ASUS ROG Showdown at DreamHack Winter 2009: Day 1

ASUS ROG Showdown at DreamHack Winter 2009 is a gathering of some of the finest overclockers in Europe battling for the victory, honor and computer hardware with the best of hardware around.

Round one of ASUS ROG Showdown was a nerve shattering story where Jon "elmor" Sandström finally walked off victorious. Competition was divided into two rounds where Jonas "Mean Machine" Klar took the lead in the first round and got the best score in 3DMark Vantage Performance. After a short break and switching systems the roles were reversed and Elmor could collect a strong result with the second system and the victory in the first quarter final. Mean Machine didn't manage to get a result in the second round where he had to struggle with a stubborn and problematic system.

The quarter finals of ASUS ROG Showdown goes on for 2 x 45 minutes where they switch system in the middle and finally tally up the scores and the best total scores goes on to the next round. The score of the first quarter finals were as follows;

Elmor: 27189 points + 28544 points = 55733
Mean Machine: 27720 points + 0 points = 27720

The systems used were as follows:

- Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
- ASUS ROG Maximus III Formula
- ASUS EAH5870 (2 in CrossFireX)
- ASUS ROG Notebook for ROG Connect
- OCZ DDR3 w/ Elpida Hyper, OCZ Vertex Turbo 120GB
- OCZ Z Series 1000W Gold Certified Modular
- Intel core i7 870

We take the opportunity to congratulate Elmor and wish him good luck in the semifinals tomorrow.

There were three more quarter finals and we will be covering them on the following pages. We have one more Swede in the competition in the form of Henry "ME4ME" de Kruijf who went head to head with Finnish overclocker SF3D.