Gigabyte GO OC Grand Final 2010

Item: Gigabyte GO OC Grand Final 2010
Author: Richard Swinburne

Written by Richard Swinburne

September 28, 2010 | 11:59

Tags: #extreme #go-oc #liquid-nitrogen #ln2 #overclocking #overclocking-event #photos #taipei #video

Companies: #gigabyte #taiwan

Gigabyte GO OC 2010

The photo above is only 20 minutes in with anyone yet to set a score

Benchmarks run were:

Super Pi 32M
Pifast
WPrime 32M
MaxxMem Read

-125C? Chilled to perfection under an industrial sized hold-down device! Cricky!

There was naturally plenty of LN2 to go round

Mikeguava representing the USA used a unique trick of submerging the whole motherboard in mineral oil to prevent condensation. This worked for a few hours to give Mike the lead in one of the benchmarks, but then the system died and debugging which component failed was clearly quite a task.