GIGABYTE Hosts Z97-Last Hurrah Challenge

Last Chance to Bench on Z97 Before the Next Generation Invasion

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, has announced another great competition for the overclocking community with the GIGABYTE Z97-Last Hurrah Challenge, to be hosted this July and August on HWBOT.org. This new challenge gives the community a last chance to test their skills onthe GIGABYTE Z97 platform before the next series of motherboards comes around. By participating, overclockers have the chance to win $2,000 USD in cash prizes and two mystery motherboards, which will be revealed soon!

Starting July 10th 2015, overclockers will have a chance to win somegreat 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 to be set at 4GHz max
Stage 2: GeekBench-3 Multi Core–July 10th until August 10th
– CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max
Stage 3: XTU – July 10th until August 20th
– CPU frequency is to be set at 4.5GHz max
Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU -1B – July 10th until August 30th

Category 1: Air/Water Cooling (Ambient)
Stage 1: XTU –July 10th until July 25th
– CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max
Stage 2: GeekBench-3 Multi Core–July 10th until August 10th
– CPU frequency is to be set at 4GHz max
Stage 3: XTU – July 10th until August 20th
– CPU frequency is to be set at 4.5GHz max
Stage 4: GPUPI for CPU -1B – July 10th until August 30th

The GIGABYTE-Z97 Last Hurrah Challenge will run from July 10thuntil August 30th2015,23:59 (UTC +8).
Good luck to all!!