TeamAU breaks world frequency record for Intel Core i7 6950X live at PAX Australia 2016

TeamAU was able to break a world frequency record while on stage at PAX Australia 2016! They were using a GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion, built especially for extreme overclocking and setting world records. With the Intel Core i7 6950X they were able to achieve a staggering 5.74Ghz validati...

TEAM AU Breaks 3DMARK2001 SE World Record Using GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force LN2

Team AU today broke the world 3DMARK 2001 SE just ahead of PAX AU with a GIGABYTE Z179X-SOC Force LN2 and an Intel Core i7 6700K OCed to a staggering 6.7GHz! For details click he...

GIGABYTE Enables Support for Intel® Next-Gen CPUs

GIGABYTE Enables Support for Intel® Next-Gen CPUsGIGABYTE’s 100 Series Motherboards Compatible with a BIOS UpdateTaipei, Taiwan, October 28th, 2016 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, is proud to announce support for Intel’s next-generation LGA 1151 socket processors. Compatibility for the...

Barrier to entry for PC VR lowering thanks to new rendering tech

The near high-end requirements for PC VR solutions might be coming to an end with new rendering technologies. Oculus uses “Asynchronous Timewarp” (ATW) and the recently announced “Asynchronous Spacewarp” (ASW)  in order to improve VR rendering performance. So confident in its rendering techniques that Oculus released the following minimum PC spec...

PSVR to Introduce VR Experience to Millions

With PSVR recently launched, one ponders whether its popularity will be a boom to VR on the PC, or will limit its development much like how many PC games today are optimized for consoles with limitations such as 30 fps caps, low-resolution textures, clunky GUIs, lack of dedicated servers, etc.PSVR will likely be a step in the right direction. Sure,...

What SMART Stats Tell Us About Hard Drives

Backblaze has crunched the numbers to see what percentage of hard drives report SMART errors before they fail. The conclusion was:Operational drives with one or more of our five SMART stats greater than zero – 4.2%Failed drives with one or more of our five SMART stats greater than zero – 76.7%So the moral of the story is that if your hard drive is...

Samsung plans to slash SSD prices to (current) HDD levels by 2020

Samsung plans to slash SSD prices to (current) HDD levels by 2020. At the moment, 1 TB HDD drives are about 4 cents per GB, If Samsung is correct, by 2020 consumers will be able to purchase a 512GB SSD for about $40 USD. At that price point it's likely that SSD adoption will greatly speed up, even on low end builds.To take advantage of the...

What is game optimization really? Durante talks to game developers to explain the details.

In this PC Gamer article, Durante and Croteam's Dean Sekulic shine some light on what optimization really is, and why some games that you may have thought were poorly optimized were simply attempting to push the envelope in terms of graphics fidelity.Durante concludes:In a similar vein, consider the idea that additional high-end graphics settings,...

Rivet Networks releases new Killer E2500

Select GIGABYTE motherboards will soon have the Killer E2500. The unedited press release is below:Austin, TX - (September 15, 2016) - Rivet Networks, makers of the award winning line of high-performance Killer™ networking products for desktop and notebook PCs, is excited to announce the availability of their new Killer E2500 Gigabit...

The Playstation 4 Pro Appeal

According to Guardian, the Playstation 4 Pro was created to appeal to gamers who would otherwise "migrate to PC" solely for the improved graphics. There are many reasons for gamers to choose PCs over consoles besides improved graphics, such as: speedier updates, more games (including MOBAs, MMOs, RTSs and simulators), better communities, more game...

Raising The Bar for Core i3 Performance

GIGABYTE has done it again with the newest benchmark from ZEROPLUSZERO on Intel's XTU. GIGABYTE ranked first, with 743 marks, with the Core i3-6320 reigning over all other submissions using motherboards from other manufactures.This proves that GIGABYTE has been able to maintain a solid platform for overclocking not only on the i7 and i5's...

HTC Vive wireless VR prototype in the works to be shown this fall

According to Shack News, a joint venture between Valve and Quark VR are attempting to free Vive headsets from their wires. They state that their wireless prototype will be unveiled sometime this fall. Perhaps this move toward wireless will accelerate the adoption of VR as "tech hurdles" are gradually overcome.For those looking to build a...

GIGABYTE dominates the Leaderboards for 3DMark2001

GIGABYTE continues to dominate the leaderboards with a Single GPU World Record and three global firsts. With the newly added score from GIGABYTE's in-house overclocker Sofos on a Dual GPU setup, GIGABYTE continues to hold the records for this benchmark.All these benchmarks were performed on the Z170X-SOC Force LN2 showing the world the exceptional...

GIGABYTE shows some skill at Ho Chi Minh with a Global First on WPrime - 32M.

At one of GIGABYTE's events this week attendees had time to admire various GIGABYTE systems and see an overclocking show where GIGABYTE's in-house Overclocker, Sofos, demoed overclocking. Not only did he show these guests what overclocking was all about, he did so while still being able to obtain a Global First.For more...

A New Era Begins - GIGABYTE takes the HWBot PRIME Global First (4-Core CPUs)

The records continue to accumulate, GIGABYTE has broken another record this week with HWBot Prime. GIGABYTE has ranked #1 by having the top score for a 4-Core CPU, an Intel Core i7-6700K Processor, overclocked on a GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force LN2 motherboard.Accompanying the world renowned record breaking motherboard in this bench there is also...

GIGABYTE Scores Another Global First on 3DMark03

This week GIGABYTE's very own in-house overclocker, Sofos, broke a new Global First surpassing the old record by approximately 3K points. This Global First was done by using only a single Galax GTX980 TI Card, as well as memory modules from Galax.GIGABYTE continues to hold the 3DMark03 World Record with Dual Graphics Cards, as well as SuperPi - 32M...

GIGABYTE Achieves Another 2x World Records and Multiple Global Firsts

Even after Computex the GIGABYTE Team has still been hard at work pushing the limits of the GIGABYTE Motherboards.This week GIGABYTE posts another 5 records, below you can see the breakdown and performance of GIGABYTE's Z170 Motherboard.GIGABYTE's Newest World Records:GIGABYTE's Global Firsts:WPrime 32MBe sure to check HWBot and GIGABYTE's Facebook...

GIGABYTE takes down 2x World Records and 4x Global First scores at G.SKILL Computex 2016 OC show

GIGABYTE attended G.Skill's Computex 2016 overclocking show on Friday with 6 records (2x World Records and 4x Global Firsts).The overclocking crew used GIGABYTE Z170X SOC Force LN2 and X99 Champion motherboards and G.Skill Trident Z memory. The world records in particular were also powered by the new Nvidia GTX 1080 graphics cards!Well done guys!...

GIGABYTE X99 SOC Champion 6950X Broadwell-E Overclocking Guide

GIGABYTE X99 SOC Champion OC Guide (Broadwell E Update)by dinos22 & sofos19901.       SINGLE BIOS mode: make sure you turn it ON (position 2). This switch will disable Dual bios mode in case it triggers a bios switch or update due to OC fail. 2.       This...