Futuremark Lords of Overclocking 2011 - 3DMark11 - Performance

Futuremark today announced the return of its third annual Lords of Overclocking competition! Lords of Overclocking is a worldwide online qualifying event. This year Futuremark has again partnered with MSI to offer winners a trip to compete in MSI’s Master Overclocking Arena competition in Taipei!

This year’s event, the largest of its type, will see overclocking pros, enthusiasts and hobbyists from Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas use 3DMark® 11 and MSI brand graphics cards to compete for the title of "Lord of Overclocking" for their region.

The complete prize pool includes the latest and greatest graphics cards, motherboards, cases, memory, coolers and power supplies from competition sponsors MSI, Huntkey, Kingston and Enermax.

Entrants will be competing to achieve the highest score with 3DMark 11, the latest version of the world’s most popular benchmark for testing PC hardware. Featuring a combination of real-time visual and numerical computation tests, 3DMark is the standard for measuring PC video card performance and is supported by an online database containing over 35 million results!

Lords of Overclocking will run for four weeks starting July 4th and ending August 1st, with prizes awarded to the top weekly winners in each region.