Gigabyte and AMD OC Results

We visited with Gigabyte last month at their North American Overclocking Championship 2009 event where the winner will proceed to the world championship event during Computex 2009. This event featured hardware from Intel, NVIDIA, Kingston, and Enermax along with some spectacular results.

Gigabyte has been busy on another front as they have been working closely with AMD and OCZ in providing motherboards, processors, memory, and power supplies to some of the top overclockers on the AMD side of the fence. While not a formal event like the Intel sponsored event, the results with AMD hardware have been just as exciting if not more so at times. Gigabyte teamed up with Brian McLachlan (Chew*) to see how far the AMD Phenom II 955 BE processor along with Gigabyte's GA-MA790FXT-UD5P and GA-MA790FX-UD5P Ultra Durable 3 equipped motherboards could be overclocked with a variety of cooling means ranging from air to LN2.

The results were impressive as top scores were obtained in the 3DMark06 benchmark with AMD's HD 4890 and HD 4850 video cards on Gigabyte's 790FX equipped motherboards. A direct link to the video showing the clocking results and some skateboarding skills is located here. We will have our review up on these motherboards in the near future, in the meantime, they make an excellent platform for the Phenom II processors.