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necessarily out of many vendors’ comfort zones, even more so while under media scrutiny. Everyone who has ever attended a live overclocking event, be it MOA, GOOC or even just a LAN party, knows that a lot can go wrong during live overclocking and there is a certain pressure to perform when allocated a small timeframe to deliver a result. The overclockers representing ASRock, Biostar, GIGABYTE as well as MSI not only had to face all the pressures of a live event, but bosses and management watching over their shoulders. They effectively represent an entire company! Thumbs up to those who had the balls to do it.” From the conversations I had, it seems that AMD is very eager to organize more of these types of extreme overclocking events and as such I’m looking forward to that should it materialize. In the meantime, enjoy overclocking your own AMD processor and perhaps get a little competitive in the process. It doesn’t matter if you’re just using your FX 8350 CPU or A10 5800K on an ECS, MSI or GIGABYTE mainboard … in the end, it’s just a game! [ Massman ] Issue 22 | 2012 The OverClocker 37