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Winter is coming, and so is another overclocking competition from GIGABYTE! Throughout the month of February, we're inviting overclockers to keep warm by pushing their 6th Gen. Intel® processors to their absolute limits on a GIGABYTE 100 series motherboard during our Z170 Winter OC Challenge . We're giving away a total of 5 GIGABYTE motherboards throughout the contest, with an additional Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard up for grabs for those users that submit scores to all stages of a round. You can check out the contest details below. If you head on over to HWBOT you can find out more and submit your scores. Contest details: Round 1: Enthusiast, Rookie and Novice Overclockers – 2 Cores Stage 1: 3DMark11 Physics - CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHz Stage 2: HWBOT Prime - CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHz Stage 3: Geekbench Multi Core - CPU frequency limited to 4503.00 MHZ Round 2: Enthusiast, Rookie and Novice Overclockers– 4 Cores Stage 1: XTU - CPU frequency limited to

Recently Microsoft ®  announced  that Windows 7 and 8.1 will not support future CPUs from Intel ® , AMD®, and Qualcomm®. This means that Windows 10 will be the only platform supported by future CPUs like Intel's upcoming CPU codenamed 'Kaby Lake', Qualcomm's upcoming '8996' silicon, and AMD's upcoming 'Bristol Ridge' silicon. Furthermore, Microsoft will no longer update Windows 7/8.1 for Intel's 6th Gen. Core™ processor (aka 'Sky Lake'). Here's the rationale for the change from Microsoft: Windows 7 was designed nearly 10 years ago before any x86/x64 SOCs existed. For Windows 7 to run on any modern silicon, device drivers and firmware need to emulate Windows 7’s expectations for interrupt processing, bus support, and power states- which is challenging for WiFi, graphics, security, and more. As partners make customizations to legacy device drivers, services, and firmware settings, customers are likely to see regressions with Windows 7 o

You guys might remember Jeffrey Stephenson (Slipperyskip) work from his previous project Addison in 2015  or the Flightline in 2013 . Jeffrey manages to bring together style and modern PC performance together in a very unique and crafty way!  Well good news, Slipperyskip is back at it with a new concept in mind and his work is well underway already!His new project SkyVue features one of GIGABYTE most recent motherboard, the Z170N-WIFI , a mini-ITX mobo part of the 100 Series Ultra Durable line up which is packed with great features, such as the new USB3.1 over USB Type C port which is powered by Intel's powerful USB 3.1 solution! Here are some pictures of his progress. you can follow each step of his work over at his blog here:  http://slipperyskip.com/forum/index.php?topic=16.0