Gigabyte's GO OC finals came to a conclusion over the weekend. Europe's dominance of the overclocking scene was retained, while a Hong Kong native came up short. Check out how using obscene amounts of LN2 can bring you a couple thousand dollars.
Gigabyte’s six-month effort to find and crown a champion came to a conclusion in Taiwan this weekend during the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2010 (GO OC). What came between the 15 hopefuls who made it to the finals and the first prize? Several hours of liquid-nitrogen overclocking action.
9:28:26 - The finalists and media reps that flew in arrived at the contest venue, Huashan Creative Park. All the pre-chosen hardware was already set up in each contestant’s station, and the overclockers spent the next hour or so unpacking the components and breadboarding their rigs.
11:41:31 - A team gong strike by executives representing the chief sponsors and startling pyrotechnics marked the official start of GO OC. The finalists would attempt to attain the highest benchmark scores possible within the next four hours and 50 minutes. These extreme overclockers only had their experience, personalized tool sets, and luck (according to one competitor) to count on. At least all the players enjoyed an endless supply of liquid nitrogen.



No event is complete without them!
They got to play with good hardware and Liquid Nitrogen for free, 5 grand is just a plus mate!
Besides that, whats with the scantily clad women?
No event is complete without them!
They got to play with good hardware and Liquid Nitrogen for free, 5 grand is just a plus mate!
Welcome to the world of multi-core computing.
I personally could care less about the clock rate. All about the overall speed of the entire system as a whole for me.
So you don't care if you hit 3.8 ghz or 4.0 with your cpu? You must not overclock.
When i got back my senses and start continue reading to the page 4, I lost again...
...and neither is life!
You seem to be looking at this from the wrong perspective. When reading a video card review are you more concerned with the GPU's clock rate or the Frames per second it delivers? Of course what matters most is the performance. 3.8 or 4.0 Ghz is really just an e-peen contest if you can't get ram your timings right.