G.SKILL OC World Cup 2026 Grand Final: bl4ckdot Wins OC Champion Title

G.SKILL International Enterprise Co., Ltd., the world’s leading brand of performance overclock memory and PC components, is pleased to announce that bl4ckdot from France has claimed the title of OC Champion and the grand cash prize of $10,000 USD in the OC World Cup 2026 extreme overclock competition held live at Computex 2026. Following a series of demanding overclocking challenges, bl4ckdot emerged victorious, demonstrating exceptional overclocking knowledge and technical expertise with liquid nitrogen cooling, using G.SKILL DDR5 memory with the latest Intel Core Ultra 7 265K, Intel Core Ultra 9 285K, Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus processors and ASUS ROG Maximus Z890 Apex motherboard.

One of the extreme memory overclock challenge in OC World Cup 2026 required all contestants to compete exclusively with G.SKILL high-performance 24 GB DDR5 module, challenging the contestants to explore the overclock limits and benchmark potential of 24 GB DDR5 module. These modules demonstrated impressive overclocking headroom on Intel Z890 chipset platforms, allowing bl4ckdot to achieve up to DDR5-12824 on the competition stage, as reported by CPU-Z, for benchmarking under LN2 cooling.

We congratulate bl4ckdot for winning the title of OC Champion and the $10K USD grand cash prize. G.SKILL also gives its special thanks to Intel, motherboard partners, G.SKILL team of judges, HWBOT, and all the OC World Cup overclock contestants for their continued support and contributions to the annual competition. G.SKILL is proud to be part of the global overclocking community and showcase what’s possible with cutting-edge computer hardware and innovation.