European overclockers will compete in final

In the weekend of 23 and 24 August will overclockers from twenty European countries in the Westergasfabriek in Amsterdam compete for the title of the best overclocker of Europe in the prizes.

The international overklokcompetitie, full the MSI European Overclocking Challenge 2008, following two national trials. The winners of the first qualifying round, which is a 8600GT card to the limit, had to drive, went through to the second round. In that last round for the European final, the three remaining participants both a Geforce 9600GT video card as an E8400 processor from Intel to clocks. This round was by Snot_Aap won and he will be the Dutch eea, assisted by the number two of the last preliminary round Extera, in Amsterdam are going to defend.

The European final will consist of the overclocking of a system that is built around an MSI P45D3 Platinum motherboard, a MSI Geforce 9600GT video card with 512MB of memory, 2GB of ddr3 memory from OCZ and again, the E8400 processor from Intel. A 750W-psu, a OCZ-processor fan assembly and a hard disk with the necessary software and drivers to create the test pcs fully. The overkloks will be fixed with the help of Super Pi, Cinebench, and a not yet published benchmark. Of course, the participants have their own cooling bring, and the hardware allowed. The participants are however not permitted to use own software: the software on the provided hard drive can be used.

On Friday night the participants from the different countries arrive in Amsterdam, but only on Saturday morning the match will be officially in the Westergasfabriek. From eleven o’clock in the morning, all participants are in their system and the necessary mods to build. The whole Saturday is spent on the tweaking of the systems: Sunday morning will be the benchmark scores to the competition management have to be handed over. Not later than three o’clock in the afternoon serve all the results within, and then to the jury, the results will assess and for four hours the results are made known. Tweakers.net it is, of course, present during the competition and will report on the course: you also want to look at the Westergasfabriek to come, please let us know when and how do you think to come through us an e-mail to send.