GIGABYTE Launches ‘Initial K’ Contest at HWBot

Own a GIGABYTE P67 motherboard and take overclocking seriously? Enjoy the thrill of competition? If so, then GIGABYTE has a contest you’ll want to enter, being run with the help of OC competition site HWBOT.org. The contest is split into six different categories, and points are awarded to the top 3 people in each at the end of the month. Whoever has the most points, wins. Novel idea, huh?

There’s a catch, though, and it’d probably be a given even if it wasn’t a rule: only Intel’s ‘K’ processors can be used for the overclocks, which at this point in time includes the Core i5-2500K and Core i7-2600K – the latter of which is sure to be preferred due to the likeliness that it could reach higher clocks than the former.

The categories are split up as follows: Max CPU Clock, SuperPi 1M, SuperPi 32M, Wprime 32M, Wprime 1024M and Pifast. Whew, is your clock primed for some hardcore pi action? Hope so!

The first-place winner from this contest will walk away with a hand-picked GIGABYTE X58A-OC motherboard (which we talked about here) by HiCookie himself, and for the second and third place winners, GIGABYTE will award a P67A-D3-B3. Quite the stark contrast between those two prizes, huh?

Contest runs until the end of the month, and more details can be found at the URL below.

Since this is the year of the rabbit in Asian astrology which symbolizes “quick” and the Easter bunny is soon to make an appearance in the West, we thought it would be fun to have a challenge to see just how quick some of you are with our P67* motherboards. As you probably figured out by the title, the GIGABYTE “Initial K Contest” focuses on Intel’s K sku CPUs.