GIGABYTE Announces GO OC 2010 Europe Regional Final Winners

Taipei, Taiwan, July 20th, 2010 –The GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship (GO OC) EU Regional Finals 2010, the world's largest Overclocking competition, successfully took place on July 16, 2010. The top 5 European overclockers will move on to the global final in Taipei during September 2010, with Massman from Belgium taking the No. 1 position to claim the crown of Europe’s No. 1 overclocker. The details for the top 5 can be seen in the table below:

Rank	Country	Nickname	Pi Fast	MAXXMEM	Super PI	Wprime	Total points
01	Belgium	Massman	00:14.080	26654	01:19.015	00:02.859	64
02	Turkey	Erdemolkun	00:14.060	20813	01:20.016	00:02.812	50
03	Romania	Matose	00:14.130	23086	01:18.437	00:02.812	50
04	Serbia	Perica_barii	00:14.380	26105	01:17.766	00:03.125	50
05	Russia	slamms	00:14.140	25355	01:17.344	00:00.000	48

The event kicked off with the welcome speech by Mr. Henry Kao GIGABYTE Senior VP, where he spoke of GIGABYTE’s commitment to producing top quality high performance motherboards. Kingston and Cooler Master followed with short speeches expressing their delight at being co-sponsors at the world’s biggest over-clocking event (GO OC 2010) and wished the contestants well before the start of the competition.

(Group Photo: Cooler Master, GIGABYTE Senior VP, Kingston and GIGABYTE Europe Director )		(Counting down to start the competition)

Points for the other teams can be seen below:

The PC hardware used at the GO OC EU Regional finals include the GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD7 motherboard, GV-R567OC-512I VGA card (ATI chipset), Intel^® Core™ i7-980X Extreme Edition processor, KINGSTON KHX2250C9D3T1FK3/6G memory, KINGSTON SNV425-S2/64GB SSD and Cooler Master Silent Pro M1000 PSU.As the industry’s largest and most successful global over-clocking competition, GO OC requires assistance from supporters – companies who seek to aid the development of over-clocking and show their support for the fast growing over-clocking community. Through the top-notch hardware and support from the GO OC 2010 official sponsors – Intel, ATI, Kingston and Cooler Master, these sponsor companies are helping to give over-clocking and over-clockers the global attention and respect they deserve.

(Group photo: all over-clockers)		(Champions of GO OC 2010, Massman )

Event coverage from attending media is starting to appear online:
1. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJ-uByB24d0&feature=channel
2. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OapxZGwOAHo&feature=channel
3. http://www.nordichardware.com/news/79-overclocking/40570-gooc-2010-europe-final-is-over.html
4. http://www.overclockingevent.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=228
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