MSI's inaugural Master Overclocking Arena Grand Final

With that in mind, MSI is the third of the big manufacturers to host an overclocking championship, the Master Overclocking Arena 2008, which has been running over the course of this year with various regional qualifiers held across Europe and Asia. Strangely, the USA wasn't included in this year's competition but we're assured that they will be a part of the event next year since quite a few of the world's top overclockers are based in North America.

Following the regional qualifiers, MSI whittled the entrants down to just thirteen teams, who were all invited out to Taipei, Taiwan, to take part in the inaugural Master Overclocking Arena Grand Final. We were there to watch events as they unfolded – at the time we'd promised to report live from the show, but following a horribly sleepless journey over to Taipei and after taking in what was going on during the event, we felt that there was a much more interesting slant on proceedings that warranted an article of its own.

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