MSI’s (TPE:2377) annual Master Overclocking Arena came to a close Sunday with the “No Limits Battle.”

Unlike yesterday’s overclocking faceoff, the Classic Battle, the No Limits Battle allowed overclockers a bit more flexibility with the hardware — provided that it’s made by MSI. For GPUs, overclockers could pick between a Radeon R9-series or a GeFoce 900-series card. Overclockers were also given some flexibility on the motherboard they could use as Z97, X99 and X79 were allowed. The chart below gives a breakdown of how the HWBOT points were weighed and awarded for the contest.

France’s Wizerty took the top prize in the contest with 70 points, followed by “bboyjezz” with 64 points and “steponz” with 42 points. For his victory Wizerty took home a grand prize of $2,500.

More information on the exact clockspeeds and hardware used by the competitors will be available Monday.

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MSI’s (TPE:2377) annual Master Overclocking Arena kicked off in Taipei this weekend, as the world’s best overclockers gathered to do battle cranking CPUs, GPUs and RAM far past their intended frequencies while using up the vast majority of the country’s supply of liquid nitrogen.

Global overclocking champion “8Pack” and Germany’s “der8auer” were the day’s judges (“8Pack” himself was not competing as he assisted in the design of MSI’s MPOWER motherboard) as participants pushed MSI hardware to its absolute limits with rounds of benching on Cinebench R15, SuperPi32M and Future Mark’s Firestrike suite.

The judges explain the rules to contestants. (Photo credit: MSI)

In the end South Africa’s “Vivi” was able to secure the top prize for the best average scores, followed by Ukraine’s “T0lsty” and in third place Korea’s “oc wind force”.

The overclockers return tomorrow for another round of battle, this time using their own equipment and not kit provided by MSI.

Below is a gallery of the day’s events (all photos provided by MSI).

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