Canadian Marc0053 Wins First Ever HWBOT World OC Championships

Eight of the world’s best overclockers faced off at the Caseking Showroom in Berlin, Germany recently to finally settle who is the best of the best; to be crowned victorious in the first HWBOT World OC Championships. The finalist roster comprised of all six world series finalists from the HWBOT world tour together with a HWBOT wild card winner and the champion of the ASUS ROG Camp 2016 event but out of all of them, Canadian Marc0053 took home the top overclocker mantle. The participating overclockers include:

• PXHX from Brazil
• DrWeez from South Africa
• Bullshooter from Germany
• Marc0053 from Canada
• Xtreme Addict from Poland
• Lucky_n00b from Indonesia
• Bene11660 from Germany
• Hazzan from Indonesia (unable to make the trip to Europe)
• DSLREye from Switzerland = ROG Camp 2016 runner up, replacing Hazzan

The HWBOT World OC Championships 2016 event itself was organized with an initial qualification round, followed by a 1v1 knock-out rounds distilling into quarter and semi-finals until finally the battle for the top spot. All participants competed using Intel Core i5 6600K processors only and two processors are provided for each overclocker. To ensure fairness and eliminate binning, all processors used were seeded out to the participants randomly. Within a three hour qualification window, the participants’ goal is to score as high as possible in SuperPi 32M (full out), Cinebench R15 (full out) and 3DMark Fire Strike Physics (5GHz). After qualification, the bracket is arranged and 30 minute 1v1 rounds followed, again with the processors drawn at random at the start of each match. Benchmarks at this point were also pulled at random from the following pool to eliminate benchmark bias:

• SuperPi 1M – Full Out
• SuperPi 32M – Full Out
• WPrime 1024 – Full Out
• Cinebench R15 – Full Out
• Y-Cruncher – Pi-1b – Full Out
• 3DMark Fire Strike Physics – Full Out
• HWBOT x265 1080p – Full Out
• GPUPI for CPU 100M – Full Out

The champion Marc0053 fared very well on the first round scoring 10 points right out of the gate with SuperPi MOD 32M run in 5 min, 13 sec and 783 ms on a 5.9GHz i5 6600K using an ASUS Maximus VIII Impact against DSLREye of Switzerland. He followed it up with a 1041 Cinebench R15 score of 1041 on the second round facing off against DrWeez of South Africa and finishing the third round with a 3DMark FireStrike Physics score of 11216 against Xtreme Addict of Poland to secure the HWBOT World OC Championships victory.