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Congrats to the winners of the ROG OC Showdown & RealBench Challenge competitions for 2016, Find out who was victorious!

Find out who else apart from Wizerty is on track to claim the ultimate prizes in the RealBench Challange!

Wizerty comes out on top for RealBench Challenge I online overclocking competition. See who else in the running to win a next-generation ROG motherboard!

Here's a complete set of tools to overclock your new graphics card and validate your supremacy.

RealBench Hwbot Edition is a free software to tests and compare the performance of your computer with others. Download and try it!

A new version of Realbench v2.43 is now available for download.

Always wanted a one-of-a-kind gaming rig? Know exactly what you want to build, but not sure how to go about it? Here are a few pointers to get you on your way, it'll be worth it! Check out what ROG Certified Partners have in store to help make your themed-build complete and even better!

The results are in! See what the winners achieved and their prizes!

If you are lucky enough to own one of the latest Z170 motherboards, here is a simple step-by-step overclocking guide from Chino who is a guru from our ROG Forum.

ROG OC Showdown Round 3 is here and will be on from November 6th to December 7th. Again, great kudos and prizes are back and every participant has a chance to win, with 5 extra packs as giveaways. If you want the chance to upgrade your motherboard to the new Z170 platform, warm up your rig and keep pushing it to join the final round of OC Showdown 2015!

Starting on 10th Dec, the first 40 correct entries posted in this thread get Star Citizen game codes! Simply run ROG Realbench on your AMD motherboard/graphics card and post a screenshot of the score in our entry thread.

Those with Rampage V Extreme and X99 Deluxe/A/Pro systems wanting to get on our RealBench leaderboard should download our updated RealBench 2.4, which includes new CPU-Z 1.7.1 for correct detection of X99 systems.

HWBot have just launched a new Team Cup challenge, where the SC4: MISC CHALLENGE includes Realbench!

ROG's real-world benchmarking app, RealBench, has been updated to v2.2 with new support added in the stability test for systems with 64GB of memory. The benchmark hasn't changed, so results from v2.0 and v2.1 are compatible with the latest v2.2, so don't worry if you're still using the older versions

Team Russia crushed the RealBench 2 first place result, posting a score of 127,120 - around 5,000 more than second place Dew. Slamms achieved it with an LN2 cooled i7-4960X at 5.6GHz and ~2.4GHz CL8 DDR3 in a Rampage IV Black Edition, along with two GTX 780 Ti. Watch the result happen, in the video above.

Team Russia has fired up its Rampage IV Black Edition and i7-4960X again to push it through our RealBench app! With an LN2 cooling, the CPU reached an extreme of 5.6GHz (131x43). The team are only one of two people to break the 120k barrier so far! See their result submission for more details on the system, and the video below to follow how they did it.

What is ROG RealBench? RealBench uses real, open source applications to test your PC as it would perform in productivity apps. The RealBench application simply wraps and scripts these open source productivity apps to time how long they take at image editing, video encoding or multi-tasking, or how powerful the hardware is for rendering via OpenCL. If you have questions, see the full FAQ inside for more!

Realbench is a benchmark that uses open source applications and simple scripting to simulate real-world performance of a PC system. It's designed to show the difference: Before and after a PC upgrade To gauge the real effect of an overclock To gauge the real effect of BIOS tweaks Here we detail what part of the PC each test pushes, and what to opimize, as well as why the Realbench stress-test is the new bar for PC stability.