Gunslinger

lol, I opted for the $25 no questions asked K series insurance policy. Only bad part is waiting the required 30 days to send in the dead chip.

Is this from before delidding or after?

I had this issue with an Asrock Extreme6 and it was fixed when I flashed to an older bios. I guess I just got lucky. :celebration:

http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/BIOS/Z77/E7751IMS.A53 Here is the bios thread: http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=42040

Newegg has Lightning stock: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127670 Not sure what the PE card is: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127677 Maybe one of the MSI guys can chime in with some insight.

They still have Lords of Overclocking with Futuremark, seems there was 3 regions for that contest last year. The winner of each regional comp got a seat at the MOA finals.

I have a couple of observations, feel free to clarify or explain or feel free to ignore them, doesn't matter to me personally. Curious how many LN2 subs Gnidaol has before this contest, as most submissions I looked at were with dry ice. Did he borrow or share Rbuass' dewar? Did they bench together? What I find most intriguing is that virtually all of Gnidaol's recent subs, benching for MOA and non MOA subs (that still had the MOA background) came from an Agility 2 SSD and had much lower GPU clocks. Then a 120GB Corsair GT SSD shows up, and he pulls monster clocks in 3DMark '11. Significantly higher clocks than what he had in the '03 stage, in a more demanding 3D bench. The only MOA submission that anyone has doubts about came from this drive... I looked through several of Gnidaol's other HWBot submissions and didn't see any others made with that drive, but Ronaldo has several subs with the same model. Coincidence? Very well could be, but this is not the first time HW sharing has been suspected or even found within this team, so that IMO is why the questions and concerns are being raised. Without a first hand witness, HW sharing is pretty tough to prove. Just my $0.02 It's a shame that a competition such as this has to be settled in such distasteful a manner.

Bring home the gold Sprave!

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I saw Ebay Germany had them, at $900+ USD each

Where in the hell is the retail stock?

Who said anything about it being too hard? I've got real pots and dewars, just didn't have time to get the rest of the gear lined up.

I don't have the necessary gear to compete, not sure why others are not trying. If we would have known the hardware requirements sooner it would have helped tremendously. I think we only had a 2 week notice or something close to that. I've got an MSI Z77 board but it hates my 2500K (so did another brand Z77 board I have) I don't have an MSI X79 or MSI GPU, and the only MSI GPU's available in the USA need extensive mods to have a chance at the top 3.

But also too true.

I had "55" with an older set of GTX2's, swapped to my newer set of GTX2's and it booted right up, so it might not just be a timing problem.

Isn't '03 unsupported for links ? I seem to remember the oldest supported is now '05 but I could be mistaken.

Good news! The Lightning 7970 price has fallen $80 USD since the start of this competition. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127670 Bad news! It's still not in stock!

This is turning out to be a big fail by MSI with lack of 7970 Lightning stock. :banana:

The only place I've seen them is on EBay. I bet South America has plenty of stock though.

Here's what the homepage looks like. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e19/mgorius/homepage.jpg Here I've got the mouse icon over the search box on the homepage. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e19/mgorius/hoveringoversearchbox.jpg Here I've got the mouse icon over one of the clickable icons. The arrow turns to the hand with the pointing index finger. Print screen does not capture that however. http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e19/mgorius/clickableinterface.jpg

lol, only until Ivy launch...

5.96 SB, check 5.63 SB-E, check $230 MSI s1155 motherboard, negative. $389 MSI s2011 motherboard, negative. (and out of stock) $600 MSI R7970 Lightning, negative. (and out of stock) $1,200 in hardware not counting LN2, just to participate, they could have at least limited it to one platform. Good luck gents.

IE 8 I believe.

From work when I load the HWBot home page, all I get is a blank white page. All clickable links and tabs are present but invisible. You can tell because the arrow turns to the hand when it goes over them. Is there a windows setting that needs to be changed to be able to see it? I believe the OS is Win 7 Enterprise if that helps, using IE 8 and I don't have the admin status to change much. The forum page works fine, just the home page has issues.

I agree 100% ... except that there is no way back, where there is a will, there is a way.