New Validation rules for the 3DMark and VR Mark benchmarks from Benchmarks.UL.com.

Recently UL has changed the output interface of their renown 3DMark and VR Mark benchmarks.

Users with a 1080P resolution will have hard time to be able to fit everything on the screen as you can see on the below example screenshot:

Therefore we are obliged to impose a verification UL for any future submissions with 3Dmark and VR Mark. So the moderation team can check any anomaly with the present detailed data at the UL website.

G.Skill Tweakers contest winners announcement.

The winner of both the Ambient and Extreme Tweakers contest are official.

For the ambient class, out of a total of 16 participants, the winner is Skullbringer from Germany. Pushing his G.Skill RipjawsV kit through Geekbench 3 at a whopping 2602.7Mhz. Closely followed by Midnight703 (USA) and Luakri (POR).

The Extreme class was very tight, until the last score by KeepH8n (USA) was dropped. Clocking his TridentZ Royals through the Geekbench 4 benchmark at 2854.7MHz. Sergmann (GER) and Rauf (SWE) closed the top 3.

Congratz to al participants we saw some very nice scores from all over the world. The two winners will be contacted for further shipping details.

Thanks Team G.Skill for the support in 2020!

Chinese Overclocker Takukou nearly breached 49K in Futuremark's FireStrike 3D benchmark by pushing his liquid nitrogen cooled AMD 6800XT to a whopping core speed of 2800MHz. More is definite to come as there are still limits imposed by current drivers. Probably with a faster clocking AMD Ryzen 9 5950X CPU the 50K is already doable. If not, Big brother Navi is inbound to break that magic 50K barrier with ease.

Gongratz on the Global first place sir!

 IMPORTANT MESSAGE due to DATA Restore point

Due to a glitch, that we discovered early this morning, we had to urgently restore the database back to our last backup point which was Sunday the 28th around 14:00UTC.

This means that all scores from yesterday and even some of Sunday (after we took the backup) are not taken into account on the current HWBot page.

• If you still have the scores on USB or SSD feel free to resubmit.
• If you lost them, we are copying the database from 01/12 09:00 to a test server to reclaim the missing scores. If you have a score that needs to be resubmitted plz contact leeghoofd via the forum!

This restore prcedure will affect your current ranking/points total. Don't worry, these points need a bit of time to be recalculated.

For those competing in the G.Skill competition plz mail your final subs to albrecht@hwbot.org. The scores will be be manually inserted to finalize the ranking.

Sorry for any inconvenience caused

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.