Competitors were not permitted to use their own harware or software.The rules for this first competition were quite simple:
For the full list of preloaded software, please visit the GOOC 2008 website.
Windows XP SP2 was preloaded on the VelociRaptor, along with the Catalyst 8.8 (67975) graphics driver and all the necessary benchmarking programs and tweaking tools.
Now just in case this is the first time that you have heard of the Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2008 (GO OC 2008), which means that you missed the intense buzz over the event in every noteworthy enthusiast forum on the internet, and also missed the fast-paced live blogcast on the GO OC 2008 website, let’s do a quick background story. If a picture is worth 1,000 words then this article is about 130,000 words long, and we hope that it gives you a one of a kind look at how the event unfolded. Hardware Canucks was one of a few fortunate media organizations to be invited to report on the event, and we are pleased to be able to bring you a chronicle of this unprecedented competition. On September 25th, Gigabyte hosted a who’s who of international overclockers for the first (hopefully annual) Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2008 in the heartland of computer hardware - Taipei, Taiwan.