ASRock Z87 OC Formula Motherboard Used To Get Intel Haswell Over 7.1GHz

ASRock Z87 OC Formula Achieves the Highest CPU Frequency Record on Haswell Platform!

The Winner Announcement of ASRock 8 Series OC Competition

TAIPEI, Taiwan, September 4, 2013 The worlds 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 USD $1, 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

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

About ASRock

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