New gigabyte z97 challenge

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announces its new overclocking contest hosted at HWBOT.org, the GIGABYTE Z97-Pentium AE 'Beat the Heat' Challenge, whose main focus will be on the new motherboards. GIGABYTE 9-series base and G3258 Intel® Pentium® Anniversary Edition CPU. The challenge is open to all HWBOT.org overclockers and will be divided into 5 separate tests in which various benchmarks will be run with air / water cooling and LN2. The winners will pocket a total of USD $ 2000 in cash and two GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC LN2. There will also be a raffle in which five participants will carry a GIGABYTE G-Powerboard kit.

To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pentium® brand, Intel has made available to the overclocking community a non-blocking processor with great potential at a very affordable price. To put this bad boy to the test, GIGABYTE offers the HWBOT community a chance to see if they can stay cool and win great prizes from August 24 to September 28, 2014.

Quizzes

- Test 1: XTU

Maximum delivery date: Sunday, September 7

- Test 2: HWBOT Prime

Maximum delivery date: Sunday, September 7

- Test 3: Super Pi 32M

Maximum delivery date: Sunday, September 14

- Test 4: Memory clock

Maximum delivery date: Sunday, September 21

- Test 5: CPU clock frequency

Maximum delivery date: Sunday, September 28

Contest rules

All tests must be performed with a GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboard (except the Z97 SOC FORCE LN2) and an Intel® Pentium® G3258. All screenshots must include the contest wallpaper and benchmark score. All submissions must be accompanied by a photo of the equipment used with the contest background included. The usual HWBOT shipping and verification rules will apply. Test 1 is open to beginner, novice or HWBOT enthusiast overclockers, using only air / water cooling (LN2 is not allowed). Tests 2 to 5 are open to all HWBOT overclockers. To avoid being disqualified, participants in tests 2 to 5 must submit their results before the deadline of each test. In the raffle, G-Powerboard kits will be delivered in Nvidia or AMD version, interchangeably, randomly. The winners of the different tests 1 to 5 will be excluded from the draw.

Distribution of points

Test 1:

The 1st classified gets 1 point.

Tests 2 to 5:

For each test

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