Event Coverage

Live from Taipei - Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2010

By Vincent Chang - 25 Sep 2010

The Competition Starts Now

The Competition Starts Now

It's almost noon here in Taipei and GO OC 2010 has officially started. Competitors are all hard at work testing their overclocks but while we wait for the first scores to appear on the leaderboard, here's what happened during the opening ceremony.

The hosts prepping up the crowd as we approach the official launch at 11am.

This is Taiwan! Well, nothing like a lion dance to start the competition on a good note.

Gigabyte's President, Dandy Yeh giving a welcoming speech for the invited guests, overclockers and the numerous foreign media.

The competitors taking the stage for a photo opportunity with the VIPs, including representatives from the sponsors like Intel, AMD and Seagate.

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Serbia's Nikocevic Dusan was the first to post a score on the leaderboard.

Of course, it's not who's first to post scores that matters now, just 25 mins into the competition. It's about who's first at the end of 4 hrs 50 mins.

For the public, there's plenty of eye candy in the form of an entertaining dance routine. This is in addition to the mini-games that are happening at the various sponsor booths now as we write. Like hula hoops.

Naturally, Gigabyte's products are thrust into the limelight.

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Romania's Matose is the current leader, with completed scores for all four benchmarks. Can he maintain the momentum?

Giving his motherboard and CPU the LN2 bath is mikeguava's (USA) setup.

China's speedtime,wing getting interviewed about his chances in the competition. He has only completed one benchmark at the moment.

Visitors mingling at the sponsors' booth.

 

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