HWBOT Tales of Taipei - Gigabench, ASRock OC magic, MSI, MOA

Massman at HWBot is living the dream, not only does he run the popular HWBot website (with some help) but gets to travel around the world checking out the latest hardware direct from the factory.

It would seem for the past month he has been living abroad in Taipei floating around the various mfg offices and testing the latest hardware including Trinity, the EOL GTX 680 Lightning and some cool stuff at ASRock.

Quite some time has passed since my first report of what’s going on in the center of hardware. Although it may seem quiet, a lot has happened in the past couple of weeks. Not only did MSI create a sudden rise in overclockers staying in Taiwan, we’ve seen a couple of new overclocking records and new CPU releases. Being able to check in with the vendors on a (much more) regular basis gives an interesting insight on how product launches are prepared and what role overclocking plays in that. Sadly enough most of the discussions I have are under strict NDA, so you’ll have to do with the following report. Enjoy!

Some will say that reporting on the happenings in the hardware world should be excatly like this with hardware falling from the sky and your pockets lined with processors and corn chips but sadly that pipedream never came true for me, or many others for that matter.

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