Massman

Updated the thread and added Richland core to the database.

Fire Strike Extreme

Interesting opinions. I get very different responses explaining the ideas behind the pro oc cup face to face. Anyway, let's use a premium example of the Corsair OC event: The first three stages was with hardware provided by Intel and Corsair. The other eight was with the hardware you could bring by yourself. Andre/TL had the best CPU - by far - and spammed it through all the available rankings to gain exactly eight times USD $1000. This is the old Pro OC League in a live competition. Was that fun for the competitors? Nope. Was it interesting for any non-ROG fanboys to watch? Nope. Was it great for the organisers? Nope. In the end, it was the same situation where one guy/team spams one setup through a selection of benchmarks and just wins everything. Regardless of the required skill and preparation needed to pull this off - preparation is essential to complete this killing spree - it's just a one-man show. It doesn't matter how much benchmarks you add for points. In an open and neverending league, it all eventually boils down to making time to run all benchmarks. It is no surprise the Cup has not been much different from the old league. There has only been one so far. It was also designed to resemble the Pro League to some extend. Would've, should've, could've.

Looking forward to ban people .

Hey guys, For those coming to the gigabyte gathering tomorrow, there are two options. Either take the green MRT line to Xindian and get off at Qizhang or Dapinglin and then walk to the office or have the taxi take you there. The address and directions: http://www.gigabyte.com/about-gigabyte/contact-us.aspx

Good thread! After Computex the rules will be finalised for MOA. In my opinion, the GTX Titan and GTX780 should both be allowed. The Titan was allowed in the AOCC qualifier as well, so why not for MSI. As for the platform, I reckon it makes sense to allow any platform for Class A again. Anyway, those will be my recommendations.

The rules are like they were for Ivy Bridge and before. In that thread I merely made a suggestion ... no rules were changed.

Not all ES are acquired illegally ... Different competitions have different rules. In some competitions Titan is allowed, in some they are not. In some competitions you need to use a (only-available-in-Asia) Galaxy graphics card and in some you don't. HWBOT is not the biggest catalyst for the illegal ES circuit. Except for Gulftown and first-gen Conroe, allowing ES and retail gave everyone the same chances! In fact, for the last couple of generations the ES people were in quite a big disadvantage.

Let's jump in this thread and say you also have to vote beta bioses out because those are technically engineering versions too. Single GPU has been transformed into "mainstream dual gpu" - cost for VGA should be about the same. ES Haswell is of course more than allowed.

On a sidenote, QE6S = QS QEH6 = QS Prime QEH6 resembles full retail overclocking capability and should actually be regarded as retail. These should be the ones reviewers get. QE6S was supposed to be QS but had some issues with the fiVR which had to be fixed (limited to 1.65V vcore or so). ASRock and ASUS have a solution for the QE6S, the other vendors don't. If you ask Intel, QEH6 = retail and QE6S is not. It is not possible to differentiate between QEH6 and QE6S in CPU-Z as both carry a product SKU number. Some QE6S are better than QEH6, but it kind of depends. In the Corsair OC event we saw two QEH6 clocked to 6.8G+ CPUZ. Just some bits of information ...

I've heard similar complaints of "coldslow'-type issues, not never seen an isolated case. Interesting topic!

As far as I know, average ES is still about the same like average retail. There is one specific batch that is slightly better for ES, but actually there are already a couple of 6.5G retail 3D chips floating around. Or to put it differently: ES is not per definition better than retail. It is just about binning. Apparently 7/100 retails are 6.5G.

Anyone up for making a huge "oc computex" group picture? What about Friday at Gskill booth around noon?

Alright guys. Tomorrow Nangang GSKILL booth around noon-ish! Oh, sorry. I meant to say I haven't seen any Costa Rica's yet. Damn, I'm tired

Single sided MFR + LN2 on memory.

Huh! Weird. I had it working with i7 2600K. Can you add the following registry manuall? [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Wow6432Node\Intel\XTUService] "Community"=dword:00000001

You can post them in here

Can you scroll down on the System Info page and show the XTU version you're running?

Yeah, haven't seen any Malay chips yet. Apparently the UK guys already have a couple of 6.5G 3D retails.

Should be fixed

Just as a reminder, if you are planning on competing you need to upload one score per team to register for the competition before July 1st. Also, you have to join a Pro OC team if you have not done that yet. I'll post a news item up later this week once the Pro OC Ranking page is fully finished (and not just at 0pts)

Kicked off!