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Short Writeup of the ZSEM OC CUP III

Following up on my last post (which honestly got way more attention than I expected xD), I wanted to share how the third edition of the ZSEM OC CUP went. It wrapped up yesterday and it was by far the biggest one yet.

This time it basically turned into a national event. We had students coming from all over Poland and the turnout was insane: the sports hall was completely full the entire day. Compared to last year, we even stepped things up with a proper stage, lighting, and space for presentations and announcements. It actually felt like a real tech event, not just a school competition...

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ZSEM OC CUP III live stream is on... the place looks packed

Good luck gents and most of all Have Fun !!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ro3ceKX4p9A

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Setup for the ZSEM OC CUP III is ongoing. 💪

Pictures provided by Polish extreme OC Guru Tomekmak, one of his reknown trademarks are the polish beans :)

The competition which starts on the 10th of April 2026, will be streamed ( high likely in Polish ), more info will follow.

The ZSEM Team members will learn the techniques and tweaks to push their hardware, being guided by several Overclockers.

Main Prizes for this edition are a Playstation 5 for the winner, an Xbox series and a Nintendo Switch for the 2nd runner-up 🤩.

Nice article by Wccftech on an Extreme enthusiast teaching students how to enhance performance of their "daily" hardware.

This event took place in a Polish high school. For that extra motivation the participants could win some nice hardware prizes like a GeForce RTX 4060, an AMD Ryzen 5 7600X CPU and more from the sponsors.

On the 10th of April another similar event will be hosted by Polish OC guru Tomekmak. The HWBOT Link to the ZSEM OC CUP III can be found in the comments section.

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Students Compete In Real CPU & GPU Overclocking Tournaments At A European High School European high school hosts PC hardware overclocking tournaments where students can win prizes like AMD Ryzen 5 7600X and GeForce RTX 4060.

the G.SKILL OC World Cup 2026 Online qualifier is officially closed.

Congratz to the top 9 for securing your entry ticket to participate live on stage at Computex 2026 in Taipei. 🏆🥇🥈🥉

Europe is highly represented this year with 3 overclockers from France, 2 from Germany and one OCer form Bulgaria.

Plus it is always great to see some new faces chiming in to play with the big boys...

1: Seby (USA)
2: Dimon527 (RUS)
3: Bl4ckdot (FRA)
4: Biso Biso (KR)
5: CENS (GER)
6: Dedede223 (FRA)
7: Spoky (FRA)
8: Sergmann (GER)
9: ZBV (BGR)

The two lucky draw winners are LukasB from Indonesia and overclocker Jamy2012 from France.

Motherboard wise mainly ASUS Republic of Gamers Maximus Z890 Apex domination, though we will have one GIGABYTE Z890 Tachyon and an ASRock Z890 Taichi OCF battling it out 💪

UnityOC and Matt from Tech Tested going through the submissions of the G.SKILL Online qualifier for the OC World Cup 2026

https://www.twitch.tv/unityoc

Moderation by the judges is still ongoing though...

So final ranking not yet confirmed 😎

Less than 16 hours to go , currently this is the Top 10 of the G.SKILL Online qualifier for the OC World Cup 2026.

However everybody is still awaiting scores from Dimon526, Micka, Biso Biso, Zero Dan and other previous Live event participants...

Nevertheless already great to see new names battling it out with the big boys to secure a spot to show their skills at the G.SKILL Booth at Computex Taipei 2026

This might be fun to watch, good luck sir !!

🤞🤞🤞

Valhallaperformancepc will be streaming Overclocking the MSI Gaming GeForce RTX 5090 Lightning with Liquid Nitrogen. Full session tonight from 8PM EST.

Let’s see if he can break some 3dmark Records

Focussed on running UL Benchmarks Steel Nomad and Port Royal

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Round 1 of Rookie Rumble Completed:

AMD Rookie Rumble:

Winner: Wolek
1st runner up: Lucky141
2nd runner up: Cactusjack79

Intel Rookie Rumble:

Winner: WizardOfPSG
1st runner up: Hickensa
2nd runner up; Semastare

Welcome to the OC community all, enjoy your stay !!

Gonna be a busy Q1 at HWBot, competitions ongoing and so many scheduled.

- Rookie Rumbles ongoing

- Push The Hardware Pentium4 524 ongoing

- G.SKILL OC World Cup online qualifier ongoing

- ZSEM OC UP III (Team users only)

- OC Trash Cup ( Interesting concept to say the least )

- Warp 9 10th Anniversary Competition for Teams
...

Who said OC is dead ? Let's Bench and Have Fun !

Speechless, well done to these Brazilian gentlemen on their dedication to repair the broken card and even make it a solid benching monster :)

NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti with a hole in the PCB manages to score a world record - VideoCardz.com Brazilian modders push a damaged RTX 5070 Ti to #1 in Superposition 8K A heavily damaged NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Ti has reportedly hit a world #1 score in