Daily Reviews Summary 06/25/12

We've already seen the new GHz Edition Radeon HD 7970 at stock speeds. Now let's see how it goes when it comes to overclocking.

The twin tower design looks like it may have a lot to offer in the way of performance with the push/pull configuration. The cooler is equipped with a total of four heat pipes that are roughly U shaped. Each of the four heat pipes extend one half inch above the top of the towers and run parallel to one another up both sides of the cooler. The base itself is made up of the typical mixed metal combination of aluminum for the top and copper for the heat pipes along with integrated fins for added heat dissipation.

Panther Point, the Z77 chipset, launched simultaneously with the brand new Intel Ivy Bridge CPU's. Supporting PCI-3.0, native USB3.0, high BCLK and RAM frequencies, but only if bundled with one of Intel's 3d generation CPU's. As usual, vendors launched a wide variety of boards, from low end basic OEM boards to high end gamer/overclocking versions. Choosing the right board is mainly always a matter of features, gimmicks, color schemes and surely the price tag. Today we review two of Gigabyte's offerings: the mainstream targeted GA Z77-D3H and the high end model, the GA Z77X-UD5H.