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The PCGH-video is online now: http://www.pcgameshardware.de/aid,881594/Gigabyte-EOC-2012-Episches-Video-zur-Extrem-Overclocking-Veranstaltung-Schmeckt-eigentlich-Fluessigstickstoff-/Overclocking-CPU/News/ I hope you enjoy the video; in case you understand German some outtakes should be pretty funny, too. (Camera had some issues at the ceremony award, so I shortened this scene at the cut.)

The event location: The present overclockers/Gigabyte staff members: Award ceremony rank 1 (PC Games Hardware): Award ceremony rank 2 (Awardfabrik): Award ceremoncy rank 3 (Overclockingstation): Massman in a happy mood ... ... before stummerwinter presented his welcome text : More pictures and a detailled report at PC Games Hardware: Gigabyte EOC 2012 (German) English Google translation here Kudos to Gigabyte and der8auer and the participating overclockers aswell - it was a satisfying event!

Great - especially with an EP35-DS4, which isn't a typical board to enter the Netburst 8 GHz club. Congratulations!

What has a little town in Vermont to do with it? I would stick to Werner Heisenberg. You mean at a certain time, right? It's not limited to electrons btw. The Heisenberg uncertainty principle describes one characteristic of the quantum world regarding knowledge(/measurement) about particles and is not the reason for the circumstance that a CPU gets warm when an electric current gets applied. Mission accomplished

... like donating 200 US-$ to Hwbot?

Hey, don't mix them up - you mean Christian Ney, right? (WTF, what happened to my signature )

Bug alert: Geforce 8800 Ultra, Geforce 8800M GTX and Geforce 8800M GTS are listed at the competition description as "applicable VGA cards", but not at any stage description.

Team name would be TaPacan or Turrisam then? :banana:

Well, if there's really a trojan, the links should get deleted asap. I suggest somebody testing it with a sandbox OS and report back.

The question is: Which hobby wants to have Albrecht?

Hiwa and SuicidePhoenix in action plus some setup pictures from the G.Skill booth were uploaded at PCGHX: http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/g-skill/207255-impressionen-g-skill-overclocking-show-mit-hiwa-und-suicidephoenix.html I think you can spot Predator in the background, too.

A phoenix always attacks from above, you know. More pics please btw it would be funny as hell and weird at the same time if saaya would multi-quote in RL discussions, too.

Don't get me wrong, but I think we don't have to discuss about extreme overclocking gear in a thread about the Cebit exhibition when there's a whole subforum about extreme overclocking for this matter.

GTX3 is a typo for sure, it's rather a quad-pack of GTX2-sticks. tRCD is way too low for GTX3 and Aristidis has already used GTX2-sticks in the past.

der8auer tested the EPower board with a 8800GTS/512 @ Dice and reported small frequency gains for GPU and VRAM (likely you will see bigger gains @ LN2): http://extreme.pcgameshardware.de/extreme-kuehlmethoden/203800-vmod-extreme-evga-epower-board-untouchables-im-test.html (German --> English via translator) He's preparing an English version, too, so stay tuned.

Damn SoF, that's useless. I think it works only for AMD, not Intel-CPUs. I followed the description, but it had no effect at all (except my HDD began to smoke ). I heard you need double as much files because of SMT. Am I right? I'm afraid to trash my only backup files left.

I think it would be a good idea to adjust the thread title. "blablah is cheating" isn't something a member should claim as long there are just hints that something unusual - let it be a cheat/bug or tweak - happened. Things like that can result in reputational damage and aren't neccessary at all. In case Hwbot officially decides there's some cheating going on, there's plenty of time to call somebody a cheater afterwards. It's so easy to choose a neutral thread title - just a neat remark. I'm not taking sides or anything.

I suggest the no-socks-tweak then.

Do you think it's an alternative to choose an empty field instead of "stock cooling" as default, so you have to choose a proper cooling method to submit your result successfully? Stock cooling is likely not the cooling method used for most results (atleast for CPUs), so most overclockers have to click at the drop down menu anyway if they want to choose the right cooling method (except they're lazy/sloppy and that leads to the problem we're discussing now.) Edit: Hate it to be too late.

Is it possible to force the users to double-check this entry, e. g. if the CPU frequency is above 5 GHz or if the achieved frequency is within the first third there appears a reminder in case you selected stock cooling?

Hehe, RAM-Bo - got it I'm curious how they perform.

I'm not at Cebit this year presumably.

- do you prefer contact by email or PM? Personally I prefer PM over E-Mail. I get so many e-mails on a daily basis, an e-mail from Hwbot is just one of many then. But if I refresh the Hwbot forum site and see I recieved a new PM I know it's a Hwbot matter and nothing else. However in case a user doesn't visit the Hwbot forum regularly, he can still get an e-mail about a new PM sent from the forum software automatically. - do you always want to have your Team Captain included in the email conversation? Not in general. I guess most of the time moderators have to deal with insufficent verificiation or description issues, which are minor problems and can be solved without a team captain in a more efficient way. If it is about a serious matter (like cheating) team captains should be involved. Howerver please notice the bigger a team is the more team captains it usually has. So before we end up dealing with 5+ discussing people, which can mean 5 different opinions and that it takes 5x the time, we should find a way to slim down that discussion process if necessary. One option I can think of is, that a user can choose which team captain should be involved if sth. serious happens and this one is the only one, who is allowed to moderate between the affected user and the staff members then. However that's maybe too much red tape again. - do Team Captains want an on-site overview of all the blocked scores or communication (eg: a new tab 'communication' under team profile) Info/details are always helpful for team captains. A thing worth thinking about is, what is part of the communication and what is not. It should be possible to have a private sphere, because being part of a team does not necessarily mean you want your team captains to know about every detail you discuss with the Hwbot staff. - when/how would you like to be contacted? When? If a problem appears? Not before 6am maybe? Ok, no kidding, I'm not sure what this quesion is about. I think it's important to differ between passive communication and active communication. Passive communication means e.g. you have a subpage which lists all result moderation actions, which affect you. It can be like a database/archive, too. Active communications means I get an e-mail/PM and somebody expects an answer/some kind of reaction. The latter one should be rarely used, otherwise it's overkill for the users and the Hwbot staff.

According to this list AMD Geode NX is interesting, too. (btw I told you, Hwbot should have a CPU-Z ranking based on OC in %. :ws:)

Much credit for this project! Thanks for sharing with us! :banana::nana: One of my workmates has a working Voodoo 5 6000, too, but he handles it wit kid gloves.