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The world's leading motherboard brand ASRock today announced the winner list of the 8 Series OC Competition with HWBOT, sponsored by Intel, Kingston, Antec, Nvidia and Gainward. Two contestants broke the record for the highest Haswell CPU frequency and both crossed the threshold of 7.1GHz, which is also the only two in the world to exceeded 7.1GHz for the time being.
The final champion of CPU-Z, Dfordog (China) reached an all-time high CPU-Z score of 7.13609 GHz with ASRock Z87 OC Formula and Intel® Core i7 4770K Haswell CPU and won the bonus prize of USD1,000.
Besides the incredible result in the CPU-Z category, the final champion of memory clock CherV (Hong Kong) created a stunning score of 2155.7 MHz which ranks second on the worldwide memory frequency chart. The contest successfully generated awesome OC results with ASRock 8 series motherboards: Five scores entering the top 10 Haswell CPU frequency scores, two scores entering the HWBOT Super Pi 32M Hall of Fame and three scores entering the HWBOT Memory Clock Hall of Fame. The final and bi-weekly champions either utilized ASRock Z87 OC Formula or Z87M OC Formula, which strongly corroborates the power of Z87 OC Formula Series, regardless the form factor.
Haswell CPU-Z Category
| Name | Country | Score | Motherboard | |
| Overall Winner | Dfordog | China | 7136.09 MHz | Z87 OC Formula |
| 1st Bi-Week Winner | Policha | China | 6700.2 MHz | Z87 OC Formula |
| 2nd Bi-Week Winner | NameGT | South Korea | 6770.86 MHz | Z87 OC Formula |
| 3rd Bi-Week Winner | CherV | Hong Kong | 7102.41MHz | Z87M OC Formula |
Super Pi 32M Category
| Name | Country | Score | Motherboard | |
| Overall Winner | Xtreme Addict | Poland | 4min 43.719sec | Z87M OC Formula |
| 1st Bi-Week Winner | Littleboy | South Korea | 4min 51.156sec | Z87M OC Formula |
| 2nd Bi-Week Winner | Vivi | South Africa | 4min 48.828sec | Z87M OC Formula |
| 3rd Bi-Week Winner | NameGT | South Korea | 4min 48.031 sec | Z87 OC Formula |
Memory Clock Category
| Name | Country | Score | Motherboard | |
| Overall Winner | CherV | Hong Kong | 2155.7 MHz | Z87 OC Formula |
| 1st Bi-Week Winner | Lucky_n00b | Indonesia | 1900 MHz | Z87M OC Formula |
| 2nd Bi-Week Winner | Hero | China | 1934.6 MHz | Z87 OC Formula |
| 3rd Bi-Week Winner | Hiwa | Switzerland | 2017.7 MHz | Z87 OC Formula |
For the complete results of ASRock 8 Series OC Competition,
please visit http://oc.asrock.com/Z87 or http://hwbot.org/competition/asrock_z87_contest/
The Hall of Fame for Super Pi 32M: http://hwbot.org/benchmark/superpi_-_32m/halloffame
The Hall of Fame for Memory clocking: http://hwbot.org/benchmark/memory_clock/halloffame
