Let the battle begin :

At the start I tried to keep track of the scoreboard. But with 15 competitors this would be a very hard task. Secondly all benchmarks were allowed to be run whenever the overclocker wanted it, this during the available 4 hours and 30 mins. A real pain to keep track of things. Mostly compeititons are split up in an hour Supepri32m, then an hour Wprime , etc... At first it seemed doable, writing everything down, but I gave up after an hour, as it was even harder then following a F1 competition after 2 pit stops.

Most clockers started off with Wprime 32M. Just to get a feel for the setup. Matose opened the scoreboard with a run at 5.7GHz on 12 cores. StephenYeong improved that score with an impressive 5.9Ghz clocking CPU. After walking around it seemed that Stephen had the better clocking setup. Many were around 5.5-5.7Ghz for Wprime 32M.


scoreboard after 20 minutes. Wprime 32M being the the benchmark everybody focused upon from the start. Matose, the 2010 winner, on the bottom right side.


Windows tweaking screenshot

This must be the most unique picture of all. Ever seen Monstru without beer ? I haven't till at Taipei :p



Stephen kept up pace, setting best score after best score.

Some kept on trying to improve their Wprime score. Some however chose to move on and started the other benchmarks too. This to just have a score on the board. In this kind of competition each point counts.


Zolkorn brought his Voodo doll again, every little thing must help


During the live event, the Gigabyte Go Go Girls distracted some of the present Media and audience. And even some overclockers :)



Mikeguava seeming to dislike what's he seeing on the Envision monitor


Massman in a suicidal mode after the next, I lost track of the number of crashes. Sadly for the keyboard, but his head won


Did I already mention the Gigabyte Go Go Girls, who cares about overclocking ? a much more entertaining spectacle to watch anyway