The annual Build Your Own PC Race for Charity has helped community and charities nationwide with over $2 million dollars donated. It has become a tradition for many media and customers to attend every year at CES.

This year, the race was determined by assembling a PC based on new AMD Phenom II X4 Processor. The upcoming GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 Classic AMD Motherboard lineup with the support of Phenom II Processor is scheduled to launch by end of January. For current AMD models, GIGABYTE delivers an easy BIOS update for users upgrade path to AMD's latest 45nm process technology enhancements including higher core clocks with greater energy efficiency over past generations, integrated DDR2/DDR3 memory controller (DDR3 memory support for AM3 processors and AM3 designed motherboards only), HyperTransport 3.0 and C1E enhanced power savings.

On the top of major debut at CES 2009, GIGABYTE also joined force with business partners to showcase its gaming solutions at CES 2009, including Kingston, Lian-Li, Topower and CyberPower.

“GIGABYTE has been well known for its leading technologies in the industry. In the motherboard world, GIGABYTE was the first to ship with DualBIOS protection and go beyond traditional 3 phase power design to offer 12 phase power and hardware-based dynamic 6 gear power saving design. GIGABYTE was also the first to implement all Japanese all solid capacitors, lower RDS MOSFET, and Ferrit Core Chokes on its P35 and P45 Motherboard lineup to ensure the highest levels of reliability, stability, and performance under extreme conditions at lower system operating temperature.

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3
By doubling the copper layers to 2 ounces for both power and ground layers, Ultra Durable 3 motherboards improve power efficiency by reducing circuit impedance by as much 50% and allowing more bandwidth for electron passage, delivering dramatically lower system temperatures and enhancing stability for overclocking. With GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 Technology, ordinary end users are able to set world records by pushing memory DDR2 beyond 1800MHz without increasing much voltage.” said Gary Tam, Senior Technical Product Manager with GIGABYTE.

“GIGABYTE has a very positive outlook for the year 2009 based on its strong product positioning in terms of innovation, performance and quality with the focus on GIGABYTE Ultra Durable 3 Technology in the market and will continue to engineer products tailored to each market segment.“ says Tony Liao, Vice President at GIGABYTE North America."

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In the TechBrief above, PCSTATS goal was just to share some of the behind the scenes information and images we receive each week from manufacturers. Technology advances very quickly, and while benchmarks and feature lists are very important tools for researching the computer gear you're interested in, sometimes it's good to know about the fun (albeit extreme) places a motherboard can go. There are no warranties when extreme overclocking, and it's guaranteed hardware will fry. Still, it's fun to watch the LN2 pour and clock speeds advance. This PCSTATS TechBrief gives you a look at info you are unlikely to be exposed to in the computer store. It is important to note that the TechBrief does not present our opinions, and we're not dishing out the final word on one technological option or another.