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    El Gappo takes the APU crown

    10 Comments by ARandomOWl Published on 21-09-2011
    Last month, to celebrate the launch of AMD's new APUs with enhanced performance on-board graphics, Gigabyte hosted their own official "A75 OC Challenge" over at HWbot. The competition consisted of 5 stages biased towards 3D benchmarks to show the true power of the APU.

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    EL Gappo's gold-winning bench setup

    Benchtec's very own El Gappo took the first place spot overall with a well deserved set of results, taking an amazing first or second in every stage! Well done to the runners up: Iron and bennylodewijk for putting up a strong fight.

    The final overall ranking
    1. El Gappo - 44 points
    2. Iron - 41 points
    3. bennylodewijk - 33 points

    Stage 1 - 3Dmark 11
    1. Iron - 1865
    2. El Gappo - 1820
    3. bennylodewijk - 1705

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    3DMark11

    Stage 2 - 3DMark Vantage
    1. El Gappo - 7023
    2. Iron - 6788
    3. bennylodewijk - 6755

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    3DMark Vantage

    Stage 3 - PCMark 7
    1. bennylodewijk - 4085
    2. El Gappo - 4058
    3. veblen - 3615

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    PCMark 7

    Stage 4 - Unigine Heaven Xtreme
    1. Iron - 320.923
    2. El Gappo - 315.686
    3. bennylodewijk - 274.063

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    Unigine Heaven Xtreme

    Stage 5 - UCBench 2011
    1. El Gappo - 914.8
    2. Iron - 900.2
    3. Sebuntya - 887.7

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    UCBench 2011

    Congratulations to El Gappo for taking home the well deserved first place prize of a Gigabyte 990FX-UD5
    Last edited by ARandomOWl; 22-09-2011 at 05:17 PM.

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    Way to spank the competition Ollie..!!!!
    HWBot siggy thingy no workie..!!
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    Nice work Olly

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    well done olly

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    Giga sponsor wins Giga competition and more Giga hardware. EPIC!!!



    lol, at least Giga knows who to send hardware to.

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    Congrats Gappo, nice win

    Best of luck in the Bulldozer Benchoff, (sorry PizzaMan)

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    Great results, a well deserved win, congrats.

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    Fantastic win! Well done buddy!
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    The best of the best that is what we have - Ollie remember us when you are famous mate.


    I know the amount of work that you put into the competition and your first place is well deserved. You did your forum and your team proud mate.

    Bravo

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    Stirling effort, well done!
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    Well done El Gappo, congratulation and enjoy the feeling of winning.

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