Overclocking guide for Z77 platform and Ivy bridge(video)!
This weekend marks the start of a long benching season where overclockers around the world are flocking to their nearest retailer and buying lots of Intel 3770K CPUs and Z77 boards to go with them. Chips are getting frozen as we speak! Some CPUs are bad and some are decent, everyone is looking for that golden chip!
I took some time last week to compile a few video diaries (best way to describe this video) and pass on some of the knowledge I’ve acquired over the past few months of testing Z77 platform with Ivy Bridge CPUs. I hope this video will have something for the beginners and experienced guys and perhaps answer some questions about “walls” you may experience this weekend (hopefully not but overclocking is 50% trouble shooting particularly at the start of new gen hardware right!).
Without further ado, here is my overclocking guide video featuring GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H and Intel 3770K Ivy Bridge CPU. Be warned, this video is 1h 20+minutes long, popcorn shouldn’t be far away!
Z77+Ivy Bridge crazy overclocking bonanza is finally here!
This must be one of the toughest couple of months as an overclocker and enthusiast to have had to go through I swear! We all had to respect the NDA until early hours this morning when it finally lifted. What an amazing new platform (for lack of a better word)! Intel has finally given overclockers the jackpot! The new king is in town and geeks call it IVY BRIDGE.
Today marks the day when just about any overclocking world record you can imagine will get smashed due to Intel’s ability to finally figure out and remove cold bug from the processors and cold scaling. We are talking 3D benching up to 7GHz on the most efficient platform in history.
I’d like to congratulate a friend, youngpro, for clinching some really nice records himself today, single card 3DMARK03 and 3DMARK05 global records using GIGABYTE Z77X-UD3H and 7970OC GPU as well as 32M and 1024M Wprime multithreaded scores. Congrats James! Keep pushing!
GIGABYTE R&D team including bios guys, top management, software guys, just about everyone has started working very hard on this platform a year ago. We have a new digital PWM on the boards now. It ROCKS! Boards are very stable, bench at monster frequencies, behave great subzero, run very efficient and have some great overclocking features even on the affordable range of boards! Great effort to the whole GIGABYTE team!
TeamAU & GIGABYTE join forces to freeze over Perth in an upcoming GIGABYTE eXtreme OC workshop!
Atomic Magazine just made an announcement that they are taking registrations for the upcoming GIGABYTE eXtreme OC workshop. Be quick or be gone!
Do you want to learn the ins and outs of extreme, sub-zero overclocking? Do you want to learn from the best overclockers our country has to offer? Do you live in Perth?
Well, it’s soon going to be your lucky day!
GIGABYTE’s hosting an Extreme Overclocking Workshop on the 25th of March – this month! – and 12 lucky Atomicans can come along and take part. The workshop’s going to be run by OC veterans TeamAU, Australia’s best overclockers. These guys regularly compete on the international overclocking stage, and are a great bunch of lads to boot.
Thanks for the event sponsors for making it all possible
For more info on the event visit ATOMIC or OCAU forum.
Stone Cold Computing: a journey into overclocking
PC & Tech Authority magazine recently published an article in print and online about “a journey into the weird and wonderful world of sub zero overclocking”.
John Gillooly, article author, is no stranger to enthusiast scene being the hardware geek and virtuoso behind some of the best known magazine names in Australia since their inception just about.
John joined in on a fun trip with GIGABYTE and TeamAU boys who set out to share their overclocking knowledge with the up and coming enthusiast in Brisbane, Australia. John gives subzero overclocking a different perspective, definitely a worthwhile read!
One of the quotes that stood out was “Overclockers are often where our old review products go to die.” LOL
You can read the article here.
GIGABYTE Extreme OC Workshop (Brisbane)
TeamAU boys (deanzo, dinos22, sniperoz & deanzo) just finished the latest GIGABYTE Extreme OC workshop in Brisbane. Eva2000 also made a brief appearance on the first day. It was a really fun event in which enthusiasts from Brisbane were passed over control of some seriously souped up rigs running 7Ghz+ with AMD Bulldozer and GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 motherboards.
Kudos to AMD, GIGABYTE, CORSAIR, UMART and Atomic mag for backing the event.
GIGABYTE X79 OC Guide
Hi guys,
I knocked up a guide for GIGABYTE X79 boards to help with some initial learning experience of the platform, hope it helps 
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Hardware used:
- GIGABYTE X79-UD7
- Corsair GTX7 16GB (4x4GB)
- Antec HCP1200
- Corsair A70 air cooler (socket 1366 mount, fits no drama)
- Kingston HyperX 2133 kit 8GB (4x2GB)
- Kingston HyperX SSD & Corsair 90GB
- GIGABYTE GTX470SOC GPU
Dino
Eva2000 cranks open the new GIGABYTE X79-UD5, RAM bonanza about to get under way!
Eva2000 is getting back into hardware after a bit of a break. Here is what he’s up to this time.
Intel Sandy Bridge-E LGA2011 based cpus and X79 chipset based motherboards are nearly here. Here’s some preview photos of Gigabyte X79-UD5 motherboard. For more Gigabyte X79-UD5 photos visit the forums.
