City of Industry, California, December 5^th, 2014 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the GIGABYTE Goodbye 2014 OC Challenge, its latest overclocking contest hosted on HWBOT.org. With the end of the year approaching very fast, GIGABYTE is inviting all participants to complement their holiday season with some great overclocking and a chance to take home high quality hardware! Prizes include 3 Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboards as well as 3 recently launched X99M-Gaming 5 motherboards, and not to forget a total of $2,000 in cash! For its last OC run of the year, GIGABYTE is challenging the participants to outperform themselves using any GIGABYTE Z97 motherboards on 3 different benchmarks, XTU, CPUz as well as SuperPI 32M. Good luck to all!
 
Contest Stages
Stage 1: XTU
Highest score wins
CPU Speed must be set at 4.5GHz (4497MHz to 4503MHz)
Must submit before midnight on Sunday, December 21^st (following the UTC+08:00 time zone)
Stage 2: Highest CPUz
Highest score wins
Must submit before midnight on Sunday, December 28^th (following the UTC+08:00 time zone)
Stage 3: Super Pi 32m
The target score is to be revealed on HWBOT on Monday, December 29^th
Submission will be open for 24 hours on Sunday, January 4^th 2015 (following the UTC+08:00 time zone).
 

Contest Rules
• GIGABYTE Z97 motherboard only.
• No restriction on cooling method.
• All submissions must include a screenshot of the competition wallpaper.
• Usual HWBOT submission and verification rules apply.
• To enter the lucky draw, participant must submit in all 3 stages.
• Stage submissions will be revealed after the submission deadline of the stage.
• If an overall challenge winner is also a stage 1^st place winner, the stage prize will go to the stage next  best performance.
 
Contest Prizes

• Stage 1 ~ 3

1^st place of each stage will receive a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard
 

• Overall Challenge

1^st place: $1,000 USD
2^nd place: $600 USD
3^rd place: $400$
 

• Lucky draw (To be held at the end of the competition)

3 randomly selected participants will receive an X99M-Gaming 5 motherboard
 
 

$2,000 USD	X99M-Gaming 5	Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2

 
The GIGABYTE Goodbye 2014 OC Challenge will run from December 5^th 2014 until January 4^th 2015, midnight (UTC+08:00).
 
For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest page hosted on HWBOT.org:
http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_goodbye2014_challenge