After some fierce OC battles, 17 winning overclocking groups from 17 European countries have been selected to join the European Overclocking - Qualifier Event, which will be held on 17 and 18 July in the Olympic Stadium in Munich, Germany.

The Olympiastadion is a stadium located in Munich. Situated at the heart of the Olympiapark München in northern Munich, the stadium was built as the main venue for the 1972 Summer Olympics.

The 17overclocking groups will use the same hardware components to tweak, bench and modify: MSI Eclipse SLI, MSI N260GTX Lightning, Intel® Core™ i7 950 CPU, Seagate Hard disc drive and OCZ DDR3 memory.

The top 5 of this event will pass to the worldwide Master Overclocking Arena 2009, to be held in Beijing in August. For more information about the overclocking teams and the MSI Master Overclocking Arena 2009, visit http://www.oc-arena.com/eu.