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MSI News-Master Overclocking Arena 2008, <br>The quest finds the best PC enthusiast in South East Asia

30 October, 2008 01:53:15

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Leading mainboard manufacturer, MSI, is organizing the first-ever Master Overclocking Arena 2008 in Taipei, Taiwan to be held

November 8-11, 2008. The event is powered by Intel, NVIDIA, OCZ Technology, Western Digital, Enermax and Geinus. MSI, best known for its Intel-based mainboards, graphics cards and notebooks, takes the lead in letting renown overclockers from countries around the world test its latest MSI P45 platform. Representing 30 countries, including Australia, China, Europe, Korea, South Africa, South East Asia, and Taiwan, the participants are made up of the winning warriors from four fierce competitions. Only these elite individuals have earned themselves a ticket to the Master Overclocking Arena 2008.

This year MSI worked with the renown Southeast Asian Media Agency, HWZ, in Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Indonesia, and the Philippines to host the overclocking

event, dubbed IronTech. Each country held the preliminary event, and based on those results we selected two masters to attend the Southeast Asia Grand Finale in Singapore. On October 12, HWZ scored the contestants on some overclocking fundamentals, as well as power-efficiency and cost/performance ratio. The rationale for the additional testing categories was the simple fact that achieving the highest performance with the lowest cost is every user's desired goal.
At the beginning of the competition each participant had five minutes to select their components from a provided array. The selection included CPUs: Intel Core2 Q9400 or Intel Core2 Q9550; motherboards: the MSI P45 Platinum or MSI P45 Neo-F; graphics cards: MSI's R4850 T2D512 or N9800 GTX+, and other various parts. After choosing their components the contestants were put through a series of tests: 1.The Rigging Challenge 2. The Setup Challenge 3. The Benchmark Challenge 4. System power efficiency and CP ratio.

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Each contestant did their absolute best to reach the highest levels of performance. In the end, the winner was announced as Singapore's Jeremiah Ong, runner-up was Indonesia's Alva Jonathan, and in third-place was Thailand's Rangsee Traiwongyoi. There were no hard feelings at the end of the match and everyone was in good spirits. Each contestant was happy to have been able to represent his/her own country at the event in Singapore, and meet with fellow overclocking masters from all over Southeast Asia. It is MSI’s great honor to welcome the TOP 3 winners from South East Asia to join MOA 2008 in Taiwan; we wish them the best of luck.