Thursday, May 14th 2009

Futuremark Announces World’s Largest PC Overclocking Competition

Futuremark Corporation today announced a new competition for PC overclockers everywhere. The contest will see game, DIY, and overclocking enthusiasts from Europe, Asia and the Americas competing for the "Lord of Overclocking" title for their region. With Futuremark anticipating over 200,000 entries the online contest will be the largest overclocking competition ever staged.
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The contest will run from May 18th to June 14th with prizes on offer for the top weekly and overall winners in each region. Furthermore one overall top winner will also be invited to attend the MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2009 event in Beijing, China in September 2009.



Grand Prize include: MSI P45 Diamond motherboard and N260GTX VGA card, Huntkey X7 900W power supply, Thermaltake Element S pro case, GlacialTech XWing NB Cooling Pad, Enermax Apollo (8cm+12cm) cooling fans, Patriot Memory 3GB 1600Mhz Tri-Channel memory kits.

Weekly prizes include: MSI X58 Pro-E motherboard and N250GTS VGA card, Huntkey X7 800W power supply, Thermaltake V9 gaming case, GlacialTech UFO CPU Cooler, Enermax Cluster, Everest, Magma (8cm+12cm) cooling fans, Patriot Memory 3GB 1600Mhz Tri-Channel memory kits.

"Overclocking is growing in popularity all the time and on average we see a new benchmark result submitted to our database every 4 seconds. This worldwide competition gives people in three regions the chance to compete for great prizes. We will be surprised if records are not broken," said Jukka Mäkinen, Futuremark's Vice President, Products and Services.

"This is the largest overclocking event of its type we've ever seen. We're delighted to be supporting overclockers everywhere with this community building competition," said Jason Lee, MSI's Marketing Director.

Contestants will be competing to see who can achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. 3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. The 3DMark06 edition is currently the world's most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free from the Futuremark website here

For further details of the "Lords of Overclocking" competition visit this site
Source: MSI
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29 Comments on Futuremark Announces World’s Largest PC Overclocking Competition

#26
btarunr
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zOaiblet me add to that bhai jaan , they shud categorize to using three-four different methods , Air , Water Cooling aur LN2 and also Phase units.
Like I said, it is impractical to enforce restrictions on cooling, if the evaluation is over the internet. I you say "send us a picture", I can use L2 to achieve an insane clock-speed, take a screenshot, switch over to an "acceptable" cooler, display the screenshot fullscreen, picture the setup, and get away with it. We can think of more sinister ideas at the loo.
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#27
AphexDreamer
Hey guys how do you submit your score. Cause I logged in ORB and submited my score but it won't show on the Lords of Overclocking site? It says something about submitting your contact information but how do I go about doing that?
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#28
Assassin48
I think it starts on Monday

My highest clock was 4.7 on a phenom 940 so far ran out of dice
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#29
AphexDreamer
Assassin48I think it starts on Monday

My highest clock was 4.7 on a phenom 940 so far ran out of dice
No the countdown stopped a while back. I can't seem to figure out how to submit my score though?
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