Krispy Kreme doughnuts
and other goodies that
did it). Mind you it was
the League of Legends
competition between tier-one
teams battling it out for lots
of cash was the primary focus.
Kingston used this opportunity
to present some of their latest
products and all the changes
that have happened within the
HyperX brand. On the overclocking
side, KINGSTON had a $15,000 USD
purse and it ended up with Team
GIGABYTE at the helm once again with
the memory clocking competition as
they achieved 2,282.8MHz (4565.6MHz
DDR), breaking the memory
overclocking record. The team
also went on to win the INTEL XTU
benchmark and took with them a total
of $3,750 USD.
TeamAU competitors, SniperOZ and
JJJC, had the second highest memory
frequency, 2nd quickest SuperPi 32M
time and second place in the INTEL
XTU benchmark, for a total of $3,250
USD worth of prize money. HOT
along with Hero and DFORDOG took
third place with $1,500 USD. Another
good show and great competition
that further showed Kingston’s
commitment to overclocking. At the
time of writing, we had heard of the
first round of the next HOT competition
for the LATAM region. You can click
here to find out more about it and be
sure to enter.
That is just some of the
overclocking that was taking place
in Taipei in early June, without
even considering how much more
was happening at the individual
vendor offices and at the HWBOT
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Anniversary. As far as overclocking
goes, this year was a winner.
In the same way that in 2013, ASUS
dominated the overclocking at the
show, this year it was GIGABYTE
that was head and shoulders above
every other Z97 motherboard. I lost
count of how many times the memory
frequency record was broken on the
GIGABYTE Z97X SOC boards and
just how many other records fell
just before COMPUTEX and during
the show. Be it you’re a fan or not
there’s no denying that in regards
overclocking, GIGABYTE stole the
show. To top it all, there was the
announcement of the limited edition
LN2 board. We’ve seen overclocking
motherboards before, incredible ones
at that, but they are always presented
as overclocking boards selling their
gaming credentials before anything
else. Not with the LN2 model as it is
literarily built for the sole purpose of
overclocking. If you don’t believe me
try mount a water or air cooler on it
and you’ll find out that you can’t. There
are only two memory slots and they
have been moved incredibly close to
the CPU. The signal routing is also
different as there are no mounting
holes to get around. There’s never
been a motherboard that has spoken
so eloquently a single purpose than
the Z97X SOC FORCE LN2. Back
to the more “regular OC boards”
though, I was taken aback by just
how efficient this board could be at
every discipline you can imagine for
today’s overclocking components.
This was not in theory but shown
repeatedly by the multiple successes
the SOC FORCE had at the show. Is
this the best Z97 family of overc