GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, is pleased to announce four overclocking competitions starting in early March and running through the end of July, taking place on HWBOT.org. Overclocking professionals will be able to test their skills to see who will be crowned the winner. This year the bar is higher than ever with close to 10.000 euros in prizes. Entries are open to all those who want to participate, whether or not they have the best scores, the only requirement is participation in each of the stages of the competitions. Veterans and beginners alike will have the opportunity to take home the awards to practice for future competitions.
GIGABYTE will award winners and contestants with AORUS Z270X-Gaming 7 motherboards, GIGABYTE Radeon RX480s, Intel Core i7-7700K processors, G. SKILL memory as well as Enermax liquid cooling and power supplies.
Each competition will have multiple stages divided into a series of tests. These tests will consist of 3DMark Fire Strike, XTU 5G, Catzilla and much more, so participants have a wide battlefield. Each participant will earn a series of points based on their score in those fields. The three participants with the highest score at the end of each competition will be the winners. As simple as that! It's time to get down to business and get the thermal grease out as GIGABYTE overclocking season is about to begin!
The overclocking competitions and their corresponding start and end dates are as follows:
March Madness: From March 1, 2017 to March 31, 2017
April Extreme Clocking: From April 1, 2017 to April 30, 2071
Summer Spectacular: From May 1, 2017 to May 31, 2017
Beat the Heat: From July 1, 2017 to July 31, 2017
Note: All competitions are limited to GIGABYTE motherboards and 4-Core processors, unless otherwise noted. Summer Spectacular is limited to Intel CPUs® Core i3-7350K and NVIDIA graphics cards® GT730.
For the contest rules, scores and more details you can visit the HWBOT contest page:
March Madness http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/gbt_march_madness
April Extreme Clocking: yet to be announced
Summer Spectacular: yet to be announced
Beat the Heat: yet to be announced
