ASUS Advanced Overclocking Championship Coverage

Let The Games Begin!

Published: 21st August 2008 | Source: Asus | Author: Stuart Boardman

Asus Advanced Overclocking Championship

It has been a busy two days in the world of Asus, they have just hosted the European Advanced Overclocking Championship in Berlin. There were some big names from the world of overclocking present and combined with such hardcore components and plenty of LN2 on tap, I was anticipating a potential world record beating session.

AOCC - Let the Games begin!

This is the first time I have witnessed overclockers using LN2 and I was amazed at the skills of these guys. Their passion for their sport shone through and although it was a competition, there was a clear sense of comradeship between the participants, with tips, suggestions and even tools being shared throughout.

After talking to some of the participants, it was obvious that just taking part in the event was more important than winning. Most of them already knew each other and it was a good chance for them to get together and enjoy the event. Having said that, gaining good scores was obviously still important to them.

About the rules and hardware used:

Basically there were ten teams with two members in each. They were given their hardware and a few hours to setup the rigs. Each team got two 9770's and then chose the best performing chip from these two. The benchmark to be used was 3DMark06, and the current world record score is 36000 points running 3DMark 06 at default settings.

The competing teams were as follows:

Switzerland

Splmann

Mark "Rewarder" Buchel

Sweden
Robert "crotale" Kihlberg
Marcus "King" Hultin

Germany
Marc-Oliver "Joe_Cool" Lange
Michael "No_name" Schnetzer

Czech Republic
Peter "Gudas" Vavro
Lukas Fiala

Spain
Sergio "Predator" San Joaquin
Xavier Paradeda "Xevipiu" Farrando

Hungary
Jó "Jugeen" Gábor
Lörince "Achill3uS" Balàzs

Belgium
Piotr "Piotre" Fierens
Thomas "Ptat" Kalerrinckx

Poland
Marcin "Ryba" Rywak
Jakub "PmP" Natorski

Holland
Bart "LOC.O" Peters
Roger "Oldscarface" Kortenhoeven

Great Britain
Paul "Sacha" Watkinson
David "4QMAN" Robinson

The hardware given to each team was as follows:

• ASUS Rampage Extreme
• 2x ASUS EAX4870X2’s
• ASUS VW222U LCD Monitor
• 2x Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (only one used at a time, different steppings)
• Mushkin DDR3-2000 RAM
• 1300W Tagan PSUs

Most Recent Comments

21-08-2008, 18:45:43

yang88she

I'm a bit disapointed that many of these "professional" overclockers had so much trouble w/ CF...really concerns me as a consumer that if these guys were couldn't get CF to work, how would I (small time consumer/newbian) figure it out

21-08-2008, 18:53:11

Jim

I'm a bit disapointed that many of these "professional" overclockers had so much trouble w/ CF...really concerns me as a consumer that if these guys were couldn't get CF to work, how would I (small time consumer/newbian) figure it out

Personally I wouldn't be worried. You need to bear in mind that these guys had a really limited amount of time to prep their boards for subzero cooling, decide between two processors and generally get to grips with hardware they may have never used before.

Most of the guys managed to get it running without issue, just some were unlucky.

21-08-2008, 18:55:59

stuartpb

I'm a bit disapointed that many of these "professional" overclockers had so much trouble w/ CF...really concerns me as a consumer that if these guys were couldn't get CF to work, how would I (small time consumer/newbian) figure it out

I think you must also realise that these guys were pushing their components to the absolute limits, Some teams were struggling with Crossfire, but what you must also remember is the fact that the three winning teams did manage to get results while utilising Crossfire.

21-08-2008, 19:00:18

Bondi007

Indeed.

21-08-2008, 19:20:08

-VK-

Firstly, I'd like to thank Stuart for coming along and being great company. Perhaps with practice you'll be able to keep up with me ;)

Secondly, I'd also like to mention that this hardware is at the most extreme end of current hardware. Things have been discovered that was causing the issues with the overclocking and they have been rectified.

Yang, you mention that CF was not working - I'm sorry but I must correct you. Only 2 of the 9 teams were unable to get CF to work for one reason or another, the top 2 teams in fact were very successful in their scores.

Everyone at the event had fun, making it a success. It seems that the only people complaining and making sly remarks are the ones who were not in attendance...

-VK-

Edit: Note - I'm happy to make official comments on the event, please e-mail me with any enquiries.

21-08-2008, 19:44:55

yang88she

Everyone at the event had fun, making it a success. It seems that the only people complaining and making sly remarks are the ones who were not in attendance...

-VK-

Edit: Note - I'm happy to make official comments on the event, please e-mail me with any enquiries.

I'm glad that there are such events that exist, it's great to see top of the line products put to the absolute limit from the pros

21-08-2008, 20:19:56

stuartpb

Firstly, I'd like to thank Stuart for coming along and being great company. Perhaps with practice you'll be able to keep up with me ;)

:D No worries mate, really enjoyed the trip, even on Tuesday when I was suffering the after effects of Monday night! Pity I let the side down though and got beat by a southern shandy drinker:D

22-08-2008, 22:15:22

GavX

looks like a good laugh, but daaamn thats alot of V going through the CPUs, I get nervous at 1.5 on my Q9450... (water, and 3.84, though not exactly table...) good work

22-08-2008, 22:33:56

Hassan

looks like a good laugh, but daaamn thats alot of V going through the CPUs, I get nervous at 1.5 on my Q9450... (water, and 3.84, though not exactly table...) good work

Yeah I understand what you mean, but then again they were all given the equipment needed free, so who cares. :D

27-08-2008, 16:59:59

Xevi

lol