GOOC 2010 - North America Regional Final - Press Release

[ManagerJosh]

Excerpt:

City of Industry, Calif., July 20, 2010 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is pleased to announce the regional finals of the 3rd annual GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC 2010) are currently underway globally, with the North America Regional Final to be held at the Pacific Palm Golf Resort in City of Industry, California, U.S.A. on Saturday, August 7, 2010.

The GO OC 2010 North America Regional Final will see 12 top overclockers from USA and Canada battling it out on top-notch hardware from GIGABYTE, Intel, Kingston, and Thermaltake. The Champion and 2nd place winners from the GO OC North America Regional Final will compete with the winners from China, Europe, Asia-Africa and South America Regional Finals. This epic battle will take place this September in Taipei, Taiwan in front of hundreds of spectators, power users, press, industry analysts, and channel partners from around the globe who will witness world records being shattered on GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 motherboards with Intel® Core™ i7 CPUs.

The GO OC 2010 North America Regional Final winners will not only have the honor of representing North American at the GO OC Global Final, but will also receive grand prizes of special designed GO OC system hardware valued at well over US$3,000 sponsored by GIGABYTE, Kingston, Thermaltake, iBuyPower and CyperPower.

The official OC hardware gear for the North America Regional Final is: GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 motherboards, GV-N240D5-512I graphics cards, Intel® Core™ i7-980X Extreme Edition processors, Kingston KHX2250C9D3T1FK3/6GX memory, Kingston SNV425-S2/64GB SSDs, Thermaltake Toughpower Series PSUs, GIGABYTE K6800 keyboards and M8000X mice, providing a total high-performance platform for achieving extreme OC results.

[Mean Machine]

So Hicookie will just make it back to Taiwan before he has to go back to the US?

[dinos22]

So Hicookie will just make it back to Taiwan before he has to go back to the US?

lucky he likes to travel

[Splave]

GOODLUCK my brother from OCA

[T_M]

Do we know yet when will the final be?
Would love to fly in for it

[Benny Lodewijk]

Do we know yet when will the final be?
Would love to fly in for it

The final will be 24th to 27th September in Taipei.

[massman]

I was told last saturday of September? Not sure tho

[Xyala]

Haha yeah for cookie they should make special luxy party planes he would enjoy it even more

Can't wait to see the show, as usual OCTV will be broadcasting the competition if bandwidth is with us !

[Movieman]

Maybe I should enter!

[-TwoForForty-]

I'll be @ the GOOC North America final and do a Live Broadcast on OverClocking-TV.com for sure !

Definetly looking forward to this event !

[[XC] gomeler]

Aww, PSC instead of the Hyper that everyone else has had.

[Planet]

Aww, PSC instead of the Hyper that everyone else has had.

AU had PSC as well.

[massman]

Maybe I should enter!

They're not running Folding benchmarks. You'd also be scared of the very few CPUs per mainboard you can use ... only 1!

AU had PSC as well.

EU had as well.

[Movieman]

They're not running Folding benchmarks. You'd also be scared of the very few CPUs per mainboard you can use ... only 1!

Touche..
Food for thought:
There was an old Clint Eastwood movie( forget the name) where all during the movie you only saw him using a rifle.
At the end he gets into a shoot out using a pistol.
A guy looks at him amazed and Clint replies:
" I never said I didn't know how to use a pistol, just that I didn't like them."

Same here, I prefer dualies but doesn't mean I don't know my way around a single socket board..

[Buckeye]

Touche..
Food for thought:
There was an old Clint Eastwood movie( forget the name) where all during the movie you only saw him using a rifle.
At the end he gets into a shoot out using a pistol.
A guy looks at him amazed and Clint replies:
" I never said I didn't know how to use a pistol, just that I didn't like them."

Same here, I prefer dualies but doesn't mean I don't know my way around a single socket board..

Careful kid, you will shoot your eye out

[dinos22]

Aww, PSC instead of the Hyper that everyone else has had.

Europeans had PSC as did Australians. You will find that only indonesia SOMEHOW managed to get the last lot of hypers from somewhere but it is next to impossible to find any stock at all due to Elpida phasing them out.

I've asked the same question from the European Kingston rep and was told that they can only supply what they have available and that's fair enough. Nothing that can be done about it but i tell you what if you come prepared there is certainly a way to have the upper hand in this year's GOOC...that includes knowing how to get most out of the these particular ICs

[[XC] gomeler]

Europeans had PSC as did Australians. You will find that only indonesia SOMEHOW managed to get the last lot of hypers from somewhere but it is next to impossible to find any stock at all due to Elpida phasing them out.

I've asked the same question from the European Kingston rep and was told that they can only supply what they have available and that's fair enough. Nothing that can be done about it but i tell you what if you come prepared there is certainly a way to have the upper hand in this year's GOOC...that includes knowing how to get most out of the these particular ICs

Oh I just plan on dumping gobs of LN2 on them and calling it a day

[Hondacity]

gooc eu is sending 5
gooc na is only 2. why not 3?

[Gautam]

gooc eu is sending 5
gooc na is only 2. why not 3?

That's what I'd like to know. We have only 5 less competitors than EU. EU has the top 29% going. NA has only the top 17% going. At least 3 would make sense. (Heck 4 would be most appropriate, because everyone knows NA is the best j/k)

[dinos22]

gooc eu is sending 5
gooc na is only 2. why not 3?

NA consists of a coupe of countries and Europe of how many again

Africa and Asia are sending 3 contestants.....so once again how many countries over there

[massman]

3rd ticket is golden ticket?

[Hondacity]

That's what I'd like to know. We have only 5 less competitors than EU. EU has the top 29% going. NA has only the top 17% going. At least 3 would make sense. (Heck 4 would be most appropriate, because everyone knows NA is the best j/k)

no joke we still have top 10 in hwbot briany deux and kp...still effin pure good

3rd ticket is golden ticket?

is it inside a ud9 box? coz prices sorta dropped here

[[XC] gomeler]

AU had PSC as well.

They're not running Folding benchmarks. You'd also be scared of the very few CPUs per mainboard you can use ... only 1!



EU had as well.

Ah, thought Europe had Hypers Guess I should pay more attention *doh*

3rd ticket is golden ticket?

I hope it is in a candy bar.

[ManagerJosh]

I'll have a small team covering GOOC North America 2010

[Xyala]

+1 dinos22 the goal of the competition is to give fair chances to qualify t people from as much countries as possible. NA is only two, so no need for more people IMO. This isn't olympics hehe