Gigabyte announces the winners of the 'hidden gems' contest

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., the world leader in the manufacture of motherboards and graphics cards, announces the winners of the 'Hidden gems' contest. In celebration of our history, 26 years at the heart of the custom PC industry, GIGABYTE invited all of its Facebook fans to share videos and photos of their old PCs mounted with our boards. The older the better!

“The Hidden Gems contest has been revealed as an ideal showcase for showing the philosophy behind GIGABYTE's Ultra Durable technology. 74% of the proposals included plates older than 5 years, almost 25% had plates older than 10 years and 8% were from the 1990s, ”said Tim Handley, deputy director of GIGABYTE's motherboard marketing department. "It should be noted that the oldest motherboard submitted to the contest dated from 1991. And it still works after 20 years!"

Grand Prix - Victoria Chudinova - GA-586T2 - 1996

The Grand Prix, endowed with a GIGABYTE G1.Sniper M3, was awarded to Victoria Chudinova of Ukraine, who presented an extraordinarily creative video showing a 1996 GA-586T2 motherboard. Victoria deserved this award as the most voted proposal in the Hidden Gems contest, with a total of 1314 votes.

Victoria's video can be found here:

'GIGABYTE Team' Award - Sergey Erofeev - GA-7VA-C - 2002

Sergey Erofeev from Russia won a GIGABYTE Z77X-UD3H motherboard for his proposal, which included a 2002 GA-7VA-C motherboard installed in an amazing chassis made entirely of GIGABYTE motherboards. This award was granted exclusively, objectively and entirely at the discretion of our Facebook motherboard team.

'The most deserving of an update' award - Dmitriy Stadnik - GA-386UM - 1991

To reward the proposal we think represents the oldest motherboard still in operation, we were proposing a GIGABYTE B75M-D3H motherboard, which was awarded to Dmitiry Stadnik from Ukraine, who submitted a fascinating video showing a 20-year-old GA-386UM motherboard still working today.

Dmitriy's video can be viewed here:

GIGABYTE Ultra Durable ™

GIGABYTE introduced its first Ultra Durable ™ equipped motherboards in 2006. These motherboards were pioneering at the time, and included features such as having only solid capacitors. Over time, many other features were added, such as DualBIOS ™, MOSFETs with low active RDS, ferrite core chokes or 2x Copper PCB, as well as technologies to protect from high temperatures, humidity, static electricity and voltage drops., which have made us proud today to offer our customers the exceptional durability of our Ultra Durable ™ 5 technology.

The GIGABYTE 'Hidden Gems' contest

Open from June 20 to July 31, the 'Hidden Gems' contest invited all GIGABYTE motherboard fans on Facebook to submit photos and videos of their old GIGABYTE motherboard based gear. On the website of the 'Hidden Gems' contest, you can visit the more than one hundred submitted proposals: