TAIPEI, Taiwan – January 3, 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co., Ltd, a leading manufacturer of motherboards, graphics cards and other computing hardware solutions today announced the winners of the “Core Prime” overclocking competition hosted on HWBOT.org, with Hero the winner of the 6 Core challenge, Kintaro winner of the 4 Core challenge, and Extreme winner of the 2 Core challenge.
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Hero | Kintaro | Extreme |
The contest was split into 3 different stages with 6 benchmarks, each offering its own Wprime challenge starting with 6 Core Wprime 32M & 1024M category, 4 Core Wprime 32M & 1024M category, and last but not least 2 Core Wprime 32M & 1024M category.
Winners Circle
| Stage | Winner | Location | CPU | Overclock | GHz |
6 Core (Wprime32+1024M) | Hero | China | Intel® Core™ i7 980X | OC + 90% | 6.3 GHz |
4 Core (Wprime32+1024M) | Kintaro | Greece | Intel® Core™ i7 920 | OC +100% | 5.32 GHz |
2 Core (Wprime32+1024M) | Extreme | Iran | Intel® Core™ i5 655K | OC +80% | 6.46 GHz |
Congratulations to the winners. For his win, Hero will receive a GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard, Kintaro will receive a GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard, and Extreme will receive a GIGABYTE GA-H55N-USB3 motherboard.
To learn more about the GIGABYTE “Core Prime” contest, please visit: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_core_prime.
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