In the current of last month, GIGABYTE launched a caption contest on their Facebook page GIGABYTE Motherboard Tech Column. From a picture of Dino22, HiCookie and Sofos1990 taken during the GSKILL OC World Cup 2014 Final competition at Computex 2014, participants were asked to submit a funny caption to have the chance to win a GIABYTE Z97X-UD5H motherboard.

We would like to send our congratulations to Gary Smith, whom with the below submission, won the Facebook Caption Contest!

Thanks to everyone who participated and all your great submissions.

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Yes, that's right. Sofos1990 has beaten an already insane memory frequency world record with a frequency of 2310.1 (DDR3-4620).

GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard was the board of choice once again. Kingston HyperX MFR ICs were the memories used.

For all those doubting Thomases, the result was validated at HWBOT.ORG
http://hwbot.org/submission/2573743_sofos1990_memory_clock_ddr3_sdram_2310.1_mhz

Here is also a video with an oscilloscope verifying a DDR3-4560 frequency

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Ian Cutress from Anandtech took the new GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force for a spin and gave it a very detailed review. A must read!

Check it out here!

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Yes it’s finally Friday and this crazy week is drawing to an end! 

Make sure you have your submissions in for the caption contest. We already have over 100 submissions!!
You have until 12pm on Sunday, June 30th (Eastern Daylight Time) to make put in your best caption in the comment section of the FB post. Cool material on the line with an Z97X-UD5H motherboard!

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The guys over at Computer Lounge, New Zealand, make some sweet custom made liquid cooled PCs. This time they used the GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force motherboard and it looks stunning. Give them some love on their FB page!

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A mate of mine from Romania, Monstru, runs a famous tech website called Lab501 and loves his oveclocking. He’s paid Taipei a visit this year during Computex 2014 and felt compelled to write about all the overclocking events during and after the show. He noticed a lot of changes with this special hobby in the last 5 years. Monstru is no stranger to overclocking, nor is his team mate Matose who was the GOOC 2010 world wide champion. These guys are my old school OC mates and did a stellar job covering all the craziness. Monstru also speculated what we might see in the future, more professional OC scene, bigger and better things to come. Jump over to Lab501 to read more about it. We overclock and drink beer (&arm wrestle too!)

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To celebrate its new custom made skin on the Catzilla 720P benchmark, GIGABYTE is inviting the overclocking community to participate in GIGABYTE CATZILLA OC Contest. Open to all HWBOT members from June 23^rd 2014 until July 21^st 2014, GIGABYTE invites all Overclockers to suit up for one epic cat fight using any hardware platform on a 9 Series GIGABYTE motherboard.
Contest Prizes
· Air/Water cooling stage:

Winner gets $500 in cash and a GIGABYTE Z97X-UD5H

· LN2 cooling stage:

Winner gets $500 in cash and a GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2

· Lucky draw (To be held on June 27^th, July 4^th, July 11^th and July 18^th)

Winner gets a GIGABYTE T-Shirt

For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest page hosted on HWBOT.org:
http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_z97_catzilla

Also, don’t miss out Catzilla’s summer sale on the Catzilla Advanced benchmark, you have until July 1st!
http://store.steampowered.com/app/261920/

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