3DMark Vantage World Record Broken for Single VGA/CPU Overclocking Contest

Prizes Awarded Include $1000 in Cash, MSI Motherboards, Enermax Power Supplies, GlacialTech Coolers and Thermaltake Cases

Futuremark Corporation today announced the winners of the MSI/AMD Lightning VGA Overclocking contest. After all the results were tallied, the highest single VGA/CPU combined score ever recorded for 3DMark Vantage was achieved.

"Our congratulations go out to all the winners for their amazing achievements in pushing their PCs to the limits, and we are always surprised and delighted to see how quickly records get broken," said Jukka Mäkinen Ph.D., CEO of Futuremark.

"We would like to thank the efforts of all participants who entered the MSI/AMD Lightning contest 2010. This unique contest was a great way to showcase the power of next generation graphic cards. We are proud to prove that MSI R5870 Lightning is the fastest single core graphics card in the world!" Jason Lee, Marketing Director of MSI, said.

3DMark Vantage is a benchmark program from Futuremark that measures the 3D gaming performance capabilities of PCs. 3DMark software has been downloaded more than 45 million times. The 3DMark Vantage edition is currently the world's most popular benchmark and can be downloaded for free trial from the Futuremark website.

About Futuremark Corporation

Futuremark Corporation is the leading provider of performance analysis software and services for PCs. Futuremark is known around the world for its benchmark products, including 3DMark (with more than 45 million copies distributed worldwide) and PCMark, and value-added services powered by the ORB, an online database of over 30 million real life benchmarking results. Futuremark maintains offices in Saratoga, California and Helsinki, Finland.