ROG OC Showdown Extreme Series Round 1

ASUS Republic of Gamers is launching ROG OC Showdown 2015, a global online overclocking competition that invites both extreme and enthusiast overclockers to compete for kudos and great prizes!

ROG OC Showdown 2015 begins with the subzero Extreme series. If you live to crank up the gigahertz with dry ice, liquid nitrogen or any other cooling apparatus to keep the core below 0ºC, then this is the one for you. Extreme series round one runs from January 30 through to March 2, 2015. You’ll need an ASUS/ROG/TUF Z97 or X99 motherboard (and ASUS/ROG/TUF graphics card, for 3D benchmarks) and bucketloads of super-cooling nous. Use the @ASUS_ROG #OCShowdown hashtag to brag your results!

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01.30.2015 12:00 +0000
03.02.2015 12:00 +0000

Participate

  • This competition is closed. You can no longer join
  • ROG OC Showdown Extreme Series Round 1 is closed since 2 March 2015
  • This competition is between members

Stages

Extreme series

  • Open to everyone worldwide.
  • No limitation for cooling
  • Please refer to the General competition rules for more details


Check the rules for the Formula series here



General Competition Rules

  • Only one HWBOT account per overclocker is allowed.
  • Can’t change series from one Round to the other.
  • HWBOT and ASUS reserve the right to reject any entry.
  • Employees of MB / VGA / Memory / CPU / PSU manufacturers are not allowed to compete.
  • No hardware sharing is allowed (cf HWBOT 3.2.E)
  • It is not allowed to remove submissions once it has been submitted (cf HWBOT).
  • After the end of the competition no more submissions or rectifications will be allowed. Plan your submission ahead!
  • All submissions screenshot must include the official wallpaper of the round.
  • All submissions must include a picture of their rig (MB, VGA, memory, CPU cooler during use).
  • No limitation in the number of submissions per benchmark.
  • Participants must submit to all the stages to participate to the lucky draw.
  • Some countries winners might be liable to import duty.
  • We expect fair play from everyone for those competitions.
  • Examples of behaviors that aren’t acceptable:
    • Changing League before / during the competition for strategic purposes
    • Influence others submissions to profit your ranking
    • Deliberately forget / make a mistake in the submissions process and ask later for change


Hardware

  • Must use commercially / retail available components. Engineering samples are not allowed.
  • We reserve the right to ban specific products
  • Participants can only use ASUS VGA for 3D benchmarks. No restrictions for 2D benchmarks and memory benchmarks.
  • Participants can only use Z97 and X99 platforms.


Benchmarks

Stage 1: Cinebench R11.5

  • Score will be divided by the number of CPU cores. For example, for a Pentium G3258 the benchmark score will be divided by 2
  • Highest score wins

Stage 2: XTU

  • XTU CPU Frequency must be 5.5 GHz or lower. If the frequency is incorrectly reported, the score is invalid.
  • XTU Monitoring MUST show the CPU frequency DURING load. Results with monitoring disabled or not shown are invalid.
  • Score will be divided by the number of CPU cores

Stage 3: 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme

  • Single GPU only
  • Highest Score Wins


Point Distribution per Stage

50-41-36-32-30-28-26-24-22-20-19-18-17-16-15-14-13-12-11-10-9-8-7

Partners


PlaceElite LeagueExtreme League
1st
  • ROG Matrix GTX 980
  • G.SKILL RipJaws4 DDR4-3200 16GB Black
  • ROG Rampage V Extreme
  • Intel Core i7 5930K
2nd
  • Enermax Platimax 1500W
  • G.SKILL RipJaws4 DDR4-3000 16GB Red
  • Enermax Platimax 1500W
  • G.SKILL RipJaws4 DDR4-3000 16GB Black
3rd
  • ROG Maximus VII Gene
  • Enermax Platimax 1500W
  • ROG Maximus VII Gene
  • 8ECC LN2 CPU Pot Fusion R3.1 Black and Red Mounting

More chances to win with the lucky draw! The lucky draw is open to all participants of the 3 stages. Get a chance to win:

  • 5x ROG T-Shirt
  • 5x Enermax TwisterStorm 3500rpm 12cm fan
  • 5x Enermax HDD/SDD Mobile Rack


Ranking

Rank Participant Cinebench R11.5 XTU 5.5GHz 3DMark Fire Strike Extreme
PTS
1 50 pts 41 pts 36 pts 127 pts
2 41 pts 36 pts 41 pts 118 pts
3 36 pts 50 pts 32 pts 118 pts
4 30 pts 30 pts 28 pts 88 pts
5 24 pts 22 pts 24 pts 70 pts
6 32 pts 18 pts 19 pts 69 pts
7 26 pts 12 pts 30 pts 68 pts
8 17 pts 20 pts 26 pts 63 pts
9 14 pts 28 pts 16 pts 58 pts
10 19 pts 19 pts 20 pts 58 pts
11 32 pts 22 pts 54 pts
12 22 pts 13 pts 18 pts 53 pts
13 50 pts 50 pts
14 18 pts 16 pts 15 pts 49 pts
15 11 pts 26 pts 11 pts 48 pts
16 15 pts 24 pts 4 pts 43 pts
17 20 pts 17 pts 5 pts 42 pts
18 9 pts 15 pts 12 pts 36 pts
19 12 pts 10 pts 14 pts 36 pts
20 10 pts 11 pts 8 pts 29 pts
21 28 pts 28 pts
22 6 pts 9 pts 13 pts 28 pts
23 13 pts 14 pts 27 pts
24 3 pts 8 pts 7 pts 18 pts
25 17 pts 17 pts
26 16 pts 16 pts
27 2 pts 4 pts 9 pts 15 pts
28 7 pts 7 pts 1 pts 15 pts
29 4 pts 10 pts 14 pts
30 5 pts 5 pts 10 pts
31 1 pts 6 pts 2 pts 9 pts
32 8 pts 8 pts
33 6 pts 6 pts
34 1 pts 3 pts 4 pts
35 1 pts 3 pts 4 pts
36 1 pts 2 pts 3 pts

Awarded Season Points

First Position

127 pts Dancop

Discussions

January 30, 2015 at 5:04:54 AM UTC

Very nice competition, but how to solve this?

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January 30, 2015 at 5:07:34 AM UTC

I've tried win 7 32/64/ Win 8 / Win 8.1

I always get this...I've tried clean installations and so on and so on!

I always get this or something like 654645GHZ

January 31, 2015 at 2:18:19 PM UTC

Not sure why they'd run a max fixed 5.5GHz frequency that most $1,000+ retail chips can't achieve...

Would have made more sense to just do 5GHz for stages 1 and 2 in my opinion, then go full out for stage 3.

January 31, 2015 at 11:41:51 PM UTC

I've tried win 7 32/64/ Win 8 / Win 8.1

I always get this...I've tried clean installations and so on and so on!

I always get this or something like 654645GHZ

 

Nonsense, I have tried every copy of W7 and they all read frequency correctly or +1 multi so it's something you are doing to your OS. Ask everyone at the HOT Finals if the mhz was reported as 0 or any other crazy high value other than +1 multi over what was actually set in bios.

February 1, 2015 at 3:05:28 PM UTC

Nonsense on your side!

The problem is also there at fresh os install and bios defaults!

Many of the aooc qualifiers had the same issue!

Ask Roman, stummerwinter, benchbros....and so on!!!

I have that issue on all boards except z97 soc as far as I remember...

February 1, 2015 at 4:07:47 PM UTC

Yes I also often have this issue and no idea why. Even on a fresh Win7 with no mods at all. Just installed from the original microsoft disc.

February 1, 2015 at 4:17:44 PM UTC

Thx Roman!

February 2, 2015 at 5:23:16 AM UTC

English / German version ?

February 2, 2015 at 5:25:29 AM UTC

Not sure why they'd run a max fixed 5.5GHz frequency that most $1,000+ retail chips can't achieve...

Would have made more sense to just do 5GHz for stages 1 and 2 in my opinion, then go full out for stage 3.

 

Because

  • Participants can only use Z97 and X99 platforms.
  • Score will be divided by the number of CPU cores. For example, for a Pentium G3258 the benchmark score will be divided by 2

FYI, rules were made together by marketing, engineering and hwbot.

February 2, 2015 at 5:38:44 AM UTC

XTU is divided by the number of cores not threads correct? The G3258 doesn't make more sense then because it has no HT.

February 3, 2015 at 4:19:57 PM UTC

Could some body explain the prizes?

 

I see that say "Elite League" and "Extreme League" and each one have their prizes.

February 4, 2015 at 3:08:30 AM UTC

There are prizes specifically for the Elite and Extreme members. So if you're the best of all Extreme overclockers, you win the prize regardless of how many Elite are in front of you/

February 4, 2015 at 4:54:10 AM UTC

It says ASUS/ROG/TUF graphics card for the FSX sub, forgive me as this month will be my first atempt at Ln2 subzero and not a expert in GPU's.. does the Asus 980 strix fall into the ROG/TUF Asus GPU class?

February 4, 2015 at 5:39:07 AM UTC

Yes, you can use the GTX 980 Strix

February 4, 2015 at 12:46:29 PM UTC

There are prizes specifically for the Elite and Extreme members. So if you're the best of all Extreme overclockers, you win the prize regardless of how many Elite are in front of you/

 

That's what I thought, nice idea.

February 5, 2015 at 1:11:08 AM UTC

solved the problem!!!

Like massman said, just install the english version of win7!

February 7, 2015 at 7:04:21 AM UTC

Yes, you can use the GTX 980 Strix

 

 

I thought so lol but just making sure... just need to hard vmod the card and test a modded BIOS and set for my first attempt and Ln2 a GPU..

 

Also, do all stages finish on the 2nd March???

February 7, 2015 at 10:05:39 PM UTC

solved the problem!!!

Like massman said, just install the english version of win7!

For me it doesnt work... Pretty annoying issue...

February 7, 2015 at 11:00:25 PM UTC

Send me your email...maybe I can help you

February 9, 2015 at 6:30:44 PM UTC

It does not let me post to discussion from contest discussion page.

February 10, 2015 at 3:29:09 AM UTC

Hm, yeah, seems like a small bug

February 12, 2015 at 6:40:13 AM UTC

Enthusiast league can participate ?

February 12, 2015 at 1:52:14 PM UTC

Can we use sample motherboards and cards or must be bought

February 12, 2015 at 3:13:16 PM UTC

Enthusiast league can participate ?

 

I would say that you can participate in this one: http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/rogocs_formula_r1

 

Can we use sample motherboards and cards or must be bought

 

Limitations says not ES...so, samples I think that area allowed no?

February 16, 2015 at 2:01:18 AM UTC

Enthusiast league can participate ?

 

You may, but the Formula competition will be more suited for Enthusiast I think.

 

Can we use sample motherboards and cards or must be bought

 

Retail (samples) can be used, yes.

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