Vantage and 680's suck.
Kind of a no man's land right now with hardware and the current benchmarks. For the event 7970's would suck due to black screen benching, 680's are really only good for '11 and '06 and even then only when paired with great CPU's.
They look like Kingston HyperX's to me.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820104293
I'm pretty sure we used Kingston last year in the finals.
Pretty sure that both Hazzan and Andre both showed 6.9-7GHz 3770K screens long, long before this "event" ever happened.
This was a group event, so the fact that they each used the best available memory and motherboards shouldn't be a suprise.
This one is for SoF :celebration:
3770K : Batch # 3218B968
Air: 5GHz spi 1M 4C/8T at 1.35V
LN2: no cb, no cbb, max 6.2GHz spi 1M at 1.85V :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana: :banana:
Just got an email today, stock now pushed out until 7/24/12. At this rate I'll get the other 3 RMA'd about the same time as the next architecture release...
all hw is alive, it would just start to shut down at about -160 or so.
I think I need a better CPU, this one has a CB at -165ish and a nasty CBB of -85