation designs. This allows for incredible data transfer speeds when using high performance storage devices, while also supporting daisy-chaining of up to 12 devices and triple digital display support.

Here is a quick presentation video on the available connectivity mentioned above for the GIGABYTE X99 series motherboards.

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With every new line up of motherboards from GIGABYTE, an OC Guide is made to help the users push the stock limits of their systems. X99 series is no exception to this rule. Coming straight from the OC Lab, here is the GIGABYTE X99-OC Guide made by the famous Soffos1990.
 

Features

 

OC PCIe Switch:

Allows the user to disable individual PCI-E slots. This is especially useful for PCIe diagnostic when it is difficult to remove the PCIe cards with cooling apparatus installed on. Also, you will notice that there are 4 LED lights, one for each PCI-E slot. If the PCIe card installed in the slot is working without a problem, then the LEDs stays on.

 

OC Ignition:

Provides power to DIMMs slots, PCIe slots and peripheral devices even when the system is off. This feature is a GIGABYTE exclusive and provides many hidden benefits to users. First of all you can test not only the PSU to make sure it properly works, but also any voltage modifications on your graphics cards, water cooling systems, case mods and fans (Virtually anything that requires the board or PSU to provide power to can be engaged). It is especially useful during cold bug situations when you need a fan to run 24/7 to keep condensation at bay. It also can be used to provide continuous power to the PCIe/PCI based RAM cards that lose memory when they are powered off.

 

OC Tag:

Allows user to set specific BIOS profile which is engaged when OC Tag is engaged, this is useful because you can save your OC profile for benching to TAG, and use TAG instead of inputting your settings. This makes it easy to remove the settings if you need to troubleshoot and even easier to re-apply them when needed.

 

OC Turbo:

Easy one touch auto-OC feature from GIGABYTE (~4.2ghz OC depending on CPU SKU).

 

OC BCLK/Multiplier +/- buttons:

Real-time overclocking of BCLK and multiplier

 

OC Gear:

Reduces BCLK +/- button steps from 1mhz to ~0.1mhz

 

OC Trigger Switch:

When engaged can reduce system Uncore and CPU ratio to 8x on the fly, this is useful for maximum validations for CPU speed. An example of getting to 7 GHz; you boot in at 6.5 GHz, then increase the multiplier by 1x with OC Touch, but your system becomes unstable quickly. Instead of waiting for instability, you can instead engage the trigger switch (CPU now at 8x), increase the multiplier with OC Touch, and then re-engage high multiplier(dis-engage TRG switch), and you will get to your top multiplier, save a validation, and then engage trigger switch again and complete the procedure again.

 

Dual BIOS Switch:

Select between main and backup BIOS, you can flash one with an official build and the other with an OC BIOS.

 

Single BIOS Mode switch:

Disables dual BIOS when enabled to allow faster boot-up and OC recovery, since the main and backup are both checked on boot up, disabling dual BIOS will disable this checking and link between the BIOS ROMs.

 

GIGABYTE Settings Lock:

Will restore previously known good values to CMOS settings, this can be used in lieu of clear CMOS.
DTB: Direct to BIOS button allows users to bypass pressing delete to enter the UEFI setup, it can save time.

GIGABYTE Memory Safe

Will engage fail-safe memory settings in case you think your memory settings are causing issues.

Temp Sensor Port

More and more overclockers are using 2 probes (one on the CPU LN2 pot and one touching the CPU HIS) to check the temperature of their CPU. This allows you to check if the thermal paste you are using is still in good condition or not. You don’t need to have 2 thermometers to do this from now on!

Voltages

Advanced Power Settings

 

CPU VRIN Loadline Calibration:

This is the LLC for the VRIN and has many levels, but Extreme is recommended for most OC scenarios.

CPU VRIN Protection:

Overvoltage protection for the VRIN, set to highest amount of overvolt, or just leave auto.

DDR Voltage Protection:

Overvoltage protection for the DDR, set to highest amount of overvolt, or just leave auto.

 

CPU VRIN Current Protection:

This is overcurrent protection for the VRIN, set Extreme (which means least protection and highest current).

 

DDR Current Protection:

This is overcurrent protection for the DDR, set Extreme (which means least protection and highest current).

 

Over temperature protection for CPU VRIN and DDR:

Not currently available right now.

 

CPU and DDR Switch Rate:

This is the switching frequency of the CPU VRIN and DDR VRMs, this setting has minimal effect on performance or power delivery, that is because you can only change it between 300-400KHz, which is very minimal (to protect from user damage). Lower will produce cooler running VRMs, higher will produce higher performance VRMs, just leave it in auto.

 

PWM Phase Control:

This controls the balance of temperature and current in the VRM, Extreme performance will give you the best performance, and that is what you want when overclocking.

CPU OC

Disable all the CPU features that you don’t really need (C1E, C3, C6 etc).
Start with the CPU multiplier. I would recommend you to start with 40x. The bios will auto-set higher voltages for VRIN and VCore so you don’t have to worry about them at the moment. Check if your system can boot. If it can’t boot then start raising the CPU Vcore from 1.2V and the VRIN from 1.9V. Once you are able to boot in the OS you can use Prime95 or XTU CPU stress test to check if your CPU is stable at these setting, if not you can raise the voltages according to the maximum values below. Repeat this procedure until you find the maximum CPU clocks that your CPU runs stable at. Make sure to always keep an eye on the temperature and have the CPU-Z application always opened so you can watch for throttling.

Setting	Air(max)	LN2(max)	Effect
VRIN Override	2	2.6	Stabilizes CPU and Uncore OC
Vcore	1.3	1.7	CPU OC stabilization
Vring	1.3	1.6	Uncore and CPU OC stabilization
System Agent	0.45	0.6	Memory and BCLK OC stabilization
PCH Voltage	1.25	1.25	BCLK OC stabilization
PCH IO Voltage			BCLK OC stabilization
DRAM Voltage	1.5	1.5	DRAM OC stabilization
DRAM VPP Voltage	2.8	2.8	DRAM OC stabilization
DRAM VTT			Memory stabilization. Half of DRAM Voltage

  

 

Memory OC

Set a lower multiplier for the CPU and Uncore (20x). If you want to reach the highest memory frequency that your setup can reach then it’s better to change the BCLK strap to 125x or 166x. These straps will give you more room to overclock your memories. Try to boot as high as you can raising the BCLK frequency from the BIOS. DDR4 is a new product so the specs are new too. Usually you will be able to get your maximum memory clocks at 1.4-1.5. The System Agent will help you to go higher; you can start by using +0.25V. Also, the VPP voltage might help you to gain some stability at higher clocks. Once you find the memory speed your setup can do, start lowering the timings. You can check if your memories are stable using programs like Memtest or HyperPi. Start trying from 96 BCLK on the 125x strap and find the highest BCLK you can boot your OS at, then use GTL to go higher. You can also use the XMP profiles to overclock your memories and your whole system.

3000 C12-13-14-15-1T with 1.6V and Corsair 3200C16 memories:

Software

GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher

This is the best piece of software GIGABYTE makes for extreme overclocking; it is built to be light, fast, efficient, and respectable. This software works by changing the input values in real time either through integrated clock generators or through BIOS controlled voltage regulators to provide quick alterations to system parameters while in the Windows environment. GTL is currently available for XP as well as Windows 7 and 8, however in XP BCLK control might be tough since Intel discontinued Intel ME (management Engine) driver support for XP. You can still try to install Intel ME Drivers and find a hack.

GTL Frequency:

You can change the BCLK, CPU and Uncore parameters on the fly, (CLR Clk = Uncore Frequency)

 

GTL Voltage:

Typical voltages, however you might notice DRAM Sync option. Usually VDDR_T (DDRVTT or DRAM termination voltage) is half of the DDR Voltage, however when overclocking it might be necessary to increase or decrease the termination voltage separately from the DRAM voltage. DRAM Sync allows you to choose whether the VDDR_T will increase and decrease with the VDDR or whether it will stay at what you set it while you increase or decrease DRAM Voltage. This is a very cool feature to boost memory overclocking capabilities.

 

GTL Hotkeys:

Something new you might also notice is the Hot Key (HK) settings which allow you to choose hotkeys to load certain settings or increase/decrease certain parameters on the fly.

 

Note:

For GTL and/or EasyTune to work with BCLK and Multiplier adjustment in Windows, it is imperative to install the Intel^® ME Driver (Intel^® Management Engine).

 

EasyTune

EasyTune is GIGABYTE’s answer to in-Windows overclocking for those who are not at ease to overclock from the BIOS. You can control everything you need for overclocking, and EasyTune allows you to do something GTL doesn’t; your settings can be retained after reboot which means you don’t have to go into the BIOS to OC or redo your OC every time you reboot into Windows.
 

MemTweak

This is the latest version of MemTweak. On DDR4s you can change most of the timings in Windows. This is the most simple, easy and fast way to do it. MemTweak also allows you to save and load the profiles you created, this will prevent you from having to change all the timings over and over again. The timings that are greyed out cannot be changed.
 

World Records

Since the launch of the Haswell-E CPU and X99 platform at IDF 2014, GIGABYTE claimed several World Records and Top Scores. Here are some of them.

 

XTU 8-Cores

http://hwbot.org/submission/2629204
 

Cinebench R15 8-Cores

http://hwbot.org/submission/2634438
 

WPrime 1024M 8-Cores

http://hwbot.org/submission/2634295

Catzilla 720P with 1x GTX 980

http://hwbot.org/submission/2637628

 

XTU 6-Cores

http://hwbot.org/submission/2631555



































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Soooooooooo, Windows 10 is out in beta. Microsoft is providing downloads (tech preview).

I’m about to install it on a test machine to see what it’s all about.

Download link for ISOs is here.

Check out the video about it all!

Who’s excited?

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