It’s that time of the year again when overclocking teams on HWBOT start eyeing the HWBOT Team Cup, the ultimate prize in team-oriented overlocking. It’s a contest that pits dozens of teams of overclockers against each other with a total of thirty stages that covers virtually every hardware category imaginable. Running throughout the months of July, August and September, the HWBOT Team Cup is surely the truest test of competitive team overclocking, requiring the broadest possible array of skill sets with overlockers invited to bench on everything from the latest Skylake and Haswell-E platforms to legacy Intel and AMD platforms including stages devoted to DDR2 and DDR tweaking as well as two newly devised ‘Dogpile’ stages that require you to make as many submission as possible on as many CPUs as possible. This year’s contest involves five separate challenges or sub-competitions as we refer to them, each with an historical epoch in mind. Contest categories include Current Generation, Modern, Legacy, Vintage and Dogpile. Let’s look at the stages in more detail regarding specific hardware limitations and benchmarks.

1. Team Cup 2016 Report
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2. Competition Information
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3. Competition Key Visual
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4. Competition Page
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5. Competition Ranking (overall)
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6. Competition Ranking (SC 1)
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7. Competition Ranking (SC 2)
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8. Competition Ranking (SC 3)
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9. Competition Ranking (SC 4)
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10. Competition Ranking (SC 5)
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11. Competition Analysis
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12. Result Analysis
• 0 World Records achieved
• 0 Global First Place
• 236 Hardware First Place
• 105 results are in the global top-100
• ‘Not Best’ is when the score is not the best result of a user.
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13. Result Analysis – Stage Participation
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14. Participant Analysis
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The rank is based on the overall Overclockers League rank, combining all leagues
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15. CPU Overclocking Results
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Highest frequency: 6954 MHz by SergeyR
http://hwbot.org/submission/3277635
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16. Hardware Information: Processor
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17. Hardware Information: Motherboard
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18. Hardware Information: Memory
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19. Hardware Information: Videocard
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20. Hardware Information: Videocard
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21. Hardware Information: PSU
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22. HWBOT Team Cup History
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23. Exposure
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24. Competition Pages
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• 221,200 impressions
• 144,231 competitions
• 43,633 ubmissions
• 21,450 email
• 11,886 forum
• 332 participants
• 107 teams
• 4107 submissions

25. Competition Timeline
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26. Competition Promotion
• Popup Invitational for eligible submissions
• Front page image
• Newsletter email
• Social Media
• Facebook
• Twitter
• Google+
• Articles
• Winner announcement
• Discussion
• Forum
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27. Thanks
Questions? Contact us.
Pieter Jan-Plaisier
+886 970 726 470
pieter@hwbot.org
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