ROG OC Showdown Extreme Series Round 3 Set to Kick Off on Jan 22

The last round of the ROG OC Showdown Extreme Series 2015 (beginning of 2016) is about to kick off. Get your gear ready to compete for great kudos and prizes! 

 

A competition series for the entire community 

Started a year ago, the ROG OC Showdown overclocking competition was created for any overclocker whether a newbie or seasoned pro. Five competitions already passed, and today we are announcing the last round of the Extreme Series.

Compared to the Formula Series, the Extreme series doesn't have any cooling limitations. Ice cubes, dry ice, liquid nitrogen, liquid helium... you can use whatever cooling you like to reach the maximum performance, if anyone wants to OC in space we'd like to see the results!

 

Round 3 - A Tweaking Competition

For this last round, we want to challenge the overclockers and push their tweaking skills to the max with a choice of old-school benchmarks: SuperPi 32M, 3DMark2001 and AquaMark 3.

To compete, you need to use any ASUS motherboards for all three benchmarks and any ASUS or reference graphics cards for 3DMark2001 and AquaMark3. Overclockers are limited to a dual-core CPU and to a single GPU. For more details about the rules, you can check the competition page.  

 

11 overclockers will take home prizes

As for the previous Extreme Series competitions, the top 3 in the Elite League and top 3 in the Extreme League will be rewarded with prizes. Below is the full list of goodies! 

 At the end of the competition, five packs of lucky draw prizes will go to participants of the competition. Each pack of lucky draw prizes contains: 

• 1 x ROG OC Showdown T-shirt
• 1 x Thermal Grizzly Kryonaut thermal paste 5.5g 
• 1 x TwisterStorm and TwisterPressure fan combo 
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ROG OC Showdown Elite and Extreme Champion 

At the completion of the competition, all the overclockers from the three rounds of the Extreme Series will be evaluated and given an overall ranking will be established. 

The top overclockers from Elite League and the Extreme League, who have accumulated the most points in their respective leagues will be crowned Champions of the ROG OC Showdown Extreme Series 2015.

Both will received some exclusive ROG prizes and bestowed with a trophy to show off their overclocking supremacy for the year 2015!