Monday

Project Addison, SlipperySkip’s Compact Gaming PC feat. GIGABYTE mobo and VGA

In terms of retro and most unique looking case mod, it’s hard to find more skilled than Jeffrey Stephenson’s hands. Also known as SlipperySkip, Jeffrey started a new project this year which featured a GIGABYTE Z97N-WIFI Mini-ITX motherboard and a Mini-ITX sized GeForce GTX 970 graphics card. With this kind of hardware, it was easy for him to achieve his project goal which was “to design and build a powerful as possible gaming rig into a small as possible enclosure”
This project was inspired by the Canadian radio design from the 1940s, the Addison Model 2
Here are the full specs of this unique build:
Intel Core i7-4770K CPU
Gigabyte Z97N-WiFi Mini-ITX Motherboard
Gigabyte GTX970 Video Card
HyperX Fury 8GB System Memory
HyperX 480GB SSD
Silverstone 450W Modular SFX Power Supply
All-In-One Generic 120mm water cooling system
You can see the full work log on Slippery Skip’s forum here: http://slipperyskip.com/forum/index.php?topic=7.30
To skip to the final picture of the project, here is Jeffrey Stephenson’s website: http://slipperyskip.com/page41.html
Nice work Jeffrey!

Sunday

GIGABYTE TARGET OC Winners

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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.

Friday

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! Open-mouthed smile
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