MASTERS OF OVERCLOCKING: Final Result!

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All of the teams took on board the expert advice provided by the KitGuru models who were personally selected by Zardon for their talents. We didn't ask for more details on the selection process!

The first round of the competition tested the memory overclocking skills of the contestants using  MaxPi to measure the maximum memory bandwidth.  The teams had 30 minutes to achieve the best possible score in this test.  The KitGuru models were on hand to note down the scores of the contestants.

There was a maximum of 10 points available in each round (for first place), with 8, 7, 6 and 5 points being awarded to second, third fourth and fifth places respectively.

After the results were recorded and verified, the positions were announced.  Team 4 (Ed Parker and Kenny Clapham) came first, achieving a maximum memory bandwidth of 23786 MB/s.  Team 5 achieved second place followed by Team 3 in third Team 1 in fourth and Team 2 in firth.

In the second round of the competition, the CPU overclocking ability of the contestants was put to the test.  They were given 30 minutes to record the best result in wPrime.  Again, the KitGuru ladies were keeping a watchful eye over the contestants.

This time around, Team 3 (Bex and Dan) took the lead with an impressive score of 104.703 in wPrime.  Team 2 took second place in this round, followed by Team 5 in third, Team 4 in fourth and Team 1 in fifth.

In the third and final round of the competition, the teams were tasked with achieving the lowest possible time in Super Pi 32M.  They were given an hour to complete this round so they would have a chance to get a few runs in.

All of the contestants were waiting nervously while their results were taken down.  The results were very close but Team 5 (Sam and Adrian) won this round with an impressive time of 6 minutes and 54 seconds.  Team 4 came in second place, followed by Team 3 in third place, Team 1 in fourth place and Team 2 in fifth place.

Everyone knew it was going to be very close so we waited for Paul Watkinson to add up the final scores.  The overall points of each team are displayed below:

• 1^st Place: Team 5 – Sam Denning and Adrian Wheeldon – 25 points

• 2^nd Place (joint): Team 3 – Ed Parker and Kenny Clapham – 24 points

• 2^nd Place (joint): Team 4 – Bex Graham and Daniel Rogers – 24 points

• 4^th Place: Team 2 – Henry Johnston and Alan Goodman – 18 points

• 5^th Place: Team 1 – Samuel Anderson Burrell – 17 points.

As you can see the results were very close at the top but Sam and Adrian managed to edge their way to victory by a single point.  Both of them have earned the right to compete in the final stage of the competition at i45 in Telford.  They also won a Asus GTX560 Ti graphics card each for their own systems.

The winning team wouldn’t have got there without Bex who, in competitive spirit, helped them mount their CPU cooler properly so they were able to compete.  Despite coming in fifth place, we also feel that Samuel Anderson Burrell deserves a special mention as he is relatively new to overclocking and was forced to compete against the other teams of two alone.

Again, we would like to say a big thank you to Intel, Kingston, BeQuiet, nVidia, Multiplay and Benchtec who made this event possible.

KitGuru says: We look forward to seeing how Sam and Adrian get on at the finals at Multiplay’s i45 in Telford where they will be playing for two 3^rd generation Intel systems from Asus.  We wish them the best of luck!

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