Atomic Magazine and GIGABYTE put on a show for its lucky readers at AtomicHQ in Sydney overnight.

The LN₂ flowed free and fast last night, at our first sub-zero overclocking event here at Atomic HQ!

We opened the doors as the rest of Haymarkets staff were leaving, after casting a rather curious eye over the mess of gaming systems being set up by Team Immunity, and at the arcane tools of the serious overclocker. As folks showed up, both youngpro and dinos22, from TeamAU, got down to the action.

After a brief safety intro from Dino (essential when dealing with stuff as chillingly cold as LN₂), our guests split into teams and got to work on two GIGABYTE boards, a UD3 and a UD5, each with a new Ivy Bridge processor, while some of the staff (ahem) got to testing out the Battlefield 3 LAN.

Its tough work!

Couple of readers warming up for an insane Battlefield3 frag off!

Dinos22 giving a quick rundown on GIGABYTE digital PWM and monster overclocking boards the lucky group was about to OC on their own (and hit some tremendous frequencies!)

 

Visit Atomic site for the event photo gallery and more on how the two competitions went with Battlefield3 playoff and LN2 OC dinos22 vs youngpro’s teams!

TeamAU boys, dinos22 and youngpro, had some extra LN2 to burn off and benchmarked 3DMARK01 with a new killer 3D01 bios and showed off nice efficiency the boards have now. Any 3DMARK01 tragic out there will absolutely love the new bios (to be released next week in beta!). Benchmarks were done on GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H and Z77X-UD3H, both solid extreme OC boards!

 

3DMARK01 > 157700points (3rd fastest global score)

3DMARK03> 245K, world record 3x GIGABYTE 7970OC GPUs

3DMARK05 > 62K, world record 3x GIGABYTE 7970OC GPUs

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You don’t see this every day I must say. Overclockers push their systems so hard to reach the ultimate frequency and give it absolutely every last bit of “juice” and cold to extract the most they can out of their hardware.

Christian Ney from Switzerland did a remarkable job yesterday smashing the global RAM frequency on the Llano based GIGABYTE A75-UD4H. Yes that’s right, he beat the big boys (with their 990FX boards) using a GIGABYTE Llano board which are meant to be low end.

Now that’s overclocking!!!

Christian did a writeup on OCAHOLIC website, check it all out HERE and HWBOT submission can be found HERE

Final result was a RAM frequency of 1868.3MHz (DDR3-3737) FAINTS!!!

Congrats man, you are killing it right now!

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Champion Swiss overclocker Christian Ney is at it again with his insane memory frequency overclocking. He’s set the global memory frequency world record in the past and hasn’t let up hence a new bar has been raised to 1950.3(3900.6)MHz. CRAAAAYZEEE!

Christian used a GIGABYTE A75-UD4H, Gskill TridentX & AMD A8-3870 Llano CPU. Killer RAM clocking combo.

More info can be found at OCAHOLIC forum and result itself is at HWBOT.ORG.

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TeamAU guys visited ReSpawn LAN over the weekend to put on a demonstration of GIGABYTE and Intel X79 + Ivy Bridge E (4960X) and also the ever so popular Z87X-OC + 4770K. They showed off the multithreading power of new Intel Ivy Bridge E CPUs and on second day decided to do some world record benching attempts and it proved successful.

Dinos22, Youngpro and SniperOz from the team in attendance over the weekend put together a couple of impressive scores. One was #5 3DMARK01 and second was #1 3DMARK06. For more info on the team and photo gallery visit the team’s facebook page.

Photos thanks to TeamAU and ReSpawn LAN.

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