Futuremark to host “Lords of Overclocking” competition

Brian Ambrozy 15 May, 2009 at 4:28pm ET Article published in Tech

Futuremark, the company behind the ubiquitous 3DMark and PCMark benchmark suites, is hosting a worldwide CPU and GPU overclocking competition called “Lords of Overclocking” starting May 18th and running through June 4th.

I spoke with Futuremark’s Kent Wu, and he explained that overclocking awards would be granted by region so that certain overclocking superstars wouldn’t be able to annihilate the competition because they have access to tanks of liquid helium in their garages or something. Furthermore, prizes will be given for weekly results, and competitors can enter multiple times as they tweak their systems to get high results.

A grand prize winner will be invited to attend MSI’s Master Overclocking Arena 2009 event in Beijing, China.

There are a lot of prizes, a lot of chances to win, and I know a lot of people here at Icrontic are capable of making a good showing in this event.

Comments

16 May 2009 ~ 8:56am MAGIC Team Icrontic

We should make this an event and write up an article about it. We have some good local overcloakers and we could do it at ichq over a weekend or something. If we place high that's some good publicity for the site.
17 May 2009 ~ 9:54pm BuddyJ I'm gonna do it. This will be glorious!
17 May 2009 ~ 11:03pm Linc Little known trivia: Icrontic was home of one of (or the?) first 3DMark team, including Oppainter and Mr_Icee. I'm not an overclocker myself, but consider me available for any support you need on the site or code-wise. I'm 100% behind it.
18 May 2009 ~ 2:31pm Cliff_Forster Looks like the skeleton is going to get some time right next to a window unit AC.
18 May 2009 ~ 6:17pm fatcat tried running 3DMark06 in Windows7

"This product requires DirectX 9. Please install it before running."

lolwut
18 May 2009 ~ 6:20pm Thrax Install the DirectX 9 redistributable.
18 May 2009 ~ 6:38pm fatcat The point was shouldnt DirectX10 already consist of DirectX9. All of my programs/games that only use DirectX9 work, so why should 3DMark06 be so picky?
18 May 2009 ~ 6:46pm Thrax Because it's looking for DLLs in the DirectX redistributable.
18 May 2009 ~ 7:22pm MAGIC We need sponsors for the team, so we can have tri sli, i7 extreme, and ddr3 1000000... and liquid nitrogen.
18 May 2009 ~ 7:25pm fatcat screw LN2, you want Liquid Helium.
18 May 2009 ~ 10:19pm QCH I could probably get a duer of Liquid Nitrogen.... but not Helium. I've played with Liquid Nitrogen... it's fun.