Winners announced in worlds largest AMD overclocking contest
Fantastic prizes to be awarded in two categories by GIGABYTE, FSP, Maxcube, GlacialTech, GSkill, and Enermax
Helsinki, Finland September 29th, 2009 - Futuremark® Corporation today released winners' details from its worldwide GIGABYTE Dragon contest after four weeks of intense competition and a record 24,199 entries.
Contest: http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/gigabytedragon
Twitter: http://twitter.com/yougamergirl
The GIGABYTE Dragon contest saw overclockers worldwide competing to achieve the highest score with 3DMark06 in two segmented categories.
Overall Winners
| Grand Winner | 36,022 3DMarks | Sarkis (DeDal) |
| 2nd Place | 35,570 3DMarks | Giorgioprimo |
| 3rd Place | 35,501 3DMarks | Mean Machine |
Top CPU Overclock %
| Grand Winner | (33,977) 5.651 Ghz | Chew |
| 2nd Place | (33,331) 6.161 GHz | Sarkis (DeDal) |
| 3rd Place | (31,668) 6.049 GHz | Giorgioprimo |
Random Winners
- Week 1 nalonon
- Week 2 jugiho
- Week 3 N_tno_c
- Week 4 Blaz_joystick
All winners receive a selection of prizes from contest sponsors GIGABYTE, FSP, Maxcube, GlacialTech, Gskill, and Enermax. Prizes include GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, FSP Everest 800 Watt power supply, Maxcube Amoris 6010 Architectural Designed Gaming Case, GlacialTech X-Wing Notebook Cooling Pad, Gskill F3 12800CL8D DDR3 1600 MHz 4GB (2GBx2) memory module, and Enermax Apollo series 12cm Fan. Additional prizes awarded to second and third place runner-ups as well as one weekly lucky draw prizes for GIGABYTE motherboards given away just for entering.
"Our congratulations go out to all the winners for their amazing achievements in pushing their PCs to the limits," said Jukka Mäkinen, Futuremark's Vice President, Products and Services. "We thank everyone who took part and made GIGABYTE Dragon the worlds largest AMD overclocking competition."
Links
Download 3DMark06 http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/
Futuremark Corporation http://www.futuremark.com/
GIGABYTE (Motherboard and VGA sponsor) http://www.GIGABYTE.com.tw/
FSP (Power Supply sponsor) http://www.fsp-group.com.tw
Maxcube (Case sponsor) http://www.maxcube.com/
GlacialTech (Cooler sponsor) http://www.glacialtech.com/
Enermax (Fan sponsor) http://www.enermax.com/
Gskill (Memory sponsor) http://www.gskill.com/
About Futuremark® Corporation
Futuremark® Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark® is known around the world for its benchmark products, including 3DMark® (with more than 45 million copies distributed worldwide), PCMark®, SPMark and VGMark and value-added services powered by the ORB, an online database of over 30 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit http://www.futuremark.com/
© 2009 Futuremark® Corporation. Peacekeeper, 3DMark®, PCMark®, SPMark and VGMark trademarks and logos, Futuremark character names and distinctive likenesses, are the exclusive property of Futuremark Corporation.
Company Contacts
North America:
Oliver Baltuch
President, Futuremark Inc.
Phone: +1 408 517 0910 (PST)
Email: ollie@futuremark.com
Europe and ROW:
Jukka Mäkinen
Vice President, PC Products and Services
Phone: +358 20 759 8250 (GMT +2)
Email: jukka@futuremark.com
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