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2:20 AM - 10/21/2008 by Alan Yang (Tom's Hardware Taiwan), http://www.tomshardware.com/cn/1498,review-1498.html

Some participating teams withdrew from the overclocking challenge in the second phase.

Once the Battle for the Best P45 OC came to an end, teams in the field continued to prepare for participation in the Overclocking Record Challenge Competition—the freestyle component of Gigabyte’s event.

In this second phase of the competition, the goal was for overclockers to go all-out in order to break the world overclocking record. The rules for contestants were to use any Intel CPU with any Gigabyte motherboard and AMD graphics card. The contestant who broke the most world records during contest time wins the competition and earn a trophy and a cash reward of $3,000. We found that the number of contestants in the arena decreased, due to some teams—including Taiwan, China, Australia and Turkey—giving up the competition in this phase.

The Australian team gave up participating in the overclocking rivalry.The Chinese team also gave up participating…

…as did the Taiwanese team...…and the Turkish team as well.

Even though some teams gave up in the second phase, the teams continuing the competition were focused on applying their secret weapons to tweak performance in the short time before the contest officially started at 5:30 PM.

Coating the motherboard with a protective agent.Refitting the display card for overclocking enhancement.

The participating team transformed the overclocking performance of the mainboard by utilizing the limited space available.The Teac team took out the secret finishing boxes, in which there were various required refitting tools.

The participants modified the display card to help enhance overclocking performance.The Singapore team took out various monitoring tools.

The French team explored the overclocking plan.The Chinese team was constantly testing extreme overclocking of the hardware.

The Overclocking Record Challenge Competition lasted until 8:00 PM, but we had to leave the field early because of a deadline, so we weren’t able to catch the finish or the awards ceremony.

Talkback
Duncan NZ 10/21/2008 9:26 AM
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Bit of a poor article, should of just submitted the article late, and that way you could actually have the two bits people actually care about, chicks AND world records.

cangelini 10/21/2008 10:08 AM
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Duncan NZ :
Bit of a poor article, should of just submitted the article late, and that way you could actually have the two bits people actually care about, chicks AND world records.



Duncan,
I'm following up with the folks in TW for a follow-up with the final results.

Zorg 10/21/2008 11:59 AM
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Duncan NZ :
chicks.... AND ...

When?


Sorry for the disrespect...not. I like GA, earlier this would have been worth more. Now I want to see the i7, even though I know it's a server chip.

More chicks, sorry I'm a pig.

computerninja7823 10/21/2008 4:05 PM
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sorry i just got to say this......more girls! i like the one in the little black dress......

TauAs 10/21/2008 5:54 PM
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Very bad article, even gigabytes press release is better:

http://www.giga-byte.com/News/Moth [...] ewsID=1418

and championship has ended almost a month ago.

salsoolo 10/21/2008 5:57 PM
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computerninja7823 :
sorry i just got to say this......more girls! i like the one in the little black dress......


who doesnt

Zorg 10/21/2008 7:18 PM
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So, no more chicks?

Sigh.

Oh, well...

danimoth17 10/21/2008 10:00 PM
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Just noticed, all the mentions of the Gigabyte boards on display are wrong concerning the GA-P45-UD3 board. You labeled it as a GA-P45-UD3P, which it is not because it has only 1 PCIe 2.0 slot.

There are 3 models
GA-P45-UD3 (shown)
GA-P45-UD3R (different chipset cooler)
GA-P45-UD3P (2 pcie 2.0)

cangelini 10/21/2008 11:40 PM
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Zorg :
So, no more chicks?Sigh.Oh, well...



Sorry, no more chicks...for now ;)

cangelini 10/21/2008 11:41 PM
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danimoth17 :
Just noticed, all the mentions of the Gigabyte boards on display are wrong concerning the GA-P45-UD3 board. You labeled it as a GA-P45-UD3P, which it is not because it has only 1 PCIe 2.0 slot.There are 3 modelsGA-P45-UD3 (shown)GA-P45-UD3R (different chipset cooler)GA-P45-UD3P (2 pcie 2.0)



I'll have the author take a look, thanks!!

rambo117 10/22/2008 5:00 AM
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hehe, AMD chick ;)

the chick in the black dress was pretty hot too though.

dang, USA lost again!! maybe next time....

Zorg 10/22/2008 5:51 AM
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cangelini :
Sorry, no more chicks...for now ;)

I'll wait. ;)

ZOldDude 10/22/2008 6:39 AM
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Sorry GB but a -invite- contest that -excludes- other MB makers sows fear. DFI in open contest has won the worlds OC challenge for over 6 years running.
Go home in shame.

Z

ZOldDude 10/22/2008 7:58 AM
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ZOldDude :
Sorry GB but a -invite- contest that -excludes- other MB makers shows fear. DFI in open contest has won the worlds OC challenge for over 6 years running.Go home in shame.Z


randomizer 10/22/2008 8:15 AM
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Why do all these competitions happen everywhere except Australia?

*Goes to start own overclocking competition*

neiroatopelcc 10/22/2008 10:59 AM
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So. When does overclocking enter the olympics ? Seems to be high profile evens these days ....

Though I in general appreaciate toms, I have to say the oc coverage pieces, aren't exactly great though. Neither the msi ones nor the gigabyte actually provide enough information to warrant an article longer than a single page of news. I mean - where are the details of what mods were applied, or what tricks were used, and how (if at all) they work. I bet most of the contestants are capable of english to some extend.
Less pointless images, and more details would be nice. Sure the chicks are nice to look at, but they don't exactly contribute to our knowledge (the redheads are nicely cooked and ready to be eaten).

the_one111 10/22/2008 8:32 PM
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LOL.

The michael phelps of overclocking would be so funny...

""THATS RIGHT NEWB I GOTZ MINE TO 6ghz!! U FAIL!!""

The asians would be all over that competition lawl.

randomizer 10/23/2008 1:09 AM
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The_one111 :
LOL.The michael phelps of overclocking would be so funny...""THATS RIGHT NEWB I GOTZ MINE TO 6ghz!! U FAIL!!""The asians would be all over that competition lawl.


It's over 9000MHz!

Anonymous 10/23/2008 4:40 PM
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WE NEED MORE PICS OF THE GIRLS

murdoc 10/25/2008 10:02 PM
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The left Ruby on the first pic is hot!

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