GIGABYTE Hosts Z97-Last Hurrah Challenge
    Last Chance to Bench on Z97 Before the Next Generation Invasion
    Jul 09, 2015
    Taipei, Taiwan, July 9th, 2015 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced another great competition for the overclocking community with the GIGABYTE Z97-Last Hurrah Challenge, to be hosted this July and August on HWBOT.org. This new challenge gives the community a last chance to test their skills on the GIGABYTE Z97 platform before the next series of motherboards comes around. By participating, overclockers have the chance to win $2,000 USD in cash prizes and two mystery motherboards, which will be revealed soon!
     
    Starting July 10th 2015, overclockers will have a chance to win some great prizes by choosing their preferred cooling method and submit their best score within 4 stages. Most points win, it’s as simple as that! Participants have two ways to win, either they collect the most points to win a stage for the $250 cash prize, or they collect the most points across all 4 stages to win the category grand prize which is… to be announced!
    Here are the category and stages details.
     
    Category 1: Air/Water Cooling (Ambient)
    Stage 1: XTU – July 10th until July 25th
    • CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max
    Stage 2: GeekBench-3 Multi Core – July 10th until August 10th
    • CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max
    Stage 3: XTU – July 10th until August 20th
    • CPU frequency is to be set at 4.5GHz max
    Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU - 1B – July 10th until August 30th
    • CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max
     
    Category 2: Extreme Cooling
    Stage 1: GeekBench-3 Multi Core – July 10th until July 25th
    Stage 2: XTU – July 10th until August 10th
    • CPU frequency is to be set at 5GHz max
    Stage 3: GeekBench-3 Single Core – July 10th until August 20th
    Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU - 1B – July 10th until August 30th
     
     Contest Rules
    • This competition is limited to GIGABYTE Z97 motherboards only
    • Submissions will open on the first day of the stage at 00:01 (UTC +8) and close on the last day at 23:59 (UTC+8)
    • Every submission must include the competition background and a picture of the rig.
    • A participant is eligible to win only once. If he is found to be the winner in multiple categories, the prize will go to the runner up.
    • Intel® Core™ i7-5775C, i5-5675C, i7-5775R, i5-5675R and i5-5575R CPUs are not allowed.
    • In case of a tie, the tie-breaker is best score in Stage 4. If there’s still a tie, the best score in Stage 3, etc.
    Contest Prizes
    • Each stage 1st place will receive a $250 USD cash prize
    • Category 1st place for both the Air/Water Cooling category and Extreme Cooling category will win a mystery motherboard which will be announced as soon as we can!
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    The GIGABYTE-Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge will run from July 10th until August 30th 2015, 23:59 (UTC +8).
    Good luck to all!!
     
    For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest pages at HWBOT or OC-ESPORTS: http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/gbt_z97_lasthurrah
     
    For more information about GIGABYTE motherboards, go to:
    http://www.gigabyte.com/products/main.aspx?s=42
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