Gigabyte's Overclocking Competition Offers USD9000 in Cash

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Tuesday, September 15, 2009

Gigabyte's Overclocking Competition Offers USD9000 in Cash

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Gigabyte today announced the launch of a global Graphics Card overclocking competition, "Beat Me If You Dare."

This event coincides with the recent announcement of Gigabyte?s latest family of Graphics Cards, the Super Overclock Series.

The champion of each round will receive USD1,500 cash. Second prize is a new Gigabyte GTX295 graphics card, the latest high-end NVIDIA card with dual GTX200 GPUs. The third place winner in each round will receive a Gigabyte Ultra Durable VGA GTX285 graphics card (NVIDIA GeForce GTX285 GPU).

As an added bonus, any contestant that beats the benchmark set by the Gigabyte team will double his/her prize.

There will also be a lucky draw for all Beat Me If You Dare entries with the winner receiving a professional GIGABYTE gaming mouse, GM-M8000.

The "Beat Me If You Dare" competition will run for three rounds starting on Oct 1st and finishing on December 31st. The Gigabyte Graphics Card team will announce a unique theme for each round on the event website. Prizes will be awarded for the top 3DMark Vantage performance scores and benchmark fps score in Resident Evil 5.

Contestants may use any brand of Graphics Card but all scores must be recorded with the appropriate chipset as laid out in the competition website.

For further details about the GIGABYTE Beat Me If You Dare competition visit Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/GIGABYTE-VGA/138376338834?ref=nf

Twitter: http://twitter.com/GIGABYTE_VGA.