GIGABYTE, a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces 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. Contestants around the world are
invited to compete against the top scores set by GIGABYTE’s in-house
overclocking team to win cash and prizes.
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 (
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 more details of the Super Overclock Series, visit the GIGABYTE Graphics Card webpage at: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/Products/VGA/Default.aspx
