Taipei, Taiwan, March 1^st, 2018 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced its next competition for the overclocking community with the GIGABYTE AORUS March OC Madness, to be hosted this March on HWBOT.org.

This competition will have four stages that will test your computer's 2D processing: XTU 5GHz, GPUPI for CPU–1B 5GHz, HWBOT Prime 5GHz, HWBOT x265 Benchmark–4k 5GHz. You have probably already noticed that we have limited the CPU frequency to 5GHz to give most people a chance. In each of the four stages participants can score points based on their benchmark scores.

There are a number of awesome hardware prizes up for grabs! Moreover, participants that submit a score in all stages of their respective categories are eligible to enter a lucky draw for one of two GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming motherboards.

Prize info and event rules for GIGABYTE AORUS March OC Madness are listed below:

Timeline: March 3^rd, 2018 – March 31^st, 2018

1^st Place Prizes

Intel Core i7-8700K

GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Gaming 7

EK-KIT S240

G.SKILL F4-3600C17D-16GTZSW Trident Z Series

2^nd Place Prizes

Intel Core i5-8600K

GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

SEASONIC PRIME PLATINUM 850W

3^rd Place Prizes

G.SKILL F4-3600C17D-16GTZSW Trident Z Series

Lucky Draw Prizes

GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

GIGABYTE Z370 AORUS Ultra Gaming

For more information on the competition please visit the following:

http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/gigabyte_aorus_march_oc_challence_2018

To learn more about AORUS:

http://www.AORUS.com/

To learn more about GIGABYTE:

http://www.GIGABYTE.com/