City of Industry, Calif., May 13, 2009 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards is pleased to announce it successfully represented the enthusiast community's spirit by inviting the best overclockers from the United States and Canada at its GIGABYTE Open Overclocking Championship 2009 (GO OC 2009) North American Final, to push Intel Nehalem platform to its limit. The two day North America Regional Finals was held at Pacific Palm Golf Resort in City of Industry on April 25 and April 26, 2009. The Champion Jeremiah Allen (aka Miahallen) and the second place winner Jeremy Clifton (aka. Sno.lcn) will represent United State and receive an all-expense paid trip to Taipei, Taiwan to compete with champions from around the globe. The worldwide Champion will receive $5,000 and grand prizes sponsored by GIGABYTE, Intel, Nvidia, Kingston and Enermax at the global final held at Taipei 101 Skyscraper on Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009, during COMPUTEX 2009, with hundreds of participating spectators, power users, press, industry analysts, and channel partners from around the globe to observe the series of world records being broken on GIGABYTE Intel X58 based GA-EX58-UD4P with Intel Core i7 CPU.

GIGABYTE was proud to invite the best of the best among the extreme overclocking community. Considering GIGABYTE's strong branding image in OC community, GIGABYTE invited those not only ranked on the top of the global ranking at hwbot.org but also possessing good reputation with their significant contributions to take the community to the next level, helping manufacturers continuously engineer leading motherboards catered to enthusiast community as a result. The thirteen talented overclockers at the center of the event were 3oh6 (Jody Bailey, the lone Canuck), Buckeye (William Harmon), Gautam (Gautam Bhatnager), Gomeler (Chris Morrell), Maxi (Mark LeaMaster), miahallen (Jeremiah Allen), Mikeguava (Michael Graf), Rdrash (Matthew Kinley), Ross (Ross Lapkoff), sno.Icn (Jeremy Clifton) and Titon (Vachira Khowdee), FUGGER (Charles Wirth) and Vapor (Eric Hassett). Each of them was entitled with a numerous world records and champions at a few well-known overclocking competitions in the industry sponsored by INTEL, AMD, GIGABYTE or Tom's Hardware. " The event was well planned and masterfully orchestrated. GIGABYTE truly showed world class affection for all of us and I am honored to have had the opportunity to compete at such as prestigious event. It raised my expectations of oveclocking event considerably." said one of contestants.

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"We've highly valued the voices of hardcore power users as they've been always active and working around the clock to tackle challenging questions on the latest technologies, chipset, CPU and memory in a way to help performance brand like GIGABYTE leap ahead of competitors and continue to engineer the best platforms catered to different segments and applications." said Tony Liao, Vice President of GIGABYTE North America. "We are very honored and excited to bring this group of people who represent the best of enthusiast community together again to meet and have OC fun with old friends from the community."

"GIGABYTE has done a remarkable work at this event! Compared to Intel's event with the support of more than 200 staff, we see a better return on investment at GIGABYTE event in terms of the quality of the event and press coverages. It was a very successful event and we look forward to working with GIGABYTE again at upcoming events!" stated Francois Piednoel, INTEL Performance Analyst/Guru

Aside from the competition, major sponsors including Intel, Nvidia, Kingston and Enermax also showcased the latest products and technologies that shape the top of the line dream systems today and in the future.

To view more video and pictures from GO OC 2009 around the globe, please visit
http://gooc2009.gigabyte.com.tw/web/Eng/gigabyte_pic.aspx
http://gooc2009.gigabyte.com.tw/web/Eng/gigabyte_movie_2009.aspx
To learn more about GIGABYTE GO OC 2009 Global Final and vote for winners at http://gooc2009.gigabyte.com.tw/web/index.html. 

For more results of regional finals around the globe, please visit http://gooc2009.gigabyte.com.tw/web/Eng/gigabyte_state-1.html