Cool RAM, literally!

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!

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 .

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!

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.

An alternative to this is the well established Kingpin cooler which we’ve successfully used in GIGABYTE’s labs to do a lot of our testing. It’s a great LN2 RAM cooler! 

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

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 .

GIGABYTE 8 Series Preview: UEFI DualBIOS™

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.

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.

GIGABYTE 8 Series Preview: EasyTune

Continuing our efforts to give you all a sneak peek at some of the new features and technologies incorporated in our forthcoming motherboard series, today we’re giving you all a look at our new revised EasyTune app. Check it out…

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.

New Heatsink Part III

Here is our last little sneak peak of the week. Have a good weekend all!

GIGABYTE 8 Series Preview – New Heatsink Part II

Following up on yesterday’s sneaky preview, here’s another of our forthcoming heatsink designs, this time sporting an eye-catching orange finish… which might just give you a clue as the board’s spec and target audience…;)

You can catch several other preview images on our Facebook page where you can find our 8 Series preview photo album.

GIGABYTE 8 Series Preview – New Heatsink Uncovered…

As you may have noticed, we have recently begun leaking the odd image related to our forthcoming 8 series. Today we’re letting you all have a glimpse of a new heatsink design that will adorn one of our forthcoming boards…

For more exclusive leaks, check out our 8 series preview photo album on our Facebook page.

GIGABYTE OC Lab had its first visitors, world records broken!

You’ve heard about the grand opening of GIGABYTE’s new OC Lab but there was one key ingredient missing, extreme overclockers and thousands of litres of LN2. I’m pleased to say I’ve been present at GIGABYTE HQ in the past week to tick that box and give you a snippet of days of great fun, and to top it off, some excellent records achieved.

TeamAU (youngpro, sniperOz & dinos22) were among the overclockers to try the lab. Mad222 & KK from Hong Kong as well as a man machine from OcUK that goes by the name “8pack” gave the lab a go. Resident overclocker hicookie was on hand as well.

One does not simply enter a lab without LN2 hitting through the roof!

Can’t have a lab looking too clean without any high end gear laying about so we got to work pretty fast with the GIGABYTE X79-UD7 and 4WAY GTX Titans and also Z77X-UP7.

Stock GTX Titans received some mods in form of an unofficially named “G-Power” board by HWBOT last week which is essentially CPU power delivery system you see on GIGABYTE’s UP series motherboards with 60Amp MOSFETs and chokes. GTX Titan was definitely giving it a workout with a single card drawing up to 260Amps or in laymen’s terms it probably needed the same power as that DeLorean in Back To The Future to time travel hahah! Crazy stuff.

Youngpro and hicookie soldering liquorice looking cables to the power board below to hopefully provide stable enough power delivery and it sure did with two cards tested both clocking to 1800MHz and beyond.

SIGNIFICANT RESULTS:

CPUz 3770K frequency FIRST PLACE on Z77X-UP7 & 3770K @7186.54MHz

3DMARK Vantage FIRST PLACE 1xGPU, X79-UD7 & GTX Titan @66204points

3DMARK03 FIRST PLACE 1xGPU, Z77X-UP7 & GTX Titan @229511points

3DMARK11 SECOND PLACE 1xGPU, X79-UD7 & GTX Titan @21266points

 

Dinos22 kicked things off on Sunday with a new 3770K frequency world record with help of youngpro and his straw technique with a new 7186.54MHz. This score was achieved on all 4 cores with low volts with liquid nitrogen (-196C) only! It topped not one but two liquid helium (-269C) scores that were on top of the charts in the past! GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 was the board of choice for this chart topping score of course!

SniperOz, 8pack and youngpro got to work on the X79-UD7 platform with some single card GTX Titan scores snatching single card world record in 3DMARK Vantage and second place in 3DMARK11.

8pack from OcUK and hicookie dropped the final score from the session with a 3DMARK03 world record on single GPU using GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 and modded GTX Titan

Guys hanging out with Neo (from The Overclocker magazine) celebrating his birthday and legendary klngpln. From left to right (kingpin, youngpro, 8pack, Neo, Mad222, SniperOz, dinos22)

The OC lab looks fantastic and will no doubt help improve GIGABYTE’s products a great deal with regular visits from world renowned overclockers giving their input on things to improve with current and future gen products. Videos coming up soon of some of the overclocking from past week, stay tuned…

 

 

Vote in the CPC & Bit Awards 2013

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