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S U P P L E M E N T // G O C 2 0 1 8 PRESENTS C elebrating a decade in any endeavour is admirable, but a decade committed to overclocking and live competitions is remarkable. In 2018, GALAX celebrated just that, a decade of the GALAX Overclocking Competition or better known as GOC. It’s hard to imagine but it’s been ten years since the very first GOC and each successive year has brought with it new overclockers, familiar faces, better components and higher scores. As you’d expect, GALAX partners were at the event, including representatives from INTEL, NVIDIA, Starfish, Thermaltake and Super Flower. UL was well represented as well as GOC 2018 would be the first time 3DMark Port Royal would be revealed to the public. Before competitors got to this 24 The OverClocker Issue 46 | 2019 point, qualifying for this competition was done in the traditional manner over a series of qualifying stages. 12 winners of these stages were then selected as they would not only have an opportunity to compete against each other in a live environment, but would also share the stage with eight of the previous GOC winners. As you’d expected this led to a deep field with a large number of overclockers each with a real shot of winning the competition. This line-up featured OGS and Phil from Greece, Wizerty and Ziken from France, noliso, Bullshooter and Dancop from Germany, Lucky_n00b and IvanCupa from Indonesia, Littleboy from South Korea, DrWeez from South Africa, ZeR0_Dan from China, iKKi and dogna from Japan, bob (nz) from Australia, Stephen Yeong from Hong Kong, Alex@ro from