Looking To Break Records
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.
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.
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.
