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“OVER ALL THE EVENT WAS A HUGE SUCCESS
WITH ALL COMPETITORS HAVING AN AWESOME
TIME IN THAIL AND AND AT GOC 2017.”
international database of overclocking
and benchmark score world records.
Next, we had Christian Ney, long time
veteran of overclocking and respected
overclocker within his own right –
stickler for the rules. Finally, Mad from
GALAX, a name remembered from the
extreme overclocking scene several
years ago and who is now part of the
GALAX HOF development team.
Throughout the competition, each
score was validated by all three judges
before being officially confirmed and
posted to the leaderboard for all to see.
From the get-go, Alex@ro put
on an incredible show, pumping
out brilliant results one after the
other. He had a relatively smooth
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experience, with others running
into cold boot bug issues (where the
CPU is too cold to start and has to
be warmed up above a certain point
which varies from CPU to CPU - this is
where the hairdryers and blowtorches
come in), ports on motherboards
sometimes behaving erratically and
more (Windows 7 for you).
Geekbench3 had a 6 GHz CPU
frequency cap, but saw some
very impressive scores and fierce
competition. With the CPU frequency
limit, this round was all about memory
tuning and Alex@ro ultimately
submitted the top score of 26,382
points with his RAM running at DDR4-
4220 12-11-11-28. Second place was
claimed by dogna with 26,281 points,
and DrWeez from South Africa slipped
into third place with 26,168 points.
3DMark Time Spy sees the graphics
card coming into the equation, and
here again we see Alex@ro taking the
lead with a score of 13,387 marks.
To do this, his card was running at a
2,607 MHz, 76% above its stock speed.
Second place was snapped up by
ikki with 13,079 marks, and OGS with
13,019 marks.
3DMark Time Spy Extreme saw
an interesting reversal of the same
top three overclockers from Time
Spy, and also the nearest tie for first
place. OGS took the lead with 6,112
marks by running his card at 2,658
MHz, a massive 80% above its stock
speed. ikki was a single point behind
with 6,111, and Alex@ro took third
place with 5,987 marks - this would
be the only benchmark where he
didn’t claim first place.
As GPUPI is a relatively quick
benchmark we were able to see some
massive clock speeds here. Alex@ro