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Tones OC Academy Edition 2011

Tradeshow & OC events by leeghoofd @ 2011-06-01

Last year we were asked to give an OC tutoring demonstration at the Tones PC shop of Heist op den Berg. Being a big succes as the participants were very happy and enthousiastic afterwards, maybe it was time for a sequal. This year not Asus, but Gigabyte jumped the gun to provide us with the required hardware so we could introduce 8 lucky winners into the world of overclocking. As the concept of last year was pretty okay, it wasn't required to make any big changes. Centre of the show was Gigabytes brand new X58A-OC board. Designed by overclockers for overclockers, how brilliant is that !

The lucky winners

After the Air/Water overclocking the highest score achieved in 3DMark Vantage Entry preset was E98558. The Team with the Sniper board came very close and breached 98K too. Not surprisingly both setups ran Intels almighty 990X Gufltown CPU. But it was in fact the versatility of the OC board that gave the highest scoring team that little edge. The use of the Bclock and Multiplier buttons to change the CPU speeds during the 3D and CPU tests was the key factor for the win.

The estimated scores were pretty close. But ofcourse only one can win, congratz sir with your brand new Gigabyte X58A-OC board and the Intel i930 Bloomfield CPU.

Second spot got a nice Antec 620 H20 cooling kit :

Third spot one of the Kingston Triple channel HyperX kits

Big thanks to Gigabyte, Kingston, Antec and Tones PC shop for another well organised event !

Madshrimps applauds any event where we can share knowledge,wisdom and jokes with other users. Being it gamers or overclockers. Just talking about PCs and hardware is what makes us tick.

Sadly when some have fun, others still have to work :(

Maybe we see some of you at the next big event in the Netherlands, the Benelux Extreme OC party. Though nothing is 100% confirmed yet, it for certain is going into the right direction.

Interested ? Have a look at the (dutch ) thread of that upcoming event at the Tweakers website : Benelux Extreme OC Party

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