Sweden-2’s frosty, champion’s cup.
eclipsing the previous record by 530 3DMarks. But
then the FUGGER-led Team USA-2 stirred into life,
setting a new QX9770-class PCMark Vantage world
record at 14,046 thanks to two of the super-fast
Intel X25-M SSDs (page 36) in RAID. They went on
to capture the QX9770-class PCMark04 record with
15,106 PCMarks.
Feeling the pressure, Team Vietnam switched
to an E8200 and secured the in-class SuperPi 1M
record with 8.797s.
But Team USA-2 switched to an Intel Core 2 Duo
E8600, and broke both the PCMark Vantage and
PCMark04 in-class world records with 10,849 and
16,306 respectively. Not only that, but the final
DeDal showers in LN2.
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result scored a vital bonus point for forbeing being the fastest
PCMark04 result outright. And so it was that Team
USA-2’s FUGGER and Vapor were crowned winners
of the freestyle competition. Organisers felt that
freestyle competition might be the way of the future,
but we doubt they’d be saying that if no world records
were broken: there’d be no event winner.
FINAL THOUGHTS
There were so many winners at GO OC that
almost everyone left on a high. In addition to the
money winners, kudos also goes to the likes of
Team Iran’s Alireza Haghdoost and Behzad, whose
country is not only in the grip
of political strife but who only
started using LN2 a fortnight
before. Also, KiDMaioRKz
from Thailand, who was only
15 years old and needed a
minder, to keep him from
being corrupted. Which was
probably a good idea.
Another winner was
GlobalPR who introduced
us to Jasmine. While she
left a few bruised egos in
GO OC 2008
her wake, we wish her well in her quest to promote
overclocking and tech through her video interviews.
A top effort for a first attempt! See more here.
The GO OC event saw the social aspect of
overclocking too. Not only were there great
collaborations throughout the competition but the
evening social events helped to bring together those
who had met at previous events and those who knew
each other only on forums. It didn’t matter where in
the world people came from, and at least some efforts
were made to keep the non-English speakers included.
If we had to think of a downside, then maybe early
starts for ‘mornings after’ aren’t so great. Also, three
hours at the local cultural museum???
Finally: think overclocking is all about silicon and
electrons? Check out the often-embarrassing but
amusing photos in the GO OC 2008 Aftermath thread
at Xtreme Systems here with more pictures here.
Thanks to Gigabyte for a great event. Next up
we’re back in Taipei for MSI’s Championships. We
can’t wait.
15 year-old
KiDMaioRKz works
with ZoLKoRn.
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