[PR] MSI MOA 2011 “Military Operations” at NTU Sports Center

Team Lab 501 from Romania defeated all opposition with heavy shellfire to conquer the final!

(Taipei, Taiwan) After nine months of qualification in America, Europe and Asia, internationally renowned mainboard and graphics card manufacturer MSI, Futuremark LOC and HWBOT together selected 16 teams of elite overclockers from different parts of the world to participate in Operation Taipei on October 7 at the NTU Sports Center. Operation Taipei is the final round of the Master Overclocking Arena (MOA) 2011 held in Taiwan. After three benchmarks lasting for more than 7.5 hours, team Lab 501 from Romania representing the European Qualification as a first-time contestant took top honors with an excellent result:147.169% increase in performance. Besides winning the most powerful OC weaponry valued over US$5,000 from MOA, the champion also receives a cash prize of US$3,000 and the title “Master of Overclocking”. Team HWBOX.gr from Greece took the first runner-up, and two-time MOA champion team Expandables from Sweden came in third this time.

Team Lab 501 from Romania is led by matose and Monstru. Both are well-experienced overclockers and have won many awards in different OC competitions. In the pre-event web poll, team Lab 501 was the most anticipated team, with votes doubled other teams. They deserved the championship of MOA 2011 grand final.

To meet with the “Military Operations” theme of the MOA 2011, the venue was decorated in the form of a fortress. The OC competition area was protected with camouflage nets and chevaux de frise. The venue was decorated with different camouflage visual effects. The sandbags, oil barrels and wooden ammunition boxes created a strong sense of field operations. This way, audiences could feel the tension of war. MSI Senior Vice President Henry Lu even presided upon the opening ceremony by fixing the bayonet to encourage soldiers to fight until the last team standing. The sexy goddess Amber voted by netizens was invited to be the MSI officer to lead three female soldiers to challenge the extreme of their physical strength and to encourage the OC soldiers. The appearance of sexy MSI Officer Amber captured all the attention of all audiences and brought the event to its climax.

Besides the MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) mainbaord and MSI N580GTX Lightning graphics card, the heavy weapons for MOA 2011 included the Intel^® Core™ i7-2600K CPUs, Kingston^® HyperX T1 DDR3-2133 2GBx2 dual-channel memory, Western Digital^® Velociraptor WD3000HLFS hard drives, Thermaltake^® Toughpower 1350W power supply units, Tt^® eSPORTS Challenger professional e-sports keyboards and Black Gaming laser mice. All suppliers have sponsored this annual OC event with their leading-edge products.

Apart from the dreadful fight of 32 elite overclockers in 16 teams from different parts of the world, MSI recruited 16 computer assembly masters from universities in 8 teams to challenge in the MSI Battle Camp. After the cheerleading team round, the computer knowledge quiz, and computer assembly test, the Huafan University team took the championship from Yuenlin University of Technology with a very little difference. Cheng Shiu University won the third prize. In addition to taking away the computer they have assembled in the competition, the top three teams also won the MSI N560GTX-Ti Twin Frozr II Golden Edition graphics card, the MSI Z68A-G43 (B3) mainboard, the Western Digital^® My Passport Essential 500GB (red) portable hard drive! Kingston^® and Tt^® eSPORTS also sponsored USB disks and earphones for the cheerleading team lucky draw.

According to MSI Component Marketing Manager Zona Lin, “Our Military Class design concept has received certification from independent labs, meeting US Department of Defense MIL-STD-810G Military standards, proving the quality and innovation of MSI mainboards and graphics cards. The OC mainboard used in the MOA 2011 is the MSI Z68A-GD80 (G3) equipped with the dual-interface ClickBIOS II system adjustment tool and OC Genie II. The graphics card is the MSI N580GTX Lightning tailored for extreme overclockers. Its industry-leading Power4 architecture and Twin Frozr III dual-fan cooling with innovative Propeller Blade technology dramatically increase the overall overclocking magnitude and stability. All these have marked out MSI’s leadership in the OC world.”

If you are interested in learning more about MOA 2011, please visit the MOA official website at www.msi-moa.com.