The improved and renewed 2016 season of the Pro OC Championship features five overclockers who provide paid content throughout the season and an open and overclocker-based Pro OC competition.

The third round of the Pro OC Championship has 5 stages. Every other weekend, the stages are open for submissions. The first competition weekend is on Aug 5-8 as the contestants start off with Cinebench R15. On Aug 19-22, the stage is Geekbench3 Multi Core. On Sep 2-5, we change gear to Wprime 32M. On Sep 16-19, we have a look at 3DMark Vantage. The final competition day is on Sep 23-26 and features 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme as benchmark. All stages must be done with X99 Broadwell-E and 1xGPU.