We're #1! Consumers Vote GIGABYTE Motherboards To The Top on Ranker

Earlier this week we were pleased to see that Ranker, a site that curates crowd sourced top 10 lists, had named us the top motherboard manufacturer and our GIGABYTE Z97X US5H  as the best motherboard you can buy for your PC.

You might have heard of Ranker before, as their top 10 lists are frequently featured in both old and new media. They rank everything, from this year's most anticipated movies  to the most annoying sounds your neighbors make.

 The Wall Street Journal reports on their lists, as do online platforms such as CNET and the Huffington Post. In short, they are a pretty big deal as tens of thousands of people frequent the site every day giving their lists a significant sample size.

While this news is exciting, things are only going to get better next month with the launch of new lineup of motherboards for the Intel 6th Gen. Core processors. Our new generation of motherboards with the Z170 chipset has so many great features that we can't wait to share with you at our official launch.

Thanks again for supporting GIGABYTE and giving us your vote of confidence!

Give GIGABYTE's Z97 a Last Hurrah on HWBOT

Our love for overclocking at GIGABYTE means we are big supporters of the community. If you head on over to our friends at HWBot you’ll see we are sponsoring the GIGABYTE Z97-Last Hurrah Challenge with $2,000 USD in cash prizes as well as two mystery motherboard prizes. This new challenge gives the community a last chance to test their skills on the GIGABYTE Z97 platform before the launch of Intel’s eagerly anticipated 6th Gen. CPU and Z170 chipset next month.

Overclockers will have the chance to win some serious cash by pushing their CPU to the absolute limit on a GIGABYTE Z97 motherboard with their preferred cooling setup. The contest is divided into four stages, and contestants submit their best score. The more points the better.




Here’s a breakdown of the contest stages:

Category 1: Air/Water Cooling (Ambient)

Stage 1: XTU – July 10th until July 25th

· CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max

Stage 2: GeekBench-3 Multi Core – July 10th until August 10th

· CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max

Stage 3: XTU – July 10th until August 20th

· CPU frequency is to be set at 4.5GHz max


Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU - 1B – July 10th until August 30th

· CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max


Category 2: Extreme Cooling

Stage 1: GeekBench-3 Multi Core – July 10th until July 25th

Stage 2: XTU – July 10th until August 10th

· CPU frequency is to be set at 5GHz max

Stage 3: GeekBench-3 Single Core – July 10th until August 20th

Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU - 1B – July 10th until August 30th
The GIGABYTE-Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge will run from July 10th until August 30th 2015, 23:59 (UTC +8).

Good luck to all!

For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest pages at HWBOT or OC-ESPORTS: http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/gbt_z97_lasthurrah

Meet LEENA: A Robot Powered by a GIGABYTE BRIX

Here at GIGABYTE we are always looking for cool ways people are using our products. We always enjoy seeing the latest and greatest case mods, or users doing things like converting their GIGABYTE BRIX into center of a bad-asshome theater pc setup.

But one thing we haven’t ever seen is a Robot powered by a GIGABYTE product.

That was until we met LEENA.

[COUP DE CŒUR]On vous présente LEENA, un robot dédié au service à la personne, animé par un GIGABYTE BRIX GB-BXi5G-760.Dans la vidéo, elle s'amuse à attraper un Creeper de Minecraft ;-)On est fier d’être au cœur de ce robot crée par une start-up de Limoges, Cybedroïd.On vous invite d'ailleurs à aller voir leur travail sur leur page Facebook (vous pouvez likez aussi ^^) ou leur site web : http://www.cybedroid.com/Voici le modèle BRIX utilisé : http://bit.ly/1LOGbUL#robot #humanoide #gigabyte
Posted by GIGABYTE France on Tuesday, July 7, 2015

LEENA is a prototype human service robot designed by French startup Cybedroid. At LEENA’s core is a GIGABYTE GB-BXi5G-760, powered by an Intel® 4th generation i5-4200H Core™ processor.

Right now LEENA is still a work in progress only capable of doing basic tasks, but Cybedroid hopes that one day she’ll be able to do things like help the elderly or disabled go about their daily lives.

Let’s hope she’s friendlier than a Cylon.