Tech Reaction

Gigabyte kicks off the North America 2010 GO OC live from the Pacific Palm Golf Resort in City of Industry, California.  Eleven competitors from across the US and one Candian prepare to begin battle.  T he overclockers will be using the Gigabyte X58A-UD7 motherboard with the Intel Core i7 980x processor.  For ram they will be running Kingston 2250MHz PSC based modules.  For the power supply Thermaltake provided the Toughpower 1200w.

As the overclockers prepare to battle they will prep the UD7 motherboards with insulation and vaseline.  This prevents condensation from causing stability issue or hardware death.  When running in a competition at temperatures well below negative 100°C condensation is often an issue.   While condensation can normally be controlled at a live event they need to complete the benchmarks with the allotted time period.