Taipei, Taiwan, April 26^th, 2017 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, is excited to announce the start of Summer Spectacular 2017, the third of four contests in GIGABYTE’s 2017 overclocking season. A total prize pool of over $2,500 USD in enthusiast-grade hardware is available for the top three contestants in both Ambient and Extreme cooling categories along with six “Lucky Draw” winners. 

With this contest restricted to only Intel^® Core i3-7350K CPUs and NVIDIA^® GT730 graphics cards, the playing fields are evened as participants look to push budget hardware to their limits! For those just learning the ins and outs of overclocking—a lucky draw is also part of this competition, where prizes including two GIGABYTE Z270X-UD3 are up for grabs for participants who submit scores in all stages of the competition.

Prize info and event rules for Summer Spectacular 2017 are listed below:

Summer Spectacular 2017: May 1^st, 2017 – May 31^th, 2017

Ambient Cooling Class

1^st Place Prize

GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 1070 Mini-ITX OC ($399.99 USD)

2^nd Place Prize

GIGABYTE Gaming Z270X-Gaming SOC ($239.99 USD)

3^rd Place Prize

G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600 Memory ($159.99 USD)

Extreme Cooling Class

1^st Place Prize

Intel^® Core i7-7700K ($349.99 USD)

2^nd Place Prize

GIGABYTE Gaming Z270X-Gaming SOC ($239.99 USD)

3^rd Place Prize

GIGABYTE AORUS Z270X-Gaming 7 ($239.99 USD)

Lucky Draw Prizes

2x GIGABYTE Gaming Z270X-UD3 ($149.99 USD)

2x G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600 Memory ($159.99 USD)

ENERMAX Platimax 850W PSU ($169.99 USD)

Open Benchtable ($149.99 USD)

To enter and for more event details, please visit the contest page at HWBOT:

http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/gbt_summer_spectacular

To learn more about GIGABYTE: http://www.gigabyte.com/