Starting July 10th 2015, overclockers have a chance to win some great prizes by choosing their preferred cooling method and submit their best score within 4 stages. Most points win, it’s as simple as that! Participants have two ways to win, either they collect the most points to win a stage for the 250$ cash prize, or they collect the most points across all 4 stages to win the category grand prize which is ... to be announced!

Here are the category and stages details.

Category 1: Air/Water Cooling (Ambient)

• Stage 1: XTU – July 10th until July 25th (CPU frequency is limited to 4GHz)
• Stage 2: GeekBench-3 Multi Core – July 10th until August 10th (CPU frequency is limited to 4GHz max)
• Stage 3: XTU – July 10th until August 20th (CPU frequency is limited to 4.5GHz max)
• Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU - 1B – July 10th until August 30th (CPU frequency is limited to 4GHz max)

Category 2: Extreme Cooling

• Stage 1: GeekBench-3 Multi Core – July 10th until July 25th
• Stage 2: XTU – July 10th until August 10th (CPU frequency is limited to 5GHz max)
• Stage 3: GeekBench-3 Single Core – July 10th until August 20th
• Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU - 1B – July 10th until August 30th

Contest Rules

• This competition is limited to GIGABYTE Z97 motherboards only
• Submissions will open on the first day of the stage at 00:01 (UTC +8) and close on the last day at 23:59 (UTC+8)
• Every submission must include the competition background and a picture of the rig.
• A participant is eligible to win only once. If he is found to be the winner in multiple categories, the prize will go to the runner up.
• Intel® Core™ i7-5775C, i5-5675C, i7-5775R, i5-5675R and i5-5575R CPUs are not allowed.
• In case of a tie, the tie-breaker is best score in Stage 4. If there’s still a tie, the best score in Stage 3, etc.