Xtreme Addict

You had a lot of fun

Great job From my experience mostly there isn't big difference in max screen and so on, but thermal pastes differently "hold" stress on ln2. With Gelid I mostly get much higher MHz clocks in benchies which test Physx like 3DMark11 CPU test or 3DMark Firestrike. I would also test EVGA Frostbite "no name silver based thermalpaste in Taipei which few many Taiwan overclockers used for years". I really like this thermal paste

awesome some always :D

Awesome

Very nice "Classic" look. Nice job.

Awesome

Awesome

GPU will be dead, if mosfet failed (DrMOS), 12V was directed to GPU

Great

cause it's the same shit

What is Bulldozer? it's FX8150 or FX8350 also?

Awesome crazy result and bench rig

I am not about judging and so on. I can only tell about myself. When PRO League was created, I could choose PRO or XOC. I read rules and decided that I qualify in 100% for PRO and in fact I wanted to be ranked with best overclockers. Why I decided that I qualify for PRO League? Here is answer: Despite the fact that I live in Poland and most vendors offices are really without resources for marketing (samples, $ for samples and so on - in my opinion it's the problem of attitude of those departments, they don't; want to organize samples themselves but only "take" what HQ sends or doesn't not send. Why I say that support in Poland is not good? Maybe because "Intel Poland" had only 2x i7 990X cpus for reviews in 40 million country in EU... All samples in Poland have to be sent back, mostly in 1-2 weeks time. I am fucked living and benching in Poland, I know lol So in the beginning of PRO OC League I had: - Antec support (1-2 PSU sent for LN2 benching for eternity) - Asus Poland support (I borrow a lot of boards from them, sometimes GPUs), all have to be returned) - Intel Poland support (after reviews they send me sometimes ES cpus (but not all generations, for instance SB or Ivy was too "hot" and needed for reviews) I got i7 990X and 3960X for tests/benching, all have to be returned) - Some local distributor (small one) helps me and sometimes borrows 4 GPUs or some mem for a weekend of benching, of course they have to be in great shape in order to sell them later so sometimes LN2 isn't possible) - Gigabyte Poland (but they used to have less boards then Asus Poland, because of the structure of Gigabyte, in Poland there is only motherboard department with samples, GPUs marketing is organized by small PR agency which doesn't send hw for OC), of course everything have to be returned - MSI Poland (the same as Gigabyte or even less samples, but boards and gpus), everything have to be returned - some support from Linegal Chemicals (my ln2 place), better prizes and so on So in fact, I got samples for free only from Antec (1-2 PSU per year). And all 4-ways/Quad CF, binning of CPUs and so on (Gultowns, SB, Ivy, SB-E) I did by myself by private $. Moreover because polish departments didn't care about special bioses or tools (like Afterburner Extreme) I had a really big problem sometimes... I think that all reviewers (which are benching mostly on samples) should be moved to PRO OC. If some overclockers get 1-2 cheap sample per year for free, and they spend a lot of $ for OC, they can choose XOC or PRO. I chose PRO (mostly because of other polish overclockers, which mostly don't have any support, looking at them I could say I had great support) and I don't regret it. I developed a lot, got some good contacts, made a lot of friends and now I have support from HQs. But I didn't stop spending private $ on OC, on the contraty I spend the same or more, but I can focus more on binning CPUs, GPUs and doing better results

Nice trip If you are thinking about doing a journey tour around Poland, I have to warn you - you will die from holes in polish roads lol

Fuck Android/iPhone... it's almost like new pcmarks lol I use Windows Phone on Lumia 820, I tried Galaxy S3 but I threw it away cause it isn't for poeple

Ronaldo be patient

God is here

Nice Bobo

Great chip

We want more

Great to see you have fun

There should be PRO League and PRO Cup and then PRO Cup would have more participants - why? The reason is obvious, overclockers or teams like Team AU would do results to the Cup during their normal sessions which they made for OC/points. For instance during last session they pushed 4x 7970 with great results, for the cup they needed only to change mobo and cpu (lga2011) and they could do submission for 3DMark 11 Overall. It didn't need so much additional effort, funds and so on. I think that Dino, Uncle, Deanzo or pro will agree with me here. But PRO Cup should be the most important, the most promoted by hwbot, sponsored by vendors (to gain attention of overclockers) and overclockers from XOC should also be able to take part in it. I would also limit PRO League only to 10 best submissions (or less) to "unload" overclockers and direct their powers for PRO Cup.

Great score

Issue solved very positively for me BTW I was 2nd overall "Okay, updating MSI later today (awaiting some information) with the winner info. They will make a news item about it later this week, which you will be able to find on the front page. - Winner: Rbuass - Runner-up: Gyrock - Lucky Draw: Cagrimir (for this submission: http://hwbot.org/submission/2353621) As some of you already know, there was a problem with Xtreme Addict's result, which was done with an non-MSI graphics card. For those that like to rant and complain, you can check out the thread here. Even though the result is not valid and is removed from the competition, since the competition stage was confusing MSI will prepare a second Z77A-GD80 for Xtreme Addict. Sorry for the confusion and let's do it perfect next time!"

That's a very good solution, I like it But I was also fine with the solution, that I could try to score 2nd with Lightning, with no hard feelings if I fail. But it's easier for me Please next time add all limitations in stage details, most of us look mostly on those requirements, even add rule "ES not allowed" cause almost in every contest topic there are questions about it even obvious info, it's better to write more points with simple words than catching rules from marketing press release Examples: "MSI board only" "MSI gpu only" "only single gpu" "only Z77 boards" "use only Mpower Z77 to score for prizes" "all MSI Z77 boards are valid for lucky draw" "no ES" "use special background" "link to ORB required" "tess off is allowed in AMD drivers" "photo of benching rig is required" "use only hw which was launched and available before contest launch" "Titan is not allowed" "submit result before 10/02/2013 to take part in lucky draw" "all tweaks have to be valid with hwbot rules and terms" I can't think about more, those rules/limitations in stage page would be very clear and there wouldn't be any doubts