Round three was Pifast, again time to explore max CPU frequency and tighten them RAM timings to the max for the fastest run out there. The battle was on between Awardfabrik and the Freeocen team. Both teams got 6GHz runs in, the other competitors had to be happy with sub 6GHz scores. Team Ocaholic found the culprit of their issues and started to push the envelope. It didn't take long before we saw the first sub 11sec scores from both Awardfabrik and team Freeocen. Another tight stage as Freeocen grabbed the maximum of the points with a 0.02sec difference.

Superpi32M was Ocaholics way of showing what the skills of our humble Christian Ney and his LN2 pourring girlfriend Marine were capable off. Carefully tweaking the timings, bringing the RAMs up to speed and doing a good copy waza brought them home the victory in this stage. Well done ! Since their board was so erratic in behaviour and close to none of the USB ports worked anymore,  we just verified the scores on screen and will probably pull them off the SSDs later this week. Just for laughts, yes the second time, they also ran a pifast with the revived setup. Grabbing second spot in that stage seemed pretty easy. Too bad for them that stage was again already closed at that time.

Just before the end of the competition most teams started to submit their CPU-Z scores and it was a tight finish as Freeocen was just 10 points ahead Awardfabrik. When Ocaholic submited their 6362MHz score the gap closed to 5 points. Then Hardwareluxx posted a 6276Mhz score narrowing it down to just 3 points. Luckily for Freeocen Awardfabrik's setup was no longer willing to cooperate so the battle was won.

Final standings for CPU-Z ranking were: