Hicookie tops the charts in 3DMARK05 & 06 on X58A-UD9

Hicookie, Taiwanese overclocker extraordinaire, has set his sights on 3DMARK05 & 3DMARK06. He broke the World Records with the new X58A-UD9 motherboard. The new records jumped to 60775 ('05) and 46920 ('06).

Congrats hicookie!

GO OC Australia 2010 Online Competition is over, youngpro tops the table!

GO OC Australia 2010 online competition is over!

Four extreme overclockers have made it through to the Sydney 15th May live final.

Congratulations to youngpro, Uncle Fester, booj and bob(nz) on their fantastic effort and see you in Sydney.

If you would like to register to be a spectator it's still not too late. Jump on this site and RSVP today: http://gooc2010.gigabyte.com.au/rsvp.aspx

News: GIGABYTE Claims Title of No. 1 USB 3.0 Motherboard Brand!

We were very excited to hear on Tuesday this week that the GIGABYTE GA-870A-UD3 motherboard has just become the first motherboard for the AMD platform to be SuperSpeed USB certified by the USB-IF. There are a number of GIGABYTE USB 3.0 motherboards listed on the the SuperSpeed USB Compliance Web page (more than 3 times as many as any other brand in fact), but these have all been for the Intel platform. It might not be too surprising for GIGABYTE to be first with an AMD SuperSpeed USB certified board because we were also first to market with AMD USB 3.0 motherboards (and Intel for that matter).

In our press release yesterday we mentioned all the ‘USB 3.0 firsts’ that GIGABYTE has achieved because we feel that SuperSpeed USB is, and will continue to be, a very important feature for 2010 and even half way into 2011 while it is still not part of any chipset from Intel or AMD. As soon as it’s integrated into the chipset every brand will have it and it will become just another check-off item for PC upgraders. The NEC USB 3.0 controller chip is still the only certified chip available, and therefore the cost is still relatively high so most motherboard vendors will only use it on a very select few models.

At GIGABYTE we believe that we’re in the middle of the Windows 7 upgrade cycle and so there is no better time to implement USB 3.0! USB has awesome brand appeal – even my mom knows what a USB port looks like and where to attach it to her PC – and anyone upgrading their PC is going to opt for USB 3.0 over USB 2.0, if the price delta isn’t too exorbitant that is. This is why we now have 33 models of USB 3.0 motherboards that stretch from the Intel X58 down to even the G41(yes, there is a USB 3.0 option even for our entry level models) and from the AMD 890FX down to the 785G chipset.

So if you’re in the market for a new USB 3.0 motherboard, don’t look any further than the No.1 brand in USB 3.0 platforms.

GA-X58A-UD3R Earns Tom’s Hardware 2010 Recommended Buy

Tom’s Hardware recently compared several X58 boards for their latest round-up: X58 In 2010: Four LGA 1366 Boards With USB 3.0 And SATA 6Gb/ with the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R earning the coveted top spot with 2010 Recommended Buy award.

Gigabyte’s X58A-UD3R has nearly as many onboard features as its “big brother,” but costs around $150 less. The X58A-UD3R even offers more features than Asus’ mid-priced P6X58D-E, for a price roughly equal to ASRock’s lower-cost model. With consideration for the price premium that normally accompanies X58-based products, we simply haven’t seen a motherboard value this good since November of last year. That level of value earns the X58A-UD3R an award.

To read the full Tom’s Hardware review, please visit HERE.

Monstru makes GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 go 4WAY SLI in Romania

GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 is the most feature rich motherboard created by the manufacturer to date. One such feature which separates it from the crowds too is 4WAY SLI. 4WAY SLI is one of those rare features that are very important to EXTREME overclockers and very high end gaming or production machines.

Monstru, tech writer from Lab501 in Romania by day and extreme overclocker by night, decided to have a play with the UD9 in 4WAY SLI GTX480 and the initial results are pretty impressive. I can't wait to see what he gets when the CPU gets pushed to 5.6GHz+

Check out the story on XtremeSystems and Romanian Lab501 website review

GIGABYTE Continues to Serve Up Dell Orders

Digitimes has an interesting article today reporting that GIGABYTE is expected to receive more server orders from Dell for the second half of 2010. The volumes must be significant, as Digitimes concludes this would make GIGABYTE the 3rd largest server maker in the world.

They also mentioned our launch of AMD 800 series chipset-based motherboards for which they got a first hand look at our press event last week. For more info on GIGABYTE 800 series motherboards, please visit HERE.

GO OC RSA results are in – Vivi’s going to Jakarta!

Congratulations to Vivi (aka Goddy Roodt) who won the South African qualifier of the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC), and will represent his country in Jakarta Indonesia in the Pan Asia and Africa regional final. DrWeeZ and Deadmeat were 2nd and 3rd respectively with Seraphs and The Dee also taking home some of the prizes on offer.

The benchmarks used were SuperPi 1M, PiFast, Wprime 32m and Maxxmem – a very CPU + motherboard-centric competition in other words. The event was hosted on the prophecy.co.za forums; more details about the rules of the event can be found on the GO OC RSA event web page and the scores are available from the results web page.

Congratulations (again) to all the winners en Goddy ons wens vir jou alle voorspoed toe vir die res van die kompetitiesie.