Introduction So many users are searching around the net these days looking for advice on how to overclock their new systems but don’t know where to start.  To help everyone out, I decided a how-to guide was in order.  Searching around forums can be confusing and intimidating.  There are so many people willing to give advice, [...]

Many people have been talking about the possibilities of OCing while leaving power saving features enabled.

With amd and intel having both added turbo with the last gen I thought that I would explain how amd turbo works. To start, amd turbo works on all amd cpu’s that end in T with the parts ending in 0T having turbo go up to 2x extra (except black edition, but we will get [...]

History of mini-ITX I was sitting in my office, browsing tech news online almost a decade ago when I first saw the mini-ITX form factor. My mind immediately started fantasizing about the possibilities such a small system would afford. Thoughts of internet terminals built into kitchen cupboards, or car PCs entertained my imagination for years. [...]

Introduction: A motherboard is probably the single most important component to the enthusiast. For a person in the know, this is pretty obvious, but for a newer user this may come as new information. Many forums as well as review sites fail to reveal the big picture, and there are a plethora of components used [...]

Gigabyte kicks off the North America 2010 GO OC live from the Pacific Palm Golf Resort in City of Industry, California.  Eleven competitors from across the US and one Candian prepare to begin battle.  T he overclockers will be using the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 motherboard with the Intel Core i7 980x processor.  For ram they will [...]

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Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD9 Motherboard Review Patrick “Deux” VanValzah First off, I’d like to make sure you know what you’re going to get from this review. This isn’t going to be your run of the mill motherboard review where I ramble about the number of USB and SATA ports and run meaningless tests comparing motherboards and drawing [...]