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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Australian overclocking fanatics crowded into Kingpin Bowling at Darling Harbour, Sydney, to watch master overclockers push their hardware to the limit. Winners in the air-cooling and liquid cooling categories will earn the right to represent Australia in the Asia-Pacific regional finals in Indonesia in June. Next stop: the world finals! -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
In the liquid cooling corner, benches were crowded with essential equipment: Paper towels, Thermoses with liquid nitrogen and plenty of cans of Red Bull, natch. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
In the air cooling competition, contestants used the following components:
- Intel Core i7 X980 CPU
- GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard
- Gigabyte graphics card
- WD VelociRaptor hard drive
- Corsair memory
Competitors were tested on the wPrime 32M and SuperPi 32M benchmarks. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Points were also awarded for pouring liquid nitrogen in as flashy a manner as possible. Maybe. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Gigabyte's X58 chipset motherboard and Intel Core i7-980X Processor Extreme Edition featured heavily at the event. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Cor, blimey! Etc. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
For those readers who have never been to an overclocking competition, it's a bit like watching chess, but with no discernable result, for three hours. On the plus side, there's usually free beer. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
The score boards up the top had nothing to do with the overclocking event, incidentally: a game of bowling was happening in the background. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
The event drew a surprising number of girls (not evidenced in this picture). But they were there. Honest. -
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A competitor's prefered setup. -
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Another competitor's prefered setup. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
A competitor's set up, with added Dutch angle. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Another competitor's prefered setup. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Etc. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
A competitor stands with cooling solution at the ready. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Fortunately, nobody mistook the thermoses of liquid nitrogen for coffee. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
The liquid cooling competition seemed to attract a bigger crowd. It pays to be showy. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Results remain neck-and-neck at the two hour mark. Journalists covering the event go bowling. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
There were plenty of goodies up for grabs for the winners, including motherboards, power supplies and high capacity thumb drives. The winners also got to rub shoulders with former overclocking champ Dino Strkljevic and Gigabyte's lovely promotion girls (see below). -
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A showboating Gigabyte staff member poured liquid nitrogen onto his bare hands. Dude, you rock! -
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
BIOS settings are carefully tweaked. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
First runner-up for liquid cooling category. Former top overclocker turned Gigabyte PR rep, Dino Strkljevic, presented the awards. -
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
First runner-up for air cooling category. Former top overclocker turned Gigabyte PR rep, Dino Strkljevic, presented the awards. -
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Winner for air cooling category. Former top overclocker turned Gigabyte PR rep, Dino Strkljevic, presented the awards. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
BIOS settings are carefully tweaked. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Winner for liquid cooling category. Former top overclocker turned Gigabyte PR rep, Dino Strkljevic, presented the awards. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
BIOS settings are carefully tweaked. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Second runner-up for liquid cooling category. Former top overclocker turned Gigabyte PR rep, Dino Strkljevic, presented the awards. -
Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
Second runner-up for air-cooling category (eyes on the prize, fella). Former top overclocker turned Gigabyte PR rep, Dino Strkljevic, presented the awards. -
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Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
The Aussies are coming! -- Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championships 2010
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Australian overclocking fanatics crowded into Kingpin Bowling at Darling Harbour, Sydney, to watch master overclockers push their hardware to the limit.
