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Taipei, Taiwan, February 7th 2012 \u2013 GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the winners of the GIGABYTE \u2018Xmas and New Year Contest\u2019, an overclocking contest that was hosted on HWbot.org, with scoring challenges based on AMD Llano APUs. Several world records related to the AMD Llano platform were broken, with contest winner Christian Ney settings three new world records:<\/p>\n

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New AMD Llano World Records<\/strong><\/p>\n

Llano Reference Frequency at 200MHz<\/p>\n

Llano Memory Frequency at 1752.8MHz<\/p>\n

Llano CPU Frequency at 6067.71MHz<\/p>\n

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All records were achieved using the A75-UD4H<\/a>.<\/p>\nngg_shortcode_0_placeholder\n

The \u2018GIGABYTE Xmas and New Year Contest\u2019 was hosted on HWBOT.org, open to members from December 15th<\/sup> 2011 until January 31st<\/sup> 2012. The contest featured three unique stages:<\/p>\n

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\u2018Xmas and New Year Contest\u2019 Stages<\/strong>:<\/p>\n

1. Highest HyperTransport Bus (CPUz)<\/p>\n

2. Highest Memory Speed (CPUz)<\/p>\n

3. Highest CPU Frequency (CPUz)<\/p>\n

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X\u2019Mas and New Year Contest Winners<\/strong><\/p>\n

1st – Christian Ney: 30 points (Switzerland)<\/p>\n

2nd – Tsunamijuan: 20 points (U.S.A.)
\n3rd – alexey17: 17 points (Russia)<\/p>\n

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Congratulations to first place winner \u2018Christian Ney\u2019, who will take home a 990FXA-UD5<\/a> motherboard. Second and third places will be awarded a 990FXA-UD3<\/a> motherboard.<\/p>\n

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About the GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD5 Motherboard<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The GIGABYTE 990FXA-UD5 motherboard was designed to offer a stable, high-speed platform that delivers amazingly fast performance for AMD FX \u2018Bulldozer\u2019 processors, and is aimed at enthusiast gamers and high performance PC builders looking to harness the power of AMD\u2019s new desktop platform.<\/p>\n

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About GIGABYTE<\/strong><\/h3>\n

GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd., headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan, is known as a leading brand in the IT industry with branch offices located in 24 countries around the world. Founded in 1986, GIGABYTE started as a small research and development team and has since taken a position as one of the in the world’s top motherboard manufacturers.\u00a0In addition to motherboards and graphics cards, GIGABYTE further expanded its product portfolio to include notebooks and desktop PCs, datacenter servers, networking products, mobile handsets, and home entertainment devices to serve each facet of the digital life in the home and office. Everyday GIGABYTE aims to \u201cUpgrade Your Life\u201d with innovative technology, exceptional quality, and unmatched customer service. Visit www.gigabyte.com<\/a> for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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