Romania and Rauf from Sweden.
This year’s competition, would
move from Thailand to Vietnam,
specifically Ho Chi Minh city.
Offering the contestants, a different
country and environment, which
would present its own unique
circumstances for all involved
(humidity for example).
Since this was a milestone 10th
year celebration. The competition
was not only stiffer but the prize
money greater still. Not ever in the
history of overclocking has a
competition had this prize money on
offer. A whopping $35,000 USD in
cash including a $20,000 cash pool
for records. From this amount, any
world record broken would result in
a $1,000 cash bonus. As for the
formal competition, first place
would be rewarded a $6,000 cash
prize, second place $5,000
and third place would walk away
with $4,000. With such prizes up for
grabs there would be no time to take
it easy and they set about the
business of producing high scores
soon after the word was given.
This year’s competition was
structured in a familiar and
fair way, where each of the four
benchmarks would account for 25%
of your total score. There were two
3D benchmarks, 3DMark TimeSpy
and the new ray tracing DX12
exclusive, Port Royal. The two CPU/
memory benchmarks were
GeekBench 3 Multicore and
Cinebench R15. Four and a half
hours would be allocated in total for
where scores could be submitted at
anytime for any benchmark within
this time window. This free form of
overclocking
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