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2400, xmp and oc buttons on, the issues only happens with one of my bios chip (the one active with the switch to the left).

As far as I know we should use the 1.40 they provided.

I had those issues, one of my bios chips has it too the other doesn't. I asked msi and they told me that that issue doesn't exist. If you tell them that it is happening with you too I would appreciate. The best BIOS is indeed the 1.3.

=) nice kind of contest, should be held more often

Just kidding, it's not to offend anyone...

I was following this thread since it started but I kept silent due to I already had faced this situation and I really trust hwbot's judgment. I just wanted to say that I understand that Rbuass is really upset by seeing how bad it was for us to tell the truth and see that it had no importance at all. On the other hand I saw that hwbot evolved, that it had learned something and didn't stress (apparently) those guys the same way they needed to do with us. I only expect that the truth always wins here and that every overclocker receive proper respect while no one proves anything against him. Similar hardware in similar OSes will always seems to be similar, we have to face it. The community has to be honest and admit when something is wrong, that's the expected way.

nice dice

I wanna see if anyone else can break this GT1 WR ever!! LOL

=) Congratulations!!

I'm pretty sure that "international" coverage is great. I meant about the Brazilian coverage. Even my teammates didn't get what happened on WW finals in 2010 (last time I qualified to the finals). At the regional at 2011 the official media published a small article about the contest like 2 months after it happened. No live coverage at all. They invited different websites for different contests but both times no one really showed to care about the contest, just to travel for free and buy lots of stuff.. It is sad not to see the MOA being covered here... That's what I'd love to see changing... Here in Brazil there's lots of competition between the big sites, it would be almost impossible for one of those website owners to send there someone who knows really what's going on in exchange of accumulating travel miles themselves. It's really sad..

I like it! I hope that Brazilian coverage can be as good as the one you gonna make will be. MSI usually invite some big website owner that don't overclock at all... I'm asking then to try using an overclocker to report an overclocking contest... I hope they do it as right as they are doing there with this media contest.

I'm solving that yet... Msi Brazil didn't understand that two Brazilian teams qualified and was managing individual tickets not for two participants of each team. Once we fix that I'll announce my teammate =)

Awesome qualifier! Guys, all of you made it one of the hardest battle I'd ever seen! It will be great to have fun with you in Taipei! Something that I always ask is why there's 5 spots for EMEA and only three to Americas and this kinda competition shows that even if it was 7 spots for EMEA it would be fair. You guys took it seriously, you deserve it. Congratulations to all of you that took a shot for MOA.

It really helped mine, improved efficiency and stability. But it was the first try with the new mobo, maybe it was simply better than my old one.

We'll pick the teammates after APAC qualifier... I need to check which of my friends will be fully available to travel by that time. I can't wait to meet everybody in Taipei again =) It will be awesome! =) Good luck to you all! I hope everybody have lots of fun benching for MOA =)

ROFLOL really beyond awesome!

Thanks! You've helped by trying the old versions of 3dm11 =) Let's have fun benching in Taipei! =)

I thought that I read massman telling that MOBO sharing was allowed back again a few pages ago... So you can go and have fun!! =) (I guess) My first lightning was bought at ebay from a store in US as well. Paid $620 on the VGA plus $90 on FEDEX shipping and more $500 to the store to pay import duties so I could receive it in three days without any risk of customs keeping it. So $1210 as it would cost in retail here. Just to compare, I needed to get two x79 during competition, I could get here in Brazilian stores, (I made it get sold out here, since just these two stores held one each), I paid about $900 at the first one and $850 on the second that was on sale. (I tried to find links to show you but it is still sold out). I needed to get a loan at the bank to buy the hardware... =( MOA was not cheap this year, so as your rule allow to do it that way you should participate and complain! maybe two online contests instead of just one, with they providing the hardware for the second round where the finalists would be the winners could easy things. A regional qualifier split into some different hardware requirements like in the past. I don't know, just suggesting... All qualifiers at the same time could be nice as well...

it could be mandatory for every submission this way there won't be more awful situations like we had here. thanks guys! the harder it gets the more satisfying it becomes, hope to have a great time at finals this year. I really missed being there last year Hope to see great battles on next qualifiers.

(I'm writing for the second time now hwbot forums took my wall of text away with a error). I'm really sad now, I'll resume my previous post because I'm really tired of it. For real, I worked hard this month, I spend lots of money, sacrificed my social life, got bumped by my girl, all because I was focused at MOA. I bought all my gear, I showed you guys the gear I had at the beginning, after that I needed to get one more x79 also got one more lightining and two new cpus. The best memory we can get here in Brazil is from Corsair, since RBUASS is corsair's employee. I aimed for the best I could until the last day I could. (again I'm just resuming my lost wall of text) I saved money entire month to be able to do an LN2 session that I always used to qualify for previous MOA. I had really few time to set things up, I preferred to go in a safe way with CPU, I had no time to find the sweet spot for vcore and runned the way I though was stable. The only thing that I did with RBUASS was to call him and ask if I was missing any tweak during my session. He just told me to lower cpu speed for combined test and after hanging up I got my best and final score. I was running pretty similar to my final score before, didn't change a thing except cpu speed ( Validation: http://3dmark.com/3dm11/3387274 screen: http://gnidaol.com/personal/Benchs/14700x.png ). So it was a really nice tweak. about the sample received I indeed tried it, but I didn't submitted any score using it, I just used it to keep trying to figure out how things work until my new motherboard arrives. So I didn't used it directly for MOA. About the watch, we are all overclockers, how many of you guys waste your time setting the time and date at BIOS? My OSes for benchmark never gets into internet, so it should not be taken in consideration. I didn't see any rule saying that I should adjust my watch. Now just think a little bit, If anyone would share result wouldn't they try to make it the most different as possible? If I shared result shouldn't I have smaller backups that didn't look close so do not attract attention? It's obviously that I was trying my best! If you get into a contest that everybody uses the same model of motherboard, the same VGA model, the same CPU model, with same benchmarks using the same background wasn't obvious that similar scores would appear? add to that using the same model of memory, I wasn't aware that if other overclock uses the same memory at the same motherboard I would not be able to use my memory at the best speed I could get. It's really really sad to see my OC skills put into doubt this way. I went to MOA WWF 2010, I didn't make to MOA2011 since my gear for operation las vegas was held by Brazilian customs and now that I already invested hard for MOA 2012 someone is doubting that I benched my hardware and got a good score?? I think that is not fair to use old 3d11 versions but the top scores done the same, is it prohibited? Of course not, it is allowed by the rules! The same rules that I followed! again I won't repeat all the things I said before (in the lost post), I'm a thousand miles away from home, since Wednesday I was here in Salvador invited to participate in OC demonstration in a huge event and didn't had time to post here before I had slept only 2 hours/ day since I got here. I thought that by now I would be celebrating with the new overclockers that was born today the classification to MOA2012. Instead I'm seeing my work that was validated according to HWBOT rules, following MOA America rules, being said that wasn't me that did it! I can't accept this grave accusation! I'm a good will person, the kind that avoids the most to get in trouble, confusion, fights, argues, etc. I hate when I see other people being treated in an unfair way, I would never do anything illegal, I would not risk my OC career doing this kinda disgusting thing in the biggest OC competition in the world! I think that RBUASS would not put his conquests to play with such absurd sharing. I did my score, I own my boards, I followed the rules, if the hardware is similar is because the rules lead us to that and there's no rule to avoid me to use the best timings that I can get from my memory just because other OCer has the same model and the contest makes you use the same motherboard and so on. On other contests I was required to show video recording of my scores, almost all latin america contests asks for video, I would have recorded it if it was mandatory, but I don't like to see my effort being questioned this way just because the rules seems to not have validity. What upsets me most is that if some one shared result no one will see because they need to hide it, and honest OCers like me can have the results doubted just because other OCers can't accept that different hardware can be pushed to similar limits. My result is legit, no one questioned SPLAVE's validation at futuremark that doesn't show CPU and memory clocks, but my score that only looks like someone's else is treated this way. Everybody tried the best for it and so did I. I did not share any result! I did not go against any rule! My score is legit, there's no rule saying that I can't reach similar levels using the same model of motherboard cpu and memory since it is mine. I'm qualified for MOA 2012 and hope to forget this misunderstanding soon and have lots of fun there like I had in 2010. I really expect that the truth win this time and really expect that if more lies are spread that the ones responsible for trying to tarnish my image as a honest OCer and above everything a honest man pays for it.

It is really solid, but I don't know why, I got three of those on heaven now =( It can't be insulation problems. Each of those has different behavior, one got leds but nothing happens when you press the power button, the another one spins the fans very shortly but no beeps or debug codes and the third one powers up, post is really slow, bios is really lagged and cannot load any OS in any mode even in stock config.... On SB side the Z68 GD80 showed up more powerfull than any other sb board that I've ever tried, got highest clocks, highest bclk, (high vdrop as well =P) but it got a burnt mosfet =( The sad part is that it wasn't benching when it fired up, I was just opening the control center II =( and took the CPU with it, and the cpu took down two maximus (IV and V) that I used to check if it was dead too... I was bankrupt at the beginning, now besides being broke I'm almost outta mobos =(

This battle has being really expensive and some of the hardware lost is irreplaceable, I really hope that our sacrifices were not in vain.

I think that MSI could on next MOA qualifier give prizes to the one who stands for more time on the lead. =P It would be a nice incentive for people keep posting higher scores before the cutoff. Also could give prizes for the first three to submit scores, and other stuff like that. The prize don't need to be expensive hardware, just a MSI flash drive or T-shirt would be a great incentive.

those 70ks should rox! lol