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GIGABYTE Z97-Pentium® AE Beat the Heat Challenge to be Hosted on HWBOT.ORG
Keep It Cool for a Chance to Win Big in Cash Prizes and GIGABYTE Hardware
18/08/2014
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of the Pentium® brand, Intel delivered to the overclocking community an unlocked processor with great potential at a very fair price. To put this bad boy to the test, GIGABYTE is giving HWBOT’s community the opportunity to see if they can keep their cool under pressure and win big from August 24th until September 28th, 2014.
Contest Stages
- Stage 1: XTU
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 7th
- Stage 2: HWBOT Prime
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 7th
- Stage 3: Super Pi 32M
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 14th
- Stage 4: Memory Clock
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 21st
- Stage 5: CPU Frequency clock
Submission deadline: Sunday, September 28th
Contest Rules
All submissions must be made using a GIGABYTE 9 series motherboard (except Z97 SOC FORCE LN2) and retail Intel® Pentium® G3258. All screenshot submissions must include the competition wallpaper including the benchmark score. All submissions must include a picture of the rig used, including competition background. Usual HWBOT submission and verification rules apply. Stage 1 is open to HWBOT Enthusiast, Rookie and Novice overclockers only using Air/Water cooling, LN2 not allowed. Stages 2 to 5 are open to all HWBOT overclockers. To remain qualified, the participants of Stage 2 to Stage 5 MUST submit a score before the deadline. For the lucky draw, the G-Powerboard kit version (Nvidia/AMD) will be sent randomly. Winners of Stage 1 and Stage 2 to 5 will be excluded from the Lucky draw.
Point allocation
- Stage 1:
1st place gets 1 point.
- Stage 2 to 5:
For each stage
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 |
Contest Prizes
1st place receives $500 USD
- Stage 2 to 5
1st place receives $1,000 USD and a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2
2nd place receives $500 USD
3rd place receives a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard
- Lucky draw (To be held at the end of the competition)
2nd place receives $500 USD
3rd place receives a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard
Five randomly selected participants will receive a G-Powerboard kit
*G-Powerboard kit includes a G-POWERBOARD, a Powerboard controller, cables and a copper sheet.
The GIGABYTE Z97-Pentium AE Beat the Heat Challenge will run from August 24th 2014 until September 28th 2014, midnight GMT/UTC (8AM 29/07 GMT+8).
For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest page hosted on HWBOT.org:
http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_fighttheheat
The GIGABYTE Z97-Pentium AE Beat the Heat Challenge will run from August 24th 2014 until September 28th 2014, midnight GMT/UTC (8AM 29/07 GMT+8).
For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest page hosted on HWBOT.org:
http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_fighttheheat