PICTORIAL: Gigabyte GO OC 2009 Inside out

After the 3DMark06 scores had been collected, the judges began to add up the overclockers' scores in order to determine who had won between SuperPi and 3DMark06 with the competitor with the most points winning the competition. The overclockers were given a 30 minute break between the end of benching and the announcement of the winner in order to give judges some time to calculate the final order and of course, the winner.

And the winner is announced....

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The winner is Jeremiah Allen e.g. Miahallen. Note that the Fugger was excluded as "already qualified".

While second place goes to...

Jeremy Clifton a.k.a. Sno.Icn .

While the third place went to...

Mark LeaMaster a.k.a. Maxi .

Here is Miahallen getting his prize from Tony and Francois...

The interesting part was that the show was not over then. In a real case of camaraderie, Francois from Intel actually awarded two intel X25-M SSDs to those two individuals who scored the lowest as both of them had the unfortunate accident of working on hardware that was unresponsive and at times did not give them any scores or points at all... for the next time around, we would advise that a tournament organizer does have one or two setups as backups, if things go awry. Not all hardware can handle the pressure of sub -100C temperatures.

Here is Guatam recieving his consolation prize in addition to all of the overclockers getting to keep their GPUs and motherboards.

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