Some say that overclocking is a niche market dominated by hardware enthusiasts and gamers who finally moved out of their parent’s basement. Truth is overclocking is a rather large market perpetuated by mainstream hardware sales. A good example of this...
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The GA-X99-UD4 is based on the Intel X99 Express chipset and is designed for socket LGA2011-v3 processors which currently includes Core i7 5xxx series CPUs and Xeon E5 1xxx-v3 and E5 2xxx-v3 CPUs. The X99-UD4 utilizes an 8-phase digital PowerIRstage...
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With the dust settling from the recent Intel X99-E releases, there is a general view there will be no mITX motherboards. When you consider what’s in the Intel X99-E’s spec, it is unlikely to ever be something to cater for the mITX gamers, so what’s the alternative?
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The mini-ITX form factor has taken off in a big way. Packing a lot of power in a small space, these 17 x 17 centimeter squares have enabled new concentrations of computing power. Generally, you have to pay quite a...
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The company is using a full 4-way PCIe layout, with 8 DIMM slots, 10 SATA 6Gbps ports, two of the SATA feature SATA Express capabilities, which goes hand-in-hand with the M.2 slot smack bang in the middle of hte PCIe...
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Gigabyte motherboards can generally be classified in three unique categories: Ultra Durable (UD), Super Overclocking (SOC) and Gaming (G1). HEXUS is well accustomed to the UD Series – the Z87X-UD3H has been a mainstay of our high-end graphics test platform...
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With the ultra high end graphics cards fast approaching the £1000 mark it is easy to overlook the cards at the entry level costing a little more than a 10th of this price. While the red and green team fight...
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At Gigabyte’s Tech Tour product showcase held last week in Taipei, the company showed off its new WaterForce liquid cooler designed for its GeForce 780 Ti line. Water cooling seems to be all the rage these days, out of necessity...
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Mini desktops are a growing market, but so far it’s a market that Intel has had the run of. The company’s own “Next Unit of Computing” (NUC) and efforts like Gigabyte’s Brix Pro are diminutive but much more capable than...
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Do you know what gets our juices flowing even more than high-end hardware? It’s having the opportunity to wrangle and evaluate multiple versions of a top-tier product. In this case, we’ve gone out and collected NVIDIA GeForce GTX 780 Ti...
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The Last Resort has joined hands with Gigabyte and Plextor to assemble one awesome bundle for rejuvenating your rig. All you have to do is “Like” the Facebook pages of The Last Resort, Gigabyte UK, and Plextor Europe for a...
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Graphics cards are an interesting thing in that they can make or break your gaming performance and happen to be very confusing when it comes to buying them. It isn’t that they are difficult to acquire but rather people don’t...
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GIGABYTE has just taken the wraps off of its new high performance server motherboard, the GA-6PXSVT, the company’s first single Socket 2011-based workstation motherboard that features 10GbE. The GA-6PXSVT supports the Intel Xeon E5-1600 V2 and E5-2600 V2 processors, up...
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“I’m a poor student,” my friend once said, “but I still want a good gaming computer for $700.” “That simply is not possible,” I replied, thinking that even a decently good gaming computer would mean a dedicated video card, somewhat...
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We’ve developed something of a crush for ultra-small micro-PCs. We might be accustomed to extreme high-end hardware, but we’re not shy too admit it: the current crop of tiny systems are really tickling our fancy. Intel’s Haswell NUC and Zotac’s...
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