Gigabyte International Overclocking Tournament

Results:

With the benchmarks winding down, everyone is wondering how everyone scored. There were the four benchmark categories, so here are top three finishers for SuperPI 1M and Aquamark, and the top four finishers for the 3DMark01 and 3DMark06 suites. Below that are the top three winners and the prizes for each one.

 

 

 

 

 

SuperPI 1M

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place

Mark Chris Ross

8.172/sec 8.281/sec 8.484/sec

AquaMark

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place

Ross Jeremy Fugger

288,524 277,929 277,012

3DMark01

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place

Ross Gautam Chris Fugger

87,670 86,664 84,338 83,105

3DMark06

1st Place 2nd Place 3rd Place 4th Place

Mark Fugger Ross Gautam

16,705 16,188 15,767 15,177

 

So with the top scores in for each category, you want to know who the winners are right? Well there were prizes for the top three with the highest combined total scores. So here are the results and their prizes.

 

Third Place: Fugger with a combined total of 14 points.

Prizes:

• GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DS3R Motherboard.
• GIGABYTE GV-NX88T512H 8800GT video card.
• Corsair Dominator DDR3 2000GHz 2GB Memory Set.
• Intel X58 Motherboard media sample upon release (Under NDA).

 

Second Place: Mark with a combined total of 18 points.

Prizes:

• GIGABYTE GA-EP45-DQ6 Motherboard.
• GIGABYTE GV-NX88T512H 8800GT video card.
• Corsair Dominator DDR3 2000GHz 2GB Memory Set.
• Intel X58 Motherboard media sample upon release (Under NDA).

 

First Place: Ross with a combined total of 26 points.

Prizes:

• Paid trip to Taiwan for GIGABYTE Worldwide Overclocking Competition in September including International Airfare and Hotel Accommodations.
• GIGABYTE GA-X48T-DQ6 motherboard
• Corsair Dominator DDR3 2000GHz 2GB Memory Set.
• Intel X58 Motherboard media sample upon release (Under NDA).

 

Special Shots:

Of course, everyone gets those special shots when they attend events like these. So here are my prized pictures that were taken at the tournament. First up are my shots with the Gigabyte staff. The staff worked very hard to make us comfortable and keep us informed every step of the way. My thanks go out to Angela Lan and her team.

 

 

 

I also want to thank Bosco for picking up the tab and putting me up at the Pacific Palms Resort to attend the tournament. The room was awesome and had a killer view from my private balcony. Thanks Boss.

 

 

 

Finally, I have two shots from the competition which I though were the coolest. First two shots are of the LN2 vapors engulfing the table and the temperature of the CPU. It is a sight to see that cover a computer system and still have it running as if nothing was on it. I am still amazed that a liquid that can instantly freeze a flower can keep a computer operating at -178.6 degrees Celsius.

 

 

For all of you who like anomalies and video, I have two clips I want to share. The first one is of Chris's system where you can see the LN2 vapors pouring out of his CPU duct. The second one is of Mark's monitor during his top 3DMark06 run. He pushed his shader clocks all the way to 2400MHz and it caused artifacting to occur in the benchmark. Surprisingly, it did not crash the test like he expected and brought him a killer score.