Sin0822 posts his Z77X-UP7 review with some amazing close up shots!

Those of you who’ve read sin0822’s review will know that he is somewhat of a hardware guru. Nobody else pays as much attention to the onboard chips, VRM design, PCB tracing and other physical features in my opinion, and this makes his reviews unique. So he got his hands on a GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 and has published yet another hardware porn extravaganza, only this time he is using his new high-def camera for extreme close up shots of the tiniest onboard components. Not much escapes Sin! Here are some shots to whet your appetite:

10 layer PCB indicator:

 

 

PWM design:

 

Close up of IR’s 60A-rated 3550 PowIRstage:

 

Headphone amp and audio subsystem design:

 

He even explains the PCIe slot layout and design that allows for 4-way SLI/CrossfireX and also includes a single card slot that bypasses the PLX bridge chip to avoid latency issues when not using multiple VGA cards. This is how Vivi recently got his awesome 3DMark 11 score.

Click on any of the pictures above to check out sin’s review on overclock.net. You can also check out sin’s extensive VRM list on his website. This list will tell you if your motherboards VRM is digital or analogue, as well as a bunch of other technical specs that you might be interested in.

Vivi from South Africa hits #2 single card 3DMARK11 with GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7

Hey guys,

I just noticed Vivi from South Africa put up a monster single card 3DMARK11 single card score (2nd fastest in the world) using GIGABYTE Z77X-UP7 and the GIGABYTE ODIN PSU.

Here is what Vivi had to say about the gear he benched with:

This board is awesome. and this Oding PSU doing well! haha. 2000mhz run passed too, but screenshot was invalid. This will have to do. R.I.P to this card :P. -130 on the card and 1.75v Thanks to sniperOz for the pots!

Well done mate!

Score Link

TeamAU creates a custom “Hotkey OC Control Tool” for GTL, get your copy now!

Hey guys,

James T (youngpro) from TeamAU created a handy little tool which allows overclockers to change the speed of their system on the fly with 4 separate profiles that ties into GTL (GIGABYTE Tweak Launcher) software. He calls it Hotkey Control Tool. EasyTune 6 used to have this function on previous chipset but it hasn’t been implemented yet on Z77 as software team is hard at work with a complete refresh of the ET tool.

In the meantime you can use this nifty tool to jump frequencies as simply as hitting function keys (F1, F2, F3 and F4). Keys are fully programmable and I’ve made a brief video explaining how to use it but for a full description make sure you jump to James’ blog AT THIS LINK.

Thanks for sharing James & Team.AU, this will no doubt make it a hell of a lot easier to bench GIGABYTE boards subzero!

Watch the video in 1080p and full screen!