Starting Tomorrow – the second stop of the HWBOT World Tour 2016!

For this second event in the World Tour, expect another weekend full of intense OC action. Starting already on Friday with the opening show and the OC Show, join us for 3 days of exciting live overclocking at twitch.tv.

More information on these events can be found on HWBOT’s official announcement post.

To celebrate this second stop, HWBOT along with its event partners (Seasonic, MSI and G.SKILL) is hosting a special Giveaway with these nice prizes to win.

Click on the image her below to enter the Giveaway!

Good luck to everyone!

DALLAS, Texas — Thursday, January 28, 2016 — Gaming Tribe (GTribe), a global
social network for PC tech enthusiasts and gamers, and Seasonic Electronics Co., Ltd, (Seasonic) a leading designer, manufacturer and retailer of superior power
conversion products since 1975, announced that Seasonic has become a Top Global Sponsor of GTribe.
Seasonic will feature the latest Power Supply Units (PSU’s) and participate in the
popular GTribe promotions. Seasonic, will also increase its interactions on their GTribe
page located at www.thegtribe.com/page/seasonic.
“We are excited to become a Top Global Sponsor of the GTribe community. The
gaming market is something we have always supported in a varying degree, but with
GTribe, we are now a part of a large and dynamic group of serious gamers, a group that
is at the forefront of both hardware and software technology usage,” said Walter Sun,
Marketing Director of Seasonic.
“We have been using Seasonic PSU’s in our promotional systems for years and are
pleased to see them increase their engagement with our global community. We know
that our community members already consider the Seasonic PSUs the standard for the
entire industry,” said Angel Munoz, founder and creative director of GTribe.
About Gaming Tribe
Gaming Tribe (GTribe) launched on January 29, 2014, is a global social network for PC
tech enthusiasts and gamers that is quickly becoming the center of optimism in the tech
world. The members of this unique community are known for sharing PC components,
games and peripherals with each other, with no expectation of compensation or reward.
The network has no overt advertisement and instead has chosen to be sponsored by a
small group of technology companies led by Logitech G, and the members of its
community. Join the revolution at www.theGTribe.com.
About Seasonic Electronics Co.
Sea Sonic Electronics Co., Ltd. (“Seasonic”) was founded in 1975 by engineers who
wanted to make a better power supply. Sea Sonic has maintained the focus on research
and development and the production of high quality and energy efficient power supply
products. Our design and engineering team is passionate about creating new solutions
for a wide range of customers. Today the Seasonic name is the equivalent of power
supplies build to perform at highest level of reliability and standards.

HWBOT Invites Enthusiasts to Attend the Campus Party in Sao Paulo for Overclocking Workshops, Contests and a Bench Party

January 20, 2016 – HWBOT, an organization regulating international overclocking competitions and rankings is pleased to invite all PC enthusiasts, PC gamers and overclockers to the Campus Party in Sao paulo Brazil for the first stop of the HWBOT World Tour 2016.

Running from January 26th to 31st, HWBOT will host a series of events at the Campus Party, including Overclocking Workshops, two World Series Overclocking contests plus a more social oriented Bench Party where PC enthusiasts, gamers and overclockers can mix and socialize while learning more about Overclocking.
“We are really excited to bring the HWBOT World Tour to Latin America for the first time,” commented Pieter Jan-Plaisier, Director at HWBOT. “We cannot wait to harness the energy of Brazil’s massive enthusiast audience to further develop and promote Overclocking in this part of the world.”

The HWBOT World Tour 2016
The HWBOT World Tour is a series of overclocking events held around the globe that aims to provide a relaxed social environment for overclockers to learn, share and compete. The idea is primarily to nurture the next generation of overclockers with open OC workshops where total amateurs can get some first hands-on experience and learn vital tricks and tweaks from more seasoned players.
Of course, no Overclocking event would be complete without some competitive action so each stop on the tour offers contests that cater for all levels and abilities, as well as providing space for some seriously extreme Overclocking. The LN2 flows freely.

The HWBOT World Tour 2016 at Campus Party in Sao Paolo, Brazil runs from January 26th to 31st and will feature the following activities:

• Workshop: Overclocking classes for amateurs taught by local overclockers (Ideal for first time overclockers).
• World Series: Overclocking Competition for both amateur and extreme overclockers.
• Bench Party: A BYOC bench party for extreme and enthusiast overclockers.

Ticketing Information
Visitors who are interested in attending the OC Workshop can purchase a ticket on the Campus Party website here: http://brasil.campus-party.org

Overclockers interested in attending the Bench Party where there will be access to LN2, can find more ticketing information here: http://x.hwbot.org/event/hwbot-world-tour-2016-latin-america/
Note: We only have a limited amount of seats available for the overclocking gathering. First come, first served. Note that you don’t need a separate Campus Party ticket, we will have a specific entry ticket for you.
Live Stream
If you are unable to attend the HWBOT World Tour in Brazil, you can enjoy a live stream of the event on Twitch. Overclocking-TV will partner with Tecmundo to provide a bi-lingual cast in both English and Portuguese
OCTV Twitch Channel
http://twitch.tv/overclockingtv
World Championship Finals: Dec 2016 – Berlin,
Germany
The climax of the World Tour will be the Championship Finals held in Germany at the Caseking Bootcamp in Berlin. The six Extreme Series winners from each of the HWBOT Tour events will be flown to Berlin, Germany to participate in a head to head OC competition at the Caseking Bootcamp, a spacious area where LN2 will be provided in abundance for all eight overclockers.
World Series Competition Prizes
Our sponsors are also offering prizes for both Amateur and Extreme World Series overclocking contests in Sao Paulo. The winners, runners up and third place finishers of each contest will take home the following:
World Series Extreme – Prizes:
1: Ticket to HWBOT World Championship(see above) + Seasonic Platinum 750W + GIGABYTE-Z97X-SLI
2: Seasonic Platinum 750W + GIGABYTE-Z97X-SLI
3: Seasonic Platinum 750W
World Series Amateur- Prizes:
1: Seasonic Platinum 750W + GIGABYTE-Z97X-SLI
2: Seasonic Platinum 750W
3: GIGABYTE-Z97X-SLI

Online Prize Giveaway
As an extra way to celebrate the Campus Party in Sao Paulo, our sponsors have teamed up to offer an online Celebration Giveaway where participants can win a Seasonic P-1000W PSU, 3K SSDs from HyperX, plus some HWBOT collector thermal flasks.
Check out this page on our Facebook page to participate:
https://www.facebook.com/hwbot/app/143103275748075
HWBOT World Tour 2016: Sponsors
The HWBOT World Tour 2016 would not be possible without the support of its sponsors.

• Seasonic: As premium HWBOT World Tour sponsors, Seasonic has pledged to provide Platinum Series PSUs for use throughout the World Tour,
• HyperX: HyperX Brazil will contribute memory kits and SSDs for use at the Campus Party event.
• GIGABYTE: GIGABYTE have generously offered to provide Z97 motherboards.
• TAITRA / Computex: TAITRA, the organization behind the Computex trade show is fully supporting the HWBOT World Tour 2016.

HWBOT World Tour 2016: Media Partners

• OverClocking-TV: No serious overclocking event would be complete without the involvement of the OC community’s largest media company, OC-TV.
• Tecmundo: A leader in Technology News, Tecmundo is the most visited technology website in Brazil, delivering tech news in a simple and uncomplicated way.
• Overclock.net: A forum devoted to maximizing the performance of graphics cards, CPUs, motherboards, RAM and everything else found inside your computer.

Siding up with a large community that unites its members who seek performance by constantly pushing limits, Seasonic became a full partner and sponsor for all the forthcoming HWBOT World Tour 2016 events. This is great news for all involved in the World Tour, as it means not only financial support but also access to some very solid power supplies throughout World Tour events. As part of its commitment to the HWBOT World Tour 2016, Seasonic has pledged to provide Platinum Series PSUs for the first two stops on the World Tour – this is great for anyone that attends the Campus Party event in Sao Paulo, Brazil on January 26 -31 and the rAge Expo event in Cape Town S.Africa in March. The Seasonic Platinum PSUs will be great additions to both the HWBOT Workshops and World Series Competitions.
Seasonic Platinum series power supplies will be familiar to many overclockers around the world. In fact Elite players like Dancop recognizes Seasonic has his brand of choice, achieving overclocking World Records and First Place submissions for numerous benchmark categories on HWBOT using Seasonic PSUs. Subsequent World Tour events throughout 2016 will take advantage of the new Titanium Series PSUs from Seasonic that were launched at CES 2016 in the US. The Seasonic Titanium series includes PSUs from 750W and up, a testament to the idea that the majority of overclockers don’t necessarily need a 1000W+ PSU. A high quality, reliable and efficient 750W PSU can often be the smart choice.

Sea Sonic is proud to be the choice of professional overclockers.

Seasonic congratulates Dancop for achieving a new overclocking World Record and taking First Place for numerous benchmark categories at the global rankings of HWBOT, an organization that oversees professional competitive overclocking results. Dancop’ remarkable scores were achieved with the support of the Seasonic Platinum Series 1200 Watt power supply.

Seasonic’s flagship Platinum Series is a great performer that is not only July’s Top Hardware in the power supply category at HWBOT but also the proud winner of this year’s European Hardware Award. (Read more: Seasonic Platinum Series – Winner of the European Hardware Awards!)

Since the release of the first Seasonic Platinum unit, the Series has gone through some revisions and improvements, but Sea Sonic’s continuous commitment to create high quality products has never changed. Sea Sonic Platinum 1200 has again proven itself to be the best power supply that achieves efficiency, offers stability and, most importantly, delivers clean power in the HWBOT overclocking competitions. (Get to know all the great features offered by Seasonic Platinum 1200)

During this six‑day long event Seasonic was glad to be able to share its success with all of you who came to see us. The timing of the show could not have been better to celebrate the 40th year anniversary of Seasonic’s establishment with many of our friends and partners in the industry.

Seasonic’s greatest pride was receiving the prestigious European Hardware Award for its Platinum power supply series. The European Hardware Awards is an annual selection of the best hardware products available on the European market chosen by an expert panel of technology sites.

Seasonic customers are going to see great new products on the market this year. During the show we introduced our newest products at our booth. People were pleased to see the playfulness in our new Lighting Cube series and many welcomed the long-awaited introduction of the Seasonic Titanium series powers supplies. We also added a new member to the popular Snow Silent series, the Snow Silent 750 model. (See more event pictures!)

On the center stage of the show everyone’s intent eyes were on the overclocking competitions. Dancop from Germany came in third place with the support of our Seasonic Platinum series power supplies.

OC competitions kept on going after the Computex show as well, when HWBOT, the leading organization for professional overclocking held its stage in Taipei. (HWBot Tour Taipei)

Our famous Seasonic Gummy Bears of course were trying to steal the show… did they succeed?…ask your friends who were there to enjoy…

 

Seasonic’s greatest pride was receiving the prestigious European Hardware Award for its Platinum power supply series. Nils Stallmach, European Channel Manager received the award on the opening day of Computex 2015 on behalf of Sea Sonic.

The European Hardware Awards is an annual selection of the best hardware products available on the European market chosen by an expert panel of technology experts, known as the European Hardware Association. By this award, the European Hardware Association members are committed to recognize companies that produce exceptional hardware that consumers across the European region can trust.

The European Hardware Association was founded by a group of the most significant independent hardware review sites across the Europe. The founding members include KitGuru.net, Hardware.Info (The Netherlands), Hardwareluxx (Germany), Cowcotland (France), Hardware Upgrade (Italy), Hispazone (Spain), PurePC.pl (Poland) and Lab 501 (Romania). These websites altogether have more than 20 million visitors per month and they have published over 100,000 articles.

The extensive evaluation and voting process leading up to the selection of the best hardware each year takes place throughout May, with the winners being announced during a special presentation at the Taipei International Convention.

 

The very first fully modular TFX power supply 
to be launched at the end of November 2014

Taipei, Taiwan- October 17, 2014
Sea Sonic’s development efforts have recently come to fruition resulting in an exciting new product, the TFX-350 fully modular power supply. Due to its remarkable features and cool and quiet operation this small form factor unit is the optimal choice for low profile home entertainment systems using mini-ITX motherboards.

Several advanced features have been borrowed from Sea Sonic’s popular ATX power supplies to conclude this exciting new design, such as:

• DC to DC Converter Design
• Tight Voltage Regulation
• Double ball bearing fan
• Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Capacitors
• Highly Reliable 105°C Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
• Sea Sonic’s patented Smart and Silent Fan Control [S3FC]

Add 80 PLUS® Gold efficiency and customizable cables to this list and undoubtedly this small power supply will impress anyone. These outstanding characteristics and high quality components altogether will lend theTFX-350 an irresistible appeal in the eyes of users who want to couple small form factor with flexibility, silent operation and high reliability.

Refined elegance with silence redefined

Taipei, Taiwan- October 17, 2014
Sea Sonic’s development efforts have recently come to fruition resulting in an exciting new product, the TFX-350 fully modular power supply. Due to its remarkable features and cool and quiet operation this small form factor unit is the optimal choice for low profile home entertainment systems using mini-ITX motherboards.

Several advanced features have been borrowed from Sea Sonic’s popular ATX power supplies to conclude this exciting new design, such as:

• DC to DC Converter Design
• Tight Voltage Regulation
• Double ball bearing fan
• Conductive Polymer Aluminum Solid Capacitors
• Highly Reliable 105°C Aluminum Electrolytic Capacitors
• Sea Sonic’s patented Smart and Silent Fan Control [S3FC]

Add 80 PLUS® Gold efficiency and customizable cables to this list and undoubtedly this small power supply will impress anyone. These outstanding characteristics and high quality components altogether will lend theTFX-350 an irresistible appeal in the eyes of users who want to couple small form factor with flexibility, silent operation and high reliability.

Seasonic to introduce new FDB fans

Sea Sonic will upgrade all current models of its S12G-, G-, M12II-, and S12II-series power supplies with Fluid Dynamic Bearing (FDB) fans. These high-performance FDB fans are durable and generally quieter than the Double Ball Bearing (DBB) fans and therefore enhance the functionality of our power supplies. The following chart summarizes the main characteristics of the FDB fans:

As compared to FDB fans, DBB fans generally operate at an increasingly higher noise levels through time. For example:

• DBB fans produce about 150 % higher noise then FDB fans after 1 year of continuous operation
• DBB fans produce about 160 % higher noise then FDB fans after 2 years of continuous operation
• DBB fans produce about 170 % higher noise then FDB fans after 3 years of continuous operation

The great advantage of FDB fans lies in their decreased noise level which remains permanently low even after a long period of usage to make any working environment more pleasant.

Please welcome this new improvement to our power supplies and enjoy the benefits of quiet computing!

Should you have any questions or need more information, please contact our technical support directly.

Thank you for your interest in Seasonic products!