Event Report: GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2008

Competition II: Freestyle Contest Continued


For the Freestyle contest, Team USA 1 used an E8600 operating at 6.1Ghz at 1.95V, along with two HD 4870's running at an impressive 1050Mhz/1200Mhz. Their processor had a -110C coldbug, so they were often one bad pour away from a time-wasting system lock/reboot, but it was cool to watch, no pun intended. They spent the entire contest running 3DMark 2001, and in the dying minutes actually achieved a pretty remarkable ~114,000 score. Regrettably, while opening the very last verification program for a submission screenshot the system rebooted. They valiantly attempted another run, but the time ran out half-way through one of the game tests.

Obviously, you are all wondering how many world records were in fact broken during the Freestyle contest, and the answer is quite a few! Here is the full list of new world records:

• Award Ceremony

Daphnee, Colin, Tony and Hicookie were on hand to announce the winners of the Freestyle contest. Although there was a tie between Team USA 2 and Team Vietnam, an impressive 5 World Records each, the rules stated the team who broke a world record by the largest margin would be declared the winner. Due to their dominant PCMark performance, Team USA 2 were reigned victorious.


Here we see one of the many perks of victory, and it appears that FUGGER has spotted someone a) drinking LN2 or b) pouring it on someone else's head. Overall, the North American contingent walked away with a healthy share of the overall prizes (even I won a prize).


What happens when you have unlimited liquid nitrogen, a room full of overclockers, and and no more hardware to overclock? Fun! Here we see Pt1t taking a refreshing LN2 bath, and then as the smoke cleared the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2008 was all over.