Gigabyte kicks off summer with an overclocking competition hosted on HWBOT – the GIGABYTE Beat the Heat Overclocking Contest 2017. GIGABYTE tags along with overclocking authority HWBOT and turn the heat up this summer for the HWBOT community of enthusiast and expert overclockers. GIGABYTE put up a prize pool of over $2,500 US dollars of computer hardware and goodies for the top overclockers.

The GIGABYTE Beat the Heat Overclocking Contest will commence on the 1st of July until the end of the month, 31st of July, 2017. The overclocking competition will have four stages and processor frequency will be limited of up to 5.0GHz only. The CPU overclocking limit is to give fairness and give novice overclockers a competing chance with the experts. Each four stages will have a corresponding score point based on benchmark scores. Score points will be rallied across all stages to determine the top contestants. Only the top two overclockers will bring home some high-performance enthusiast-grade hardware for winning the competition. Aside from the winners, a lucky draw will also be conducted to giveaway prices available to all participants.

Stages
Stage 1: XTU 5GHz
Stage 2: GPUPI for CPU–1B 5GHz
Stage 3: Geekbench3 Single–Core 5GHz
Stage 4: HWBOT x265 Benchmark–4k 5GHz

General Rules
- This competition is limited to GIGABYTE, AORUS motherboards only.
- Commercially available hardware only (no ES, no unreleased hardware, no LN2 motherboards)
- The competition is limited to Desktop hardware, HEDT (aka 2011 and similar hardware) and server components are not allowed
- Please attach a picture of your overclocking rig.
- Must use official competition background: download
- A verification screenshot is required.
- To be eligible for the lucky draw, participants must submit in one of the stages of the competition.
- In a case of a tie, the tie-breaker is the best score in Stage 3. If there’s still a tie, the best score in Stage 2, etc.
- Only submissions made on or after 2017-07-01 are allowed.

1st Place Prizes
Intel Core i7-7700K ($349.99 USD)
GIGABYTE Z270X-Gaming SOC ($239.99 USD)
G.SKILL Gaming Mouse & Keyboard ($179.99 USD)
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600 Memory ($159.99 USD)

2nd Place Prizes
Intel Core i7-7700K ($349.99 USD)
GIGABYTE Z270X-UD5 ($189.99 USD)
G.SKILL TridentZ Series 16GB (2 x 8GB) DDR4 3600 Memory ($159.99 USD)

Lucky Draw Prizes
GIGABYTE Z270X-UD5 ($189.99 USD)
G.SKILL Gaming Mouse & Keyboard ($179.99 USD)
HWBOT Open Bench table ($149.99 USD)
Enermax LiqMax II (ELC-LMR240-BS) AiO Liquid Cooler ($89.99 USD)
10x $10 Steam Codes ($100 USD)

For more information on the competition, visit http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/gbt_beat_the_heat