It's one thing for a company to tout the ability of its products to be pushed to the limits, however it's an entirely different matter when it actively promotes the use of them for overclocking around the world as Gigabyte does with its GO OC competitions. The competitions begin with events in 26 countries around the world that lead to four regional events to determine which teams will compete in the world finals in Taiwan. This year teams from the U.S., China, Sweden, Belgium and Australia met June 3 for five hours of head-to-head competition to see who would walk away as this year's champions.

When all the liquid nitrogen vapors cleared, Team USA (Fugger and Vapor) came away with the first place position and in the process broke the 3DMark Vantage world record for GTX 260 Dual Card SLI with PhysX disabled with a score of 28,093. In addition to worldwide fame and guaranteed groupies (OK, maybe that's stretching it a bit) Team USA also received $5,000 and products from various sponsors.

The Belgian team, PT1T and Massman, won the SuperPI competition with a score of 6mins 40secs in SuperPI 32m using an Intel Core i7 975 Extreme Edition processor and Gigabyte's GA-EX58-UD5 motherboard overclocked to 5.634GHz. This just goes to show that not only does Gigabyte promote overclocking around the world but backs it up with products like the GA-EX58-UD5 which managed a 76% performance boost over the default 3.2GHz with 4 cores, 8 threads.