GIGABYTE today announced the Target OC: Open Target challenge. The Open Target challenge will see the overclockers from all corners of the world compete in different cooling and CPU categories for big cash and GIGABYTE Z170 motherboard prizes.
From Nov 8 until Dec 27, contestants will attempt to hit challenging targets in Ambient and Extreme categories using XTU and Geekbench3, with new targets revealed weekly. You may use any GIGABYTE motherboard (no chipset restriction). Contestants have the opportunity to win prizes including Z170X-Gaming 3 and Z170X-SOC FORCE as well as USD $250 for a GFP. There's also a lucky draw of USD $500 and a Z170X-Gaming G1 motherboard for anyone who participates in 6 targets in minimum 2 categories.
There are 6 Global First Place bonus prizes in total: XTU 2xCPU, XTU 4xCPU, XTU 6xCPU, Geekbench3 Multi Core 2xCPU, Geekbench3 Multi Core 4xCPU and Geekbench3 Multi Core 6xCPU. The prize is awarded at the end of the competition.
To enter the lucky draw, you must participate for all six targets in minimum 2 categories. For example: Ambient 2xCPU and Ambient 4xCPU.
| Rank | Participant | XTU: 900 | XTU: 826 | XTU: 936 | Geekbench3 - Multi Core: 15000 | Geekbench3 - Multi Core: 14639 | Geekbench3 - Multi Core: 16038 |
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| 1 | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 6 pts | |
| 2 | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 5 pts | ||
| 3 | 0 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 0 pts | 1 pts | 4 pts | |
| 4 | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 3 pts | ||||
| 5 | 1 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | 3 pts | ||||
| 6 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 7 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 8 | 0 pts | 0 pts | 1 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 1 pts | |
| 9 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 10 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 11 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 12 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 13 | 0 pts | 0 pts | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||
| 14 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 15 | 1 pts | 1 pts | ||||||
| 16 | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | |
| 17 | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | |
| 18 | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts | 0 pts |
| Rank | User | Season Points |
| 1 | 50 | |
| 2 | 42 | |
| 3 | 35 | |
| 4 | 31 | |
| 5 | 27 | |
| 6 | 23 | |
| 7 | 21 | |
| 8 | 19 | |
| 9 | 18 | |
| 10 | 17 | |
| 11 | 16 | |
| 12 | 15 | |
| 13 | 14 | |
| 14 | 13 | |
| 15 | 12 | |
| 16 | 11 | |
| 17 | 10 | |
| 18 | 9 |
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Will the rest of the stages have a more reliable start time?
As anoying as it was waiting for the target to be announced I just dont think it will mater for the outcome of this competition as I have a hard time seeing people hitting the exact target in the geekbench stage when the target will be 5 digits instead of 3 making it 100 times harder to hit it.
Not to mention that the variation between runs is larger in Geekbench than in XTU further making it harder to hit the score.
As an example, it took me 89 reruns at the same frequencys to hit 250 points in cloudgate for the teamcup and I was first to post that score. That was with 8 scores of 249 points and 6 scores of 251 points and the rest of the scores between something like 240 and 260 (a few randoms as high as 290) so if the target there would have been 5 digits it would have been impossible.
I agree that for the geekbench portion that timing is not quite as critical, but it is critical for the xtu portion as you yourself proved with your entry less than an hour after the target being posted. Please don't take this as a personal actually because I was prepared this morning to jump this contest as well. I was just frustrated earlier because I rearranged my schedule to be home when the comp opened. Because the target was not posted then I used up the time I allotted and had to step out for a little. I got home about 45 minutes after the target was posted. So that is enough of me ranting and I apologize again for my earlier snap comment.
Looks like I may be out for the rest of this competition. I borked my motherboard during my runs this morning. Good luck to everyone for the rest off the competition.
What's the issue you're seeing ?
Sorry to hear that, good luck with whatever hardware you decide to get instead
Well the board will not boot. I have a request out to gigabyte for some help. On a better note I think I have found a cheap board that I can have delivered by Saturday. We will see but I am hoping, if not early next week so it will not put me out completely.
Seems to be some issue with round 3 in the ambient competitions as only the first person got a point this time, I assume this is a bug due to the maxout for the extreme competitions?
Bumping this, is this intended?
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Owh, missed the reply.
Max out = only points for the top score. Other XTU stages should have all the points everyone deserved.
Any eta on stage 5.
hi, I can not figure out why the Stage Geekbench 4 core , I have made the highest score but are ranked next to last , what's wrong ? I also unchecked hyper threading .
Please let help me figure out what I'm wrong , the Regulation seems to me to follow him for good
the goal in this competition is to hit the target score and not to get the highest score.
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