Mad222 from Hong Kong trying out the new OC CPUz with an impressive overclock!

Hong Kong’s best overclocker, Mad222, took out his Gigabyte Z77X-UP7 for some old school 3DMARK01 benchmarking. 3DMARK01 is one of those cult 3D benchmarks that requires excellent system tweaking skills, high CPU overclock, high GPU overclock, OS tweaking and time consuming custom run order and LOD (level of detail) levels that require a lot of effort to master. He used the new OC CPUz application to display his system information in the validation screenshot at HWBOT sporting an impressive overclock at 6775MHz with a core i7 3770K (stock frequency 3.5GHz!). He managed #6 fastest in the world and mentioned that he was being held back by his graphics card somewhat. Time to get a better card Mad and keep pushing.

Get your 15 minutes of fame at HWBOT today!

HWBOT just reported about the new 3DMARK being released and some early rush from enthusiasts to get their name up on the Hall of Fame. For those of you who are unaware, Futuremark released its new benchmark called 3DMARK. Errrrrr, where’s the rest of the name? There is a FireStorm mentioned in one of the videos but they seem to be calling it 3DMARK. Seems they are following Apple’s recent naming schemes. I’m not sure how popular that naming is seeing Android is taking over everywhere these days.

UK overclocker Tonester0011 seems to be enjoying his few moments of fame at the moment with the highest score set on HWBOT’s Hall of Fame with an AMD Radeon HD 7970 and GIGABYTE Z77X-UD5H. Congrats Tonester0011 lol!

With the new 3DMark just launched a couple hours ago, it is a great chance for the quick benchers in this community to grab #1 rank in the Hall of Fames. Tonester0011 from the UK took that opportunity to become one of the first leaders of our 3DMark Fire Strike Hall of Fame ranking, effectively getting fifteen minutes of fame. Nicely done!

To check out the HWBOT 3DMark Fire Strike Hall Of Fame, check here: click.

New OC Contest on HWBOT: GIGABYTE Year of the Snake Prize Draw

For those of us located out in Taiwan, the annual Chinese New Year holiday is almost upon us, and to celebrate we’re launching the ‘Year of the Snake Prize Draw’ at HWBOT.org. Open to all of the HWBOT membership, the idea could not be simpler – use our new GIGABYTE OC Edition CPU-Z app in any screenshot submission in February on HWBOT.org, and you will be entered in a weekly prize draw to win a GIGABYTE Z77N-WIFI motherboard.

Four prize draws will be held on February 8th, 15th, 22nd and 28th with the winners announced here on the same day.

Prize: GIGABYTE Z77N-WIFI Motherboard

Once again folks, this is an open prize draw for any submission for any benchmark, using any hardware. The only stipulation is that you use the GIGABYTE OC Edition CPU-Z app.

GIGABYTE Z77N-WIFI information can be found here.

Check out the contest page at HWBOT.org here.

Download the GIGABYTE OC Edition CPU-Z app at CPUID here.