Firstly I really want to congratulate T0lsty! His GPU was awesome and he did very well pushing it to the limit! 2x times 1st place during 2 weeks - AWESOME!
Also of course Lucky_n00b also performed great scoring 2nd place! It was a tight battle in the end! Congrats Alva!
With % points on MOA it's always ALL about GPU in fact
Event was VERY good this year. Benching place was nice. I was suprised that MSI decided for a closed event, cause it's always better for marketing, but for us ocers, this place was very good. We had a lot of light (not like last year - dark, loud, a lot of viewers which don't help during benching ). Only in my opinion preparation time was a bit too short, I had to use a lot of time from SuperPI to end system mounting, especially that it takes much more time when you are benching alone.
In my case: I got good cpu, but not good gpu (very weak core).
SuperPI 32M - I failed this stage, I had a lot of problems with memories, couldn't set them right and achieve high frequency, I had very bad efficiency with RTL57 and so on, but I couldn't tighten it, finally in the end I managed to tighten a bit main timings, but I had time only for one run and efficiency was overall very bad for those clocks of cpu. I am pretty sure that my memories were dying cause after SuperPI run I went to BIOS to save profile and it freezed and both memory sticks were dead... Good that MSI/Corsair prepared for everyone replacement!
Cinebench - it went okay, I had a bit higher score but it crashed during screenshot.
3DMark - my GPU was not good 1730 GPU to achieve was a real fight. Memories were okay (1900 but no more). My GPU couldn't bench with -90/-100 caused 3D crashed. I had to bench at -80*C.
This contest for me went smoothly (comparing to AOOC 2013 - in Moscow we had a lot of strange issues, problems - simply with Perica we had bad luck like dead cpu, problems with software, drivers, motherboard and so on). This time I had no problems with motherboard, cpu and gpu itself, everything was working okay, only on first kit of memories I had problems, but second was working on air better than previous on ln2 I remounted platform completely 2x times, first time after SuperPI (memories appeared to be dead, I thought that motherboard simply froze too much), and second time after cinebench cause I started to have some isolation issues (wet dram slots) so cause I had time, I warm up everything and did new isolation. But MSI hardware worked very good, stable, Mpower Max and Lightning are strong pieces of hardware, only I had bad luck with bad sample of GPU (My elpida card is flying 1800+ easy but Elpida efficiency...). If both GPUs were on the same memories, I think that final ranking could differ a lot
All in all I am very happy. Top 3 on such worldwide event competing against best ocers in the world is a very good achievement. This MOA Final was organized very well. Now looking for more fun during Freestyle battle.