Following the spirit of the HWBOT Country Cup-series, on June 1st we're kicking off our first HWBOT Team Cup competition. Similar to the Country Cup, the Team Cup is all about group effort and joining forces. Only, this time, you'll be competing for the glory of your team!

The HWBOT Team Cup 2012 features 6 different sub-competitions, each focusing on different hardware and benchmarks and runs for a period of 3 months (June-July-August). More than enough time to gather the troops and aim for the highest spot! Good luck!

Following the release of its new extreme DDR3 lineup, TridentX, G.SKILL is thrilled to host an extreme overclocking contest at HWBOT, the widely recognized authority in the field of overclocking. The G.SKILL CUP OC competition will start May 1st and run until May 30th and consists of three different stages with 14 G.SKILL Memory kits offered to the winners. For more detail, please refer to the event page.

Taipei, Taiwan. Celebrating its 5th anniversary, MSI’s Master Overclocking Arena (MOA) joins the most stable Military Class III components with record-breaking overclocking performance. Themed “Steel World”, MSI has forged the first evolution starting with the American Regional Qualifiers on the world-class overclocking community website HWBOT.org on April 13, 2012!

Team up for honor now! To encourage the strength of “team work” in the OC community, world-renowned mainboard and graphics card manufacturer MSI announces “MSI Legend of R7000 series Team Contest”, a first ever team-based competition featuring team prizes, at HWBOT!

From March 16 to April 12, this 4-week competition requires participation from owners of MSI R7000-series graphics cards for various stages, including MSI R7900-series, MSI R7800-series and MSI R7700-series, with the winning teams awarded with brand-new MSI 7-series mainboards!

Challenge the limits and achieve the status of legend amongst your team members!

Note:

• Must use MSI branded graphics card to participate (Use GPU-Z to verify)
• A team can only win once. If the team wins in both 7900 series and 7800 series stage, it will only receive the prize attached to the 7900 series stage and the team placed 2nd in the 7800 series stage will get that prize.
• Participants compete for team prizes. The idea is to have one prize per person (after distribution).
• Team prizes will be shipped as one package, further distribution is a task for the Team Captain.
• The idea is to compete to win prizes for your team. Unfair play (ie: team-hopping) will result in bans from future competition.

Link to competition: http://hwbot.org/competition/msi_legend_of_r7000

It's official! All of Abit's services, including after-sales and website maintenance, are no longer active and what once was one of the most innovative mainboard manufacturers is now dead.

Well ... not completely dead of course! Their legendary boards will live on here at HWBOT and will be used for overclocking purposes long after Abit ceased to exist. Starting by today!

As previously announced, the March HWBOT OC Challenge is all about Abit mainboards. The competition is split up into 5 different stages, each having a different socket limitation, but all revolving around pushing the reference clock of the Abit boards.

Link to competition page: http://hwbot.org/competition/hoc_mar12/