Gigabyte Crowns An Overclocking Champion For 2010
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.
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15:41:20 - By dropping .100 seconds from his PiFast time, stephenyeong pushed speedtime.wing down to third. With less than an hour left, the finalists scrambled to maximize their scores. By this time, stephenyeong started concentrating on producing a MaxxMEM benchmark, the only score lacking from his score line.
16:05:03 - A small crowd started gathering around stephenyeong, wondering whether he’d be able to generate a MaxxMEM benchmark. With a good score, the Hong Kong native would’ve built a big lead over Matose. However, the Romanian wasn’t sitting pretty, concentrating on upping his PiFast value.
16:19:31 - With a little less than 16 minutes left in the competition, Matose sealed the deal. By resolving his PiFast benchmark within 13.830 seconds, he managed to solidify his lead over stephenyeong. speedtime.wing ended up tying with Rekky (Jengkol) from Indonesia. However, by virtue of the former’s faster PiFast time, the rankings remain unchanged.
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Damn, thats a lot of hardware. Congrats to Matose.Reply
Besides that, whats with the scantily clad women? -
freename EugenesterBesides that, whats with the scantily clad women?Reply
No event is complete without them! -
NeeKo hokall that for 5Gs USD!?!? sheesh... think they should up the prize money there...Reply
They got to play with good hardware and Liquid Nitrogen for free, 5 grand is just a plus mate! -
aznshinobi Checks are old. XD ATI's logo is still on it, AMD took over the logo too. Should be AMD radeon now.Reply -
buzznut Why don't they ever show what I really want to see: Clock rate! It's an overclocking competition!Reply -
Ragnar-Kon buzznutWhy don't they ever show what I really want to see: Clock rate! It's an overclocking competition!Welcome to the world of multi-core computing.Reply
I personally could care less about the clock rate. All about the overall speed of the entire system as a whole for me. -
buzznut Ragnar-KonWelcome 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.Reply
So you don't care if you hit 3.8 ghz or 4.0 with your cpu? You must not overclock.