ObscureParadox_3XS

ObscureParadox`s CPU Frequency score: 8090.22 mhz with a FX-8350

Bit of both really, venue, sponsors (if we have any) time for those from abroad to either book time off work or get tickets finances sorted etc. + with it being that close to christmas, those with kids wouldn't appreciate how soon this would all be thrown together.

Yeah when trying to organise something that big that's pretty much no time at all

That's way too short notice though IMO.

wow that score is mighty, congrats!!

Very nicely done Shatul

http://hwbot.org/news/9664_application_58_rules/

The Crossfire Lanparty boards are often on UK ebay, worth having a look

I am really not sure what I'm missing here, basically I can get up to 600FSB and use any ram setting I want with full stability, anything after that an I need to turn ram speeds right down to have the slightest bit of stability. Now I am probably forgetting something basic here but I've seen guys with 700FSB screenshots and over 2K ram clocks. Just a pointer really at what setting I could possibly be missing or forgetting would be really appreciated.

Good shit, seems legit

Hope you guys have an amazing day and spend it with friends, loved ones and alcohol

Whether it seems petty those are the rules, I agreed but hadn't said anything until now. I feel bad for the guy if they are removed but we have to be consistent in order to keep people happy and know where they stand. Now with regards to the potential Z270 "ES" issue I'm kind of on the fence on where I deem it "legal" or not with regards to the rules. In theory it's not like this is a product that is completely unavailable to users on here (i.e. you don't have to be Dancop or 8Pack to own one) and kinda falls into the same bracket as the Galaxy Cards which we never put down as an "ES" card. Again to be consistent I don't believe we should put the card down as an "ES" motherboard. Just my 2c and I know I don't completely share the opinions of the team but these are simply my own and do not reflect their views in any way.

I'm sure its going to get added soon anyway, pretty much every 3D mark does. But agree, its time!

Not long turned 22 here, been overclocking for the best part of 6 years now, been on LN2 for around half that time. Have somehow managed to amass enough CPUs to have more computing power than the whole of North Korea, not sure how I managed to afford it all....

You been a mod for so long you forgot what its like to be a mere mortal.

Please no Kenny, I don't want to be dividing by ROPs and PCI-E lanes Or we'll have GT 710 X4 in a separate category to GT 710 X16 etc etc where does it stop ROPs thing I'm not overly keen on either, not exactly apples to apples comparison again since different platforms have different performance per ROP, AMD does different things to Nvidia etc etc. It's a nice idea I just don't see it being possible to implement in a way where everyone is happy. All the same what am I talking about, you'll never please everyone no matter what

Whats wrong with simply getting more competitions together so that you can bench them for HWPoints and have a competitive competition for that card. Honestly this is starting to remind me of the same old issue with all of these threads. "I want more points but am not willing to pay for it". Unfortunately almost no competitive system works like that anymore. You guys need to decide if points or fun is more important to you and then go about pursuing that. If we start to hand out global points willy nilly then we'll have another XTU situation on our hands. At the wnd of the day the way I see it is that globals are rewarded for the very best scores from the very best platforms, if we start turning away from this then we start to lose touch with why they were there in the first place.

Stuff and things

Don't get me wrong guys, I would love to see a system that's better for overall fair/cheaper OC fun. But I don't believe a complete reshuffle of the ranking system like the ones mentioned is the way forward. Also with reagrds to the Higher catagory not necesserily giving a lot of points, you have to remember that older cards like the original titan and a few other super high cost cards will make it in there. Also then do we decide that we will seperate kingpin cards from base models since their price is significantly higher. Please don't mistake my thoughts as simply bashing others ideas to keep the status quo, I just want a fully thought out and easy to understand system that will work in the long term so we're not constantly forced to update the system every 5 or so years. I absolutely appreciate that you guys are trying to come up with ideas to improve on what we have but I don't see anything here thus far which I believe we can advance on to make into the next platform.

Why the hell did I ever post anything, just killed a damn CPU on phase..... Sods law..

not sure how this fixes the issue at hand honestly. Lets take the last generation of cards as an example, the 980 and 970 would most probably be in the same price category as the 980Ti since their prices were slightly inflated due to them being the fastest products on offer at the time. Then Titan X comes along, is realised for a stupid price. Is in it's own category, great. But then 980TI is released and is in the same category as the 980 and 970 no doubt so the bitching will probably start all over again as those with money can capitalise on the easy points with the Titan X being in its own category and the 980Ti dominating its category easily. TL:DR This doesn't seem like a solution but more of a hornets nest to a whole new era of "money wins in overclocking" since your rich OC'ers will LN2 everything, bench all of the new GPU categories with their golden CPUs so the little guy can't even get close anyway. I think we just need to accept that with the way Nvidia release their products there will be a 2 month period where H20 will compete with LN2 until they release their top "Ti" card. Also if we want to split AMD and Nvidia apart then we might as well do it on the CPU side too. I think people have decent ideas but are not really thinking them fully through here. Yes what we have is not perfect, but that is simply because AMD are not competitive right now. Most of the issues we have with leaderboard rankings etc all come down to the fact that Nvidia and Intel have a near monopoly in their respective areas so the price of the products are obscene now.

Some of us here are students and have never had that kind of money in their bank account for years

The first CPU I lost was a 6700K that I killed by delidding, am yet to fully kill a CPU during an LN2 session, really lucky in that regard, or maybe I just don't push hard enough........

urgh.....

That is the single most british reaction I have ever seen to a loud bang ever