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ASRock Z87 OC Formula Achieves the Highest CPU Frequency Record on Haswell Platform! The Winner Announcement of ASRock 8 Series OC Competition

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TAIPEI, Taiwan, September 4, 2013 – 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.

Z87 OC Formula - 7.13609 GHz, Highest CPU Frequency

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.

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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

RankNameCountryScoreMotherboard
Overall WinnerDfordogChina7136.09 MHzZ87 OC Formula
1st Bi-Week WinnerPolichaChina6700.2 MHzZ87 OC Formula
2nd Bi-Week WinnerNameGTSouth Korea6770.86 MHzZ87 OC Formula
3rd Bi-Week WinnerCherVHong Kong7102.41MHzZ87M OC Formula

Super Pi 32M Category

RankNameCountryScoreMotherboard
Overall WinnerXtreme AddictPoland4min 43.719secZ87M OC Formula
1st Bi-Week WinnerLittleboySouth Korea4min 51.156secZ87M OC Formula
2nd Bi-Week WinnerViviSouth Africa4min 48.828secZ87M OC Formula
3rd Bi-Week WinnerNameGTSouth Korea4min 48.031 secZ87 OC Formula

Memory Clock Category

RankNameCountryScoreMotherboard
Overall WinnerCherVHong Kong2155.7 MHzZ87 OC Formula
1st Bi-Week WinnerLucky_n00bIndonesia1900 MHzZ87M OC Formula
2nd Bi-Week WinnerHeroChina1934.6 MHzZ87 OC Formula
3rd Bi-Week WinnerHiwaSwitzerland2017.7 MHzZ87 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