|PR| GIGABYTE Unveils Next Gen Motherboard Digital Power Engine at CES 2012

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Las Vegas, USA, January, 10th 2012 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced its participation at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas where it is debuting a number of new and exciting motherboard technologies that will be central to it’s motherboard design in 2012 and beyond. International media and customers will get a sneak peak of GIGABYTE’s new technologies at their suite in The Venetian Hotel, Las Vegas, from January 10-13.

3D Power: Frequency, Voltage and Phase Control
GIGABYTE is showing forthcoming 7 series motherboards featuring the very latest in CPU power delivery with GIGABYTE’s unique Digital Power Engine called 3D Power. Offering digital control over all the main onboard power zones, this new digital PWM design allows users to manipulate and monitor the power provided to 2nd Gen Intel® Core™ and Next Gen processors for the LGA 1155 socket.

“We are very excited about the new technologies that will feature on our 7 series motherboards, and are confident that our customers will find them, together with the performance and feature improvements on Intel’s future platform, extremely appealing,” commented Henry Kao, Vice President of GIGABYTE Motherboard Business Unit. “Product development and debugging for the new features is progressing really well, and we expect to have a full range of products available globally by launch day.”

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ASUS Rampage IV Extreme: Hidden feature unveiled for HD7970

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A few hours ago, Shamino posted a thread at kingpincooling forum.
ASUS R&D have somehow figured out a way to publish voltage modifications for graphics card; these include control VGA loadline, switching frequency, OverCurrent Protection and core voltage.

Control Load Line, Switching Freq, OCP, Voltage of 7970 with R4E
First solder red and black headers to VGA card:

The headers will be later on plug into MB.

Steps

Do Not plug in the header before boot.
After Boot and go into OS, plug in header
Open Digipower CNTRL (install from CD)

you can set load line, Switching Freq, OCP, it will be set with the CPU’s vcore, so suggest set LL Extreme, Switching Freq 500 to 800, disable OCP (this will also be used for the VGA Vcore)
If you also wanna adjust vcore of VGA, u can open up Turbo V and adjust the CPU Vcore together with the VGA vcore. VGA vcore will be 100mv lesser than what you set on the CPU. For eg, 1.40 will give 1.30 on VGA.
After adjust and ready to bench remove header. Settings hould be kept even at reset unless you shutdown.

Do not have the header plugged in at boot as it will make the system stop booting.
Enjoy.

Koolance GPU waterblock for HD7970

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Another GPU block has been spotted. This time it is from Koolance. It is a full cover block utilising a microfin design made from solid copper with anti-corrosive nickel plating. Do note that this block only works for reference PCB cards and may not fit non-reference PCB cards.


Source: http://www.koolance.com/water-cooling/product_info.php?product_id=1239

|PR| ASUS Radeon HD7970

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The AMD Radeon HD7970 from ASUS has been announced in their press release today. The AMD Radeon HD7970 is the most powerful single graphics card known to date. It is fabricated using the 28nm GPU frabrication process to give the best performance and low power consumption. This GPU also sports a 3GB GDDR5 video memory together with the latest PCI Express 3.0 bus interface.

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MSI Big Bang XpowerII Pictured

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The Package

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EK GPU Waterblock for HD7970

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With the announcement and release of AMD’s latest GPU, the Radeon HD7970, a picture of a GPU waterblock by EK (EK-FC7970) has been circulating, first posted in Xtremesystems.org.

It is expected for EK to release four versions of this waterblock; copper plexi, copper acetal, EN plexi and EN acetal. No news of when it will be officially announced by EK but something for you watercoolers to look ahead.

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|PR| MSI Big Bang-XPower II

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MicroStar International (MSI) has officially announced their latest flagship mainboard for the Intel® X79 Express chipset, the Big Bang-XPower II.

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|Review| AMD Radeon HD 7970 3GB

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Introduction

AMD has begun to release their widely anticipated latest family of GPUs, the Southern Islands. Southern Islands will become the successor to AMD’s previous generation of GPUs, the Northern Islands. The Southern Island GPUs will be the first GPUs based on the 28nm silicon fabrication process, PCI Express 3.0, Microsoft’s DirectX 11.1 API compliant and a new architecture named Graphics Core Next (GCN). The first GPU to be released is the Radeon HD7970 (Tahiti XT). It features a wider memory bus (384-bit) compared to its predecessor, the Radeon HD6970 (256-bit). Most importantly, it has 2048 stream processors and clocked at 925MHz Core /1375MHz Memory clock.

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MSI Malaysia rolls out G-Series Promo with SteelSeries!!

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Plan to get a yourself a Christmas/New Year Gift and so happens it’s a Gaming Notebook? Take a look at our MSI G-Series Notebook and if again so happens you purchased it, CLAIM YOUR FREE GIVE NOW!
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|Review| Asrock Z68 Fatal1ty GEN3

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INTRODUCTION

Before we begin, OCDrift.com would like to thank Zeon PC Trading for the opportunity given to test this mainboard and eventually making this review a reality.

Intel Z68 is the latest chipset supporting their 2nd Generation Core-i series. Before Z68, there’s H61, H67 and P67 chipsets. While Z68 chipset is certainly a not new but still, we reckon that it’s still a chipset worth to invest for. Why? Because the newly launched X79 chipset is mainly for enthusiast and big-spenders with high buying power as the Sandy Bridge-E processors pricing is currently on the high side now. As for the 2nd Generation Core-i series processor, widely known as Sandy Bridge is now entering the mainstream market providing one of the best price/performance ratio solution.

Asrock Z68 Fatal1ty GEN3 is the top of the line mainboard among Asrock Z68 mainboards. For ASRock high-end models, it can be easily identified via the Red-Black colour scheme and the “Fatal1ty” theme. We are glad to be given the honour to review this beast and please do continue exploring this review to know more about this mainboard.

Official Link – Enter
Asrock Fatal1ty Microsite – Enter
ZEON PC Trading (ASRock Distributor, Malaysia) – Enter

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