GIGABYTE TARGET OC Winners

After reading all the comments on the HWBOT’s competition forum thread, it is easy to see that the GIGABYTE TARGET OC was a whole lot of fun! We have learned a great deal too from this challenge, this always help us organize better competitions in the future. BTW, we are brewing some ideas right now for our next challenge, so stay tune. But anyway, to close down the GIGABTYE Target OC, here is the list of winners. GIGABYTE would like to congratulate every winner and sends their special thanks to everyone who helped make this challenge a success!

Contest Stages Winners
Each of the following overclocker winners will be cashing in $400 USD!

Stage 1: XTU (Target score: 159 marks)
Winner: Christian Ney

Stage 2: HWBOT Prime (Target score: 2967.55 pps)
Winner: MarineOC

Stage 3: 3DMark05 (Target score: 30257 marks)
Winner: I.nfraR.ed

Stage 4: Super Pi 32M (Target score: 20min27sec570ms)
Winner: Gumanoid

Stage 5: Catzilla 720p (Target score: 1938 marks)
Winner: fgi

Lucky draw winners
Amongst all participants who participated in at least 4 of the 5 stages, HWBOT helped us to select five random lucky winners who will be walking away with some great GIGABYTE hardware!

- Lucky Draw #1: Moonman, wins a Z97N Gaming 5

- Lucky Draw #2: Fatboynotsoslim, wins a Z97N-WIFI

- Lucky Draw #3: Etoile, wins a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2

- Lucky Draw #4: Fanta1ty, wins a X99-SOC FORCE

- Lucky Draw #5: Noliso, wins a X99-SOC FORCE

Winners will be contacted via e-mail.

New Pifast and 3DMARK01 World Records by TeamAU

TeamAU has broken another couple of world records on GIGABYTE Z97X SOC Force board, 3DMARK01 and Pifast. 3DMARK01 was recently broken by overclockers from Lab501 on the same board.

PIFAST WORLD RECORD
TeamAU Link: http://www.teamau.net/2014/11/new-pifast-world-record-by-pro.html

3DMARK01 WORLD RECORD
TeamAU Link: http://www.teamau.net/2014/11/hot-off-press-new-3dmark01-world-record.html

The record was achieved with a set of Patriot PSC cooled with Liquid Nitrogen and a 4770K CPU. We powered the rig with the latest Corsair AX 1500W power supply and of course used EK heat spreaders on the memory.

Congratulations and may the (SOC) FORCE be with you!

3D printing, interesting technology for those with some DIY inclination

TweakTown put up an interesting 3D printer review and it really captured my imagination. I must say, this is an area of computing I have been keenly following as I can see some great possibilities to give my kids an interesting project here or there as well as to occupy my DIY time with some crafty DIY jobs. Home PC is becoming a bit of a DIY machine as we start to enter the digital design age and start printing our 3D jobs/projects.

One thing that has always held me back was the fact they all need setting up and calibration, basically too much fiddling to make them work right. Let’s not forget they were always north of $1000 and that seemed a bit expensive. It seems this Da Vinci unit might be finally hitting all the right notes. I would probably still wait but it’s starting to get there. Have a read of this review guys, it’s interesting!