In the 2017 Overclocking season on OC-ESPORTS were fortunate have several popular contests sponsored by GIGABYTE. In 2018, we’re very happy to announce another series of contests from GIGABYTE, the first of which starts today. Welcome to the GIGABYTE AORUS Winter OC Challenge.

Kicking off on February 1st, the GIGABYTE AORUS Winter OC Challenge Competition will challenge overclockers to push their motherboards and 8th Gen Intel® processors to the limit in a three stage competition. This competition is open to all skill levels such as Novice, Rookie, Enthusiast, Elite and Extreme, allowing anyone to participate.

There are a number of awesome hardware prizes up for grabs! Moreover, participants that submit a score in all stages of their respective categories are eligible to enter a lucky draw for one of two GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming motherboards and one HWBOT Open bench table.

GIGABYTE AORUS Winter OC Challenge: February 1st – February 28th, 2018

Running throughout the month of February 2018, the contest is allows overclockers to use any Intel processor with 6 or less physical cores. However, to create more of a level playing field, processors cannot use CPU core or cache frequencies beyond 5GHz. Contestants must use a GIGABYTE / AORUS motherboard, attach a photo of the rig used. You can find the full set of contest rules here.

Check out the contest web page here. You can find the official contest announcement from GIGABYTE here.