Get the most from Sandy Bridge E Introducing the sin0822 Overclocking Guide

Power user sin0822 is back on the overclocking guide trail again and this time he’s talking Sandy Bridge-E. So if you’ve invested in a brand spanking new GIGABYTE X79 series motherboard to go with your new Intel i7 processor, or maybe you’ve been a good boy or girl and Santa dropped one off last weekend - either way make sure you take a look at this guide. It gives you a step by step help with overclocking on both air and liquid cooling, plus a whole lot more including in-depth advice on everything from component choices to voltage reading.

You can find the guide on both xtremesystems.org and overclock.net

Enjoy! Cheers Sin…

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TeamAU attend Atomic’s Perfect PC giveaway and do some overclocking also freeze a Samsung smartphone with LN2

Atomic Magazine in Australia held its last event and gave away a perfect PC with a host of cool hardware including GIGABYTE Sniper 3 gaming board. TeamAU was in attendance with some overclocking and freezing of other stuff, namely some grapes, apples, pizza slices and a Samsung smartphone which was captured on video.

The boys also managed to pickup a global #3 3DMARK06 score with a GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7, 3770K CPU clocked at 6.55GHz and a pair of 5970 GPUs!

Yup, a Samsung smartphone was frozen with liquid nitrogen and torched for good measure, epic!

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GIGABYTE EOC Overclocking Live this Friday August 8 on twitch

If you are free this Friday, August 8, you should definitely tune in to Overclocking-TV’s twitch channel as Massman and Xyala will host a live stream of the GIGABYTE EOC competition taking place in Germany. The stream will start at 10AM (GMT+1), make sure you time this right with your local time zone.

This event has been put together by Der8auer in partnership with GIGABYTE. A total of 6 German overclocking teams will compete during 5 hours, benching through CPU-Z, XTU, SuperPi 32M and Memory clock. To do so, the participants will be using the following hardware:

• CPU: Intel Core i7-4790K
• Motherboard: GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC Force LN2
• VGA: GIGABYTE HD7790
• Memory: Kingston (probably MFR)
• SSD: Kingston
• PSU: Seasonic (probably 1200 W)

Ho yeah, some live overclocking on the Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2! With this motherboard the participants should be able to get exciting and fierce benching results!

Some useful links:

To watch the event on live this Friday on twitch: http://www.twitch.tv/overclockingtv

Facebook event page: https://www.facebook.com/events/334610616703599/

For more details about the event: http://www.overclocking-tv.com/content/events/21752/livestream-gigabyte-eoc-2014-in-germany/

The HWBOT competition page for all rules: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_eoc_2014/

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