Final Showdown

The final showdown of the Asia Pacific: ASUS Overclocking Championship 2007 Day 2: Inter Country Battle! The rules for second day was different from first day, to see the full details on game-play, just check out the official thread. For day 1 coverage, check here.

Early as 8am, Contestants are already setting up!

Of course, one may make sure that there is no condensation:

Busy Busy

Lively and busy sunday at Funan DigiLife Mall:

 

Team India

Team India setting up:

Harshal from Team India sits down and relaxes finally:

Need some more MHz....

Team Australia

Team Australia putting on their CPU container:

Team Australia tops up the dry ice.

Darth Vader cutie for good luck!

And a premium Fluke Multimeter showing the GPU core voltage to be running 1.44v.

Wow what a score!

Team China

Team China setting up:

China Team Xu Gang soldering on the voltage mod quickly!

The excitement of overclocking finally wakes Team China up!

Team China's husband and wife, with the lady topping up the dry ice for GPU and CPU.

 

Team Thailand

Team Thailand busy at work:

Team Thailand sets up the CPU Cooling Container, one of the tallest ever!

Team Thailand boots up!

 

Team Thailand hard at work, taking down scores and settings on paper!

Team Taiwan

Team Taiwan sets up:

Team Taiwan with Coolaler on the keyboard:

Team Taiwan is ready and frosted, after a few cans of Heineken that is!

Team Taiwan's setup, dry ice on both 8800GTS and the Q6700:

Team Indonesia

The strong and fierce Team Indonesia:

Dry ice cooled CPU, waterchilled GPU.

The moment of suspense, just before the score comes out!

Gotta catch up!

Team Malaysia

Team Malaysia hard at work.

Dry ice cooled CPU, waterchilled GPU.

The secret to overclocking, all on paper...

 

Team Singapore

Team Singapore sets up:

Team Singapore about to push to on button:

Team Singapore powers up the setup:

Setup failed on Team Singapore, so time to play some dry ice cooled 8800Ultra:

Team Singapore's Bliondi playing 3D Mark on a dry ice cooled ASUS EN8800 Ultra:

 

Fun and Prizes!

The lovely marshalls for the day:

The fun-loving and humorous emcee:

Winners for the lucky draws!!

The emcee playing some hilarious games with the crowd:

A Round of Liquid Nitrogen together now

After the competition runs were ended, it was time to relax and enjoy some Liquid Nitrogen overclocking together. The whole group contributed their hardware and hands to the setup. Team Taiwan's Intel QX6850, coupled with Team Australia's winning ASUS Blitz Extreme, with Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 Memory, FSP Epilson 600w Power Supply, VR-Zone's ASUS EN8800 Ultra.

Coolaler mounts on the Cooler.

Shamino prepares to mount on the Graphics Card.

 

Time to dispense the drinks.

Team Taiwan pouring LN2 for CPU, while Team India does it for GPU!

Still Thirsty

Bottoms up!

 

The crowd enjoying the cool Nitrogen breeze:

The team had about half an hour of overclocking just before prize ceremony, but it was some sweet and short benching, with the QX6850 at 4750MHz and 8800 Ultra at 910MHz Core, 1224 MHz Memory, 19,000+ 3d Mark 06 was acquired on single card.

The Winners and the Brotherhood....

The final scoreboard:

Now for the winners!

Team Indonesia comes in second runner-up for day 2!

Team Taiwan comes in first runner-up for day 2!

Team Australia comes in tops, Champion of day 2!

Team Australia wins!

The winning combo!

Team Australia with the Intel Core 2 Quad Q6700 cooled by dry ice, ASUS EN8800GTS 320MB cooled by dry ice, ASUS Blitz Extreme Motherboard, and Kingston Hyper-X DDR3 Memory, powered by FSP Epilson 600w Power Supply.

Team Australia poses with their superb prizes:

According to them, the highest FSB they tried with the Q6700 on the Blitz Extreme was 500MHz, and they were running a safe 820MHz/1000MHz on their EN8800 GTS 320MB. Impressive 15,000+ points on 3D Mark 06 was achieved by a few teams with the GTS, including Team Australia and Team China.

Championship picture, all patriotic Overclockers as you can see!

Great Success! Thanks to all participants and sponsors!