GA-H55N-USB3

GIGABYTE mini-ITX pocket rocket H55N-USB3 turns out to be a monster overclocker, how is 5.25GHz on air cooling?

Yes that's right. I thought i'd strap on a desktop heatsink and dwarf this little board we call GIGABYTE H55N-USB3 and pair it up with a Core i5 655K Unlocked Intel CPU. Next thing I know I'm talking to myself, going a bit crazy at the sight in front of me with the CPU steadily climing 4.1GHz, 4.2, 4.3, 4.4, ... 5.25GHz.........FAINT!

Spotted at Gigabyte's COMPUTEX 2010 booth was the GA-H55N-USB3, a mini-ITX motherboard designed to provide home theater PCs with enough power and a small profile. But the H55N elicits interest because of its generous provision of ports. You've got 2 USB 3.0 sockets complemented by five USB 2.0 ports. Rounding out this comprehensive line-up are eSATA, Gigabit Ethernet, six audio jacks, a PS/2 port, and S/PDIF.

On the video front, the H55N can output HDMI, DVI-I, and D-SUB signals—but only if one of those new Intel Core i3, i5, or i7 CPUs with integrated graphics are used. Alternatively users can also use the PCI Express x16 slot for discrete graphics, if they can find a way to fit everything into the usually small cases of the mini-ITX format.

The H55N has four SATA/300 ports for storage components, and two DDR3 1666 MHz DIMM sockets. This puts the maximum RAM at 8 GB. According to Gigabyte, the GA-H55N-USB3 costs around $130 depending on the retailer. It should hit the market right as you read this, or within this month at the latest.

BFG Technologies GeForce GTX 260 Graphics Card

Guru3D - Recommended Award

Netherlands @ 2010/12/0

The BFG GeForce GTX 260 OC MAXCORE 55 Graphics Card combines the power of 24 more processing cores (versus the standard GTX 260) on a new 55nm GPU with BFG's out-of-the-box overclocking to rip through DirectX 10 games at blazing fast frame rates and enable realistic physical motion and massively destructible environments with NVIDIA's new PhysX technology.

Honestly .. seriously honestly I did not expect to review any more GeForce GTX 260 cards after the incredible amount of reviews we already posted on them in the past year or so. But NVIDIA is very late to the market with their upcoming DX11 class products and as such the NVIDIA board and card partners are drastically looking at ways to keep selling and refreshing the current lineup. One of the things that is receiving a lot of attention these days are overclocking, overclock competitions and products based on that theme -- as such Gigabyte technology is releasing their SO series of graphics cards, short for Super Overclocked.

Today we'll test their all new GeForce GTX 260 (SP216) SO -- it comes with an Ultra durable design (long-lasting components) and as the title already suggests .. a pretty nice overclock -- making this product faster than say a GeForce GTX 275.

According to Gigabyte each GPU for this graphics card is cherry-picked for top performance, power efficiency and reliability using something that Gigabyte calls GPU Gantlet Sorting Process. Using advanced technical selection with combined with Ultra Durable VGA boards these boards should be top of the line.

And that is always interesting enough to take a look at. Have a peek at what we are reviewing today please and then head on over to the next page.

Specifications
Series : GeForce 200 Series
Chipset : GeForce GTX 260
Key Features : SOC / UDV
Core Clock : 680 MHz
Shader Clock : 1500 MHz
Memory Clock : 2500 MHz
Memory Type : GDDR3
DirectX : 10
D-sub : Yes
DVI : Yes
Multi-GPU : 3-way SLI
DisplayPort : No

GIgabyte H55M-USB3 mainboard video preview @ OCWORKBENCH

Who will be the Winner of the GO OC Asia & Africa Regional Final

Visit the GO OC website to make your prediction, and get the chance to win some GO OC loot of your own

aipei, Taiwan, June 7th, 2010– GIGABYTE’s 3rd annual overclocking competition, the GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2010), Asia and Africa regional final will be held on June 19th, 2010 in Indonesia. Can’t join the event? It’s ok, you can still be part of the competition and win some prizes.

From June 4th to June 18th, GIGABYTE will have online competition: “Guess the winner” at the GO OC 2010 Asia and Africa regional final’s website. What are you waiting for? Just sign up on the GO OC official website (http://gooc2010.gigabyte.com/Asia-Africa) and make your prediction, for your chance to win the amazing OC gears. The prize including GIGABYTE motherboard and graphic card, Antec power supply and Seagate hard drives.

After the competition on June 19th, GIGABYTE will pick 6 lucky users who predicted the winner. GIGABYTE will announce the winners of this online competition on GO OC 2010 Asia and Africa regional final official website.

All New Generation Xeon Platform To Simplify Enterprise IT Infrastructure GIGABYTE Technology Announces Server Product Line For Intel Xeon 5500

Taipei, Taiwan, March 31, 2009－Focusing on “Technology Created For Datacenter Everywhere”, GIGABYTE NCBU(Network & Communication Business Unit) proudly announces four new rack mount server systems (2U:GS-R22T61-RH, GS-R22T81-RH. 1U: GS-R12T4H-RH, GS-R12T10-RH) and three serverboards (flagship-class GA-7TESH2-RH, entry-class GA-7TCSV1-RH, UP GA-6TXSL-RH), lets enterprise customers enjoy unprecedented “performance per watt” and unheard-of topless x86 server performance. Combined with ever-popular virtualization technology, you could pay less limited-budget for more critical mission, and deploy fewer servers for more efficient enterprise datacenter.

Intel's next-generation Nehalem is a dynamically scalable micro-architecture that delivers breakthrough energy-efficient performance while introducing Intel's next-gen distributed shared memory architecture featuring high speed interconnects and 3-channel DDR3 memory. The Xeon processors based on brand-new Nehalem micro-architecture without a shadow of doubt earns your topless performance.

Intel’s all new generation Xeon platform (Codename: “Tylersburg”) 5500 system core logic and Xeon 5500 series processor (Codename: “Gainestown”) based on revolutionary “Nehalem” micro-architecture enjoy brand-new system interconnection (QuickPath Interconnect), improved virtualization technology, more efficient power management, and much higher memory capacity than ever, enough to be beyond prejudice of “x86 only for low-end entry server” and become the highlight on server market this year.

For the needs of total system, GIGABYTE NCBU provides standardized rack mount server: 2U model GS-R22T61-RH / GS-R22T81-RH, and 1U model GS-R12T4H-RH / GS-R12T10-RH. Besides , all servers introduce Intel 82576 (Codename: “Kawela”) dual port Gigabit Ethernet controller supporting Intel I/OAT (I/O Acceleration Technology) with Direct Cache Access, advanced virtualization technologies by VMDq (Virtual Machine Device Queue, help offload network I/O data processing from the virtual machine monitor software to the network silicon) / SR-IOV (Single Root I/O Virtualization, allow multiple operating systems running simultaneously within a single computer to natively share PCI Express devices), and IPv6 Offloading and LinkSec for higher network performance without compromise of security.

2.5 inch enterprise-class hard drive had been first choice on the way to high storage capacity. With the appearance of 10GbaseT Ethernet (IEEE 802.3an) and population of iSCSI / FCoE (Fibre Channel Over Ethernet), you could integrate data and storage network to simplify datacenter infrastructure via less cables and virtualization. Needless to say, deploying more hard drives inside limited chassis space for building “10G Throughput” disk array is nothing but urgent demand. Given the fact, GS-R12T10-RH and GS-R22T81-RH could support 2.5 inch SAS/SATA hard drives, and former in particular enjoys most 10 hard drives inside 1U space. Therefore, GS-R12T10 is enough to be dedicated “storage server” for the budget-limited enterprise without SAN (Storage Area Network).

What’s more, GS-R12T4H-RH and GS-R12T10-RH support 18 DIMM for maximum 144GB DDR3-1333/1066/800 for realizing unprecedented memory capacity inside 1U box to satisfy “memory-hungry” applications, such as running many OS on virtualization environment.

In the past, integrated web management and remote KVM console written by Java are monopoly of tier 1 server vendors, but GIGABYTE’s new servers change such viewpoint. All upcoming GIGABYTE server systems support ServerEngines Pilot II for remote web management. You could setup IP address, use web browsers to manage server by connecting dedicated fast Ethernet port. Bundled Java KVM console allows you operate server directly and mount local storage on remote servers form installing OS, applications and even updating firmware－saving much time to stay at noisy server room.

Except server system, GIGABYTE NCBU also provides discrete serverboards for system integration. Based on previous Intel Xeon 5000 platform (Codename: “Bensley”), flagship-class GA-7BESH-RH and price-competitive GA-7VCSV-RH to be proud of have their successors up the Intel Tylersburg era. GIGABYTE’s customers have no need to worry no upgrade for existed products.

With EATX form factor, high-end oriented GA-7TESH2-RH enjoys all features from Intel Xeon 5500 and advanced functions of GIGABYTE server systems including Intel 82576 GbE and ServerEngines Pilot II.

GA-7TCSV1-RH is simply the best Xeon 5500 server board for cost-effectiveness and its CEB form factor easy to find suitable chassis.

Last but not least, GA-6TXSL-RH is UP serverboard for ultimate UP performance based on Xeon 3500 processor and maximum 48GB DDR3 memor, dedicated to budget-limited customers.