In Pictures: Insanity At Gigabyte's GO OC 2010
More liquid-nitrogen madness takes place at Gigabyte.
Gigabyte hosts an international overclocking competition every year, with regionals around the world that finally end in a grand face-off in Taipei, Taiwan, at Gigabyte's headquarters. Get a load out of what went down this year in Los Angeles with all the photos that were snapped. We'll be covering the finals in Taiwan in full detail, so look out for that coming soon!
The winner of the LA competition was Jeremy Clifton, otherwise known as Sno.Icn. Clifton along with Michael Graf (mikeguava), both won an all-expenses paid for round trip to Taipei for a chance to win the grand-champion title.
The following are the final scores for the LA competition:
| Name | Pifast (sec) | Win Points | Wprime (sec) | Win Points | Super Pi (sec) | Win Points | MAXXMEM (MB/s) | Win Points | Total Points | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sno.Icn | 00:14.220 | 20 | 00:02.875 | 16 | 01:19.046 | 30 | 23256 | 2 | 68 | ||
| Mikeguava | 00:14.250 | 16 | 00:02.718 | 20 | 01:19.828 | 20 | 24297 | 4 | 60 | ||
| ROSS | 00:14.550 | 8 | 00:03.000 | 4 | 01:19.531 | 24 | 25796 | 16 | 52 | ||
| Duex | 00:15.420 | 0 | 00:02.921 | 12 | 01:22.656 | 8 | 25947 | 20 | 40 | ||
| FUGGER | 00:15.440 | 0 | 00:02.937 | 10 | 01:21.500 | 16 | 24849 | 6 | 32 | ||
| Vapor | 00:14.530 | 10 | 00:02.968 | 8 | 01:22.125 | 10 | 20411 | 0 | 28 | ||
| Gautam | 00:14.590 | 6 | 00:03.093 | 2 | 01:22.047 | 12 | 25205 | 8 | 28 | ||
| Gomeler | 00:15.060 | 2 | 00:03.203 | 0 | 01:24.531 | 6 | 25362 | 12 | 20 | ||
| 3oh6 | 00:14.410 | 12 | 00:02.969 | 6 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | ||
| G H Z | 00:14.660 | 4 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 25347 | 10 | 14 | ||
| rdrash | 00:00.000 | 0 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||
| Buckeye | 00:00.000 | 0 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 00:00.000 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Think about all the ruined UD9's.
Love the picture of the iced-over pipes!
Whats the propane torch for? Just in case someone takes a drink from one of the mugs of LN2 expecting a hot sip of coffee and instead gets a mouthful of freeze that they need to thaw really really fast?
superduperwaterheliumborone cooled CPU's + Frozen Fermi's + Watercooled chicks = gamer's haven
( 2010 Gamer's Equation by Isaac Newton )
All expense? That includes food, hotel, and possibly prostitutes right?
What about the purchase of video games? A new TV? =p
Anyway.... I can't wait to see the finals, I bet the speeds are going to be ridiculous.
At an event like this, I wouldn't mind being part of the cleaning crew... Damn! Goodies!
super dorks !
Lol @squalliepie, fernis don't freeze. They get to ambient, even with helium
I feel... miserable with my fan cooled CPU...
I must not overclock enough, I have no idea what the score are actually telling me... but the pictures make up for all of that. Its like going to the redneck tractor pulls, you see some shiat!
cant wait to see pictures of the championship
I hope I can join too.
Not too many pictures of the rigs. Only a couple, some of those guys have dangerous setups... Anyways, that Fugger guys still owes me money. I hope he reads this (probably won't). In that case hope he loses. LOL
I want LN2 in my case. Then id be like NOW WHO'S laughing i7 owners!
but seriously that's awesome