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Overclocking guide for Z77 platform and Ivy bridge(video)!

Posted by dinos22 in Team.AU News on May 5, 2012 | No Comments

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!

Posted by dinos22 in Team.AU News on May 2, 2012 | No Comments

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!

Posted by dinos22 in Team.AU News on March 7, 2012 | No Comments

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

Posted by dinos22 in Team.AU News on February 9, 2012 | No Comments

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.

bob(nz) AMD Overclocking Demo @ KLCC PC Fair Dec4th

Posted by bobnz in Team.AU News on December 19, 2011 | No Comments

Earlier in December I was invited by AMD and Asus to participate in an overclocking workshop / extreme demo at the KLCC PC Fair here in Malaysia.

The idea, to run 3 workshops to show people the basics of overclocking on air, then finish each with a demonstration using LN2.

AMD Malaysia very kindly provided me with two retail FX8150′s for the event, ASUS Malaysia provided me two Crosshair V motherboards and a 6990, and Kingston also came to the party with 2 kits of HyperX DDR3 1600 CL9 Memory and 2 crazy fast HyperX SSD’s.

I basically had just over a week to test the setups before the event – but rocked up Saturday complete with a really bad head cold and ready to go Smile

Glad I had two setups prepped, as with workshops at 1pm, 3pm and 5pm – no sooner had I stripped the LN2 rig down and dried everything out, it was time to start again. Alternating the rigs on LN2 at least gave them a bit of time to recover from the thrashing just an hour before Laughing out loud

Backed everything off from the max runs I had done at home (just to make sure that it wasnt a workshop with nothing but blue screens Fingers crossed ) and had a pretty smooth time over all the sessions that were run Thumbs up

I picked 3dmark05 for the demo as it really scales well with CPU speed increases, and was able to bench at 5g easy on air (all cores), 6.2g easy on LN2 (all cores) and 7.1g easy on LN2 (2 cores only). Max cpu speed on the day was 7.8g – but I need to come back and spend some time on this – hadnt really tested too much prior to the event as I didnt want to kill anything in advance

Was a pretty good turn out of visitors on the day, and I have included just a few pics below…..

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Was also great to meet a few of the local overclockers on the day – know many via the forums but never met in person before. Finally got to meet Coolice, Sanko and Kunta for the first time Thumbs up and also managed to catch up with Superfly for the first time in almost a year Party smile

Really enjoyed the event, and thanks again to AMD, ASUS and Kingston for the invite to play with all these toys!!

GIGABYTE Extreme OC Workshop (Brisbane)

Posted by dinos22 in Team.AU News on November 28, 2011 | 1 Comment

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.