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The impact is also the best z97 board all around for cpu, it clocks cpu the best as well as clocking ram better than any other maximus board due to 2 dimm slots. I have one and it is a very good OC board, even with it's quirks.

Alright, thanks for the clarification. Looks like I may hold out of stage 5 but r/overclocking should still be able to find a 1080 and a 980ti/1070.

I used Asus's software in AI Suite. I think there's a way to install just the OC software without AI suite, but I forget what it was. I don't know how stable it is for normal OC, but it's good for validation.

So I know that GP102 is banned, however there is no mention of Vega. My question stems from the fact that while Vega is definitely out prior to the start of the comp, Asus has yet to get around to launching ANY Vega cards of their own prior to the comp. So assuming Snsv gets around to launching Vega before this comp ends will it be valid to sub?

Wow, never thought I'd see one of my system pics outside of my own subs. But just thought I'd like to remind you that only stage 1 and 2 are limited to ambient cooling. Stage 3 is open to any cooling, I didn't even sub the optimal platform for frequency, I just subbed what I was benching at the time for team comp and changed my background. If you check out stage 1 and 2 you can still contribute greatly probably to your team. Which is what is important, this is not an individual effort. So what if you can't compete in 3 out of 5 stages? Your team mates that may be able to compete in those 3 stages can't even sub in 2 of the stages that you can be competitive in. Focus on working with your team for the team effort as that's what this comp is all about, team work.

If you ever want some tips for OC on it one 1700x to another I'd love to help you out. Especially in gpupi 1B, that's my bench for ryzen. I managed to get mine to 4.19 ghz, although at a slightly crazy 1.6v, on some really good watercooling.

I noticed that you had only a few subs on your 1700x, did you buy it a few days before comp end to bench?

It would definitely help if we had time to get all of the hw needed before the comp, especially if we tried to have certain stages end early. Most of the "exotic" cpus were not required but certainly helped. Ie. my 5775c was spitting out some nice scores for it's clockspeed, but if you got enough ghz on a 4690k you could make up for lack of that rare cpu. Similarly with the 6900k that no one wanted to buy for gpupi 100m, our 6900k on water was keeping up with 5820k on ln2 with significantly more clockspeed. Polaris ended up being a tough stage for many people if they didn't already have cards, as most people aren't willing to spend the money that polaris is now with mining. And of course there was the challenge of finding working 939 and 468 boards that were good for OC. But overall I felt like there was a nice spread of hw and at least for my team we got to learn a lot of platforms that we wouldn't've otherwise touched. I know I had fun on my 5960x that came in the last week, and I never thought previously that I would ever buy x99 especially after ryzen came out.

That'd be good, so then you wouldn't have the initial rush and the potential "luck of the draw" of who managed to pick the right stage. Because I know that just benching stock it can be hard to get a score in every stage within 2 weeks, especially for ones for the older hw when combined with "younger" teams such as r/overclocking where we had to try to find good 939 and 478 boards because we didn't already have them as well as learning to OC them. I know I had to learn 1155 OC at about 3 am cst before the comp ended at 7 am!

Yeah, would definitely be nice to have more incentive for those on "weaker" cooling to join in comps. When I was on ambient I would participate in comps, especially team comps, but I had no hope of competing with LN2. So it would definitely help to bring more engagement from those on ambient cooling if they could still remain competitive in ln2 dominated comps.

Just wanted to chime in as someone who ran a 7890k on phase. It's definitely a pain in the ass, because you basically have to set your OC then boot before the phase is all the way cold. I mainly only did clockspeed validation on mine for team comp, and I found that software OC was the best way. Managed to validate 5.75 Ghz, although at some point I must've pushed too much cpu-nb because now it's down to 1 memory channel. Core did okay at 2v though for validation so I was pretty pleased with my overall result.

I was more saying that if you've missed 6 weeks and you're already 8 weeks in then you'll have a very hard time competing with a team that's 8 for 8. One way around this would be to have each stage worth more points the later in the comp it is. So for example the 2 stages from the 1st 2 weeks may be worth 50 points each, but then the 2 stages from weeks 7 and 8 would be worth 100 points each. So that it hurts to miss stages early but there's still a chance for a comeback if your team was DOA initially. Kinda like how the final jeopardy can reverse the placing as long as you at least stay remotely close. This would still discourage sandbags as long as the final 2 stages were enough points to reverse the placing while not being enough so as to not require early subs assuming we had a case like this time where OCN held a pretty significant lead until the last few days. But I do really like your idea Mr. Paco as it would add an interesting twist to the competition and encourage "sportsmanlike conduct".

I like that twist, it doesn't harm people who can't bench until later in the comp too much, and it also helps reduce how hectic the end of the comp is as the last 2 weeks there's only 2 stages you have to worry about and if you missed subs earlier you can't worry about them now. The only disadvantage with this is that after a certain point there will be some teams that just quit as they've already lost too many stages to have a chance at competing to the end.

Would definitely be an interesting idea. Although it might discourage people from moving up to more extreme cooling. I know when I went up to apprentice I didn't want to leave enthusiast because of the ambient only comps as well wanting to wait until I got 1st in enthusiast. At least until I realized that one does not simply beat Kimandsally. But it also is nice to give those people that want to stay in enthusiast league or rookie/novice league for whatever reason a chance to compete. And I definitely agree that it would add a certain element of strategy. Do I have my ambient score from the "fastest" part and try to boost our lowest score with ln2, or do I have my worst score be ambient and try to drag it up with a really good ln2 score. Depending on the arch it may even be a moot point, because for example on steamroller frequency validation I was running into a CBB on my phase change and the CB is within dice range so ln2 wouldn't even help too much for that stage.

I'm just glad that we had the hw diversity to be able to get the optimal hw for basically every stage. I had a lot of fun benching the i7 5775c myself, that l4 cache is seriously stronk. Just kinda wish I'd had some PSC sooner than 2 weeks before the end of the comp. My MFR just wasn't keeping up. I thought it was funny that not many teams had a 6900k as it it little benching relevance outside of that one stage. I know the only reason we managed one was crowdsourcing through reddit which also helped some other stages.

Added myself, nice to see some people within driving distance. Would be cool to do a meetup in the Chicago area for country cup.

It was indeed, to be honest, over at r/overclocking we didn't expect anyone to have the balls to hold that many points until the last 24 hours and risk the site being down. I think we're very happy with our place, especially since we expected at best to be in 5th. So overall I'm very happy with how r/overclocking did and feel like there were few stages that I could've significantly improved my score had I had a little more time to bench which is preferable, it's never fun to end a comp like this feeling like you left something on the table.

As someone who has recently acquired an sr-2 I'd love to have a comp I could put it to use. But I'd also agree that it may be unfair to put it in comps that aren't based around server hw. But for UP platforms on 1366 or on 775 it'd be nice to use xeons. The top end xeons are currently cheaper than the top end desktop parts which kinda gives up the argument on older platforms that it's to keep enterprise out of consumer competitions. Even on x79 it makes sense to allow xeons IMHO as they are a popular 8c budget cpu now and it doesn't really hurt participation. I know for team comp when we had a call for people over at r/overclocking we had some people come with xeons that we couldn't accommodate other than to encourage them to OC for fun. So I think if xeons started being allowed in comps about the time data centers start upgrading and they become dirt cheap it would allow at least a little more participation in comps.

Bones, I do like your idea but I think it would hurt a lot of the busier benchers. For example I didn't get my Superpi 32m score in until 10 minutes before the end of the comp because I didn't get to running it until 15 minutes before the end of the comp. I think that something I've heard before that might not be impossible is something like releasing a new cpuz version every week and requiring that your submission date matches the cpuz version or something similar to that. It would require minimal change to the current competition style while also making sandbagging like the kind we've seen, ie. gaining over 500 points the last 24 hours, significantly harder. At that point if a team managed such a sandbag it would be an accomplishment more than anything. Just my $.02 as someone who was legitimately benching to the wire.

PM'd

Very happy with the results for a cheap board

I set the Xmp for 2400,and set cr 1t. 2600 Xmp wouldn't train even though it worked 20 min before for vantage, pretty sure the psc warmed up.

Also didn't have time to figure out why xp kept bsod when installing with cpu stock

Ran this 15 min before comp end, probably could've tweaked mem a lot more with more time

My mistake, trying to bench too much stuff last week of the comp I promise the score is legit, but if you need to websmile you can take it down