The G.Skill competition is entering the final stage, approaching 7 days from the end of stage 1. For the winners of both the Extreme and Ambient competition G.Skill will provide a nice 32GB TridentZ Royal 4000C16 memory kit.

Current top3 in the ambient competition: 

Luakri(POR) with 2576Mhz

Midnight702(USA) with 2548Mhz

Sparky's _adv(USA) with 2512Mhz

Current top 3 in the Extreme competition

Keeph8n(USA) with 2800Mhz

Rauf(SWE) with 2600Mhz

Quiekmew(GER) with 2551Mhz

For those that didn't find the rules yet, they are here for the Extreme Contest and here for the Ambient contest

Grab your official copy of Unigine's Superposition with a 30% reduction in price right now! Unigine will offer this reduction on the first 250 orders. For info in 2021, the Unigine Superposition benchmark will be awarded with HWBot Boints and a verification link will be mandatory.

Click here for the special HWBot price

The V-GeN Tsunami competition is over. With a very close battle for top 3 in both the AMD and Intel Competitions. 

Here are the OCers that finished in the top 3 and are therefore awarded for their efforts with a nice cash Prize.

AMD COMPETITION:

Winner: Ryuzen : USD $1,000
2nd: HexaOC : USD $500
3rd: Ekky Jengkol : USD $250

INTEL COMPETITION:

Winner: IvanCupa : USD $1,000
2nd: Ivaneza : USD $500
3rd BlueFiber : USD $250

Congratz to the winners and the other contestants for great sportsmanship. Thanks to V-GeN Memory for hosting this competition at HWBot!

The V-Gen Tsunami Memory Overclocking battle is fierce, with less than 6 days to go, there's no clear winner yet. Anything can happen for the top 3 in both the AMD and Intel competion. Especially the AMD competition is super tight.

Keep on pushing that memory frequency in stage 3. Remember it ain't over till the last seconds ticked away. Go go Indonesian OverClockers!

 Quick recap on the prize money kindly offered by V-Gen

Champion: USD $1,000

2nd: USD $500

3rd: USD $250

Last competitions of the year are ready to go.  The Country Cup 2020 is the classic battle between the overclockers worldwide. Who will claim the title in 2020? Will it be the boys from Down Under once more or is the big US of A finally teaming up to show the world they are the fastest overclocking country in the world. Them European countries are right around the corner, hopefully it wll be another close battle, right till the end.

The amazing competition backgrounds are up for grabs at the forum or competition pages. Big round of applause for DaQueteness for his big time effort on these.

2nd Competition being launched is the G.Skill tweakers competition, consisting of a single stage. One competition for the ambient tweakers and one for the crazy extreme guys. If participation is high enough G.Skill would host more mini competitions like these in 2021. So better make it count OCing community!!

Press - G.SKILL Announces Extreme Low Latency DDR4-3600 CL14 64GB (16GBx4) Memory Kit

G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading manufacturer of extreme performance memory and gaming peripherals, is delighted to announce extreme low-latency with high-capacity DDR4 memory kits at DDR4-3600 CL14-15-15-35 in 64GB (16GBx4) and 32GB (16GBx2) configurations under the Trident Z Neo, Trident Z Royal, Trident Z RGB, and Ripjaws V series. Once again, these extraordinary memory kits are manufactured using high-performance Samsung B-die ICs to achieve the low latency of CL14 at DDR4-3600.

Ultimate High-Capacity Performance at DDR4-3600 CL14 64GB (16GBx4)

At G.SKILL, we are always searching for the ultimate memory kit, tuned not only for speed, but also for efficiency. And to achieve high efficiency, this means lower latency timings. As the market demand for higher capacity increases, G.SKILL has risen to the challenge, and is introducing the DDR4-3600 CL14-15-15-35 64GB (16GBx4) memory kit specification, shown validated on the Intel-based ASUS ROG MAXIMUS XII HERO (WI-FI) Z490 and MSI MEG Z490 GODLIKE motherboards, as well as the AMD-based ASUS PRIME X570-P motherboard.

Availability & XMP 2.0 Support

These extreme low latency performance memory specifications will support Intel XMP 2.0 for easy overclocking and will be available via G.SKILL worldwide distribution partners in Q4 2020.

Takukou just blasted past the previous Geekbench 3 record from french OCer Niuulh. While his Ryzen 9 3900XT powered by a MSI X570 GODLIKE motherboard was only running 50MHz faster he managed to raise the previous Geekbench3 record with 1000 points. On top of that he also claimed US overclocker Splave's X265 4K top spot. A very efficient show of force displayed here. Congratz Takukou, question remains how long will it last before it gets broken again.

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	HWBOT X265 - 4K	12xCPU	34.26		Takukou	MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Wprime - 1024	12xCPU	34sec 331ms		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R11.5	12xCPU	50.06		Alex@ro	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	HyperX
GFP	Cinebench - R15	12xCPU	4601		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R20	12xCPU	10155		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Geekbench 3 Multi Core	12xCPU	82560		Takukou	MSI MEG X570 GODLIKE	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of August 15th, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	Geekbench3 - Multi Core	8xCPU	57522		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of August 15th, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	Geekbench3 - Multi Core	6xCPU	43947		NoMS	ROG Crosshair VII Hero	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of August 15th, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

The farewell to socket 1151 competition has started!

This comp is completely open to any generation of 1151 processors (Z170-Z390 based motherboards).

NON EXOTIC COOLING ONLY (air, water, chilled etc). You must also have never used LHe, LN2, Dice, Cascade or Single Stage before. So Rookies, Novices and Enthusiast plz chime in!

Don't be afraid , just participate!!!!

Benchmarks picked are:

GPUPi for CPU v3.2 - 1B -  4cores, no HT  w/ Benchmate

Cinebench R15 per core w/ Benchmate

wPrime 1024M per - 4cores, no HT  w/ Benchmate

SuperPi 32M w/ Benchmate

PiFast w/ Benchmate

Temperature limitation is set at 15C at idle, monitored by Benchmate. The multi-threaded benchmark scores will either be divided on a per core basis (CB R15)  or limited to 4 cores, no hyperthreading for Wprime and GPUPI stage, thus to make it more balanced between all core count CPUs for the LGA1151 socket.

Prizes are:

1st Place: Kingpin Cooling TREX LN2 Container (Winner gets color choice) + $100 USD

2nd Place: Kingpin Cooling Inferno Backplate + $50 USD

3rd Place: Kingpin Cooling 30G KPX Paste + $25 USD

and a few more...

A few weeks after the NDA, french overclocker Niuulh pushed the Ryzen 9 3900XT to new heights in the Geekbench 3 multi core category. Beating ASUS' inhouse overclocker Safedisk previous global first spot. Also Brazilian overclocker NoMS can add a new global first spot to his curriculum. With the Ryzen 5 hexacore 3600XT, cooled by liquid nitrogen, running over 5700MHz NoMS submitted the best global Geekbench 3 multi score for 6 core processors to date.

AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	Wprime - 1024	12xCPU	34sec 331ms		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R11.5	12xCPU	50.06		Alex@ro	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	HyperX
GFP	Cinebench - R15	12xCPU	4601		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R20	12xCPU	10155		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Geekbench 3 Multi Core	12xCPU	81516		Niuulh	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of July 31st, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

AMD Ryzen 7 3800XT
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	Geekbench3 - Multi Core	8xCPU	57522		Safedisk	ROG Crosshair VIII Impact	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of July 9th, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

AMD Ryzen 5 3600XT
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	Geekbench3 - Multi Core	6xCPU	43947		NoMS	ROG Crosshair VII Hero	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of July 31st, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

We are just more than one week after Comet Lake launch and most teams kept on working hard to get their names back on the launch chart. Allen Golibersuch aka Splave managed to beat six of Team ROG's launch records and thus claims a few more for the USA. Italian OC star Roberto aka Rsannino shattered the 3DMark06 World Record. Greek OC lord OGS reclaiming the 3DMark11 RTX 2080 ti record with a mere 23 points. HiCookie from Gigabyte closing in nicely on some top scores too. Surprisingly still nothing from Team MSI... To be continued

Core i9 10900K/KF
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
	CPU frequency	10xCPU	7706.62MHz		elmor	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	Memory Frequency		3332.7Mhz		bianbao	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	PiFast		8sec 37ms		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	SuperPi 1M		4sec 743ms		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	SuperPi 32M		4min 1sec 755ms		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	wPrime - 32m	10xCPU	1.171 sec		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	wPrime - 1024m	10xCPU	35sec 250ms		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	PCmark05	10xCPU	47765		Fugger	ROG Maximus XII Extreme	Galax Hall of Fame
GFP	PCmark07	10xCPU	10116		Fugger	ROG Maximus XII Extreme	Galax Hall of Fame
WR	PCmark10	10xCPU	90275		Fugger	ROG Maximus XII Extreme	Galax Hall of Fame
GFP	X265 4K	10xCPU	31.594 FPS		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	X265 1080P	10xCPU	131.513 FPS		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	Cinebench - 2003	10xCPU	12051		keeph8n	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R11.5	10xCPU	42.17		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R15	10xCPU	3897		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Cinebench - R20	10xCPU	9108		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Geekbench3 - Single Core		7866		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Geekbench3 - Multi Core	10xCPU	70191		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	Geekbench4 - Single Core		10257		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Geekbench4 - Multi Core	10XCPU	61634		keeph8n	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	GPUPI3.3 for CPU 100M	10XCPU	4sec 332ms		keeph8n	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	GPUPI3.3 for CPU 1B	10XCPU	1min 12sec 912ms		Rsannino	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	GPUPI for CPU 100M	10XCPU	4sec 297ms		keeph8n	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	GPUPI for CPU 1B	10XCPU	1min 25sec 89ms		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	Maxxmem Read	10xCPU	53597 MB/sec		Splave	ASRock Z490 Aqua 2dimm	G.SKILL TridentZ
WR	3DMark06	10xCPU	77469		Rsannino	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	3DMark11	10xCPU	57830		OGS	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of May 29, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)

Core i7 10700K
	Benchmark		Score	Overclocker		Motherboard	Memory
GFP	Geekbench3 - Single Core	8xCPU	7831		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
GFP	Geekbench3 - Multi Core	8xCPU	57048		Safedisk	ROG Maximus XII Apex	G.SKILL TridentZ
(Table as of May 29, 2020. Source: hwbot.org database)