Event Report: GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2009

Competition Day - Walk-In & Warm-Up

On June 3rd, competition day, GIGABYTE pulled out all the stops and the competitors were greeted with a sweet GO OC ice sculpture.


All the competitors lined up to sign their names on the wall.


Leading into the competition room, there walls were lined with a recap of all the country qualifiers and regional finals that led to this worldwide final event.


While all the competitors would receive the batch of sponsor products, only the winner would get the Champion's trophy and the $5000 USD cheque.


On display, GIGABYTE had the new GA-EX58A-EXTREME and GA-EX58A-UD4 motherboards, which were later joined by a GA-EX58A-UD4P. We can expect this new X58 line-up to hit the retail channel within a month or so.


Even more special was the Lynnfield demo system that they had running off of one of their upcoming P55 motherboards. Regrettably, no interaction with the system was permitted.


The flags were out for competition day, teams could compete for national pride!


Here was the schedule for the day, and as you can see, there was only 46 minutes left in the warm-up/set-up session before the start of SuperPI 32M competition.