G1.Sniper 5 has Best Audio SNR out of 33 8 Series Motherboards Tested

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Not sure if this was posted earlier or not, but Hardware.info at the beginning of this month posted their review of over 33 different 8 series motherboards: “33 Haswell motherboard group test: 26x Z87, 4x H87 and 3x B8”. Besides the fact that not one, but two GIGABYTE motherboards ended up getting the gold award (the Z87X-OC and G1.Sniper 5), I noticed something very interesting in the audio testing section. Out of all the boards tested, the Sniper 5 had the best dB(A) rating of 96.4. The next closest board came in at 92.3dB(A).

We use the loopback test in Rightmark Audio Analyzer, and connect the input to the output of the onboard soundcard. First we look at the signal-to-noise ratio, and Gigabyte convincingly takes the crown with its G1.Sniper 5 motherboard and the Creative Sound Core3D chip. It's expensive, but you get what you pay for.

It’s nice to see the audio features we put on our gaming boards really do deliver the best onboard audio experience. As they didn’t test the G1.Sniper M5 it would be interesting to see how that board would fair in terms of audio since it shares the same audio features as it’s big brother. I can’t really blame them though, since testing 33 motherboards for launch time must have been crazy.

GIGABYTE Extreme OC Workshop under way in Australia, wrestling crocodiles, riding kangaroos and breaking some world records at OCAU Meet 2013!

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TeamAU, GIGABYTE and Corsair have joined forced to show off the latest Intel Z87 platform to some of the best overclockers in Australia. They’ve joined the yearly OCAU HWBOT team gathering up in Cairns, Far North Queensland.

Cairns is in tropical part of Australia so even though it’s currently winter over there, the boys are wearing shorts and hitting the swimming pool. TeamAU is helping cool the climate however with ridiculous amounts of LN2 being used at the moment lol.

Here are a few photos from the event which is currently under way.

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Crazy LN2 tanks are crazy Open-mouthed smile

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Competition is under way as well. TeamAU SniperOz Corsair team vs TeamAU dinos22 GIGABYTE team.

TeamAU dinos22 GIGABYTE is in the lead at the moment in the low clock challenge 5.5GHz with the new Intel XTU benchmark with the new world record as well at 1377 marks!

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TeamAU dinos22 GIGABYTE team                         vs               TeamAU SniperOz Corsair team battling

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Youngpro from TeamAU doing some subzero RAM testing

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Dinos22 explains GIGABYTE’s OC Touch features on new Z87X-OC board!

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OC Touch features are plentiful on the new range of GIGABYTE Z87 OC boards, particularly the Z87X-OC to a point they can be a bit overwhelming which is why this video by dinos22 will come in handy for anyone looking for some more information on how to use all the features properly.

Happy viewing!

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Wanna get up to speed on Haswell? Try the GIGABYTE Z87 OC Guide

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Overclocking guru Sin0822 has just posted his Z87/Haswell guide on Overclock.net. It’s a top to bottom look at the new Intel platform from a strictly overclocking perspective. Sin has included a detailed look at how to push your new 4770k or 4670K processors, with tons of advice about voltages, memory and base clock tweaking, plus some easy templates that can help any noob get a handle on Haswell.

Check out the guide on Overclock.net here.

Video Review: GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M5 gets Gold on Overclock3D.net

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Our buddy Tiny ‘Tom ‘ Logan has published his full and extensive video review of our latest micro-ATX gaming board, the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M5, and one thing is abundantly clear… he rates it highly. Enough to award his Gold award!

As you’d expect from Tom, he takes a serious look at the motherboard from the perspective of a gamer and overclocker. Perhaps most interestingly however, Tom, being a case modding guru of epic proportions, also pays lots of attention to the aesthetics of the board including our LED trace lighting path around the audio section of the board.

 

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You can also catch the written review here on OC3D.net

Ninjalane visits GIGABYTE HQ OC Lab, photo heavy!

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Computex this year was probably one of the busiest ones on the calendar as far as overclockers were concerned. There was a record number of well known overclockers going to Taiwan this year from all over the globe and inevitably many ended up visiting the manufacturers.

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GIGABYTE was no exception here and opened up its doors to a large group of overclockers on the weekend following Computex. GIGABYTE is a pretty laid back sort of company, almost like your typical Aussie sitting under the shade on a hot 40C day I’d say. There was no rules, agenda, expectation or anything of sorts. It was just a day of socialising, having some fun, downing a few beers & redbulls and catching up with old friends and meeting some new ones.

Dennis from Ninjalane was one of the guests and he took a fair amount of photos, I’ll put up a few but for the full report you should jump to Ninjalane website!

Few guys having a crack at 7GHz with a 4770K

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Someone even pulled out the new AMD CPU, why not!

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Gamer from Belgium realises he bought the world’s worst retail 4770K!

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Apparently GIGABYTE offices look the same as everywhere else (plus the plants!)

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It was great seeing you all guys and hope to do this sort of thing again next year!

Video: Sin0822 Unboxes and Reviews the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard

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Motherboard expert and OC enthusiast Sin0822 has just uploaded his latest video, an unboxing and review of one of our newly unveiled OC boards, the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC. Sin shows us the full retail package, but as you expect he also gives us a very detailed and well informed view of a pretty complex piece of kit. Sin examines pretty much every IC on the board as well some really good explanations of some of our more esoteric features that may initially bewilder those of you less familiar with overclocking.

 

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

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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!

Z87 Windows XP downloads, OC Button drivers, GTL2.0 & Intel ME

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Hi guys,

I've noticed a few comments online asking about drivers for Z87 platform for Windows XP so I've decided to upload the version that works properly.

We've also just received our copy of GTL2.0 (GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher software) just in before the weekend for most. It still has a little bit of functionality to be added but we figured the key ones would be useful for you to use in the meantime.

GTL2.0 download download link & New Version with timings.
Intel ME driver for Windows XP (Z87 chipset) 

Windows XP Z87 OC Buttons driver

Windows 7 & 8 Z87 OC Buttons driver

Happy clocking!
Dinos22

GIGABYTE unleash the new OC weapon, Z87X-OC!

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Well, where do I start? Oh yeah, I’m excited! Haswell, it’s finally here and ready to go! GIGABYTE has unleashed the new weapon you all know as the “OC” board, namely Z87X-OC.
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The history of OC boards goes back many years ago now with GIGABYTE’s iconic X58A-OC. True overclockers have raved on about this board and still mention it in the early hours of Taipei’s Computex afterparties to this day. This board was the first of its kind, a board dedicated to enthusiasts and overclockers. A board with a sole purpose to focus on a niche community of liquid nitrogen sniffing dudes and crazy watercooling geniuses with their intricate WC loops and masterful tubing configurations celebrating the heart of the technological componentry in people’s PCs, the motherboard! HWBOT wrote an article about this OC board and OC DNA and its significance to the community at the time which I suggest you read to learn about the importance of these to overclockers and Pieter’s long term vision which is pretty interesting in the retrospect!
The core focus of OC board was to make a weapon of a board to it’s bigger brother X58A-UD9 which was skyrocketing HiCookie in its heyday to world best OCer and unprecedented domination. The board was designed to rid of the “bells and whistles” (i.e. no marketing gimmick features), specific features at heart of it’s followers’ requirements and aggressive price point that most could afford. Unfortunately, it had one fatal flaw and that was it’s release date delay which made it virtually obsolete with new platform launch shortly to follow.

Capture2Fast forward past a few evolutionary and some soul searching steps and competitors mimicking the OC logos and a few scattered features but forgetting about the OC DNA and we end up at this week’s launch. GIGABYTE is back to the original OC DNA of making a weapon, streamlined, mean performing machine with the absolute best price point possible and GIGABYTE Z87X-OC is born as is its bigger brother Z87X-OC Force.

It’s been a short few months leading up to the launch I must say and the GIGABYTE team and it’s army of beta testers and inhouse RD & bios teams set upon earlier than normal to do what they are all passionate about and get the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC board ready for the bright lights of launch day. I say “a short” few months as they literally flew past so fast and I can’t recall having been more motivated and having more fun with any board other than the original OC board I talked about.
Let me clear something up for all the guys that contacted me, my colleagues and friends who’ve had experience with the new OC board. Z87X-OC is the heart of the OC design platform and the baseline that was used to build upon with other boards including the OC Force. It’s not a cut down version but rather THE BASE LINE to other motherboards. It is the one, don’t let the price point full you wink wink Winking smile!
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For the extreme overclockers out there, here is a bios HiCookie and Dinos22 (yours truly) used at Corsair and Intel’s Extreme OC event a few days ago in which we took out the $4K Highest Memory Frequency prize. For more information on this competition you can check out an article made by a well known Australian Magazine, PC & Tech Authority over here.

BIOS LINK (for extreme OC).

We are finalising the GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher (GTL 2.0) software and will update it soon, keen an eye on this blog!
There are a number of new features on the latest OC range of boards and I suggest you head over the GIGABYTE Z87 OC range microsite to find out more about them. In the coming weeks we’ll do some OC guides and video introductions of specific features and how to get the most out of them.

GIGABYTE 8 Series Launch: Anandtech Video

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Our man Colin visited Anandtech recently to give Anand Lal Shimpi a tour of our new 8 series motherboards. This is really cool look in some detail at pretty much the whole Z87 range that we’re launching this week at Computex 2013 here in Taipei.

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Article source.

8 Series Preview Video: eTeknix unbox the GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M5

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Our buddy Andy of eTeknix has just published a preview article of a our forthcoming GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M5 motherboard along with an unboxing video (of sorts… he can’t actually show you the box haha…). Take a look. It’s a great tour of our forthcoming G1-Killer mATX gaming board.

 

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To catch the full review on eTeknix.com click anywhere here.

8 Series Preview Video: Overclock3D.net Impressed with GIGABYTE Z87X-UD4H

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For some users and media there may be just a touch of controversy concerning the design of our GIGABYTE Z87X-UD4H motherboard, simply because we’ve opted for a red and silver finish on the heatsinks.

Red isn’t a color usually associated with GIGABYTE boards (being a color more commonly associated with one of our competitors’ offerings), but with the Z87X-UD4H we’ve opted to go with a fairly subtle red and silver finish on the heatsinks alone, maintaining our black on black color scheme that you’ll see throughout the upper mainstream 8 series range.

Here’s a Z87X-UD4H photo album we recently uploaded to our Facebook page.

One thing is certain, Tiny ‘Tom’ Logan at Overclock3d.net is a definitely a fan of this new color scheme. Check out his preview video below.

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Check out the full preview article on OC3D.net here.

GIGABYTE 8 Series OC Boards: Most eagerly awaited on OCN

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We just came across a few polls posted on Overclock.net that attempts to gauge which Z87 boards Overclockers are most looking forward to. The first poll asks: ‘Which brand would you buy a Z87 Motherboard from?’

It’s really encouraging to see 66% of votes going to GIGABYTE.

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Another poll also posted on OCN asks specifically about OC and gaming board models: ‘Which gaming/overlocking Z87 motherboard are you most looking forward to?’ Again we can see GIGBAYTE out front with 39% of total votes cast.

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We’ve really put a great deal of thought into our forthcoming OC offerings, pulling out all the stops to give Overclockers an absolutely awesome OC experience. Hicookie and our engineers have been working ceaselessly for several months now, ensuring every last detail is nailed. So it’s really, really encouraging to see the OC community is so stoked about these boards.

Overclock.net links here and here.

8 Series Preview Video: OC3D.tv take a tour of the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC

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Here’s a great preview video of our forthcoming GIGABYTE Z87X-OC board, from our buddy Tiny Tom Logan from OC3D.tv. Enjoy!

 

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GIGABYTE motherboards have lowest RMA rate

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We just came across a very interesting article on hardware.fr which examines the RMA (Return merchandise authorization) rates of several PC component segments by vendor. Although the data seems to be restricted to only e-retail, and covers only April 1 to October 1, 2012, it still paints a very positive picture from a GIGABYTE perspective.

Here’s the motherboard RMA leaderboard:

- Gigabyte 1.19% (previous 1.77%)
- ASUS 1.79% (previous 2.34%)
- ASRock 2.09% (previous 1.67%)
- MSI 3.05% (previous 2.24%)

In terms of purely socket 1155/Z77 chipset motherboards, the picture looks like this:

- Gigabyte 1.70%
- ASUS 1.87%
- ASRock 1.91%
- MSI 3.57%

Really encouraging to see that our guiding principle of building ‘Ultra Durable’ motherboards is completely borne out and validated by these figures, with GIGABYTE topping both tables.

It’s also great to see that GIGABYTE does not appear on the RMA top 5 list, which shows certain board models having return rates of up to 5.88%. Ouch…

Catch the full article (in French) here. English version courtesy of Google Translate, here.

Cool RAM, literally!

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We wrote an article a couple of days ago about liquid nitrogen based coolers for memory and a lot of people were wondering what it’s all about. While I can’t show the frequencies with new generation chipset, I can tell you it will be memory overclocker’s paradise platform.

Here’s what those Corsair Dominator Platinum 2666 kit looked like after I froze the kingpin RAM pot and then took it off. Tell me that isn’t stunning! Smile

Motherboard of choice is GIGABYTE’s latest OC board coming out next month. Incidentally Corsair and Intel are running a $20,000 competition at Computex 2013 this year which will involve some insane memory freezing and world records galore. TeamAU will be there happy to oblige to freeze some things Open-mouthed smile.

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That’s not all btw, we will also be present at G.Skill’s Computex OC show on 7th June at Nangang Hall. I’ll see you all there if you can make it!

Liquid nitrogen RAM coolers released by a couple of big evaporator makers!

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I came across a PR release from EK releasing their first LN2 cooler. This one is based on RAM and by the looks of it has had some testing done on our new generation OC motherboard. It’s nice to see people passionate about their RAM clocking! We’re working hard at the moment on numerous ICs to see how they fair subzero with an upcoming new generation boards.

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Bullant from Australia sporting the most efficient SuperPi rig you’ll ever see!

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We’ve reported about a forum thread a little while ago that encourages overclockers worldwide to fine tune their platform at a set frequency limit to establish who has the most performance efficient PC around. It’s done by limiting the CPU to 5GHz on Z77 Ivy Bridge platform and allowing end users to tune their memory frequency and timings and produce the fastest possible 32M SuperPi they can.

The whole point of the exercise is to improve your tweaking skills which you can then apply at maximum CPU clocks so if the current leader was to get the highest clocking CPU around, he would beat the current SuperPI world record without much trouble. What’s also possible is that he would be able to beat the world record with slightly lower CPU clocks compared to top score due to his efficiency which is even more rewarding to a tweaker. This is comparable to a 100m sprint runner and their training to improve the technique over such a short distance. The most efficient guy is Usain Bolt and even with a bad start he has the ability to catch his opponents just about every time.

Bullant (aka Usain Bullant lol) from Australia happens to be the current leader of this little tweakers competition sporting his favourite GIGABYTE Z77X-UP5TH motherboard clocking 4x sticks of PSC based IC memory modules at an astonishing 1326.4MHz at 6-10-6-28 subtimings. Memory is cooled with liquid nitrogen (Kingpin Ney RAM pot) at a freezing –105C while CPU is on single stage refrigeration cooling running at –30C. The current leader nearing the end of this platform tends to be just about unbeatable as getting that last little out of the platform gets ever so much harder knowing everyone’s had a good year to improve their Superpi results.

Congratulations mate, well done! Nice warm-up for the next generation GIGABYTE motherboards which will raise the bar a great deal higher Winking smile.

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GIGABYTE 8 Series Preview: UEFI DualBIOS™

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If you have enjoyed our last few 8 series tempters over the last week or so, you’re really going to enjoy what we’re bringing you today. As I’m sure you can imagine, our BIOS team has been extremely busy in the last few weeks to get everything ready for our new motherboard launch, and we’re really proud of the result, not least because of its new look and feel.

Check it out. I think this redesign will really resonate with our OC fans.

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If you want to see more of these previews, head on over to our Facebook page where you will find our 8 series preview photo album.

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