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Card sold, please close, thanks!

Up for grabs is a 780 Lightning with Bitspower full-cover water block + back plate. I did a quick test today and the core is looking simply amazing, 1502 MHz in vantage @ 1.45v measured with meter. It's possibly the only 1500+ core card on hwbot for normal ambient water. The memory looked a little weak but I didn't do any testing with memory volts or PLL, perhaps it will go more. The card is fully unlocked with software. I have the LN2 VRM heatsink for it but nothing else, what you see here is what you will get. (SOLD) $135 shipped USA, open to trades too . It's a seriously huge and heavy card, and it's going to cost a fortune to ship international but ill do it if you want. $120 + actual shipping cost for international.

I have to disagree with you there @GeorgeStorm Separate leagues for the beginners makes a lot of sense to me. Rookie Rumble and Novice Nimble were some of the most important competitions on hwbot to date. While maybe they were not the biggest of all times, they had excellent participation and they provided a 'safe' place for the new guys to battle it out. They didn't have to face off against some of the big name people with years of experience and knowledge...

Nailed it! Obviously I am not suggesting we kill off legacy benching, nobody is taking away those sweet 939 boards. By on the other hand, legacy benching is obviously not the future... The newcomers are the future and most of them are running budget or midrange DDR4 'gaming' computers. Although I personally loved it, during the last team cup we had 3/4 of the competition devoted to legacy hardware that most newcomers simply don't have and don't want to buy. My teenage nephew is running a budget i3 DDR4 gaming rig and he was only able to submit to a few category's. That's all I was trying to say, weather or not you like it...we need to encourage newer platforms/OS's to grow this sport.

From my perspective 2 things need to happen to make Hwbot comps better and with more participants. 1. Prizes. Everyone loves prizes, they are easy to obtain from large vendors, and they motivate people... 2. More universal events with less reliance on old stuff. If you look at the last team cup the classes were ultra constrained and there was far too much old stuff. At least 3/4 of the competition was focused on equipment that most people simply DONT have. The hardware requirements need to be a little less constrained. If you want more people, make the classes a little newer and phase out some ancient stuff. The new guys don't have 40+ boards with chips from all generations, so it's difficult to find people who want to grind that stuff. As much as it pains me, and many will surely disagree, if you want to bring in new people...make more stages with newer generation hardware. More stages that the average 'gamer' can play in and use Windows 10. I have fun with a little bit of DDR1 and old stuff myself, but many don't...it's time to move on

It's not dead at all! I have had multiple success stories. I was a noob bencher having done DICE a few times when a few guys from OCN, pulled me aside and asked if I wanted to be part the Skype benching community. With a lot of encouragement and also some very helpful info I started to bench almost every weekend. I learned how hwbot works and started gaining points. After a few years I had made it to #1 in apprentice by running tons of dry ice and learning how to mod GPU's. Once I made it to #1 in apprentice I became stagnate and had difficulties gaining points with dry ice. Due to financial reasons, LN2 was not an option. @Splave took notice of what I was doing with DICE and GPU modding by my posts on Facebook. He generously offered to help me out by sending me a box with 30+ old GPU's that he didn't want. Furthermore, he offered to help me make the transition to LN2 and gave me a 50L dewar for the price of shipping. Splave's help didn't stop there, he continued to support my endeavors and teach me the world of LN2 benching. Eventually I ended up getting supported by ASRock for platform hardware. I devoted a few solid years to LN2 benching and pushing myself and the hardware as far as it would go. Splave continues to help and support me to this day... Throughout the years I have worked hard to give back as much as possible and build up the OCN team. Sharing of information and creating a family-like environment has been critical to OCN's success. We are constantly evolving and working on promoting overclocking though benchmarking competitions such as the Freezer' Burn competitions. Speaking of competitions, I am working with vendors now to get huge prize support for the next competition, which will happen at the end of this year. I see some limitations at Hwbot, but no, overclocking is not dead, it just looks a little different now that it has in the past.

WOW! Epic sub, how did I miss this one. EPIC work dude, now I have a reason to bench my chip.

Crazy CPU man, congratulations!

That sandbag war is helping ranking lol, now its a full 64 points :D

Awesome!

Cracked 29k!

Insane card, you make it look too easy!!!

Nice one, sweet card :D

@jpmboy, time to get on board with Kingpin :D

I did that yeah. I just tried to submit again and it worked perfect, thanks.

I am unable to submit a score to the XTU stage. As per the instructions, I checked the box for "disable points" I did not check the box for sponsored hardware.

Amazing!

Good history lesson, I did those mods when I first started out! That was my best 570, really nice card. Along with core/mem voltmod it has OCP mods for core, and was OCP/OVP free for me on water. free bump, glws

Looking good!

68 chip BAM! This one flew under the radar!

BOOM! Nice work man :)

Nice chip!!

Kevin Wu showed this on Facebook over a month ago. I have observed the same behavior on ASRock X570 Taichi. The issue is over 5000MHz. Set 5200 in the bios and all software shows 5300...

Going after those gravy dualie points :D How did you find this one?