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- tech tips coverage of Computex 2013 is powered by Western Digital our trusted gaming gear partner is Corsair Vengeance and our trusted retail partner is NCI XCOM alright guys I'm here at the Coursera Intel overclocking event with George and just maybe tell us what's going off the leaderboard here alright well we got a leaderboard that's going to be tracking the guys who set the various different records or try and break the record for the day so at the top of it the number one prize is SuperPi 32mm all the way down to you know stuff like 3d mark first fire strike the Asus team here with Andre and TL actually just set our personal daily record on the CPU overclock they have six point seven five so far and they got the super pi 1m number which is a thousand-dollar award they got that down to five point 41 which is our current fastest speed but you know the events have been going on for less than an hour so we expect maybe some guys could break that number maybe these doesn't break that number in a little bit so we're pretty excited these guys are dumping liquid nitrogen all over the place they're you know putting Vaseline on motherboards and rubbing shop towels on things this is dangerous and freaky stuff and these guys are professionals I wouldn't practice this time and they were wondering at what negative 135 was that there are a negative 134 degrees Celsius so I've joined the rest of the team at the overclocking event and George what is this this is the leaderboard that shows who's currently in the lead of each specific score we're doing we're given 11 different prizes away today starting at a thousand bucks and went up to $5,000 for the prize total of $20,000 of prize money the the most the highest price of grand prize is the super pi32 mag which is to you know see how fast the system can run a 32 megabytes super pie calculation or 32 million sorry super pie calculation that's a $5,000 prize now the guys up there eight pack lead that right below them on the hassle memory frequency where they're at 37 82 which is almost thirty eight hundred megahertz on the memory frequency it was way beyond Ivy Bridge which was around 33 34 so those guys knocked that out of the park and then underneath that we're 6.9 gigahertz on the processor overclocking record too so there's the top three records then underneath that you can see that Andre and teammates use their have basically dominated all the other stuff SuperPi 1 million the calculation in PI fast W prime 32 all that stuff so tell me about the strategy why is it that Andre and teammate soos seem to be going after everything but the big prize pool is up there what is the deal like because there were some stipulations in terms of what hardware you could bring or what you couldn't bring and what's their strategy I think I mean you'd have to ask them specifically for their strategy my guess is that they looked at it and said look we know we can knock this one we can knock this one we can knock this one and I said you know makes more sense to take Awards four through nine and I take two take only one two and three there was a lot of competition there still is a lot of competition going on right now we got about 20 minutes left for the first and second and third spots I think they said look I don't think there's going to be as many guys fighting here we're gonna go full bore for it and they hit some really impressive numbers the pie fast number 9 23 is really close to a world record and on day one of the eye of the Haswell launch I mean that's that's incredible there's a year and a half of stuff from Ivy Bridge and these guys are almost breaking it in one day so Howell is a really impressive launch already well that's fantastic I mean so I don't believe everything you heard about Haswell overclocking so we're gonna be following this up with a little bit more coverage once it's time to actually present the awards I had something else I wanted to talk to George about because really these these overclocking events it takes a long time to dial in an overclock you got to do some testing on it every time you change any any freaking thing but what tends to happen is we're still 20 minutes from the end this is where things get really exciting tell me about sandbagging san breaking is basically you you go and you put up a number that's okay and other guys are like well whatever that's fine and a lot of guys wait till the very end to throw their numbers up because they kind of want to see what the other guys are really doing so what you're gonna see here like for example a lot of the guys waited till the end to do the 3d stuff the bottom ones a benchmark for a 3d mark and aqua mark and stuff like that so I'm gonna guess it does bottom four benchmarks you're gonna see those change like every five minutes from here to the end of the competition and I think a lot of guys did wait to hit their best possible video card numbers because in the open category where they're allowed to bring whatever graphics card they want they already know what they're capable of doing they got their liquid nitrogen they're ready to go they know they can do it at home so if they see the number here that they're actually able to beat they're not gonna beat it until they have to if they can beat it with two minutes left that doesn't give their competition much time to beat them very very exciting so back back with awards actually this time thanks again George no problem alright I'll try not to do this to you too many times thanks George not a problem actually finally a word ceremony time here guys I'm just gonna see if I can sort of cheat he's kind of chucked my mic in here and see if that works so I haven't asked anyone his permission to do that it's gonna kind of sneak over here kind of subtly okay competitions today where whether we're eight benchmarks that running in the hundred days long and they're possibly one team ran only to those benchmarks and we thought and that's Andre and TL so if they could step up on the stage yeah guys actually get eight trophies I'm not sure what you're gonna do it longer I could take a couple of them if you want so they actually need a crew of ladies to carry all of their trophies for them so congratulations these guys was very impressive winning all those been close I played the brand promise which is sort of a combination of CPU and memory frequency is the super high score and the winners of super high at 4 minutes 29 seconds well I hope you guys have enjoyed the corsair overclocking event here at Computex and as always don't forget to subscribe to why this tech tips from unboxings reviews another computer videos and evidently Computex coverage and overclocking and bases