Gigabyte Technology : Z97-Pentium® AE Beat the Heat Challenge to be Hosted on HWBOT.ORG
August 18, 2014 at 03:28 am EDT
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Taipei, Taiwan, August 18th, 2014 - GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced its latest overclocking contest hosted on HWBOT.org, the GIGABYTE Z97-Pentium AE Beat the Heat Challenge. The main focus will be centered on the latest GIGABYTE 9 series motherboards and the G3258 Intel® Pentium® Anniversary Edition CPU. The challenge is open to all HWBOT.org overclockers and will be separated in 5 stages running various benchmarks on air/water cooling and LN2 cooling. A total of USD $2,000 in cash prizes and two GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC LN2 will be offered to the winners, as well as a lucky draw with 5 participants winning a GIGABYTE G-Powerboard kit.
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pentium® brand, Intel delivered to the overclocking community an unlocked processor with great potential at a very fair price. To put this bad boy to the test, GIGABYTE is giving HWBOT's community the opportunity to see if they can keep their cool under pressure and win big from August 24th until September 28th, 2014.
Contest Stages
- Stage 1: XTU
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 7th
- Stage 2: HWBOT Prime
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 7th
- Stage 3: Super Pi 32M
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 14th
- Stage 4: Memory Clock
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 21st
- Stage 5: CPU Frequency clock
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 28th
Contest Rules
All submissions must be made using a GIGABYTE 9 series motherboard (except Z97 SOC FORCE LN2) and retail Intel® Pentium® G3258. All screenshot submissions must include the competition wallpaper including the benchmark score. All submissions must include a picture of the rig used, including competition background. Usual HWBOT submission and verification rules apply. Stage 1 is open to HWBOT Enthusiast, Rookie and Novice overclockers only using Air/Water cooling, LN2 not allowed. Stages 2 to 5 are open to all HWBOT overclockers. To remain qualified, the participants of Stage 2 to Stage 5 MUST submit a score before the deadline. For the lucky draw, the G-Powerboard kit version (Nvidia/AMD) will be sent randomly. Winners of Stage 1 and Stage 2 to 5 will be excluded from the Lucky draw.
Point allocation
- Stage 1:
1st place gets 1 point.
- Stage 2 to 5:
For each stage
1st place
2nd place
3rd place
4th place
5th place
25 points
18 points
16 points
14 points
12 points
6th place
7th place
8th place
9th place
10th place
10 points
8 points
5 points
2 points
1 point
Contest Prizes
- Stage 1
1st place receives $500 USD
- Stage 2 to 5 - Lucky draw (To be held at the end of the competition)
Five randomly selected participants will receive a G-Powerboard kit
Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. is a Taiwan-based company principally engaged in the production, processing and sales of information technology (IT) products. The Company provides computer motherboards, three dimensional (3D) display graphic cards, laptops, tablet personal computers (PCs), servers, smart phones, broadband network devices and wireless communication products, computer peripherals and network storage products. It distributes its products mainly within Taiwan, as well as to the rest of Asia, Europe and the Americas.