Futuremark and GIGABYTE Announce Worldwide AMD Overclocking Competition

Fantastic Prizes To Be Awarded in Multiple Categories by GIGABYTE, FSP, Maxcube,
GlacialTech, GSkill, and Enermax
SARATOGA, Calif.--(Business Wire)--
Futuremark Corporation today announced a new competition for PC overclockers
everywhere. Utilizing AMD and GIGABYTE hardware, contestants worldwide will
compete in two segments for the overall "Gigabyte Dragon" title within multiple
prize award categories.

http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/gigabytedragon
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The contest entry period will run from Aug 17th to Sep 13th. Prizes will be
awarded to first to third place finishers for the following segments, top 3DMark
score and top CPU overclocking.

Grand prizes include GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P motherboard, FSP Everest 800 Watt
power supply, Maxcube Amoris 6010 Architectural Designed Gaming Case,
GlacialTech X-Wing Notebook Cooling Pad, Gskill F3 Triple Channel DDR3 6GB
memory module, and Enermax Apollo series 12cm Fan. Additional prizes awarded to
second and third place runner-ups as well as two weekly lucky draw prizes for
GIGABYTE motherboards given away just for entering.

"This is the largest overclocking event of its type we`ve ever seen. We`re
delighted to be partnering with Futuremark to support GIGABYTE overclockers
everywhere with this community building competition," said Tony Liao, Gigabyte
Marketing Director.

Contestants will be competing to see who can 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/

For further details of the "Gigabyte Dragon" competition visit
http://www.futuremark.com/community/competitions/gigabytedragon.

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.

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Futuremark Inc.
North America:
Oliver Baltuch, +1-408-517-0910 (PDT)
President
ollie@futuremark.com
Europe and ROW:
Jukka Mäkinen, +358 20 759 8250 (+2 GMT)
Vice President, PC Products and Services
jukka@futuremark.com

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