Gigabyte's Cloud OC App Uses Netbooks to Tweak Performance

At Computex we gave a sneak preview of Cloud OC; a ground breaking software application that allows you to keep an eye on your system settings (fan speeds, CPU & memory temps, voltages, etc…) while running any of the 3DMark benchmarks that automatically run in full screen mode. It also allows you to tweak your system settings while you run the benchmark and even restart, shut down, suspend or hibernate your system after benching. I think the key advantage with this app is actually that you can fiddle with the settings without activating your keyboard or mouse. Theoretically, any keyboard or mouse activation requires a little interference with the OS, and any interference during a benchmark is not preferable.

Enough about that, here’s a short video from Nicole (She Geek) at netbooknews.com, that explains how Cloud OC works and what it does. Stay tuned for more about Cloud OC because the launch is going to be very soon! 

Week 6 Winner of a GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 Motherboard

Yet another week of Searching for GIGABYTE’s #1 Biggest Fan has gone by and the search has not yet come to an end. We have several awesome motherboards still waiting to give away, so make sure to keep pace with us and invite your friends to be a GIGABYTE Motherboard Fan. As for last week’s winner, congratulations to Steve Ng from the Lion City – Singapore. Congrats Steve, you have won a brand new GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 motherboard!

The question for Week 6 was: Which GIGABYTE motherboard you have used before for overclocking? What are your best techniques you've used for overclocking by "air-cooling", and what will be the new overclocking features that you will like to see next on GIGABYTE motherboards?

It was a tough call for us to decide the winner for this week, as you all have lots of brilliant ideas to cool off the CPU by “air-cooling”. We have received lots of great comments from you all, thanks everyone!

So, let's take a look at our winner Steve’s best techniques for overclocking.

I had the Gigabyte GA-X48T-DQ6 for the past 2 years and it is still serving me very well - i meant OC'ed state.

That was the time when Intel X48 chipset was introduced and what caught me in the eye was the colourful GA-X48T-DQ6. Can you imagine having a motherboard with pink and lime green DDR-3 dual-channel? I DO!!

I bought the Intel C2Q9450 and packed it with 8GB (4x2GB) DDR-3 from OCZ. The fun began when I put everything together, considering every details, to be OverClocked!!
- Good Chassis with 500W 80PLUS PSU
- Arctic Silver 3 Heatsink-CPU Compound spread thinly and evenly on the C2Q
- Intel-branded Air-Cooler
- A handful of high-performance low-noise 80-mm FANs to suck in cool air and gush out the hot air
- Ensuring as little clutter as possible surrounding the board, CPU and RAM

The best part is the trial and error is pushing the system to the limit without breaking.... first OC the CPU, then Memory, then GPU... then again the same cycle... lots of experimenting for the best application performance.

It's like a delicate operation.... when it hang, my heart also missed a beat.... so exciting in achieving the extra MHz out of my investments.

When Win XP boots up nice and next comes the stress tests to ensure that it is stable and rock solid.... almost a weekend effort to achieve this incredible stun.

If I get a new Gigabyte Motherboard, I'll be spending another weekend doing what I once did 2+ years ago.

Oh yes, new features..... hmmm... I like the 2-oz Copper Board - much needed for stability, over-clocking, reliability, better power-efficiency, etc, and also software like Smart-6 which makes overclocking and testing much easier and convenient.

Go Gigabyte - You are the BEST !!!

We are sure that you will be spending several weekends enjoying this new H55N-UB3 motherboard, Steve.

If you did not win this week's H55N-USB3 or have just learned about our Search for GIGABYTE’s #1 Biggest Fan event don't worry, we still have a lot of boards to give away including 3 GIGABYTE X58 motherboards, as well as the grand prize of a trip to Taiwan for GO OC 2010. So, keep coming back each week for the win! Visit facebook.com/GIGABYTEmotherboards to enter!

10 out of 10, says NAG Tech Editor, Neo Sibeko, about X58A-UD9 board

We've talked about the X58A-UD9 board a fair bit in our blog. It's a board that is clearly impressing overclockers, powerusers and editors all around the globe. I thought I should show one such example from a well known South African publication having a look at UD9.

Somewhere between feedback received from overclockers, the legendary HiCookie, the engineering team and all in between at GIGABYTE, we are possibly looking at the greatest motherboard ever made for any platform.

The ultimate in X58 performance will be found with the X58A-UD9 and if there’s a motherboard that can stand up to it, we’d like to see and try it. Until then, this is the most powerful motherboard we have tested ever.
Neo Sibeko

OverclockingTV release the Go OC Pan Asia 2010 video

OverclockingTV just put up a video "blog" of our GOOC 2010 Pan Asia competition in Jakarta, Indonesia held in mid-June.

HD Video Link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dXh0zYoR2uk&fmt=22

Video of GIGABYTE press conference at Computex 2010

For those of you who couldn’t make it to the GIGABYTE press conference during Computex 2010, Overclocking-TV has just uploaded a comprehensive summary of the event with all the important announcements from Henry Kao (Senior VP of global sales and marketing at GIGABYTE), Zane Ball (General Manager Desktop Platforms Division at Intel), Chris Tobias (Director, Worldwide Product Marketing at Intel) and me (Tim Handley).

Henry discussed his vision of making GIGABYTE the No. 1 motherboard brand in the world through hardware/software innovation, performance leadership and the best quality in the industry. Zane and Chris talked about Intel’s desktop CPU ideology and their growing focus on the high-performance desktop PC platform. The last section from me covers GIGABYTE’s leadership in the P55 and H55 chipset space where the new Unlocked CPUs from Intel are targeted, as well as introductions to GIGABYTE Unlocked Power (1500W to the CPU), Hotkey OC (demo from Hicookie),Cloud OC (demo from Rockson) and of course USB 3.0 and 3x USB power.

Feel free to comment on these announcements below.

The Overclocker issue 10 is out.

Nick Ross put out one of his last The Overclocker magazine issues. Check it out, it's an interesting read.



http://cde.cerosmedia.com/the_overclocker_issue_10/1H4c220c15de5f8905.cde

How a motherboard is made – Futurelooks visits the GIGABYTE factory in Nanping

Futurelooks.com visited the GIGABYTE Nanping factory during Computex 2010 – a rare opportunity to take some footage inside a top class manufacturing facility.

Most motherboard makers don’t allow cameras in their manufacturing facilities and I’ve even heard of some that will take you all the way to the factory, but then only allow you to see a PowerPoint presentation with pictures of their manufacturing process in a conference room. At GIGABYTE, we take pride in the quality of our motherboards, so we allow visitors to take video and pictures of the whole production process in order to highlight the continual quality inspection and testing that every single motherboard enjoys. Yes, you didn’t misread that: 100% of GIGABYTE motherboards are quality tested during the manufacturing process! 

This Futurelooks.com video shows the entire process from PCB preparation through to putting the 3 year warranty sticker on the retail box. The screenshot taken above is of the SMT line that attached hundreds of components in only a few seconds. Check it our for yourself in the video.