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

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

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

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 ) and had a pretty smooth time over all the sessions that were run

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…..

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 and also managed to catch up with Superfly for the first time in almost a year

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)

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 .

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

GIGABYTE X79 OC Guide

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.

GIGABYTE wants you… to learn overclocking!

GIGABYTE Extreme Overclocking Workshop has just been announced. This time the LN2 circus is going to Brisvegas (Brisbane, Australia in case you aren’t familiar with the city nickname).

ATOMIC Magazine is taking on registrations right now for lucky 16 overclockers that get to learn how to OC from TeamAU. Rest of registrations that miss out will go into audience registrations .

GIGABYTE’s hosting an Extreme Overclocking Workshop in Brisbane – and it’s open to some lucky Atomicans! This is your chance to learn from the best in the LN2 business!

Do you want to learn the ins and outs of extreme, sub-zero overclocking? Do you want to learn from the best overclockers that Australia has to offer? Do you live in Brisbane?

Well, it’s soon going to be your lucky day!

TeamAU CREW attending (deanzo, dinos22, SniperOZ, youngpro, eva2000 EEEEK)

EVENT SPONSORS:

[GBT Tech Daily] Dino flirts with Bulldozer world record during LITS 2011

Source: GIGABYTE TECH DAILY

As we mentioned yesterday, Dino, one of our in-house Overclocking gurus, was in attendance last weekend at the London International Technology Show in the UK. While we knew that Dino had been turning on the style doing some live audience overclocking, what we didn’t know until a few hours ago is that, on Sunday he actually managed to get perilously close to some world records, hitting 8150MHz on LN2 using our GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 board!

Ok, so the world record is slightly higher, but those guys had the pick of a big bunch CPU-wise, plus they were using Liquid Helium (theoretical low temp of -269 °C), not Liquid Nitrogen (-196 °C). Huge kudos to Dino for his efforts during a live public show. This puts Dino 9th in the world for CPU frequency ranking, 3rd for FX-81350 ranking. Outstanding work.

Validation URL here. HWBot page here.

GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD7 board here.

GIGABYTE X79A-OC (er i mean UD7), take a seat first it’s a cracker :D

Sin Hardware just posted some shots of the latest GIGABYTE X79 gear from IDF’s first day today. Pics speak a thousand words but Sin added a few more:

The X79A-OC we are told was built to be the X79A-OC, but as many have heard there will be no more boards named the OC board. As you can obviously see the board carries the same color coordination, as well as the same features, and a few more such as the DIP switches, which we don’t know what they do. We can also see that the socket is huge, and the space for a VRM is small, but GIGABYTE doubled up the phases on top of each other, the second set the DrMOS are underneath the board. We can also see that on the UD7 and the Assassin 2, that DrMOS are used for peripheral VRMs, such as the DDR voltage and uncore, and even CPU PLL.

The UD7 has an Intel NIC, high current (probably 40-50A) inductors, as well as all tantalum capacitors. Hald the VRM is underneath as well.We see a ton of output capacitors, half are also on the bottom.
UD7 is 20+2 phases and the G1 Assassin 2 is 8+1 we believe.
The heatsinks on the Assassin 2 is said to be a bit different from the final version, but the one  on the UD7 is probably going to stay the same. One long heatpipe connects the VRM heatsink to the PCH heatsink. They look pretty fancy.

X79A-UD5 also looking interesting