G.SKILL Announces OC World Cup 2023 Competition with $40,000 USD Total Cash Prize Pool
(24 February 2023) – G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is excited to announce the return of the 7th Annual OC World Cup 2023, after a 3-year hiatus. The G.SKILL OC World Cup extreme overclocking competition will begin with the Online Qualifier stage, held from March 1, 2023 until April 5, 2023 on hwbot.org. Then the top 9 overclockers of the online qualifier will become finalists, who are qualified to join the live competition at the G.SKILL booth during Computex 2023 week from May 30, 2023 to June 2, 2023 and compete for a portion of the $40,000 USD total cash prize pool, with the OC Champion title taking home $10,000 USD!
Most Anticipated Extreme Overclocking Event of the Year
With the participation of top extreme overclockers from around the world and carefully crafted rules designed to test the ability of each overclocker, the G.SKILL OC World Cup is considered to be one of the most challenging overclocking competition by professional overclockers. The G.SKILL OC World Cup consists of three rounds: Online Qualifier, Live Qualifier, and Grand Final. The top 9 overclockers of the Online Qualifier will be eligible to enter the Live Qualifier stage during the week of Computex 2023 at the G.SKILL booth, and the top 3 overclockers from the Live Qualifier stage will compete for the title of OC Champion in the Grand Final.
Online Qualifier: March 1, 2023 to April 5, 2023
Live Qualifier: May 30, 2023 to June 1, 2023
Grand Final: June 2, 2023
Online Qualifier Stage
The Online Qualifier stage will be hosted on hwbot.org between March 1, 2023 and April 5, 2023. This stage is open to all overclockers worldwide, and participants must use G.SKILL memory kits and designated Intel platforms to submit results across 4 overclock categories that tests each overclocker's skills: Highest Memory Frequency, Cinebench R15, Y-Cruncher – Pi-2.5b, and SuperPi 32M. For more event details and rules, as well as to participate in the Online Qualifier stage of the OC World Cup 2023.
Please visit the competition webpage at: https://esports.hwbot.org/#!/round/gskill_ocworldcup_2023_online_qualifier
Please visit the competition forum webpage at: https://community.hwbot.org/topic/223382-gskill-world-cup-online-qualifier
$40,000 USD Total Cash Prize Pool
For over a decade, G.SKILL has been involved with the overclocking community. To give back to the extreme overclocking community, G.SKILL is raising the total cash prize pool to $40,000 USD for OC World Cup 2023, a substantial increase from $25,000 in 2019 and one of the largest total cash prize pool among OC competition events. And following the tradition of the OC World Cup competition, the OC Champion of the Grand Final will take home the whopping grand prize of $10,000 USD – the largest single cash prize sum in the overclocking community.
7th Annual OC World Cup 2023 Prize Breakdown
OC Champion: $10,000 USD
2nd Place: $6,500 USD
3rd Place: $5,000 USD
4th Place: $4,200 USD
5th Place: $3,400 USD
6th Place: $3,000 USD
7th Place: $2,800 USD
8th Place: $2,600 USD
9th Place: $2,500 USD
Additionally, each of the top 9 overclockers in the Online Qualifier will receive a DDR5-7800 32GB (16GBx2) memory kit.
Furthermore, 3 lucky participants who complete all stages of the Online Qualifier will be randomly selected to win a DDR5-7200 32GB (16GBx2) memory kit.
For more information, please refer to the following link: https://www.gskill.com/community/1502239313/1677231383/G.SKILL-Announces-OC-World-Cup-2023-Competition-with-$40,000-USD-Total-Cash-Prize-Pool
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About G.SKILL
Established in 1989, G.SKILL specializes in high-performance memory and provides PC component and peripheral products designed for PC gamers, professionals, overclockers, and enthusiasts around the world. Combining technical innovation and rock solid quality through our in-house memory testing lab and talented R&D team, G.SKILL continues to create ultra-performance overclock memory for each platform generation.
Since over the last days the drama off the RTX 4090 reached new interstellar heights, HWBOT decided to move the D-day for the non ECC submissions removal from the 1st of March to the 15th of February.
What does this D-Day imply for you the overclocker:
ALL nVIDIA RTX4090 ECC disabled subs will be removed from the affected 3D rankings
No matter how hard the moderation Team tried to explain the test period requested by UL Benchmarks, many people still failed to understand the simplicity of the chosen path.
- Submissions from before 1st of December would initially be left untouched as we only introduced the new ECC ruling from that date.
- The new ECC Enabled Test case ruling was decided together with representatives UL Benchmarks to monitor more closely the scores posted at HWBOT and the ones at their own Hall of Fame.
- Why all this trouble? Tests were performed over the last 3 months with UL and other benchers, even using special nVIDIA drivers to avoid bugged scores like this one from one of our banned "are you Entertained" members.
Of course we are far from "entertained". Hilarious that some keep on trying to convince other benchers that their scores are fully legit and their magic tweaks allows them to rule the UL Benchmark's Hall of Fame, versus far better clocked setups. We can only conclude that sometimes one must need to protect people against themselves.
Sadly UL Benchmarks can only provide us with better ECC detection ( soon also available on older benchmarks ), but probably will not launch any automatic invalidation of bugged/inflated scores like the one displayed.
By manual labour they will continue to remove the super obvious bugged runs. Nevertheless a lot of submissions will remain undetected below the radar. Something we want to avoid.
Hence why HWBOT will enforce the final cut-off for competitive benching. As some have noticed this is already happening right now via standard moderation and applying the current rule set: ECC Enabled mandatory submissions only for RTX4090 users.
On the 15th of February the non ECC subs will finally also be removed. (unless UL can deliver a big fix for their 3DMark suite).
Time to end this drama and move on to the next one...
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It's time to update them benching OSses ladies and gentlemen, from the 29th of October plz only use BenchMate 10.12.2 or newer version.
Grab the latest version at the BenchMate website
On the 28th of October the move of the different HWBOT servers and data to the new server hosting will start.
This move will allow us to have way more dedicated processor cores, system memory and storage space available, so HWBOT will become a more reactive server and slow downs should be a bad memory from the past. However take note that the current code is still based on the original HWBOT. Thus there are still plenty of quirks to iron out. A new HWBOT version, build from scratch is under developement, though the programmer is still occupied with addressing e.g. faulty competition points, overloaded caching,...
This means HWBOT will be down for at least a few days, till we have succesfully moved all data and performed recalculations and tests. The UAT test site will remain up to compare scores or look for rules and upcoming competitions like Country Cup.
!! Do NOT SUBMIT any results to the UAT test site as these score will NOT be transferred to the regular HWBOT !!
AMD Ryzen 9 7950X
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Benchmark |
Score |
Overclocker |
Motherboard |
Memory |
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7-ZIP |
16xCPU |
291498 |
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OGS |
ASUS X670E Gene |
G.Skill |
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| GFP |
Cinebench - R11.5 |
16xCPU |
88.87 |
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OGS |
ASUS X670E Gene |
G.Skill |
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| GFP |
Cinebench - R15 |
16xCPU |
8100 |
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Sergmann |
Gigabyte X670E Aorus |
G.Skill |
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| GFP |
Cinebench - R20 |
16xCPU |
20049 |
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OGS |
ASUS X670E Gene |
G.Skill |
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| GFP |
Cinebench - R23 |
16xCPU |
50834 |
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Safedisk |
ASUS X670e Gene |
G.Skill
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| GFP |
Geekbench 3 Multi Core |
16xCPU |
143649 |
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Splave |
ASRock X670E Taichi |
G.Skill
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Geekbench 4 Multi Core |
16xCPU |
98607 |
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Domdtxdissar |
ASUS X670E Hero |
Corsair
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Geekbench 5 Multi Core |
16xCPU |
26943 |
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Domdtxdissar |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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| GFP |
HWBot X265 1080P |
16xCPU |
250.436 |
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Lucky NOOb |
MSI MEG X670E Ace |
G.Skill
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| GFP |
HWBot X265 4K |
16xCPU |
65.594 |
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Splave |
ASRock X670E Taichi |
G.Skill
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| GFP |
GPUPI for CPU 1B |
16xCPU |
23sec 299 |
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Splave |
ASRock X670E Taichi |
G.Skill
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| GFP |
Wprime 1024 |
16xCPU |
20sec 689 |
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Sergmann |
Gigabyte X670E AORUS |
G.Skill
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Wprime 32 |
16xCPU |
1sec 183 |
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Domdtxdissar |
ASUS X670E Hero |
Corsair
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Y-Cruncher - Pi - 1B |
16xCPU |
15sec476 |
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Sergmann |
Gigabyte X670E Extreme |
Gigabyte
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| GFP |
Y-Cruncher - Pi - 2.5B |
16xCPU |
45sec 035 |
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Domdtxdissar |
ASUS X670E Hero |
Corsair
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| GFP |
Y-Cruncher - Pi - 10B |
16xCPU |
221sec 670 |
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Skullbringer |
ASRock X670E Phantom |
Team Group
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AMD Ryzen 5 7600X
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Benchmark |
Score |
Overclocker |
Motherboard |
Memory |
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Cinebench - R15 |
6xCPU |
2837 |
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Jimshown |
ASUS X670E Gene |
ADATA |
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Cinebench - R20 |
6xCPU |
7448 |
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Alex@Ro |
ASUS X670E Gene |
G.Skill |
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Cinebench - R23 Multicore |
6cCPU |
17893 |
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Zippytek |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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Geekbench 3 Multi Core |
6xCPU |
57075 |
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Alex@Ro |
ASUS X670E Gene |
G.Skill
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Geekbench 4 Multi Core |
6xCPU |
46892 |
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Zippytek |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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Geekbench 5 Multi Core |
6xCPU |
13343 |
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Zippytek |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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HWBOT X265 - 4K |
6xCPU |
23.665 |
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Jimshown |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Adata
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HWBOT X265 1080P |
6xCPU |
105.884 |
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Zippytek |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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| GFP |
GPUPI for CPU 1B |
6xCPU |
59sec 184 |
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Safedisk |
ASUS X670E Gene |
G.Skill
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Y-Cruncher - Pi - 1B |
6xCPU |
26sec626 |
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Zippytek |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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Y-Cruncher - Pi - 2.5B |
6xCPU |
1min15 |
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Zippytek |
ASUS X670E Gene |
Corsair
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| (Table as of October 13, 2022. Source: hwbot.org database) |
BenchMate 10.10.0 is here, besides the features mentioned in the changelog this new version supports Windows 7 again.
- The installer has been simplified and does this indeed faster than previous versions.
Another bonus is the new configurable Score window. So you have more space to position the required information.
- AUTO
- 50% of screen height
- 75% of screen height
- 100% of screen height
- On the same Score window Mat included a CPU-Z, GPU-Z and HWinfo button to facilitate opening the required
information for the verification screen.
- Another great fix ( at least on my setup ) is that the Anti-Virus doesn't cause an error anymore when launching eg Y-
Cruncher or Wprime benchmark.
Thanks Mat for the new version of your popular bench software, users will applaud the Windows 7 support and hopefully we can merge all the "With BenchMate benchmarks" with the original benchmarks soon!
If you want to support Mat for all his hard work you can become a Patreon member or just donate a few bucks.
After dominating Stage 1 of the "Corsair DDR5 Invitational" Greek Overclockers Stavros Savvopoulos and Phil Strecker from Team Overclocked Gaming Systems also grabbed first spot in both Stage 2 and 3.
Stage 2 featured all time classic SuperPi 32M, a benchmark where every MHz of ram and tightening the memory timings can just give one the edge to claim victory, albeit by a mere milliseconds.
Looking at the final results we see the top 5 within a second, the ASRock OCers had to throw in the towel as their boards apparently couldn't clock the Corsair Vengeance Memory as high as the ASUS, eVGA and Gigabyte motherboards with the current available bios version.
After Stage 2, Team OGS was comfortably in the lead with 100 pts, followed by Luumi with 92 pts and Bullshooter and Rauf in a shared 3rd spot with both 90 pts. Sergmann trailed the duo with just 2 pts.
If we look at the used motherboards by the aforementioned OCers:
- OGS - ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex
- Luumi - eVGA Z690 Dark K!ngp!n
- Bullshooter - Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Tachyon
- Rauf - ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex
- Sergmann - Gigabyte Z690 AORUS Tachyon
For Stage 3 Team OGS just had to finish in the top 5 to grab the overal win, though for spot 2 till 5 nothing was final. Benchmark of choice was AIDA64, though a few bugs were quickly discovered. So the participants had to agree on another benchmark. Y-cruncher 1B was picked out of the alternative proposed benchmarks. Proper AVX support was a must from both the used CPU and from the motherboard bios. Both the eVGA Dark and ASRock Aqua OC users were up to a real challenge here as their Biosses were not optimised for this. Nevertheless mllrkller88, Splave and Luumi put down some solid scores, but could never compete with the rest. This was especially a bummer for Luumi who could have consolidated in the Top 3.
Y-Cruncher is not only about raw clocks, but also the platform stability plays a huge role here. Ofcourse the regular tweaks applied here and there will make a difference too. Team OGS snatching once more the top spot, closely followed by Swedish OCer Rauf. Bullshooter from Germany finished in 3rd spot. Leading to the below final ranking of the Corsair DDR5 Invitational:
A huge congratz to all participants, who played it fair, showing great sportsmanship and maxing out their platforms and the kindly provided Corsair DDR5 Vengeance memory sticks. The top 3 will be contacted for shipping details.
Big shoutout to Corsair for making the two competitions possible.
Stage 1 of the Corsair DDR5 invitational was dominated by Greek Overclocker Stavros Savvopoulos from Team Overclocked Gaming Systems. Being the first to drop below the 6sec 400ms mark. Maybe you think that he just got lucky with 2 excellent sticks that clocked up higher than the rest, however Stavros is a true Tweaker pur sang that always manages to combine high frequencies with pretty darn good efficiency. Therefore he always does a lot of pretesting before going cold.
He pushed his liquid nitrogen cooled Corsair mem kit over 8200 MT/s to obliterate the previous PYPrime DDR5 World Record from in-house ASUS overclocker Safedisk, even though the Stage had limited clocks for both the processor and cache frequencies. Meaning even faster scores are possible in the future. His ASUS ROG Maximus Z690 Apex motherboard is fully vaseline insulated to withstand the frosty LN2 benching.
Congratz Harry (and Phil)!
Now the current PYPrime ranking is nearly dominated by all the Corsair invited participants, perfectly reflecting their skills.
Stage 2 is ongoing, but the current scores are just placeholders for many, just a matter of a few days before we can see if the 4min 20sec mark can be reached.
