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    Any news about MOA?

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    Funny how not being able to bring a teammate this year increase the number of participants...Might it be because strong teams are now dividing into 2 and both members are submitting ;) hmmm

     

    I thought that Massman counted MOA 2012 x2 (two persons as team)

    Haswell Q-Spec for Engineering Samples

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    I would just like to add to this thread that it is not possible to go with the suggested policy because QE6S carries the exact same product string like QE6H, but is not the final version of the retail silicon. QE6S is a qualification sample but has fiVR related issues. QEH6 is the fixed QE6S and the final retail qualification sample spin.

     

    We can not distinguish a non-retail QS from a retail QS :(.

     

    But we can ban all magic ES cpus ;]

     

    Magic QE6H ES are also much better than retails... so far is 20 days after the lauch day. Retails were binned by overclockers and vendors (for OCed computers by default) from 2-3 months. There is a reason why vendors like Asus had to lower def OC in computers :) So far best retail is 6.4 GHz SPI 1M? Not good.

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    Any news about MOA?

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    For whoever might be interested in this. So far, the numbers for MOA look quite good. Even though the amount of seats in the grand final reduced significantly from 32 (16x2) to 15, there were slightly more participants this year. We went from 72 to 79. The amount of score submissions almost doubled as the counter is now at 420-ish for the entire MOA campaign.

     

    I hope these numbers will provide "upper management" with enough evidence that MOA-type competitions can be organised without spending a rediculous amount of money and still create the same amount of exposure and participance.

     

    Just fyi.

     

    This is a good news.

     

    Considering the fact that rules aren't still so friendly (even after some changes) (in class A -> Ivy, SB-E, Haswell, 7970 + Titan), it's good that the marketing level is still a bit higher. Class B helped for sure in interest. Next time (if there will be MOA 2014) with better rules (better selection of benchmark, maybe cheaper platforms, maybe better prize distribution/tickets) the popularity can raise much higher. It shows that this format (Class A + Class B) has some potencial.

    Haswell 4670K/4770K Batch and Serial Numbers

    in Haswell (Z87/Z97) OC

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    2133 here for retail 4770 on Z87X-OC, no gear ratios, can't believe Intel limits us that hard

     

    "K" cpus have one advantage for me... I mean it's really much more easy to sell cpus after binning. I remember C2D E8xxx, i7 9xx (Bloomfield). For instance it was very hard to sell E8500-E8600 cpu, the same with i7 940, 950, 960... everyone wanted to buy "cheap" E8200-E8400 chip or i7 920... and binning low multi chips wasn't so good for LN2 (I mean total highend). Now it's good, I order only 1-2 models of each generations (like 2500K, 2600K, 3570K, 3770K, 4670K, 4770K, 3930K, 3960X) and there is a demand for those cpus cause normal cpus are lemons, for 24/7 non oc use only for simple users, and those rarely build their own computers from parts now.

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