[NEWS] MSI MOA: INDONESIA @ THE TOP

Master Overclocking Arena (MOA), is the first international

overclocking contest organized by MSI. Was held at Huashan

Cultural-Creative park Taipei Taiwan.

The day of the competition, November 9th 2008. At early morning,

all contestant gathered for a final briefing about rules etc. There are

13 OC teams from 11 different countries.

 

fig.1. There are thirteen OC teams participated.

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Enough explation, let's talk about the overclocking time.

These components are given to the contestants:

- Intel Core 2 Duo E8600

- MSI P45D3 Platinum MOA Special Edition

- OCZ DDR3 PC3-16000 Platinum Edition

- MSI N9800GTX+ MOA Special Edition

- CHIMEI 22GH LCD monitor

- Western Digital VelociRaptor 300GB

- Genius keyboard

- MSI gaming mouse

- Enermax MODU82+ 625W SLI

fig.2. France OC team preparing some mobo modifications.

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fig.3. Each team uses the provided LN for cooling the processor.

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Differ from the previous regional OC contest, this is pure

overclocking contest, only benchmarking is needed here,

SuperPI MOD 1.5 8M and 3DMark01 SE.

The first round, SuperPI MOD 1.5 8M benchmarking.

50 minutes time limit are given for achieve the best result.

final result: 1st Indonesia - 2nd China - 3rd Greece

fig.4. Alva & Rekky at the top of the 1st round, result: 7.5s.

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2nd round, 3DMark 2001 benchmarking.

50 minutes time limit are given. But at the middle of this

session, the judge decided to give another 50 minutes.

final result: 1st Greece - 2nd South Africa - 3rd Taiwan

fig.5. Greece OC team at the top with 101711 points.

FINAL RESULT

Thanks to the great result at the 1st round, Indonesia team leads

and placed at the 1st place, Greece at 2nd place, and Taiwan at 3rd

place.

fig.6. Indonesia OC Team at the first place, congrats.

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fig.7. Greece OC team at 2nd place.

fig.8. 3rd place, Taiwan OC team also achieve a good result.

That's all folks, see you next year for another MSI OC contest.

If we're lucky enough, we'll meet again.

fig.9. All contestant, win or lose, don't give up, cheers.

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