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Competition	Level	Stages	Opens	Closes	Status
HWBOT OC Challenge February 2012	1	4 stages	1 Feb 2012	29 Feb	Team South Africa is leading with 3 points.	Partcipate
HWBOT OC Challenge January 2012	1	5 stages	1 Jan 2012	31 Jan	Won by Overclock.net
GIGABYTE X'MAS & New Year Contest	1	3 stages	15 Dec 2011	31 Jan	Won by Christian Ney
HWBOT OC Challenge December 2011	1	5 stages	1 Dec 2011	31 Dec	Won by Overclock.net
MSI Sandy Bridge Evolution	1	3 stages	20 Nov 2011	17 Dec	Won by Lucky_n00b

HWBOT OC Challenge February 2012

We're getting closer to the end of the HWBOT OC Challenge series, but until then we can still have our monthly competition. In the same spirit of all other HOC competitions, this month we're going to run various 3DMark benchmarks with old and even older hardware. The four stages are:

#1: Allendale/Conroe/Kentsfield Vantage
#2: S939 3DMark06
#3: Pentium4 3DMark03
#4: Intel and AMD-free 3DMark01

The point scheme is, again, different from the default distribution, but unlike previous competitions it's much more straightforward: 25-18-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7-6-5-4-3-2-1. In other words: the only way to win is by being the best!

=> Click: HWBOT OC Challenge February 2012 <=

GIGABYTE X'MAS & New Year Contest

The GIGABYTE ‘Xmas and New Year Contest’ is open to all Overclockers using any AMD APU on any GIGABYTE socket FM1 A75 or A55 series motherboard, using any cooling solution. The contest winner will take home a GIGABYTE GA-990FXA-UD5 motherboard, with second and third place taking a GA-990FXA-UD3. Good luck everyone!

Link to contest: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_xmas_ny_contest/

Poland wins HWBOT Country Cup 2011!

Neither Romania nor Russia, the two big favorites for this year's cup, can call themselves HWBOT Country Cup Champions in 2012. Outsider Poland took the title with an impressive set of overclocking results. After getting close in the two previous editions (3rd in 2009, 5th in 2010), this year finally turned into a succes story! By winning four out of seven stages and finishing top-3 in all but one stage, consistency and quality was the foundation of their stunning victory.

MSI Sandy Bridge Evolution Contest (Nov 20 - Dec 17)

GIGABYTE Announces “Locked ‘n’ Loaded” Contest Winners

Taipei, Taiwan, November 15th 2011 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the winners of the GIGABYTE Locked ‘n’ Loaded contest, hosted on HWBOT.org. To create an even playing field, the Locked ‘n’ Loaded contest featured two stages based on the ability to overclock Intel® Core™ Sandy Bridge processors with a ‘Locked’ multiplier of 31x. Running from October 1st to October 31st, contestants were invited to use any GIGABYTE socket LGA 1155 motherboard, using any Intel® Core™ processor (aka Sandy Bridge) to reach the highest possible DDR3 speed and Super PI 32 score.