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Gigabyte Crowns An Overclocking Champion For 2010

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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.

24 Comments Comment from the forums
  • Damn, thats a lot of hardware. Congrats to Matose.
    Besides that, whats with the scantily clad women?
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  • KingArcher
    Adrenaline filled. Wish I could've been there :(
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  • freename
    EugenesterBesides that, whats with the scantily clad women?
    No event is complete without them!
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  • hok
    all that for 5Gs USD!?!? sheesh... think they should up the prize money there...
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  • spentshells
    hot girls and liquid nirtogen awesome
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  • NeeKo
    hokall that for 5Gs USD!?!? sheesh... think they should up the prize money there...
    They got to play with good hardware and Liquid Nitrogen for free, 5 grand is just a plus mate!
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  • aznshinobi
    Checks are old. XD ATI's logo is still on it, AMD took over the logo too. Should be AMD radeon now.
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  • buzznut
    Why don't they ever show what I really want to see: Clock rate! It's an overclocking competition!
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  • 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.

    I personally could care less about the clock rate. All about the overall speed of the entire system as a whole for me.
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  • 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.
    So you don't care if you hit 3.8 ghz or 4.0 with your cpu? You must not overclock.
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