Massman

Or Perica

There we go. A relaxing contest for most teams, I think.

In the past 4 years, the 'prize' included: travel expenses + hotel + lunch/dinner arrangements. So, technically, you could have a free trip. But if you want to go out or visit another place in Taipei that's on your own expense of course. IIRC, Ivy Bridge was actually supposed to launch in the beginning of April. Intel postponed it, though, so ... you really should be blaming Intel for this one

April 3rd. Earlier this evening, I drove to Leeghoofd's place to test a couple of BBSE sticks. They couldn't do C6-9-6 on the board I had, so had to verify and test on a different platform. Arriving in Leeghoofd's insanely large mansion, greeting his wife and dozen mistresses, replying "no thanks, I'm the driver" when the butler offered me a glass of champagne and congratulating Leeghoofd on the latest yacht he bought (it really is a beauty), I came across this nice set of GSkill RipjawsZ F3-19200CL9Q-16GBZMD ... ... unopened! I guess you probably all know it, but outside of HWBOT, I actually am a first class bad-ass, a true gangster of the worst kind, a stock broker with no mercy. So, as no one was paying attention to this unopened and untouched box of magic, I could not resist kindly asking Leeghoofd if I could take them home with me to test out. Of course, he first said 'no', but after I threatened with potentially very loud crying, holding my breath until I would die and the longest hunger strike in human history, I was given a candy bar as well as the permission to take them home with me. I finished the candy bar hours ago, so I guess it's time to have a look the pictures I took! Pictures of the candy bar ... mmmm ... so delicious ... Pictures of the memory kit But, onto the real stuff now. Here are some pictures of the kit. ... mmmm ... also so delicious ... must resist eating ... Test setup - Core i7 3930K (thx Tones) - AMD Bulldozer FX-8120 - Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 (F5, F8m) - MSI X79A-GD65 8D (1.7b2) - Rampage IV Extreme (0018) - Gskill memory (see topic title) - Windows 7 - GeForce 8400GS (epic rendering of 2D desktop wallpaper) - Air cooling - Ln2 cooling (later) Tests A. With MSI X79A-GD65 8D - DDR3-2520 (1.72V) C9-11-11-31 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2600 (1.72V) C10-12-12-32 (162MHz BCLK) SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2610 (1.73V) C10-12-12-32 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2610 (1.73V) C10-12-12-32 Y-Cruncher (15GB): click Board has a memory MHz wall around 2610MHz. Hopefuly a new BIOS will fix that B. With Rampage IV Extreme - DDR3-2300 (1.77V) C8-11-11-28 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2400 (1.80V) C8-12-12-30 CPU-Z Validation: click - DDR3-2634 (1.75V) C10-12-12-31 Y-Cruncher (15GB): click, click - DDR3-2640 (1.81V) C9-12-12-31 CPU-Z Validation: -- will upload later -- - DDR3-2640 (1.82V) C9-12-12-31 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2644 (1.75V) C10-12-12-31 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2666 (1.73V) C10-12-12-31 CPU-Z Validation: click - DDR3-2666 (1.73V) C10-12-12-31 SuperPI 32M: click C. Info on IMC temperature and memory overclocking Seems like we need to push the temperature far into the positives to get nice memory frequencies on Sandy Bridge-E. For fun, I tested the maximum frequency with LN2 and ended up with Pi-32M stable at DDR3-2666 at 70°C ... D. With Gigabyte 990FXA-UD7 (AMD) - DDR3-2608 (1.77V) C10-12-12-34 SuperPI 32M: click - DDR3-2608 (1.77V) C10-12-12-34 Aida64: click - DDR3-2710 (1.77V) C10-12-12-30 CPU-Z Validation: click Conclusion This kit actually surprised me a bit. I tested some DDR3-2400 rated kits in the past and usually overclocking didn't go too well. This one seems to be capable of more than what I reached so far as the IMC of this Sandy Bridge-E CPU is not able to surpass DDR3-2640 (which is already quite nice). I'm looking forward to test this kit on Ivy Bridge platform in the next couple of weeks. Stay tuned! (ps: also check other people's test reports and reviews to have an even better view on the capabilities of this kit) The award! I'm giving 10/10 to Leeghoofd for providing me this kit of Gskill memory! About the award: MMB+ stands for Meaningless Marketer Bonus Plus (meaningless refering to the award, not the marketer!). The award has no value outside this forum and is not related to the product quality in any way. It's merely to please the person who gives me a kit to test and help him/her to show an award to their boss. This way, me not giving a damn about awards will never harm anyone in terms of yearly bonus. If you want to know how the product really is, read the thread and read other reviews. So, seriously, this award is pretty meaningless. //EDIT: Addendum Here are the screens of further testing:

April fools!! (It's coming)

Found this one just now (~ http://hwbot.org/forum/showpost.php?p=103135&postcount=33)

Just realized ... Spa is not at Computex.

Afaik, Z77 will be on sale officially on April 8th (so in time for the contest).

The details for the competition will be on the competition page. In short, you'll need: link and screenshot. Hwbot rules apply, so tesselation tuning is allowed.

63x . There's no maximum MP limitation for this competition. SuperPI only has 15% weight, so there's more weight on the GPU.

Meh, I like everything in one thread. I've updated the opening post, though

- Evga X79 Classified --- 035: download - Evga X79 FTW --- 035: download - Evga X79 SLI --- 035: download - Asus Sabertooth X79 --- 1009: download - Asus P9X79 --- 1009: download - Intel DX79SI --- 0460: download - Intel DX79TO --- 0460: download

Alright, let's kick off this year's MSI Master Overclocking Arena! The official PR will be released at the end of this week, but obviously we'll leak the info a little early. Here's what the PR says, scroll down for more practical info: The Practical Stuff - Online Qualifiers Alright, so there will be 3 online qualifiers: Americas, EMEA and APAC. They will be running in different time frames and are also a little different in terms of qualification for the Grand Final later this year. Americas: 13/04 - 10/05, best of 3 continue EMEA: 18/05 - 14/06, best of 5 continue APAC: 15/06 - 19/07, best of 4 continue Fyi, there are no limitations on the amount of teams that can qualify per country. Ie, if the best 3 teams from the Americas qualifier are all from Bolivia, then 3 Bolivian teams will be in the MOA 2012 final. The Practical Stuff - Benchmark and hardware limitations As usual, the qualifiers have a couple of benchmarks and hardware limitations. The benchmarks each have a different weight in the calculation (weight applied to point algorithm). 3DMark11: 60 - 43,2 - 38,4 - 36 - 33,6 - 31,2 - 28,8 - 26,4 - 24 - 21,6 - 19,2 - 16,8 - 14,4 - 12 - 9,6 - 7,2 - 4,8 - 2,4 - 0 - 0 - ... 3DMark03: 25 - 18 - 16 - 15 - 14 - 13 - 12 - 11 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 7 - 6 - 5 - 4 - 3 - 2 - 1 - 0 - 0 - ... SuperPI 32M: 15 - 10,8 - 9,6 - 9 - 8,4 - 7,8 - 7,2 - 6,6 - 6 - 5,4 - 4,8 - 4,2 - 3,6 - 3 - 2,4 - 1,8 - 1,2 - 0,6 - 0 - 0 - ... Fairly straight forward. As for the hardware limitations: single CPU videocard single GPU videocard only MSI mainboards only MSI graphics cards no ES samples allowed, only retail hardware used must be released before the start of the competition (note: commercial NDA, not media NDA!) the usage of Virtu MVP is not allowed Since Ivy Bridge will launch at the end of April (29th according to the rumours), they are not eligible for the Americas qualifier. For the EMEA and APAC qualifiers, they will be allowed. The Practical Stuff - Get Lost You Sandbagger! We all know how online competitions usually work, so for the MOA 2012 we will implement an elemination cut to force those annoying sandbaggers to play their cards a little earlier in the game. The elimination will take place after 75% of the competition (we'll provide exact date, time, timezone) and will only allow the 15 best overall ranked to continue submitting. If you don't make the top-15 cut, you will no longer be allowed to submit in the rest of the competition. Note that the scores of the eliminated participants are still valid for the competition. So, if someone only submits the highest SuperPI-32M score and gets eliminated, you'll still have to beat that score to get the 15 points. That's all for now, more info to follow. Good luck :celebration:

Bug added to bugtracker. Might be related to an underlying issue.

It's Intel inability/disinterest to control their hardware. Z77 has been in retail for a while; Ivy 3770Ks are too.

Currently you can still use the search function to find the records, right? A bit more work, but at least you get the figures. I'll add it to the issue tracker, but it's not high priority.

Z77 is up for sale already, I think. Not Ivy, though. Well ... you can find them already even though it's not allowed to sell them yet.

No, I just their Airport. OC Show?

You need to update rig

(related to: http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=43383)

It's actually a strange bug.

No one playing ? Seems like a nice chance to grab 3 brand new Z77 boards for the team

Moved.

Moved from another thread. You can get to know each other better in the off-topic section