TheOverclocker Issue 30 | Page 20

GIGABYTE I already spoke about the overclocking motherboards earlier, however the Gaming boards with the new eye insignia from their graphics card division were present in full force as you can imagine. There was a heap of them as well. Form the very high end with the most advanced audio to the lower end models which made use of the ALC1150 codec. We also found ourselves presented with the new Black series, which essentially translate into motherboards that have passed server grade testing enduring over 160 hours of continuous high level strain testing. How useful this will be to end users remains to be seen, but it is great to see that GIGABYTE is as always determined to offer the best quality motherboards around, not only through component choice, manufacturing and design but through rigorous testing as well. Where graphics cards are concerned, we got to view an all new triple GPU water cooled setup. While other vendors attempt to be different, manufacturing hybrid graphics cards that feature great liquid coolers or electronic components. GIGABYTE has married all of that into a behemoth of a package