Futuremark and GIGABYTE Announce Worldwide AMD Overclocking Competition

SARATOGA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Futuremark® Corporation today announced a new competition for PC overclockers everywhere. Utilizing AMD and GIGABYTE hardware, contestants worldwide will compete in two segments for the overall “Gigabyte Dragon” title within multiple prize award categories.

“This is the largest overclocking event of its type we’ve ever seen. We’re delighted to be partnering with Futuremark to support GIGABYTE overclockers everywhere with this community building competition”

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The contest entry period will run from Aug 17^th to Sep 13^th. Prizes will be awarded to first to third place finishers for the following segments, top 3DMark score and top CPU overclocking.

Grand prizes include GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, FSP Everest 800 Watt power supply, Maxcube Amoris 6010 Architectural Designed Gaming Case, GlacialTech X-Wing Notebook Cooling Pad, Gskill F3 Triple Channel DDR3 6GB memory module, and Enermax Apollo series 12cm Fan. Additional prizes awarded to second and third place runner-ups as well as two weekly lucky draw prizes for GIGABYTE motherboards given away just for entering.

“This is the largest overclocking event of its type we’ve ever seen. We’re delighted to be partnering with Futuremark to support GIGABYTE overclockers everywhere with this community building competition,” said Tony Liao, Gigabyte Marketing Director.

Contestants will be competing to see who can achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. 3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. The 3DMark06 edition is currently the world’s most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free from the Futuremark website. http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/

For further details of the “Gigabyte Dragon” competition visit http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/gigabytedragon.

About Futuremark Corporation

Futuremark® Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark® is known around the world for its benchmark products, including 3DMark® (with more than 45 million copies distributed worldwide), PCMark®, SPMark™ and VGMark™ and value-added services powered by the ORB, an online database of over 30 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit http://www.futuremark.com.

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