ASUS has announced the OC Showdown 2017 Team Edition overclocking competition, featuring squads of overclockers competing for prizes with a value of $5,000.
The tournament will run from 14 April to 5 June 2017 and will be hosted on HWBOT.
Teams are able to sign up at any time and competitors can register to take part in the competition by creating an HWBOT account.
To reach the top team ranking, overclockers will have to submit their best scores in five stages.
Stages 1 and 2 are limited to only air or water cooling, and scores using extreme cooling methods may be submitted from Stage 3 onwards.
The details for each stage of the competition are detailed below.
| Asus Overclocking | Stage 1 | Stage 2 | Stage 3 | Stage 4 | Stage 5 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Benchmark | XTU | X265 – 4K | GPUPI for CPU – 1B | Reference Clock | 3DMark Time Spy |
| Hardware Limitations | 4x Cores | No X99 | No limitations | No limitations | Single GPU (No Titan X or 1080 Ti) |
| League Limitations | Up to Novice | Up to Enthusiast | Up to Apprentice | Up to Extreme | Up to Elite |
| Cooling limitations | Air/Water, 30 degrees idle | Air/Water, 30 degrees idle | No limitations | No limitations | No limitations |
| Average Scoring/team | Top 3 scores/team | Top 5 scores/team | Top 2 scores/team | Top 3 scores/team | Top 2 scores/team |
| Unique Hardware/team | CPUs model | CPUs model | CPUs model | Chipsets | GPUs model |
| Points Repartition | 50-48-46-44-42-40 | 50-46-44-42-40-38 | 50-44-42-40-38-36 | 50-42-40-38-36-34 | 50-40-38-36-34-32 |
Prizes for the OC Showdown 2017 Team Edition include:
- ROG Maximus IX Apex motherboard
- ROG Crosshair VI Hero motherboard
- ROG Strix GTX 1050 Ti
- Seasonic Prime Platinum PSU
- G-Skill DDR4 Trident Z and Flare X memory
This article first appeared on MyBroadband and is republished with permission.
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Always wondered about these competitions. At that level doesn’t it just come down to the “silicon lottery”?