Typical during live events, the pressure while benching is at another level, this partly due to the present audience and media. Plus pumping loud dance music makes it even harder to concentrate properly. Intel did well as a real horde of media was covering the event. The judging, initially experienced a slow start, though quickly got up to the required pace to verify all the scores and aid the competitors.

Final rankings for the PRO teams for this Computex Intel OC event:

A great event for all vendors as each team got their own moment of glory. ASUS took 6 stages, Gigabyte 3, ASRock and MSI both 2 and finally eVGA pushed hard to maintain the lead in the Wprime 1024 stage. Looking at the price money Intel really wanted the world to show the frequency potential of their new Devils Canyon processor. Benchers know this is just a matter of keeping it all stable just to validate with the CPU-Z program. This however hardly reflects daily stability; nevertheless these "air" clocks are impressive.

The amateurs event was also a neck to neck race. Most impressive was the CPU-Z score from the only female contestant CherV, clocking her i7-4790K at an impressive 5396MHz.

After a very busy day this Intel OC event turned out as a great event. Amazing location, great scores set by the overclockers and a fierce battle for each stage. Honestly really looking forward to the retail versions of the Devils Canyon processors. Let the CPU binning begin (again)!!!

Overclocking.TV has the ongoing action nicely captured in this video:

A big thanks to Intel and HWBot for hosting it; secondly to Pieter Jan Plaisier and Roman Hartung for the flawless refereeing and thanks John LAM for the SSD image support.