Winners announced in world’s largest overclocking contest

SARATOGA, CA – June 23rd, 2009 - Futuremark® Corporation today released winners’ details from its worldwide Lords of Overclocking contest. After four weeks of intense competition and more than 225,000 entries, Andre Yang has been crowned the “Lord of Overclocking” for 2009. He will now be invited to the MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2009 event in Beijing, China this August 29, 2009. http://www.futuremark.com/lords

The Lords of Overclocking contest saw overclockers worldwide competing to achieve the highest score with 3DMark06, a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. 3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. The 3DMark06 edition is currently the world’s most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free from the Futuremark website. http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/

Overall Winners

Lord of Overclocking (highest overall score - World Record Andre Yang
Lord of Americas Andre Yang	Lord of Asia HWA OC Team Turkey	Lord of Europe benchbrothers.de

Weekly Winners

	Week 1	Week 2	Week 3	Week 4
Americas	Chris Morrell	Road-runner	Michael Graf	Mike Guava
Asia	Goddy Roodt	Gaidin	Chris	Pofigist
Europe	Sampsa Kurri	Haakon	Sacha35	Loc_OC

Futuremark Hall of Fame: http://www.futuremark.com/community/halloffame/lordsofoverclocking/

All winners received a selection of prizes from contest sponsors MSI, Huntkey, Thermaltake, GlacialTech, Enermax and Patriot Memory.

"Our congratulations go out to all the winners for their amazing achievements in pushing their PCs to the limits," said Jukka Mäkinen, Futuremark’s Vice President, Products and Services. "We thank everyone who took part and made Lords of Overclocking the world’s largest overclocking competition."

Links

Lords of Overclocking http://www.futuremark.com/Lords
Download 3DMark06 http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/
Futuremark Corporation http://www.futuremark.com
MSI (Motherboard and VGA sponsor) http://www.msi.com
Huntkey (Power Supply sponsor) http://www.huntkeydiy.com
Thermaltake (Case sponsor) http://www.thermaltake.com
GlacialTech (Cooler sponsor) http://www.glacialtech.com
Enermax (Fan sponsor) http://www.enermax.com
Patriot Memory (Memory sponsor) http://www.patriotmem.com

Keywords and suggested tags

Futuremark, 3DMark, overclock, benchmark, competition, MSI, Huntkey, Thermaltake, GlacialTech, Enermax, Patriot Memory

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Lords of Overclocking winners: http://bit.ly/LcT23

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About Futuremark Corporation

Futuremark® Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs and smartphones. Futuremark® is known around the world for its benchmark products, including 3DMark® (with more than 45 million copies distributed worldwide), PCMark®, SPMark™ and VGMark™ and value-added services powered by the ORB, an online database of over 30 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland. For more information, please visit http://www.futuremark.com/benchmarks/

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Contact information
North America:
Oliver Baltuch
President, Futuremark Inc.
Phone: +1 408 517 0910 (PST)
Email: ollie@futuremark.com

Europe and ROW:
Jukka Mäkinen
Vice President, PC Products and Services
Phone: +358 20 759 8250 (GMT +2)
Email: jukka@futuremark.com