Massman

Just to clarify - just like any other competition, after the competition window closes the staff goes over the submissions. Official announcement will come shortly, stay tune!

I don't believe there is a Z170-Pro non-K overclocking BIOS

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Whoah!

Nice!!

Ow, it's heating up!

Hey guys, So I got annoyed that it's actually quite difficult to find all relevant information on overclocking in a centralized place. There are some really great overclocking guides and videos out there and experienced users are sharing really solid information, but I don't always know where to look for it. So I figured I'd start collecting the information. @sdougal suggested we'd take it to another level and turn it into an overclocking Wiki. He wrote a lot of the introductory content for the Wiki ("what is overclocking") and we started from there. I just finished the typical lay-out for Skylake and wanted to share the project with you. By no means is this a finished project as it will take years to complete. I'm doing this in my spare time for now, so take it for what it is . Here are is the link: Overclocking Wiki Currently, we have the following pages drafted: Skylake overclocking Skylake overclocking - Overclocking Wiki What is Overclocking? What is overclocking - Overclocking Wiki Start Overclocking Start overclocking - Overclocking Wiki General Description of a PC Pc components general - Overclocking Wiki Benchmark applications http://wiki.hwbot.org/Benchmarks History http://wiki.hwbot.org/History :celebration:

The TV show is called "The Screensavers".

Do it @BeepBeep2! We all need to warm up for AM4 Little update: I swapped for a new CPU to see if I can get higher stable frequency. On this CPU I can get two of the four CUs idling at 8.1 GHz, so it's quite a bit better. I have a picture of 8.2G+, but no validation yet. Below more detailed information about the two CPUs: FX-8370 #1: 1432PGY 9DT0641I40165 Maximum validation: 8109.60 MHz Session 1: -150c, 1.7V, 264HTT | CU#0, 28x | CU#1, 28x | CU#2, 27.5x | CU#3 28x Session 1: Full pot, 1.85V, 264HTT | CU#0, 30x | CU#1, 31x | CU#2, 30.5x | CU#3 29.5x Session 1: Full pot, 1.95V, 266HTT | CU#1, 30.5x | CU#2, 31x FX-8370 #2: 1421PGS 9DA2011H40148 Maximum validation: 8066.86 MHz Session 1: -150c, 1.7V, 250HTT | CU#0, 27x | CU#1, 28x | CU#2, 28x | CU#3 28x Session 1: Full pot, 1.8V, 250HTT | CU#0, 29x | CU#1, 29x | CU#2, 30x | CU#3 30x Session 1: Full pot, 1.95V, 250HTT | CU#0, 29x | CU#1, 29x | CU#2, 30x | CU#3 31x Session 2: Full pot, 1.8V, 250HTT | CU#3 31x Session 3: -150c, 1.7V, 265HTT | CU#3 26.5x Session 3: Full pot, 1.95V, 265HTT | CU#3 30.5x There should be a bit more in the new CPU. Validation at 8.2GHz should be very possible. I also uploaded @elmor's AM3 ratio tool which I'm using to set the ratios. The tool allows you to set the ratio for all cores together or each core independently. If you configure one core, the others will drop to the lowest available ratio (7x). Download link: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/tools/am3_pcratio_v01.zip

I received a message yesterday that all the prizes arrived at MSI to be shipped out. Sorry for the waiting - it takes a while to organize the logistics of prizes. Should be shipping by the end of the week!

Wow, this is going to be a heavily contested qualifier. Best of luck guys!

Made a small update of the graph with the latest data

@fredyama would probably have a lot of information on this topic. I don't think a lot of the young overclockers are aware of how extensive the Japanese scene was in 2000 and before. You can also have a look at the blogs using Web Archive. A good place to start digging is Bunny's Workshop. He's got blog material dating back to 1998(!) https://web.archive.org/web/20010124003200/http://www16.big.or.jp/~bunnywk/. Also Sanbe's blog seems to have quite a bit of links: https://web.archive.org/web/20010129052500/http://www.sunshine.ne.jp/~sanbe/ Here's an entry I found on Holicho's blog from December 2000 mentioning LN2: https://web.archive.org/web/20001018124734/http://holicho.lib.net/ Here's an entry from "Sakae" running SuperPI 1M on a P2-450 at 640MHz back in 1999 (which would still be #3 in the Hardware Ranking) https://web.archive.org/web/20000901043203/http://www.hm.aitai.ne.jp/~sakae/manji/superpi8.htm Here's a blog entry from Tatumiya stating -158c as operating temperature for validation: https://web.archive.org/web/20040812055007/http://www.clio.ne.jp/home/tatumiya/index.htm Here's a picture of a Pentium 2 LN2 pot from the year 2000 https://web.archive.org/web/20021202183658/http://www.geocities.co.jp/SiliconValley-SanJose/7039/jyouren.html

Small fluctuations are possible depending on the monitoring software. For Sandy Bridge overclocking, make sure you've enabled PLL override to get higher frequencies. I don't think this will fix your current problem, but I want to share it with you anyway. Without PLL override you'd be able to set a certain ratio and boot, but it will not boot into the operating system.

Didn't try the chip on any other board. The 970 Pro Gaming VRM was designed to be at least equal to the one of the Crosshair and extra effort was put in to make sure it was compatible with the most common overclocking memory ICs. No complaints here! (just for full disclosure: it was provided to me to try and test. A couple of post above I also disclosed what other boards I tested prior to this one)

Probably the Japanese, although the Finnish overclockers (Sampsa, Macci, The Stilt, Kamu) were early too

Cool, thanks, updated! I based my data on the wcpuid and cpu-z databases along with HWBOT data. If you find more accurate data, feel free to contribute!

I spent some time on this for a presentation 8794.33 19/11/2012 AndreYang http://valid.x86.fr/lpza4n 8709 1/11/2011 AndreYang CPU Frequency 8429.38 2/09/2011 macci CPU Frequency 8308.94 19/08/2011 TaPaKaH CPU Frequency 8242 23/09/2010 duck http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?260300-Over-8-2GHz-CPU-Z 8199.5 18/01/2010 TiN CPU Frequency 8182.7 24/10/2009 AndreYang CPU Frequency 8180.4 20/07/2007 duck http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=218928 8179.89 30/03/2007 ThuG CPU Frequency 8000.1 22/01/2007 ThuG http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=159553 7791.79 21/01/2007 ThuG http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=159281 7533 6/12/2005 Duck http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?82284-New-WR-P4-670-7-533G 7473.75 13/11/2005 Kyosen http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=50149 7132.82 10/08/2005 Memesama http://news.softpedia.com/news/7GHz-Pentium-6202.shtml 6578.85 7/06/2005 The Stilt http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=21876 6244.09 1/03/2005 Carson http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=4825 6009 25/05/2004 The Stilt http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?42655-The-magic-Six-(6GHz)-has-been-broken&highlight=alien 5326.36 2/01/2004 Memesama https://web.archive.org/web/20040212235704/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 5255 30/12/2003 Frank Volkel http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/5-ghz-project,731.html 5125.91 3/07/2003 TAM https://web.archive.org/web/20030811084051/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 4762.4 24/05/2003 OMEGA https://web.archive.org/web/20030601105935/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 4438.35 17/11/2002 Ja0hxv https://web.archive.org/web/20021216024625/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 4424.99 15/09/2002 Holicho https://web.archive.org/web/20021007005236/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 4339 29/08/2002 Muropaketti https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10476/Ekstremalnyj_razgon_po-finski..html 4309.62 19/08/2002 https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10459/Novyj_rekord_razgona_Pentium_4.html 4244.7 10/07/2002 Son https://web.archive.org/web/20020808141238/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 4110 14/04/2002 Holicho https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10313/Pentium_4_4.11_GGc....html 4010.88 29/03/2002 Holicho https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10278/Est_4_GGc.html 3890.79 22/03/2002 Tatumiya https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10253/Rekordnyj_razgon_Pentium_4....html 3808.91 23/01/2002 Holicho https://web.archive.org/web/20020214092459/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 3702.55 19/01/2002 Tatumiya https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10020/Yaponcy_nanosyat_otvetnyj_udar_Ili_net_....html 3675 16/01/2002 Sampsa https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10015/Esche_bolee_ekstremalnyj_razgon_Northwood_iz_Finlyandii....html 3542 14/01/2002 Holicho https://www.overclockers.ru/hardnews/10001/Ekstremalnyj_razgon_Northwood....html 3391.12 7/11/2001 Eric https://web.archive.org/web/20011208112455/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 3027.41 9/10/2001 Holicho https://web.archive.org/web/20011031182019/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 2804.99 29/03/2001 Holicho https://web.archive.org/web/20010410075619/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 2027.03 14/01/2001 HIDE https://web.archive.org/web/20010203121700/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html 1612.66 3/09/2000 HIDE https://web.archive.org/web/20001017192630/http://son.t-next.com/wcpuid/wcpuid.html

Some quick guesses here. 1) Keyboard: is num lock enabled? If not, it's possible your keyboard is not supported by UEFI. Keyboard/mouse compatibility is more problematic that most people think. Try another one, possibly using another USB port. 2) XTU: probably related to the version you're using. Officially Intel only supports the latest three platforms in XTU. Sandy Bridge is hence not supported anymore. In @xxbassplayerxx's version library you can find v5.2.0.14 which is both compatible with Sandy Bridge and can still verify the scores online.

Not so sure, I had another chip here and it wasn't doing 8G. But it might be my skills Yup. That's what you get when overclockers like Elmor get to co-develop boards

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Yes, CU #3 is the strongest. For some reason CPU-Z is reading all cores at 8G+, but I don't think they're actually at this frequency. I tried clocking all together and it crashed at 28x268 MHz or so.

Small improvement Massman`s CPU Frequency score: 8066.86 mhz with a FX-8370

On AM3(+) I had the most experience with the 990FXA-UD7 and this 970 Pro Gaming/AURA. I must say that the 990FXA-UD7 (pre-UEFI) was a rock-solid board back in the day in terms of getting high frequency as well as stability with all 8 cores enabled. Even for high HTT and high memory frequency it was a all-round solid board. I used a couple boards and they all behaved similarly. The 970 Pro Gaming/AURA is the latest iteration of the AM3+ boards and for benching it behaves as good as the 990FXA-UD7, if not better. Its major advantage is the tuning for Samsung memory and stability at 300+ MHz HTT. I mean, 333 MHz HTT with DDR3-2666C9 at 5G SPI-32M on air is quite amazing. I also tried the 990FXA-UD3 briefly which I recall doing quite well too.