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.
Champion Announced
16:29:32 - Even with the scoreboard turned off during the final minutes of the competition to keep the winner a secret until the official awards ceremony, stephenyeong went down fighting. He finally managed to get MaxxMEM to finish properly. Unfortunately, his score wasn’t enough to overcome Matose. Game, set, and match for the Romanian!
16:56:21 - Rankings remained consistent during the last 15 minutes of the competition—even before the scoreboard went dark. The announcement that Matose was the GO OC 2010 World Champion was a formality. By this time, he had proudly waved the Romanian tri-color on stage and hoisted his trophy. The winner was flanked by stephenyeong and speedtime.wing, who placed second and third, respectively.
Screenshots of Matose's, stephenyeong's, and speedtime.wing's setups are available from Gigabyte here.
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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.