overclocker must contend with. Think
if you will of extreme overclocking
being similar to sprint races or fastest
lap challenges in the auto motorsport
world and sometimes even drag races.
It is this excitement and challenge -
pushing the limits of what is possible
with PC DIY parts that has continued to
inspire GALAX to host this event, nine
years in succession and it looks like it
will continue for the foreseeable future.
For GOC 2017, qualifying took place
during the month of September, with
entrants from all around the world
competing in five different stages
consisting of 3DMark Time Spy,
3DMark Fire Strike Extreme, SuperPI
32M, maximum memory frequency
and finally GPUPI 1B.
“A S A LWAYS W I T H SUCH E V EN TS, W E S AW
GA L A X SHOW OF F QUI T E A W IDE SEL EC T ION
OF NE W A ND UP C OMING P R ODUC TS...”
The top twelve entrants were
granted a fully paid trip to Bangkok,
Thailand for the final where the event
was hosted at the popular IT Mall -
Pantip Plaza. The final competitor list
consisted of OGS (Greece), DrWeez
(South Africa), bob(nz) (Australia), ikki
(Japan), Phil (Greece), dogna (Japan),
Alex@ro (Romania), rsannino (Italy),
Bullshooter (Germany), Micka (China),
ZeR0_Dan (China), and bboyjezz
(Indonesia).
For those who didn’t make it into
the main event, there were eight lucky
draw prizes, which consisted of two
GALAX GeForce GTX 1080Ti HOF OC
Lab Edition graphics cards, two GALAX
HOF 512GB SSDs, two GALAX HOF
DDR4-4000 16GB RAM kits and two
GALAX HOF RGB Black Edition Gaming
Keyboards.
Other than the overclocking event,
GALAX also hosted an eSports
tournament called GALAX eSports
Carnival, or GEC. This saw teams
battling it out in Counter Strike: Global
Offensive with “MiTH” walking away
with first place.
As always with such events, we saw
GALAX show off quite a wide selection
of new and upcoming products
including U.2 NVMe SSDs, PCI-
Express SSDs and even an external,
Thunderbolt-connected GeForce GTX
1060 graphics card.
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