Massman

Final date is still to be determined. Not fixed yet.

The F1 organisation or FIA aren't paying for the cars either. I understand your opinion fully. I often see people who could be perfectly competing with those "fully" sponsored corporate overclockers, but strike out only because resources/time and so on. That's something really difficult to battle and I don't see it get any better in the future if marketing teams keep focussing on the short-term "world record" PR ideals. That hunt for "world-records" is what is driving a lot of the marketing departments, regardless of the impact it has on the community. We all know WR requires super-binned hardware and industry sources ... and only a few can have those . The first effect of the new Pro competition style can already be seen today. Do you remember the idea to make a buffer for new hardware launches to prevent pre-release hardware to dominate the Pro ranking (link)? With the Cup, this problem is solved. The scores from the past Cup are as valuable today as they were before the Haswell launch and the scores for Haswell will only be of value at the end of the current Cup. Too bad no one has caught onto this effect yet . Just like with anything in life, the change needs a bit of time to get traction. From what I gather of the meetings at Computex, the Cup is a lot easier to explain and understand by marketing (= "funding") teams. Most of them would like to join in on sponsorships for teams. It will be a matter of figuring out a good procedure to manage the sponsorships, which is something the "drivers" should figure out I think. I can help making the connections, though.

ES isn't that different from retail on air cooling, actually.

Both are in semi

OEM only, afaik. Can't imagine the BIOS to be any good. It requires a really dedicated team of developers to get a BIOS solid.

Interesting. Der8auer mentioned there was a ROG shortage in Germany as well. The Hero board is available in Belgium too, I see. So just a Taiwan thing, then!

Hey all, Went to the local hardware area in Taipei and couldn't find a single ROG Z87 board in stock. Most of the boards were Giga and MSI, also found a couple of Asus golden boards. But no ROG. Is this just for Taiwan or a global thing?

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... and that's why some companies get ahead of others. Same story with Shamino, actually (although his talents are in a different field). No offense to you. I know the people who make these decisions are in completely different departments and there's more than just "enthusiast" as requirement.

You're right. Re-doing them now. Sorry for this mistake, people! :(

Not sure, upto MSI to decide.

Woops, slight oversight on my behalf. Adding you to the list now, apoligies!

Honestly, I don't know why no company is hiring you as addition to the RD team. You not only managed to "out-code" every single AMD ODM BIOS team, but now also managed to figure out a fix for a benchmark that made AMD look superslow compared to previous products. Have you declined offers?

Both Nvidia and MSI are fine.

Awesome! I might try that 8G FX-8350 again

I don't know because I'm not shipping the boards. MSI has the contact information, it's up to them. I assume this week or early next week.

Just found this in the retail package, but imho the voltages are a bit too high for "safety" or even reference settings. I'm trying out the "fun" reference of 1.3V at 4.5G profile and my CPU is not stable. "Easy" works.

Bye bye.

Beats me. I had all Sandy Bridge benched on the beta versions ...

Sandbag impossible

Nvidia can be hex edited, no problem.

Added it to the FAQ http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=76091

Added: "How can I save my score to upload later?" Saving a benchmark result to upload later is quite simple: Run the benchmark Click on Save in the lower right corner (image) Enter a name for your saved profile/score (image) Go to the Profile tab and click on the saved score (image) Click on Export Profile and save the profile/score on a local disk (image) Go to the HWBOT website to upload the score manually (image) Step1 Step2 Step3 Step4 Step5

Seems like the benchmark option is not available on Sandy Bridge. It was originally planned to be available, but must have been cut in the final stages. I will update the guide with this information and add support for 2nd generation Sandy Bridge for the next revision.

Solid score! How do you like the benchmark?