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The Round3 of the ROG OCS will start this Friday. For the ones that never heard about this online overclocking competition before, the OCS is divided in two series.
The Formula Series is limited to air and water cooling, and Elite and Extreme Leagues from HWBOT are not allowed to participate in the Formula Series. This way, we create a more fair game for everyone. Here is a recap of HWBOT different leagues:
If you never tried the competitive overclocking before, this is the chance. It's easy to join and the benchmarks to run are easy. Only need some tricks and tweaks to do the best scores. But as we say, the most important is to participate!
The three benchmarks of this third round are:
To help you to get started, here is a quick guide on how to submit your scores on XTU.
Between step 3 and 4, all come to your overclocking skills and patience. Every system is different and will react in a different way. You need to try settings on settings until you find the best efficiency. To do so, you can start to run your benchmark without any modification and check your score (recommended -> take a pen and piece of paper). Then you can start to play with the manual tuning of XTU or AI suite from ASUS and change the CPU ratio, cache and voltage (don't go too high too quick). To go higher, you will have to change the timings of your memory in the BIOS.
Chino just write a very nice guide on how to overclock the i7-6700K CPU. Have a look here.
Depending on the platform you are using, you can find online, guides on how to overclock.
A last recommendation for XTU, from the last WR of Dancop, is to run twice in the raw XTU (without waiting between those two, so have your finger ready on the mouse button).
More info about the competition here.
And you what's your tweaks?
- Formula Series
- Extreme Series
The Formula Series is limited to air and water cooling, and Elite and Extreme Leagues from HWBOT are not allowed to participate in the Formula Series. This way, we create a more fair game for everyone. Here is a recap of HWBOT different leagues:
If you never tried the competitive overclocking before, this is the chance. It's easy to join and the benchmarks to run are easy. Only need some tricks and tweaks to do the best scores. But as we say, the most important is to participate!
The three benchmarks of this third round are:
To help you to get started, here is a quick guide on how to submit your scores on XTU.
- Download XTU (Intel Xtreme Tuning utility) benchmark .
- Install the program and reboot your system.
- Open XTU and click “Run” on the benchmarking area.
- Click on the Compare Online button and you will be redirected to the HWBOT website.
- Click on “Competing” and fill in your information.
- Take a picture of your rig and click “Submit”.
- A pop-up windows will appears with the competitions you can enter with your score. Click on “ROG OC Showdown Formula Series – Round 3″.
- Check your ranking! (May require a little time to verify and update.)
Between step 3 and 4, all come to your overclocking skills and patience. Every system is different and will react in a different way. You need to try settings on settings until you find the best efficiency. To do so, you can start to run your benchmark without any modification and check your score (recommended -> take a pen and piece of paper). Then you can start to play with the manual tuning of XTU or AI suite from ASUS and change the CPU ratio, cache and voltage (don't go too high too quick). To go higher, you will have to change the timings of your memory in the BIOS.
Chino just write a very nice guide on how to overclock the i7-6700K CPU. Have a look here.
Depending on the platform you are using, you can find online, guides on how to overclock.
A last recommendation for XTU, from the last WR of Dancop, is to run twice in the raw XTU (without waiting between those two, so have your finger ready on the mouse button).
More info about the competition here.
And you what's your tweaks?
