Taipei, Taiwan, October 7th, 2014 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the GIGABYTE TARGET OC, its latest overclocking contest hosted on HWBOT.org. GIGABYTE TARGET OC is a new challenge to test the true overclocking skills of the community. Setting an exact target on not only high, but also low scores, the participants will need to learn how to adjust the performance of their systems to be able to hit the right mark. A lot is on the line; a total of USD $2,000 in cash prizes and five GIGABYTE motherboards, including two recently launched X99-SOC FORCE motherboards, will be offered to the winners and participants through lucky draws.

Overclocking is not only about pushing the limits of your hardware, it is also about mastering the skills needed to tweak all aspects of your system to achieve the performance that you want. In this challenge we will also give you an opportunity to showcase your overclocking and downclocking skills. With TARGET OC, GIGABYTE decided to have some fun with selection of the target scores and chose some epic world records back in the day as well as some super bad scores to see how well you can tune your system to the level of performance of old time greats and super bad overclocks of today. By trying to hit every scores set, we are hoping the participants will have fun trying to search the perfect setting for the perfect score.

Contest Stages

Stage 1: XTU
Target score: 159 marks (We challenge you to match the worst Pentium G3258 XTU score on HWBOT) http://hwbot.org/submission/2631152
Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, October 19th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

Stage 2: HWBOT Prime
Target score: 2967.55 pps (We challenge you to match the worst Pentium G3258 HWBOT Prime score on HWBOT) http://hwbot.org/submission/2604388
Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, October 26th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

Stage 3: 3DMark05
Target score: 30257 marks (We challenge you to match an epic world record from 2007 set by a legendary US overclocker OPPAINTER) http://hwbot.org/submission/576666
Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, November 2nd at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

Stage 4: Super Pi 32M
Target score: 20min27sec570ms (We challenge you to match an epic world record from 2006 set by a legendary US overclocker bachus_anonym) http://hwbot.org/submission/546701
Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, November 9th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

Stage 5: Catzilla 720p
arget score: 1938 marks (We challenge you to match a 2000th ranked score on HWBOT in Catzilla 720p) http://hwbot.org/submission/2554356
Submission will be open for 2 hours open on Sunday, November 16th at 2pm (UTC+08:00)

Contest Rules

• GIGABYTE motherboard only, no restriction on CPU, VGA brand, number of VGAs or motherboard generation.
• All submissions must include a screenshot of 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.
• To enter the lucky draw, participant must submit a score in all 5 stages.
• Winners of one stage are not allowed to participate in another stage or lucky draw.
• The submission will be open for 2 hours on the day of the submission (2pm to 4pm Taipei time - UTC+08:00). The first person to post the target score wins the stage. If the target has not been achieved, the closest score bellow the target (for high scores) or above the target (for low scores) wins.

Contest Prizes

• Stage 1 ~ 5

1st place of each stage will receive $400 USD

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

Five randomly selected participants will receive one of these motherboards

1x Z97N-Gaming 5	1x Z97N-WIFI	1x Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2	2x X99-SOC FORCE

The GIGABYTE TARGET OC will run from October 7th 2014 until November 16th 2014, 4pm CTS.

For complete contest rules, scoring and more details, please visit the contest page hosted on HWBOT.org:
http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_targetoc