Second place Advanced Overclocking Championship 2008!

I was invited along with crotale to the AOCC 2008 organized by VR-Zone along with teams from 19 other countries. We had a blast!

We had lots of fun and it was very nice meeting everyone. First there was the contest with following hardware:

* Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (QEFW C1-Step)
* ASUS P5Q3 Deluxe rev 1.02g (BIOS : 1103)
* ASUS ENGTX280/HTDP/1G/A (BIOS : 62.00.0E.00.01)
* Kingston HyperX DDR3-1800 (KHX14400D3K2/2G K2 1.9V)
* Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB (WD3000GLFS)
* FSP Everest Pro 1200W
* Windows XP SP3 (for SuperPI 1.5/XS Mod & 3DMark2001SE)
* Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (for 3DMark Vantage 1.01)

We ended up in second place after China who we had no idea about that they were this good. Still we got a good cash boost of 3000 USD so we're pretty satisfied anyways :)

Final scoring



1. China $5000
2. Sweden $3000
3. Portugal $2000
4. Singapore $1000
5. Finland $500

In action




World record attempt in Vantage Performance preset with Sampsa, SF3D and Giorgioprimo. We ended up in second place due to lack of time.

Hardware used:

* Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 (QEFW C1-Step)
* ASUS Striker II Extreme rev 1.02g (BIOS : 0901)
* 3x ASUS ENGTX280/HTDP/1G/A (BIOS : 62.00.0E.00.01)
* Kingston HyperX DDR3-2000 (KHX16000D3K2/2G K2)
* Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB (WD3000GLFS)
* FSP Everest Pro1200W
* Windows XP SP3 (for SuperPI 1.5/XS Mod & 3DMark2001SE)
* Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 (for 3DMark Vantage 1.01)









Award ceremony