GIGABYTE GOOC India 2010

How will the qualifying work

• The qualifying will start on April 16 and end on May 15 at 00:00 (GMT+5.5)
• The qualifying will be online only. Competitors will run a series of benchmarks and depending on their score will be awarded points for having a top 5 result.

Prizes are as follows:

• 1st Place: Trip for one overclocker to compete in GOOC Regional final in Indonesia on 19th June. (4 Day 3 night events, all expenses paid) – (one person)
• 2nd Place: X58A-UD7 Motherboard
• 3rd Place: P55A-UD7 Motherboard

Since GIGABYTE has realized that many overclockers will not be able to do “extreme cooling” (LN2 / Dry-Ice / Liquid Cooling) and stand a chance to win the TOP prize. GIGABYTE has decided to give away GIGABYTE GA-P55-USB3 Motherboard to the best overclocker with highest combined score using only “air cooling”.

Prize for Best Air Overclocker is as below:

• 1st Prize: P55-USB3 Motherboard.

Benchmarking and Scoring

• Competitors will need to run the following benchmarks

  • SuperPi 1M
  • Wprime 32M
• Points will be awarded as follows.

  • 1st place - 10 points
  • 2nd place - 8 points
  • 3rd place - 6 points
  • 4th place - 4 points
  • 5th place - 2 points

Winners will be the best overclockers with highest sum of points.

Hardware restrictions

• Motherboard must be from the X58 or P55 chipset of GIGABYTE brand.
• CPU brand must be Intel.
• Hard drive brand must be Seagate.
• No i7 Gulftowns and i7 OR i5 based Xeons.
• No engineering samples may be used.

Qualifying rules & restrictions

• General Rules

  • All submissions must be accompanied by a screenshot as well as a link to a valid hwbot submission. (Results submitted before 00:00 but not yet checked on Hwbot will be given time to get validated).
  • In the event of a tie the person with the lowest SuperPi 1M score will be crowned champion.
  • Competition is open to residents of India only. You must be living in India at the time of the qualifying.
  • In line with hwbot rules the following is also not allowed, any user will be removed immediately when caught.
  • Any software or human interaction altering the perceived speed of the benchmark program, tricking it to believe it ran faster
  • Wireframe hacks: any software or driver causing a benchmark program not (properly) render the textures or calculate the numbers.

• Screenshot Requirements

  • Screenshots must comply with HWBOT standards
  • Multiple instances of CPU-Z clearly showing Main tab, Memory TAB and Motherboard tab
  • It also must have the Device Manager open with disk drives to show Seagate drive installed.

Important Links

• GO OC 2010 Subsection: Click Here
• GO OC 2010 Leaderboard: Click Here