GIGABYTE Announces Top 3 Winners for round 1 of the “Beat Me If You Dare” Competition

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Taipei, Taiwan, 5th November, 2009 – GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, is pleased to announce Beat Me If You Dare round one has come to an end on October 31st. GIGABYTE would like to extend our congratulations to top 3 winners, who whose prizes will be doubled since they were successful in beating the top scores benchmarked by the GIGABYTE in-house OC team.

To kick off the contest, GIGABYTE’s in-house OC team set a new 3DMark Vantage world record with an overall score of 16877 and an incredible GPU score of 15297 with a blazing fast GPU clock of 1100 MHz and memory clock of 1400 MHz. It was then up to the contestants to see if they had the nerve and skill to beat the GIGABYTE record. There were 6 contestants in round one who were able to get their GPU clock over 1100 MHz. Mr. Jon Sandström from Sweden, using a GIGABYTE GTX 260 Super Overclock Edition, successfully conquered the bottleneck and pushed his GPU clock up to an astounding 1200 MHz.

The NVIDIA GTX 260 has proven time and time again to be an amazing overclocking GPU, continually allowing users to break and set higher and higher new world records. Thanks in part to the Beat Me If You Dare competition and all the overclockers’ amazing work, the GTX 260 world record ceiling has possibly been reached with Hipro5 from Greece setting a new 3DMark GPU world record at 16658. GIGABYTE would like to congratulate all contestants for their amazing scores.

Round One Winners:
First place: Hipro5 from Greece
Second place: Aristidis & Stelios from Greece
Third place: James Trevaskis from Australia
Fourth place: Mike Graf from U.S.A.
Fifth place: Jon Sandström from Sweden

Please refer to Winners Page.

Beat Me If You Dare is running a round two competition starting on November 1st and finishing on November 30th. Contestants may use any brand GTX 275 Graphics Card and there is no hardware limitation for participation. Prizes will be awarded for the top 3DMark Vantage performance scores and benchmark fps score in Resident Evil 5.