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GIGABYTE TARGET OC Winners

After reading all the comments on the HWBOT’s competition forum thread, it is easy to see that the GIGABYTE TARGET OC was a whole lot of fun! We have learned a great deal too from this challenge, this always help us organize better competitions in the future. BTW, we are brewing some ideas right now for our next challenge, so stay tune. But anyway, to close down the GIGABTYE Target OC, here is the list of winners. GIGABYTE would like to congratulate every winner and sends their special thanks to everyone who helped make this challenge a success!

Contest Stages Winners
Each of the following overclocker winners will be cashing in $400 USD!

Stage 1: XTU (Target score: 159 marks)
Winner: Christian Ney

Stage 2: HWBOT Prime (Target score: 2967.55 pps)
Winner: MarineOC

Stage 3: 3DMark05 (Target score: 30257 marks)
Winner: I.nfraR.ed

Stage 4: Super Pi 32M (Target score: 20min27sec570ms)
Winner: Gumanoid

Stage 5: Catzilla 720p (Target score: 1938 marks)
Winner: fgi

Lucky draw winners
Amongst all participants who participated in at least 4 of the 5 stages, HWBOT helped us to select five random lucky winners who will be walking away with some great GIGABYTE hardware!

- Lucky Draw #1: Moonman, wins a Z97N Gaming 5

- Lucky Draw #2: Fatboynotsoslim, wins a Z97N-WIFI

- Lucky Draw #3: Etoile, wins a Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2

- Lucky Draw #4: Fanta1ty, wins a X99-SOC FORCE

- Lucky Draw #5: Noliso, wins a X99-SOC FORCE

Winners will be contacted via e-mail.

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GIGABYTE Tech Daily Blog Frenzy WINNERS

Hi everyone!

We have look through your submissions and had a really good time being remembered some of our finest posts on the GIGABYTE Tech Daily Blog. To choose the winners wasn’t an easy task so here are the winners!

For the 3rd place and the winner of the AM1M-S2H, we chose Reuben Knutt?

For the 2nd place and the winner of the G1.SNIPER A88X, the winner is Gábor Éberhardt

And taking the 1st place for the Z97N-WIFI, the winner is Samuel Sie.

Although no one could guess the post with most page views which is this one: http://gigabytedaily.blogspot.ca/2012/04/z77ivy-bridge-crazy-overclocking.html

We decided to choose among your propositions for the one with the best performance. Two entries were tied so we had to flip a coin. Our congratulations go to Xavier Hé Ouais for winning the Z97X-Gaming 7.

The winners will be contacted via FB private message.

Thanks to everyone for your participation!

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Here Are Your Winners of the GIGABYTE Z97 Last Hurrah Contest!

The GIGABYTE Z97 Last Hurrah wrapped up last week and now the results are official.

We would like to congratulate Xtreme Addict and Arhaam for winning the contest. Xtreme Addict took first place in the Extreme Cooling category with 79 points and won a GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force motherboard. Arhaam won the ambient cooling category with 73 points and is also taking home a GIGABYTE Z170X-SOC Force board.

For more information on the contest and the official results, head on over to HWBOTs OC E-Sports portal.

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GIGABYTE Z97 Pentium AE Beat the Heat Challenge Winners

Last week was the end of the  GIGABYTE Z97 - Pentium AE Beat the Heat Challenge, an overclocking competition organized by GIGABYTE and hosted on www.hwbot.org. After verification of all submissions, we are happy to announce the winners!

This challenge was divided into 5 stages and invited the overclocking community to push the limits of the recently launched Intel Pentium AE processor on any GIGABYTE Z97 series motherboard.

Here are the winners:

Stage	Benchmark	Winner	Prize
Stage 1	XTU	nvidiaforever2	USD $500 for 1st place
Stage 2 Stage 3 Stage 4 Stage 5	HWBOT Prime SuperPI 32M Memory Clock CPU Frequency	1: DFORDOG (78 pts) 2: Yin92 (69 pts) 3: ZeR0_Dan (46 pts)	1st: USD $1,000 + Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 2nd: USD $500 3rd: Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard
Lucky Draw #1		Hotrod717	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #2		Nelson	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #3		Bullshooter	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #4		Stubass	G-Powerboard kit
Lucky Draw #5		Joe90br	G-Powerboard kit

Also worth of mention is DFORDOG Global First  Place score on the HWBOT Prime 2xCPU http://hwbot.org/submission/2623715

And DINOS22 SuperPi 32M Hardware First Place! http://hwbot.org/submission/2627043

Congratulations to all winners and thanks to all participants for joining this challenge!

See you soon at the next comp!!

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GIGABYTE CATZILLA OC Contest Winners

With $1,000 and two GIGABYTE Z97 series motherboards up for grabs, the GIGABYTE CATZILLA OC Contest invited the overclocking community to push their hardware to the limit by running the custom made CATZILLA benchmark skin on their GIGABYTE 9 Series motherboard.

We are happy to announce that WebTourist won the AIR/Water cooling stage and that DANCOP took the first place on the LN2 cooling stage.

On top of winning the cash prize and a limited edition GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2 motherboard, overclocker DANCOP can also add to his winnings a gold cup for the World Record on CATZILLA - 720P benchmark with a 43121 mark using a GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC FORCE. Good work DANCOP!

GIGABYTE CATZILLA OC Contest Winners

· Air/Water cooling stage: WebTourist (http://hwbot.org/submission/2587632)

Wins $500 in cash and a GIGABYTE Z97X-UD5H

· LN2 cooling stage: DANCOP (http://hwbot.org/submission/2587636)

Wins $500 in cash and a GIGABYTE Z97X-SOC FORCE LN2

Give away

We would like to also congratulate Newlife, Mameluco, Marrawi and KA7RATA for winning the lucky draw held on each Friday of the contest. For their submissions to the GIGABYTE CATZILLA OC Contest, each of them won a GIGABYTE overclocking shirt.

Thanks to everyone who participated and see you soon at another GIGABYTE overclocking challenge.

To review all submissions of the GIGABYTE CATZILLA OC Contest, please visit the contest page hosted on HWBOT.org: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_z97_catzilla

To download the Catzilla benchmark with GIGABYTE skin, follow this link: http://www.catzilla.com/jdownloads/Download/CatzillaGIGABYTE.exe

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Here Are Your Winter OC Challenge Winners!

Our Winter OC Challenge has wrapped up and the winners have been announced!

The Winter OC Challenge saw the worlds best overclockers compete for some serious hardware prizes: GIGABYTE Z170-X SOC Force motherboards for the category winners and a GIGABYTE Z170X Gaming G1 motherboard for the winner of the lucky draw.

Here are the winners!

• Ambient 2C Winner: Nvidiaforever2 

• Ambient 4C Winner: george.kokovinis 

• Extreme 2C Winner: Dancop 

• Extreme 4C Winner: Alex@ro

• Lucky Draw: RM-akihabara 

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GIGABYTE X99 Champion Challenge Winners!

It is a bit with some delay, but at last the winners for our last competition hosted on HWBOT.org are confirmed!!

We would like to congratulate Demac, FireKillerGR and Coldest for taking the top 3 positions by collecting the most points.

- #1: Demac with 193 points, wins $1,500 USD

- #2: FireKillerGR with 157 points, wins $800 USD

- #3: Coldest with 134 points, wins $500 USD

As for the lucky draw winners, we had 3 categories. One winner amongst the lowest scores, one winner amongst the submissions above 25 degree and one amongst the submissions bellow 25 degree. The winners are:

- Low score: Beakface, wins a GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion motherboard

- Above 25°C: pho5ph0ric, wins a GIGABYTE X99-UD4P motherboard

- Below 25°C: strong island 1, wins a GIGABYTE X99-Gaming 5P motherboard

All winners have been contacted by email, so check your inbox to claim your prize!!

Congrats to the winners and thanks to everyone for their participation.

See you soon at the next GIGABYTE comp.!!

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