Gigabyte EP45-DS4 first extreme performance !!! (56k Warning!)

[DFectuoso]

wow it looks amazing....

Look way too fun

[s0lid]

Quite good but.... guess nobody can match this:



That's all the insulation I used in that run, just vaseline all over the place

Haha this is the best mobo insulation i've ever seen

[George_o/c]

Quite good but.... guess nobody can match this:



That's all the insulation I used in that run, just vaseline all over the place


What ?
Karen's benching for "Hellas Overclocking Team" aka HOT ?

About the insulation : OMG ! ... You literally tortured your " immortal " P5K3 Deluxe ... Shame on you m8

About Karen : No she's not benching in my team ... () I wish she did though ...

[Polizei]

This thread is full of .

I love the pictures... looks like Gigabyte treated you guys well.

[BenchZowner]

That's not a P5K3 Deluxe, but a poor Asus Striker Extreme ( notice the DDR2 slots George )

[George_o/c]

That's not a P5K3 Deluxe, but a poor Asus Striker Extreme ( notice the DDR2 slots George )

Oh, ok Bill, sorry ... but I'm kind of dizzy from studying

Then you did great with the insulation You know why ? I hate that motherboard ... It would even take you hours for it to boot ...

[NightRaven]

I see the HELLO KITTY in your mon,hahahah

haha its not my monitor! it belonged to someone.. i just loaned it

[NightRaven]

The dialect you guys speak is so different from Cantonese i guess i'll have to brush up on my Mandarin

haha in fact the slang is different bro.. sometimes they dont understand me as well.. and sometimes i dont understand their hokkien..

so we both need to brush up

[PcCI2iminal]

Gigabyte is doing a good work
and nice pics guys

[dinos22]

You wouldn't guess what HiCookie used around the socket... Blue Tack!

That comment about Karen, you can say that again!

.........heheh and where did he get the idea from
i think he even gets it from Australia

Quite good but.... guess nobody can match this:



That's all the insulation I used in that run, just vaseline all over the place
:

EEEEEEK

[hixie]

.........heheh and where did he get the idea from
i think he even gets it from Australia



EEEEEEK

Yes, he gets one of his aussie mates to send him blue tack every so often
BTW, does this thread seem to be more and more off topic. Karen and vaseline seems to pop up a little too often

[[XC] gomeler]

Uploading just under a terabyte of pictures, then I'll post some of my pictures of the even. Need something faster than 384kbit upload

[Polizei]

Uploading just under a terabyte of pictures, then I'll post some of my pictures of the even. Need something faster than 384kbit upload

Makes me wish I was still back at school... 10Mbit up/down per connection in the dorm rooms.

[dinos22]

wtf terabyte
surely you mean gigabyte (as in size)

[[XC] gomeler]

wtf terabyte
surely you mean gigabyte (as in size)

oh fk, yes definitely a gigabyte of photos, not a terabyte I got about 100mb finished so far until Flickr Uploadr ate my images and doubled the ones it had already uploaded

[T_M]

DOnt worry guys, i kept Hicookie intoxicated for the following week, but no good drunken photos sorry as i didnt want any evidence

The media event sounds like it went ok too.
Here's a shot from the last press conference:

[andre X_X]

Nice Pics....
looks like P45 quite promising... it must be great to meet all the ocer arround the world

[NightRaven]

DOnt worry guys, i kept Hicookie intoxicated for the following week, but no good drunken photos sorry as i didnt want any evidence

The media event sounds like it went ok too.
Here's a shot from the last press conference:

Holy Shi(f)t! Ya still alive there mate!!!!

and hicookie too!

haha well good job none the less! catch ya soon!

[TheKarmakazi]

Great thread! Looks like a very fun time had by all. Its good to see everyone joking, etc. What benching should be about!

[ceemic]

...Estonia...

Who? Jaan?

EDIT: aa, it was Veiko...

[ZoLKoRn]

DOnt worry guys, i kept Hicookie intoxicated for the following week, but no good drunken photos sorry as i didnt want any evidence

The media event sounds like it went ok too.
Here's a shot from the last press conference:

hehehe hope to met you next time Tim

Who? Jaan?

EDIT: aa, it was Veiko...

Yep

[Trouffman]

aaarg ! so bad I haven't been able to confirm my flight for the press event ... Seem that you have had a lot of fun \o/

[[XC] gomeler]

Finally wrote up a post on the trip. I've included a video of the hotel rooms we stayed in, sweet rooms with awesome bathrooms Sadly XS doesn't support HTML -> BBCode and embedded objects so you'll have to click through, video is @ top of post.

http://gomeler.com/2008/05/13/gigaby...lug-fest-2008/

Here's a snippet of the post

Work
The main purpose of my stay in Taipei was testing upcoming P45 based motherboards. Gigabyte had their P45-DS3R, P45-DS4, and P45-DS5 available for us to test. We performed all our testing in a large conference room at the Gigabyte headquarters in Taipei. In addition to simply testing the boards, Gigabyte board and BIOS engineers were on call to answer our questions and ask questions themselves. While benching we discovered a couple of issues with the BIOS and stability but we swiftly located the problems and helped the engineers pinpoint solutions. I think while we were there we went through nearly a dozen BIOS revisions and I imagine before launch the BIOS will receive even more revisions to perfect it.

I call it work above but honestly this was more like play. We had 300 liters of liquid nitrogen and nearly 20kg of dry ice available to us. On reflection this was way too much cooling, perhaps if I had been benching GPUs and CPUs I would have been able to chew through 60 liters myself but with just my CPU I only used maybe 20 liters. This was my first time benching with liquid nitrogen so I was very careful until I spilled a cup all over my board and realized it wasn't super lethal. I had a lot of fun benching with liquid nitrogen but all through the day I missed my cascade. With a cascade I simply hit a switch and it gets cold. With LN2 I had to constantly monitor the pot temperatures and feed it little splashes of nitrogen. I'll take my humming compressors any day!





Killed this board Insulation leak + 3 hours of LN2 = zap.



First time benching LN2, I couldn't resist a staged glamor shot

[Cloud76]

Were all the boards tested definitive revision 1.0?

[Achill3uS]

really nice event guys, respect to gigabyte for this... more companys could learn about it how they handling overclockers...
looks all of you had a lot of fun, but im really curious to the results P45 is still under NDA, or could you share some results?