Taipei, Taiwan, January 21^st, 2014 – GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced the winners of the GIGABYTE Retro OC overclocking contest hosted on HWBOT.org. With $1,500 up for grabs, the ‘GIGABYTE Retro OC’ Contest invited top Overclockers to revisit classic 3DMark benchmarks equipped with the latest hardware.
 
GIGABYTE Retro OC: Stages
Stage 1: 3DMark01
Stage 2: 3DMark03
Stage 3: 3DMark05
Stage 4: 3DMark06
 
GIGABYTE Retro OC: Winners
1^st Place - $500 - 8 Pack
2^nd Place - $400 - Vivi
3^rd Place - $300 - Xtreme Addict
4^th Place - $200 - littleboy
5^th Place - $100 - laoshu1919
 
World Records Broken on the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC Motherboard
The GIGABYTE Retro OC contest attracted some of the world’s top Overclocking talent resulting in some very aggressive scoring. In total, 21 contest submissions are either top 20 in the world record listings or top 20 in the global category. Arguably the biggest highlight of the contest was  seeing two World Records broken on the GIGABYTE Z87X-OC motherboard, with renowned Overclockers, Vivi and 8 Pack settings new World Record scores for 3DMark06 and 3DMark03 respectively.
 
3DMark06 x1 GPU – World Record 56429 Marks – Vivi (South Africa)
http://hwbot.org/submission/2480831

3DMark03 x3 GPU – World Record 293261 Marks – 8 Pack (UK)
http://hwbot.org/submission/2482027

For a complete breakdown of contest rules and scoring, please visit the contest page at HWBOT.org: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_retrooc
 
The GIGABYTE Retro OC Photo Contest
GIGABYTE also held a contest on Facebook inviting fans and followers to submit photos of themselves looking as ‘Retro’ as possible holding a GIGABYTE motherboard. A GIGABYTE Z87X-UD7 TH motherboard was awarded to the contest winner Charles Terell (see below).

 
You can view all submissions from the GIGABYTE Retro OC Photo Contest here:
https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.10151828775482120.1073741838.209090107119&type=3