What is OC Knockout?
OC Knockout is an application designed for competitive fun, for all
overclockers: from air cooling enthusiasts to professionals using liquid
nitrogen. OCKO is backed up with a competition database right here on
the ROG website, recording
Battle Points won in each contest, so you can keep track of your global standings in each of the events.
One the main aims of OC KnockOut is to cultivate an interest in
overclocking among newcomers and PC enthusiasts alike, so it’s been
designed in a way that is easy to learn but difficult to master. The
delta between the winner’s and loser’s existing Battle Points (BP) will
determine how much BP gets transferred. In other words, a seasoned
veteran with a huge BP would not find it rewarding to beat a low BP
newcomer, while conversely if a newcomer beats a veteran, a lot of BP
would go his way. The BP system is backed by graded levels and
achievements users can aim for when breaking records or reaching certain
BP levels.
OC KnockOut is deliberately not a benchmark: most benchmarks are
designed to evaluate a PC’s performance, and overclockers use them to
compete with one another to attain higher and higher scores via global
leaderboards. Fundamentally these applications are not specifically
designed for this purpose, meaning overclockers often have to rely on
saving results and screenshots then submitting them online manually, so
there are no real-time ‘races’. OCKO is designed from bottom up to fill
this need in the overclocking community.
A fun challenge should be sensitive to all forms of tweaks, down to
the OS setup. A good benchmark on the other hand should be insensitive
to any forms of tweaks other than which it is designed to evaluate. OC
KnockOut is thus a good overclocking challenge and a bad benchmark. Its
main aim is to be affected by every little tweak to memory, CPU,
motherboard, OS and more.It based on the Gauss–Legendre algorithm in the
SuperPi software overclockers are already familiar with.
In addition it also separates Ambient Cooling and Sub-zero cooling
game modes, where each player must use the same cooling setup and OCKO
will enforce this rule by constantly checking the players’ processor
temperatures.
This is more than just another step forward in competitive
benchmarking, OCKO is an evolution of online sport. We hope you will
enjoy it as much as we enjoy continually developing it. Join us in the
OCKO forum for more questions and discussions with other competitors.
Game Rules
In a manner similar to SuperPi, the game is split into many modes a
user can choose from. The 32k Mode is a short sprint of 20 rounds. At
the end of each round, the slowest player would be forced to level up (a
bump upwards in CPU Ratio). If any player crashes from instability or
drops out halfway during game play, they automatically lose the
accumulated Battle Points to the final winner. The winner of the most
rounds or the last man standing would take the other players’ battle
points as his own.
The other modes follow the same pattern with ever reducing rounds to offset the longer compute time:
| 64k Mode |
15 rounds |
| 128K MODE |
13 ROUNDS |
| 256k Mode |
10 rounds |
| 512K MODE |
5 ROUNDS |
| 1M Mode |
3 rounds |
| 2M MODE |
1 ROUND |
| 4M Mode |
1 round |
| 8M MODE |
1 ROUND |
Prestige Ranks
Prestige Rank
|
Battle Points Required |
BP needed for next level |
Level 1 |
0 – 499 |
+500 |
Level 2 |
500 – 999 |
+500 |
Level 3 |
1,000 – 2,499 |
+1500 |
Level 4 |
2,500 – 4,999 |
+2500 |
Level 5 |
5,000 – 9,999 |
+5000 |
Level 6 |
10,000 – 14,999 |
+5000 |
Level 7 |
15,000 – 19,999 |
+5000 |
Level 8 |
20,000 – 29,999 |
+10000 |
Level 9 |
30,000 – 34,999 |
+5000 |
Level 10 |
35,000 |
Game Requirement
OC KnockOut supports ASUS, ROG and TUF motherboards and requires an ASUS Member or VIP Member account, which is
free to register.
Supported motherboards:
Intel: All ASUS P67, Z68, X79 & Z77 motherboards
AMD: All ASUS 990FX motherboards
Starting An OCKO Game
After you have downloaded and installed the software, run it for the first time. Here you’ll be asked to login:
Next connect with your friends – either chat publicly or privately, then start an OCKO game!

In-game shots: