Congrats to EURO_BUCKS, the forth and final winner of our Year of the Snake Prize Draw. EURO_BUCKS takes home a GIGABYTE Z77N-WIFI motherboard after submitting his memory clock score at HWBOT.org using the new GIGABYTE OC Edition CPU-Z in submission photo.
Check out his submission photo below:
Here at GIGABYTE, our motherboards are frequently singled out for awards, be it for best value, performance, features or pure overclocking prowess. However, it is with particular satisfaction and prestige that we accept this ‘Best of Computex 2012’ award from Tom’s Hardware for our recently announced Ultra Durable 5 technology.
GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 5 and our forthcoming ‘UP’ series of motherboards will be pretty revolutionary in terms of motherboard design, pulling together new 60A rated Powerstage ICs from IR, pairing them with high current capable chokes and a 2x copper PCB. This all means that the motherboard can deliver blistering performance without creating as much unwanted heat, greatly aiding stability, longevity and overall performance capability. It’s also a technology that lends itself perfectly to overclocked water cooled systems that don’t always have great airflow in the PWM area.
We’re really pleased too that arguably the most respected PC hardware site out there has recognized our efforts to innovate. Here a what Tom’s had to say:
“Gigabyte is promising that the PowIRstage IR3550, found on all motherboards with Ultra Durable 5 technology (UD5), increases efficiency and improves stability. Naturally, this is particularly important in overclocked systems, where UD5 could benefit systems employing liquid cooling, since they have a tendency to not receive as much airflow through voltage regulation circuitry.
Ultra Durable 5 is a marketing umbrella that covers several different components, such as the IR3550 PowIRstage, additional copper in the PCB, and 60 A high-capacity ferrite core chokes. We plan to test Gigabytes claims in an upcoming article.”
You can find the ‘Best of Computex’ award page here on Tom’s Hardware.
Congrats to JOHNI5 from Hungary, the second winner in our ‘Year of the Snake Prize Draw’! JOHNI5 is now the proud owner of a GIGABYTE Z77N-WIFI motherboard after submitting his 3DMARK03 score using the new GIGABYTE OC Edition CPU-Z.
Don’t forget to use the new OC CPUz to be eligible to win weekly prizes!
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!
