Win Gigabyte graphics cards by Overclocking!
Get the best score in 3DMark Vantage or Resident Evil 5, and you could win this GTX 295!
**Update** Gigabyte has informed us that actually first prize in this competition is US$1,500 in cash. Apologies for the confusion, the actual prize list is as follows:
- First Prize: US$1,500 in cash
- Second Prize: A Gigabyte GV-N295-18I-B – a GeForce GTX 295 graphics card.
- Third Prize: A Gigabyte GV-N285OC-2GI – an overclocked GeForce GTX 285 graphics card with 2GB of memory rather than 1GB.
- Lucky draw: A Gigabyte GM-M8000 gaming mouse.
To ensure that owners of GTX 295s or HD 5870s don’t win by virtue of their wallet, the Beat Me If You Dare competition will have three rounds, each of which is for a different GPU. In October, owners of GTX 260 graphics cards can compete; November sees GTX 275 cards go toe-to-toe, and December’s round is for GTX 275 SLI setups.
To enter you need to register on the Beat Me If You Dare site and follow the terms and conditions. Pay particular attention to how you need to submit your scores, and to the rules forbidding liquid helium use and so forth. Generously, Gigabyte will let you use any brand of graphics card, just as long as it has the required GPU.
You can follow the proceedings, and ask questions and get tips via Gigabyte’s Twitter feed, its facebook page or the new Gigabyte Support Forum on bit-tech. Let us know what you think of the competition, and whether you’ll be entering, via the forums.
*UPDATE*
According to the information from branch office and media all over the world, there is a graphics manufacture supporting overclockers with special graphics cards which could not be purchased in the market to attend this competition, in order to beat GIGABYTE.
In order to maintain the fairness of this OC event for all attendees, Gigabyte announces a new rule as below:
Contestants must use GIGABYTE graphics cards with appointed chip set.
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Not open to ATi users, what a jip!
Too many numbers, I clearly got confused! It's fixed, thanks for reporting it.
+1
Exactly what I was thinking - what a load of carp! :-(
I wouldn't want to burn it just so I might have a chance to win another card !
OMG in the terms and conditions they state that Core i9 (Gulftown) is forbidden to enter :p
Aw well :) gl.
Agreed. This sucks.
Yeah what a complete crock.
andy
I've just flogged a PC with a gigabyte mobo and GPU's
The machines at work are all built about Gigabyte mobo's
I'm a big fan of gigabyte.
(top notch help, I emailed them about ris support for the mobo's at work and got a prototype bios back in 1/2 an hour which fixed the problem, big love for gigabyte)
And my setup
gtx280, which is a sweet overclocker (gives factory OC'd 285's a kick up the rs) is no good
It's only drawing -ve press, not really what a comp is meant to do
+1 there matey! However I think I may just buy a gtx260 and volt mod it. Provided the cooling is good enough I "should" be able to get a nice OC on it.. had a 260 on air at over 800mhz core before so I "could" be in with a reasonable chance if i strike lucky again. Of i dont Ill just sel it.
Andy
where's HD 5890 ??? they didn't exist today.....
Well done Gigabyte!
* First Prize: US$1,500 in cash
* Second Prize: A Gigabyte GV-N295-18I-B a GeForce GTX 295 graphics card.
* Third Prize: A Gigabyte GV-N285OC-2GI an overclocked GeForce GTX 285 graphics card with 2GB of memory rather than 1GB.
* Lucky draw: A Gigabyte GM-M8000 gaming mouse.
It's like golf.
Poor you!
Got an old 7950 GTX ... may be i wil enter in this competition !!! :'(
Come to join the competition, wuyanwu.
There're two contestants uploaded scores.
http://event.gigabyte.com.tw/BeatMeIfYouDare/
Andy
ah great, BFG gtx260 here, so no dice :(
also, it's a 65nm version, so won't be able to beat those 55nm clockers.
Lol... this is making for very fun reading. Watching a company like gigabyte attract such negative interest is just hilarious! It wont be enough to sink the company but Im sure many will boycott them now when graphic cards are concerned.
On a side note, why have they changed the rules to gigabyte only? Not only are gigabyte gtx260s hard to come by, there expensive and not the best overclockers unless you spend stupid money on there OC series cards that are more expensive than a stock gtx275.
Andy
Contestants may use any brand of GTX 260 Graphics Card and no hardware limitation for participation.
Come on, Beat me if you dare!
First Place
Zed Ober Final score 69.569
v.s.
GIGABYTE Final score 78.553
Check on official website http://event.gigabyte.com.tw/BeatMeIfYouDare/Default.aspx
Andy
EDIT: 3dM vantage gives me a GPU score of 14192 with a gigabyte OC edition GPU at 878/1866/1310 (2620) which is like 1000+ shy of first place and of the gigabyte record. I cant complete the bench at those speeds though as it blue screens :( however dropping the speeds to STOCK 680/1500/1250 (2500) gives me 68.2fps which is majorly wrong somehow... I was expecting in all honesty at least 200+ at stock because of the system speeds.
Anyone have any clue as what I could be doing wrong? Im getting win7 shortly so I could use that incase I have some sort of odd conflict with vista somehow.
Andy
What do you mean by 68.2fps?
We might help you if you tell us more information.
Cheers.
Andy
Do you mean 68.2fps is a benchmark from Resident Evil 5?
Cheers.
As an owner of a 275 who could compete I still believe its thoroughly stupid, there are a gobload of people on bit-tech that would chew off an arm to get any of the 3 cards (275/85/95) that are the baseline for even competing in the competition, let alone one of the prize cards... I mean what is this achieving anyway? "Wahey I got the second highest score in the competition with my watercooled overclocked GTX 295... and for my troubles I get... another GTX 295?"
Perhaps it would be an idea for Gigabyte to actually read though the competition draft before starting it in future and create one with a little more sense that would maybe benefit people that would be really motivated to enter a competition to get a decent upgrade.
Then again this might be a little optimistic :(
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Overall its a BS competition...
The majority of us who have real live commitments and cant afford to splash out all the time on new hardware, the way this comp should have been run is allowing everyone to upload their scores (no matter how good or bad) then x number of results to be picked at random to win the prizes on offer.
Intel use to run a similar comp like this at multiplays i-series and gave the top scores on a benchmark suite even more top of the range hardware, silly if you ask me.
Lol, I dont blame you, I had 446w of TECs to get my card to get it to the speeds I had it at and 4.7ghz worth of i7. I thought I would have had a banging chance as I "could" have got in at around the 90 points area IF res evil had ran correctly instead of messing about as it did. still wouldnt have got me anywhere mind lol.
Andy
i have tested my 4Ghz i5 750 to death (figuratively): Intel Burn Test ran for more than 1000 iterations, Prime for more than 24 hours and 99 Intel Burn Test for every possible combination of cores.
only now i can say my system is properly overclocked, it's stable and will never crash (will re-test in every 2 month for electro-migration)
Plus everyone seems to have different opinions and other countries seem happy to compete and try to beat the score.
The point here is to show how the GIGABYTE VGA card can perform.
Gigabyte has archived some very good scores and is now offering a competition for anyone that is willing to beat them.
Maybe some competitor out there is willing to take on the challenge!
F1 is not for everyone, yet it attracts millions of peopleâ¦
the LN2 cooled cards Gigabyte used to achieve the "beat me" score cannot last a full day of Folding/stress testing with only electricity (the fuel) and LN2 topup (the wheel changes) without crashing.
all these top overclockers are luck really, pop-in and hope it doesn't crash. if racing engineers tweak their car like that, i doubt there are many drivers left to actually drive the cars
This is real overclocking. LN is just showing off (unless you could build a stable, long-term LN loop).
http://event.gigabyte.com.tw/BeatMeIfYouDareRound1/Winners.aspx
To kick off the contest, GIGABYTEâs in-house OC team set a new 3DMark Vantage world record with an overall score of 16,877 and an incredible GPU score of 15,297 with a blazing fast GPU clock of 1,100 MHz and memory clock of 1,400 MHz.
It was then up to the contestants to see if they had the nerve and skill to beat the GIGABYTE record.
There were 6 contestants in round one who were able to get their GPU clock over 1,100 MHz.
Mr. Jon Sandström from Sweden, using a GIGABYTE GTX 260 Super Overclock Edition, successfully conquered the bottleneck and pushed his GPU clock up to an astounding 1,200 MHz.
The NVIDIA GTX 260 has proven time and time again to be an amazing overclocking GPU, continually allowing users to break and set higher and higher new world records.
Thanks in part to the Beat Me If You Dare competition and all the overclockersâ amazing work, the GTX 260 world record ceiling has possibly been reached with Hipro5 from Greece setting a new 3DMark GPU world record at 16,658. GIGABYTE would like to congratulate all contestants for their amazing scores.