Stable power for extreme clock rates
February 25, 2009 | 09:54
Companies: #enermax
Soldering sparks, liquid nitrogen vapour and fantastic performance results – Britain’s overclockers compete for the next round of the official overclocking world championships. Enermax sponsors world’s best overclockers with its PSU Revolution85+ 1050 W.
Hamburg, 24th February 2009. The British final for Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship (GOOC) will take place on 27th of February in Milton Keynes. Four teams, each with two competitors, will have the chance to show what they can do in front of a live audience in Milton Keynes’ Xscape Snow Dome. Their goal: maximum CPU and GPU performance.
Intensive cooling for overheated components
To have the same preconditions, all teams use identical system components – from processor to graphic card to power supply. Modifications are allowed or rather are basis for an outstanding overclocking score. All teams make much effort to adjust their systems. Screw drivers and soldering irons are essential tools to prepare components for the contest. During competition cooling is the essential thing. Cooling by air or water is under extreme conditions like that not enough. That is why consumption of liquid nitrogen is really high. At a particular time jury proceed to action and measures clock rates. An increase up to 70 percent and more is quite possible.
Stable Enermax power
Overclocking is a hardness test for every power supply. The power consumption of components rises rigorously by increasing clock rates. As the PSU sponsor of GOOC Enermax provides overclocking teams with high-performance series Revolution85+. In many independent tests Revolution85+ demonstrated its outstanding position. It easily handles even extreme conditions. Six 12 V rails guaranty constant and stable voltage – with phenomenal efficiency rates from 87 to 91 percent at 240 V.
The best overclockers of British live contest will take part in European final round in Czech on 17th and 18th of April. The prize for the winning team: a trip to Asia to the world overclocking final. It will take place within Computex in Taipei (Taiwan).
Overview over GOOC events
Preliminary round Europe
10./11.01.2009
Nové Zámky (Slovakia)
27.02.2009
Xscape Snow Dome, Milton Keynes (UK)
27.02.2009
Campus IT University, Kista (Sweden)
28.02.2009
Commercial center “Gorbushkin Dvor”, Moscow (Russia)
28.03.2009
Evoluon, Eindhoven (Netherlands)
European final
17./18.04.2009
Prague (Czech)
World final
03.06.2009
Taipei (Taiwan)
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