der8auer

Couldn't agree more. This rule never made sense to me. In the end you still need a lot of people working together considering the amount of hardware and variety within the stages. And honestly if one guy manages to run all stages alone and wins the cup - he has my biggest respect because this is a shtload of work.

ASUS Z170 Flash Back to Older BIOS How To - Overclocking.Guide

Freedom of speech from media has nothing to do with leaking corporate secrets. Companies are even protected by law when it comes to those leaks (I know it at least for the US and Germany).

The attitude of some guys (in this thread) is truly shocking. Over the years I often had access to hardware prior launch without signing NDA - still I did not post it in public. Do you guys even understand that people in this industry can lose their jobs because of your actions? And I'm not talking about individuals who give out hardware. It's the impact your information can have on the IT market in general. This is actually a huge problem. From a distributor point of view I can see a significant impact from leaks on hardware purchases. Do you think it's good for the IT industry if customers hold off their purchases for months? Especially considering that leaks often don't reflect the actual performance or hardware details so potential customers get a wrong impression of what might come up in future. It's very shortsighted from all pages who leak this kind of info to think this would be beneficial. For sure you will have your clickbait hype for a day but in the end you burn yourself if you play with fire. I can only hope that these people don't get support anymore in future. You can be sure that I use my contacts to spread out who to trust and who not to. Talking in private with other overclockers - fine. Posting full reviews in public with performance numbers - nogo The fact that Intel is very sloppy when it comes to NDA doesn't mean that it's the right thing to share everything in public. However, it's still Intels problem and if they want to pretend these leaks they have to take care of where they ship their CPUs prior launch and maybe start punishing ppl who break NDA.

HKEPC / John Lam for sure. He posted something a while ago already

Haha killing it! Awesome stuff man

Dat memory tho

What about the boards you got from France?

Hotel + Flight is over 2000 € for me. Enough for 2 x Computex

Should be 16 Volt with 101 µF edit: If you can't find the correct capacity you can just go for the next step higher or something which is close. Shouldn't matter that much

overpromise and underdeliver I always lower my expectations so AMD can amaze me On a serious note: I hope that Zen will perform great. The industry needs competition.

The result and rankings are final so congrats to the top 8 I will send out an email soon to the winners with the details of the event. Thanks for the great participation!

Parts such as the brackets should be doable at around ~0,60-0,80 USD in china at an MOQ of ~500. Might be an option depending on the direction you plan to take this project to

Welcome to the overclockers-world where everyone tries to push as hard as possible even if it includes playing "in the grey zone". I'm not sure if your water cooling solution would be considered "Water (Custom)" or "TEC / Peltier / Water (Chilled/Cold)". There are different ways you can look at it. From a fair-play point of view it's probably not so good but then we are looking for overclockers with decent basic knowledge. I appreciate the post and that you're being honest. Personally I still consider the results as legit.

We still have to check all results we will find a way for a fair decision.

That's possible

I heard someone made a tool for safe delidding.

If frequency and hardware detection work well we can neglect screenshots. Offline verification is a must tho. Even at Caseking I can't just hook up a random rig to the internet.

We try to keep it as fair as possible but sometimes it's not perfect for everyone.

The futuremark sysinfo is not sufficient for proper verification. Frequency read-out is usually not correct.

We will have enough hardware No worries

Correct Plus you will use our hardware for the event.

man that is one of the funniest posts I've seen in a while hahaha

inb4 all 3Ds get 166 globals

@Massman maybe we should just disable the report function for him? Or maybe just ban him instead?