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I am still thinking that I am doing something wrong when I buy memories lol Congrats

Haha to be honest, sandbagging is the part of this game now. Maybe I am wrong, but when you see the "limit" which you have to bypass to win, it's more easy to reach the goal, it's my personal feeling. In fact last hours of the events are very interesting, I am always buying few beers and watching, I am not totally sure if it's a wrong thing in fact. I missed lucky draw deadline so in fact I don't have to rush. I will participate, I have now all needed results, maybe not winners yet, but also not that shabby. I will bench today and tomorrow, if needed, I will bench to the last minutes of the event (as I mostly do in fact). Meantime, I made a lot of sacrifices to OC GODS lol

I got some presents today For sure I am better ocer than photographer

haha you mean ryba or me? I don't have yet final results to post

Dewars can be alive, depends how "strong" they were hit, small chance but still

No idea how in Australia, but in Poland garage doors cost like 100-200 euro, but one dewar 1000 euro lol

lol

Master of efficiency!

Awesome run Aris

The way to go

I am not used to the look of rankings, I don't like the idea of counting everything in seconds I prefer format like in SuperPI lol But great job with those rankings. I would take part in AMD if SuperPI 32M time wasn't 19 minutes lol

congrats my friends

Awesome CPU

He suffered too much from ban Help him ASAP HWBOT

Lmao

I am curious if nonrefs will be better/worse/equal than 780GTX + Epower 2

Okay, be careful MOA participants: My benching... I am booting OS -100*C 5500 MHz @ 1.6v (my Golden 3770K) I opened CPU-Z, SPI 32M, voltages measured by Digital Multimeters I am cooling down MSI Mpower Z77 I cooled it down to -180*C DMM showed that board gave 2.01v on CPU and board rebooted and FF I was only cooling down the board...

Develop it as a benchmark Or maybe it's a second stage of this project?

Awesome run GD65 seems to be better for SPI than Mpower lol

But with mem frequency or timings also?

Coming back to topic - is there any LN2 friendly bios for X79A-GD45 8D?

I have value of 3 resitors, one is capacitor which is not so easy to check exactly value without unsoldering it and using correct tools BAD PR would be if I would describe all my adventures with MSI :D I only answered your question why qualifiers are so far not so popular and described my case why it's almost impossible now for me to take part, cause thx to MSI I don't have HW Sometimes it happens, I remember in P67/Z68 MSI boards mosfet burned killing CPUs It's bunnyextraction, I heard few versions, like each lightning has it's private "codes" in bioses connected to the SN, special markings on PCB and so on, which is not true. And retails with invoices transforms in ES Samples, despite the fact no one send me free Lightning sample... and not whole box of those Something isn't working in my country, and I am not able to fight it anymore. Too many $ lost. I agree with that we always risk hw on LN2. But statistics are brutal - Asus boards are the most popular, and you mostly hear that CPU died on MSI board. About Coldslow bios/abx or mods - it's MOA, it should be available. I don't think that using LN2 on 7790 wih -10*C slowdown is a fun. Or using LN2 (Which is not that cheap as water...) to get 30 MHz more cause there are not enough mods. Epower is always the option for volts, but coldslowdown will also affect Epowered card. MSI GPUs - best, but the most fragile MSI MOBOs - let's say they are better than in the past. For instance Xpower II Bing Bang is after R4E/R4F best board. Mpower Z77 is not so tragic, it can be benched (but not too good for 2D), but for single GPU is okay. Each Vendor had some worse moments, that's for sure. But MSI killing CPUs is a common problem from few generations, by statistics lol. MSI has potencial, MOA -biggest and oldest annual contest, Lightnings/Hawks which are mostly the best. Boards are getting better with each generation now in fact. New Z87 seem to be not bad, finally there will be soon MSI boards at launch with normal PWM (Mpower Max/Xpower), I hope also that soon there will be added 01se tweaks/spi and so on... But now there is a problem with support. This MOA is a bit released without a proper preparation, like bioses, tools or voltmods. Also MSI should be more eager to help ocers, especially when they need some non secret informations. Good connection with OC community would be also great, like Dino/hicookie - GB, Andre/Shamino/slamms - Asus, Nick Shih - Asrock, to start listening about some issues. MSI has potencial to be nr 1 in OC community, but now they are more and more running away from it. I am too tired to buy retails MSI in Poland and not because products are bad, but the support/warranty/availability of highends is inappropriate. I simply can't lose so many $ each time. I hope this event will be a success and there will be MOA 2014. First rules were bad, but MSI changed it a bit to make it more friendly. It was a very good move. It's still not perfect, but acceptable. I wish I could organize hw (which I should have) to participate, but now it's simply not possible and there is not much time left.

I am so happy that Asrock listens and use some great ideas

Why are you surprised? I am personally tired with MSI. Despite the fact that their products have potencial... My story: I asked HQ about ABX for 7790, I got the answer that AMD forbids, so I asked about vmods or datasheet, but nothing, I also asked about cold slow bioses and nothing. So it only confirmed me to participate Class A where there is normal hardware. Okay, so it appeared my Xpower II board is missing 4 resistors (soldering pads are okay) so I asked about values few times - nothing, and it's not a very big secret, cause everyone with a DMM can measure it. Okay, so I had backup plan to use my second MSI board, X79A-GD65 when it comes from RMA but I got the reply from MSI POLISH RMA center that board can be replaced for a new one but without warranty or I can send it again through the shop to get a new one with warranty. Meantime, my retail Lightning 7970 with invoice was considered to be ES card and not replaced (it's not the first time with Lightnings). Add to all of this the fact that I have to "risk" golden cpus in MSI boards, there are no teams, Lightnings 7970 or Xpower II boards are not available to buy (and cards magically appear to be "ES samples" when RMA)... and no one wants to help. And consider the fact that in EU we had biggest qualifications ever (AOOC 2013)... I wanted to take part a lot, I was looking forward MOA Qualifier, but simply if MSI doesn't want/care OCers to join it...Such contests should be fun, in my case is only stress, time consuming RMA which is rejected, fighting for replacing products or trying to buy HW @ abroad and fighting customs... Of course a lot of guys are sandbagging, so some results will be published in last day, and I know that few great ocers will not participate but I am still hoping that it will be a success. Personally, I don't have motivation, I am too tired, risking other boards/cards only later to get info from RMA center that it can be replaced for no warranty part (despite the fact it was from official distribution with an invoice) or hearing that another Lightning is ES Sample and so on (all retails bought from official distribution with my private money) and losing so much time, nerves and $. Now I have only Mpower board and I can fight SuperPI, no X79 MSI board yet, no Lightning 7970. I am not sure if I want to mod ref card with Epower to do results. In theory I should have all necessary hardware alive/replaced/benching now, but it seems so obvious for me, that MSI doesn't want me in the competition so I guess I have no choice but give up. Maybe if on time I have MSI X79 I will do results, but it's very unlikely now.

Awesome result on this board