HyperX is looking to bring ten of the world’s best overclockers to the HyperX OC Takeover (HOT) World Finals for a live extreme overclocking competition held during CES 2015.
This four month-long online regional qualifiers will start with Latin America in July, Asia in August, Europe in September, and finally North America in October. Two spots to the World Finals are to be won for South America, three spots for Asia, three spots for Europe and two spots for North America through online regional qualifiers. Each regional finalist will receive an all-expense paid trip to CES in Las Vegas, NV, and compete for the $15,000 prize pool.
- HyperX Predator DDR4-3333
- HyperX FURY SSD 120GB
- Intel Core i7 5960X
- GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion
- Cooler Master Silent Pro Hybrid PSU
- Gelid GC-Extreme therman paste
- Winner: USD $7,000
- Runner-up: USD 5,000
- 2nd Runner-up: USD $3,000
| Rank | Participant | HyperX OC Takeover 2014 LATAM Qualifiers | HyperX OC Takeover 2014 Far East Qualifiers | HyperX OC Takeover 2014 EMEA Qualifiers | HyperX OC Takeover 2014 North America Qualifiers | PTS |
| 1 | 75 pts | 75 pts | ||||
| 2 | 75 pts | 75 pts | ||||
| 3 | 65 pts | 65 pts | ||||
| 4 | 57 pts | 57 pts | ||||
| 5 | 56 pts | 56 pts | ||||
| 6 | 52 pts | 52 pts | ||||
| 7 | 52 pts | 52 pts | ||||
| 8 | 52 pts | 52 pts | ||||
| 9 | 52 pts | 52 pts | ||||
| 10 | 50 pts | 50 pts | ||||
| 11 | 48 pts | 48 pts | ||||
| 12 | 47 pts | 47 pts | ||||
| 13 | 47 pts | 47 pts | ||||
| 14 | 46 pts | 46 pts | ||||
| 15 | 45 pts | 45 pts | ||||
| 16 | 44 pts | 44 pts | ||||
| 17 | 44 pts | 44 pts | ||||
| 18 | 43 pts | 43 pts | ||||
| 19 | 43 pts | 43 pts | ||||
| 20 | 40 pts | 40 pts | ||||
| 21 | 39 pts | 39 pts | ||||
| 22 | 39 pts | 39 pts | ||||
| 23 | 37 pts | 37 pts | ||||
| 24 | 37 pts | 37 pts | ||||
| 25 | 34 pts | 34 pts | ||||
| 26 | 34 pts | 34 pts | ||||
| 27 | 31 pts | 31 pts | ||||
| 28 | 30 pts | 30 pts | ||||
| 29 | 30 pts | 30 pts | ||||
| 30 | 28 pts | 28 pts | ||||
| 31 | 28 pts | 28 pts | ||||
| 32 | 28 pts | 28 pts | ||||
| 33 | 27 pts | 27 pts | ||||
| 34 | 25 pts | 25 pts | ||||
| 35 | 25 pts | 25 pts | ||||
| 36 | 25 pts | 25 pts | ||||
| 37 | 24 pts | 24 pts | ||||
| 38 | 24 pts | 24 pts | ||||
| 39 | 24 pts | 24 pts | ||||
| 40 | 22 pts | 22 pts | ||||
| 41 | 22 pts | 22 pts | ||||
| 42 | 19 pts | 19 pts | ||||
| 43 | 18 pts | 18 pts | ||||
| 44 | 17 pts | 17 pts | ||||
| 45 | 17 pts | 17 pts | ||||
| 46 | 16 pts | 16 pts | ||||
| 47 | 16 pts | 16 pts | ||||
| 48 | 14 pts | 14 pts | ||||
| 49 | 11 pts | 11 pts | ||||
| 50 | 8 pts | 8 pts | ||||
| 51 | 7 pts | 7 pts | ||||
| 52 | 6 pts | 6 pts | ||||
| 53 | 5 pts | 5 pts | ||||
| 54 | 5 pts | 5 pts | ||||
| 55 | 2 pts | 2 pts | ||||
| 56 | 1 pts | 1 pts |
| Rank | User | Season Points |
| 1 | 200 | |
| 2 | 170 | |
| 3 | 150 | |
| 4 | 135 | |
| 5 | 125 | |
| 6 | 115 | |
| 7 | 105 | |
| 8 | 95 | |
| 9 | 85 | |
| 10 | 75 | |
| 11 | 70 | |
| 12 | 65 | |
| 13 | 60 | |
| 14 | 55 | |
| 15 | 50 | |
| 16 | 45 | |
| 17 | 40 | |
| 18 | 35 | |
| 19 | 33 | |
| 20 | 31 | |
| 21 | 29 | |
| 22 | 27 | |
| 23 | 25 | |
| 24 | 23 | |
| 25 | 21 | |
| 26 | 19 | |
| 27 | 17 | |
| 28 | 15 | |
| 29 | 13 | |
| 30 | 11 | |
| 31 | 9 | |
| 32 | 7 | |
| 33 | 5 | |
| 34 | 5 | |
| 35 | 5 | |
| 36 | 5 | |
| 37 | 5 | |
| 38 | 5 | |
| 39 | 5 | |
| 40 | 5 | |
| 41 | 5 | |
| 42 | 5 | |
| 43 | 5 | |
| 44 | 5 | |
| 45 | 5 | |
| 46 | 5 | |
| 47 | 5 | |
| 48 | 5 | |
| 49 | 5 | |
| 50 | 5 | |
| 51 | 5 | |
| 52 | 5 | |
| 53 | 5 | |
| 54 | 5 | |
| 55 | 5 | |
| 56 | 5 |
nico.petrauschke
USD $15,000 in cash prizes (sshht!)
Which group for Hong Kong ?
Far East
It says that there will be 10 finalists and two will be out of the LATM region. With only 4 regions, will the other regions have more than two finalists?
2 for LATAM, 3 for Far East, 3 for EMEA and 2 for NA
3 spots for EMEA,
with Xtreme addict out of the picture, i see 8pack dancop and a few others, going to be awesome fight!
Xtreme Addict is seriously in the picture I believe
Gentlemen... Start your binning
Oh oh and
Africa is just as big as latam can't we get segregated out of emea like they were out of the Americas
yes he is already going straight to finals
. Out of the qualifier picture i mean!
i agree with drweez, africa is massive, so many overclockers that don't have internet to upload scores
We shall think about it for next year then
Plant seed....check
In all seriousness, I think we would need 40 slots to satisfy all the regions.
Last year we had a nice geographical spread even with one worldwide qualifier but that was lucky.
At least this year we are sure to have a nice mix again.
Ye im happy!
Gogo kingston
This will be awesome!
A great OC battle is coming
Going to be an awesome contest!
In!
Buying HyperX gear with G.SKILL winnings.
Splave has OC figured out!
I will watch last days of submitting scores with beer in my hand
BTW
Imho EMEA needs more places than other region, too many overclockers here
I Agree marmott, my comment was a little tongue in cheek, it is almost impossible to cater for all the markets around the world
Emea (as well as the other areas)have a lot of strong guys. The competition is going to be good. Kingston is doing a really good job with the HOT series of events. Thanks
Is Australia now considered Far East? Or is 'Far East' meant to refer to the greater Asia/Oceania regions?
Pretty sure it's the down under region bro
'Bout time we got our own region. But I only see a Latin America, North America, Europe/Middle Aast/Africa, Far East region listed on the comp page...
Far East = APAC
Made this a sticky so we can all discuss the HOT in one thread
Hey PJ, can you flesh out the comp pages a little better? All the basic stuff like hardware rules, what sub benchmarks run on what dates or for the whole stage etc.
Trying to get my head around it, and using the 2013 HOT as a guide, I just don't want to get anything wrong.
The competition rules for the stages apart from the LATAM qualifier are not confirmed yet. Expect them to be very similar though.
But that's the reason why the pages are not fleshed out yet
I just read about the need to change away from max memory freq, so fair enough.
If someone is not sure about something, please ask here. I'm sure we can help.
Hey guys are there no restrictions on PSU and motherboard this year?
Basically anything and everything hardware. Is it just restricted to Kingston ram, or will there be more restrictions?
Intel Haswell + Kingston/HyperX memory
That's all
Chispet allowed may vary too, so far Z87 only for LATAM and Far East.
We saw that Z97 may be a bit more gifted than Z87 when it comes to memory OC. So we want to avoid any complain about having to use the latest Z97 chipset.
edit: by Z87 and Z97 I mean Intel 8 Series and 9 series chipsets
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?285767-DDR3-IC-thread&p=5234967&viewfull=1#post5234967
Here is some potentially useful information for those looking for particular IC-based kits.
Just so everyone is aware about the situation: TeamAU pulled out of the competition and will be replaced by Coolhandluke41.
So unless I'm missing a post.
What platform are we benching at final
What benchmarks ?
How's it being scored ?
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?289993-HyperX-OC-Takeover-2015-World-Finals-Event-Info-and-Registration
Should answer a few questions
Can all Overclockers attending please discuss competition layout ?
would people like a fixed CPU frequency for 32m and XTU this will eliminate the best CPU wins regardless issue and force it to be about memory overclocking ?
Please chime in !
So far the benchmarks are: max memory frequency single DIMM, XTU @5GHz and Cinebench R11.5.
Cinerbench is not that related to memory overclocking....
Please GOD DITCH Cinebench it's all CPU Power !!! Memory means nothing bring back 32m !!!
3 guys at the exact same mem speed? lolwut
It's almost like they are using the same hardware or something?
So are all of the memory scores being removed because no scope?
they probably should be.
These were benched live on controlled OS no registery tweaks were performed to skew results my score is legit. Osilliscope no need benched live hwbot judges Christian ney and massman.
Fester
Not saying your score isn't legit, but there was what 11 guys benching no way that 2 judges can watch everybody. Massman was also the one that made the rule about scopes for X99.
We'll deal with it, it's valid.
No, we checked all the scores and the results were done at a live environment.
FYI, this is what was written in the article: "For memory frequency validation records it seems obvious we must rely on additional verification by means of the oscilloscope, or at live events by verifying correct functioning of the motherboards prior to the record attempts"
So, does it mean only valid DDR4 subs would be from those participating in the handful live events during the year or records by vendors with oscilloscopes?
How would you know some random guy didn't tweakthe registers if he didn't bench live or has no oscilloscope?
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