Taipei, Taiwan – August 16, 2010 – GIGABYTE today announced its cooperation with Futuremark® Corporation for a new competition for PC overclockers. The "Overhauling" competition will see contestants worldwide aiming to achieve the highest 3DMark Vantage scores using AMD and GIGABYTE hardware. http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/overhauling

The contest runs for four weeks from August 16 to September 12 and features three different ways to win.

Single Card Category – Prizes awarded to the top five 3DMark Vantage scores achieved with a single VGA card.

Unlimited Category – Prizes awarded to the top five 3DMark Vantage scores with no limit to the number of VGA cards used.

Lucky Draw - Additional weekly winners chosen randomly.

Prizes include GIGABYTE GV-R5870SO-1GD ATI Graphic Card, GA-890FXA-UD7 motherboard, and other products from Huntkey, Enermax, Geil, and Aerocool.

"We are excited to be a part of this competition” said Eddie Lin, Director of Graphics Card Sales & Marketing Division at GIGABYTE Technology Co. Ltd. "With GIGABYTE’s market-leading range of high-performance graphics card, we are looking forward to some truly incredible overclocking achievements. Just let there be game!"

"This competition is an important part of our continued collaboration with partners to deliver comprehensive tuning, immersive entertainment and outstanding value to customers," said  Billy Wang, AMD Corporate Vice President and AMD Taiwan General Manager. "We wish all contestants good luck and recommend ATI Radeon™ HD 5000 series video cards with more than 16 million shipped in just three quarters for those seeking performance designed to support the most demanding overclocking environments."

Contestants will be competing to see who can achieve the highest score with 3DMark Vantage, a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures a PC's DirectX 10 gaming performance. Featuring a combination of real-time visual and numerical computation tests, 3DMark is the standard for measuring PC gaming performance and is supported by an online database containing over 35 million results. http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/

 GV-R5870SO-1GD

• Core/ Memory: 950MHz/ 5000MHz
• GPU Gauntlet™ Sorting Technology
• Ultra Durable VGA+
• WINDFORCE™ 2X
• OC Guru Graphics Software
• Voltage Read Point
• 17% performance boost over standard HD5870
• 2% performance boost over standard GTX480

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