TheBlueChanell
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I just got back from the event. It was an awesome experience. They had two live overclocking competitions one with air cooling and one with LN2. It was team AMD vs. Team Finland. They had two sets of CPU's and they let the audience pick which ones each team would use. They had 30 minutes to hit the maximum OC with each type of cooling. The max overclock on LN2 was 6ghz Stable for team Finland. They were able to run the entire crysis benchmark loop and a session of 3DMark. They hit 4.0ghz on Air.
They also had a bunch of rigs setup with Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, and Crysis. They had an i7 965 rig w/ 3gb of ddr3 in triple channel against a Phenom 2 940 with 4gb of DDR2 setup with Crysis side by side to show the difference in performance. We know crysis isn't exactly the best game to show off CPU horsepower but the difference in performance was negligible. The i7 machine was only 1-2FPS faster and that's really what they setup to show.
They gave out a bunch of goodies like free drinks and a bunch of swag.
I won a Phenom 2 as did a bunch of others, and my buddy won a killer nic.
They gave out 10-20 Phenom 2's, 2x 4870x2's, a couple 4800's and some killer nic cards.
They also had a bunch of rigs setup with Far Cry 2, Fallout 3, and Crysis. They had an i7 965 rig w/ 3gb of ddr3 in triple channel against a Phenom 2 940 with 4gb of DDR2 setup with Crysis side by side to show the difference in performance. We know crysis isn't exactly the best game to show off CPU horsepower but the difference in performance was negligible. The i7 machine was only 1-2FPS faster and that's really what they setup to show.
They gave out a bunch of goodies like free drinks and a bunch of swag.
I won a Phenom 2 as did a bunch of others, and my buddy won a killer nic.
They gave out 10-20 Phenom 2's, 2x 4870x2's, a couple 4800's and some killer nic cards.