GIGABYTE Announces Winners of the 800 Series Challenge on HWBOT

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GIGABYTE Announces Winners of the 800 Series Challenge on HWBOT

Mad222 Takes Top Score for 3 out of 5 Benchmarks for a Total of 46 Points

Aug 06, 2010

TAIPEI, Taiwan – August 6, 2010 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today proudly announced that overclocker Mad222 from Hong Kong was the winner of the GIGABYTE 800 Series Challenge hosted by HWBOT, scoring a total of 46 points by reaching the top spot in 3 different benchmark categories using a GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard.

While Intel currently enjoys the performance crown for their X58 platform, AMD overclockers haven’t been left out in the cold (so to speak) when it comes to CPU performance tweaking, especially when considering earlier this year, GIGABYTE unveiled an exciting range of motherboards based on the highly anticipated AMD 890FX, 880G and 870 chipsets. So we set a challenge out to all skilled AMD overclockers: using on any new GIGABYTE 800 Series motherboard, show us your top scores for 5 different CPU benchmarks including SuperPi 1M, SuperPi 32M, wPrime 32M, wPrime 1024M and CPU-Z.

Mad222’s Winning GA-890FXA-UD7 System

The top 3 winners for the 800 Series Challenge are 1st place: Mad222 from Hong Kong scoring 46 points with his GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard. For winning the top spot, Mad222 gets a brand new GIGABYTE GV-R587SO-1GD graphics card. 2nd place: Chew* from the USA also using a GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7 scored 44 total points and won a GIGABYTE GV-R577SO-1GD graphics card. 3rd place: Hutri Samani_Sandlewood from Indonesia using a GIGABYTE GA-890FXA-UD7 as well scored 25 total points and won a GIGABYTE GV-R575SL-1GI graphics card.

The Top 3 winners’ scores starting from left to right

Benchmarks	Mad222	Chew*	Hutri Samani_Sandlewood
SuperPi 1M	10sec 266ms	10sec 187ms	10sec 438ms
SuperPi 32M	10min 53sec 328ms	10min 40sec 422ms
wPrime 32M	3sec 796ms	3sec 843ms	3sec 953ms
wPrime 1024M	2min 1sec 531ms	2min 2sec 391ms	2min 6sec 875ms
CPU-Z	6931.34 mhz	6873.15 mhz	6860.21 mhz
Total Points	46	44	25

For more details of the GIGABYTE 800 Series Challenge, please visit the HWBOT.org website at: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_800_contest

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