Friday night was in Amsterdam the finals of the European Overclocking Challenge by MSI in cooperation with Tweakers.net was organized from the start. Saturday could be the overclockers their systems build up and the first results.
The days for the overklokwedstrijd were for the organizing parties hectic: the location, the transformer station of the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam, it was dressed to be, and for the twenty participating countries in readiness to be brought. In the course of Friday arrived the first participants, provided by volunteers of Tweakers.net and MSI were collected. The official lwa le kick-off of the event was Friday night place, with the necessary speeches and a welcome dinner.
In the transformer station, it was early in the morning until late in the evening to the decoration worked. The tables on which the overkloksystemen a place would have had to be put down, the power supply, and the lighting had to be arranged and, of course, had also the decoration has to be arranged. Each overkloktafel was of its own power supply and the necessary hardware. The clocks hardware if the tweakers bring your own, since they already sent had been given to any adjustments to the hardware to make and their overkloks to test. Each table was co-sponsor OCZ a keyboard, mouse, 800W power supply and, of course, lacked even a monitor does not.
The twenty participants, mostly in teams of two or three persons, names for themselves, their P45D3 Platinum motherboard, 9600GT video card, the Intel E8400 processor and 2GB of OCZ memory. Of course, it was not at-cost, commodity hardware: the extra coolers, copper heatsinks and cooling towers, and other overklokapparatuur were from all over Europe and waterskiing. The organization provided for liquid nitrogen, dry ice and acetone, so that the thermometer without delay in the direction of the min hundred could.
For the construction of the systems, however, there was a welcome speech by the organization and gave Sam Tsai MSI a presentation on the P45D3 Platinum-motherboard that the participants would use. The famous overclocker Sturla would play the role of the jury and briefly explained the rules: own software was not allowed, and the overkloks would on three criteria, namely, Hyper Pi, Cinebench, and a still to make known benchmark to be assessed.
With all the formalities out of the way, the participants could give their full attention to their systems focus: insulation was aangerukt, cut to size, and on the motherboards made. Cooling towers were in position, and the mods on the video cards were even included. The Dutch team, Brat and Extera, were, however, already directly with a setback: their motherboard’s survived a bios flash and they had to wait on a replacement. Because of this, they were not in the board at home to test, but once in the Area of the created MSI raft for a replacement board.
The overclockers will in the course of Saturday and Sunday their systems to the limits. Sunday at three o’clock in the afternoon is the last chance to get a top score of the benchmarks, after which the jury will examine the results. Of course it does Tweakers.net also the last day of the European Overclockers Challenge report.
