Get your 15 minutes of fame at HWBOT today!

HWBOT just reported about the new 3DMARK being released and some early rush from enthusiasts to get their name up on the Hall of Fame. For those of you who are unaware, Futuremark released its new benchmark called 3DMARK. Errrrrr, where’s the rest of the name? There is a FireStorm mentioned in one of the videos but they seem to be calling it 3DMARK. Seems they are following Apple’s recent naming schemes. I’m not sure how popular that naming is seeing Android is taking over everywhere these days.

UK overclocker Tonester0011 seems to be enjoying his few moments of fame at the moment with the highest score set on HWBOT’s Hall of Fame with an AMD Radeon HD 7970 and GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H. Congrats Tonester0011 lol!

With the new 3DMark just launched a couple hours ago, it is a great chance for the quick benchers in this community to grab #1 rank in the Hall of Fames. Tonester0011 from the UK took that opportunity to become one of the first leaders of our 3DMark Fire Strike Hall of Fame ranking, effectively getting fifteen minutes of fame. Nicely done!

To check out the HWBOT 3DMark Fire Strike Hall Of Fame, check here: click.

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First Sneak Peek at GIGABYTE X99 Series

There it is! Unless this picture is shared around before I can write the end of this post, here and our Facebook page are the first two places on the Internet where you can get an exclusive look at GIGABYTE’s new motherboard, the X99.

Be ready, X99 is coming soon!

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TeamAU HiCookie and G Skill crew break 3DMARK05 world record live on stage at Computex GSkill booth!

G.Skill put on another fantastic OC show during Computex and had GIGABYTE over on Friday to do some overclocking live. TeamAU was there with dinos22 and youngpro. HiCookie, hiwa and Christian Ney were also present for a day of fun and a very late world record minutes before the venue pulled the power plug on a high clocking Z87X-OC rig and GTX Titans.

Boys from TeamAU, HiCookie and G.Skill crew managed to take the 3DMARK05 world record live on stage with some help from the new Intel Haswell platform and the new Z87X-OC board and dual Titan GPUs.

You can enjoy all the photos and videos over at G.Skill page!

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Video GIGABYTE introduce 8 series Thunderbolt and G1 Killer boards at IDF 2013

Colin and the gang from the US office headed to San Francisco earlier this week to attend IDF 2013. By the looks of things he ran into our buddies from TweakTown who were keen to get an early look at a few of the newer boards were showcasesing at the event, including the newly launched Z87X-UD5 TH board plus the forthcoming Z87X-UD7 TH – both featuring dual Thunderbolt ports.

Check out the video below and you’ll also get a sneak preview of our forthcoming G1-Killer G1. Assassin 3 motherboard which is based on the X79 platform and boasts a plethora of new audio features including USB DAC-UP and upgradable OP-Amps.

TweakTown

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GIGABYTE G1 Sniper 3 Editor’s Choice at AnandTech

AnandTech chief motherboard reviewer, Ian Cutress, just published an exhaustive appraisal of a several Z77 boards designed with multi-GPU configurations in mind. It’s great to see the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper 3, our flagship Intel Z77 gaming motherboard, pull ahead of the pack with a perfect storm of features, performance and value for money – claiming the prestigious Bronze Editor’s Choice award along the way.Here’s a taste of what Ian had to say;

“It is easy to recommend the Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 – for the price it provides the performance, the functionality and the extras in the box that a user needs.  Somehow Gigabyte has been able to undercut the competition to good effect, and passing this good value package onto consumers.

With this in mind, I would like to give the Gigabyte G1.Sniper 3 the AnandTech Editors Choice Bronze Award.  For price, performance, and the sense of a good value package, the G1.Sniper 3 offers one of the best price competitive PLX PEX 8747 packages available today.”

 

You can catch the full and comprehensive review on Anandtech.com here.

More details about the GIAGBYTE G1.Sniper 3 can be found on our product page here.

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Bust a rhyme competition under way at OCAU check out what hilarious Aussies are rhyming about!!!

OCAU (Overclockers Australia) is putting on a show with a serious(ly funny) bust-a-rhymes competition as TeamAU prepares to tour New Zealand and then Melbourne with their highly popular GIGABYTE Extreme OC Workshop.

The real fun started already with forum members bustin’ some serious rhymes to win a motherboard. This is going to be a corker so make sure you visit the thread every day for new posts! I hear some videos will also appear later tonight.

TeamAU is a group of killer overclockers from Austral-Asian region travelling the Australia and New Zealand and sharing their wealth of experience in LN2 benching. This time round they are making two stops with GIGABYTE. First stop is Auckland, New Zealand. Playtech is the host of this show. Monash University in Melbourne’s host. For more details follow this LINK.

Hardware of choice is GIGABYTE’s record breaking Z77 range and Intel 3770K Ivy Bridge CPUs.

This year we are looking at livestreams as well and some interesting competitions to spice things up a bit during the workshop. I will update the blog when the first event kicks off!. In the meantime keep an eye on one of the funniest threads you will read http://forums.overclockers.com.au/showthread.php?t=1036929.

Don’t miss it!

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Blunty3000 shows off goodies at GIGABYTE PAXAU booth on YouTube

You guys should check out this awesome video from PAX Australia with GIGABYTE booth having all sorts of crazy things going on including a liquid nitrogen show, watercooled gaming rigs and a lot of awesome gaming laptops about to be released. The liquid nitrogen rig got some sweet camera work but I loved the dramatic introduction to this video, hahah. It’s awesome!

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Coin operated PCs at Internet café’s in the Philippines

A very enjoyable part of my job is to travel from city to city after a new product announcement evangelizing our new tech. So I’m in the Philippines now and we just saw some cases for sale that have a coin slot where the DVD ROM should be. They are for Internet cafes where 1 Philippine Peso (2-3 US cents or less than 1NT$) will get you 3-5 minutes of time on the PC.

 

The coin slot device has a little daughter board with a timer on it that cuts power to the keyboard, monitor and mouse when time runs out. So the PC keeps running, you just can’t see or change anything without putting in more money. My first thought was that it must be a waste of time because who could possibly make money at those ridiculously low rates, but then it started to make sense to me because if it was more expensive only vacationers would use the service. With a population of around 95 million people, 1 Peso for 3 minutes means that a vast majority of the population can afford to access the Internet. It’s brilliant!

These coin operated PCs can be found in Internet cafes as well as convenience stores where the shop owner benefits from profit sharing. So if you’re ever in the Philippines and see one of these strange looking systems, toss in a coin because you’d be driving small business that allows under privileged young people to access and experience the wonders of the Internet.

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Bust a rhyme competition going off at OCAU!

Here are a couple of recent youtube videos bustin’ rhymes to win a GIGABYTE Z77X-UD3H.

You fancy yourself as a bit of a bust-a-rhyme star, join in the fun at OCAU! Language warning!

Trans am from XtremeSystems rappin’ with the sounds of AC/DC, awesome!

UncleFester from OCAU bustin’ a rhyme.

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