Massman

Hah! Good catch

I'll schedule a build now. So it'll be up and running in ~ 8/9 hours.

I'm waiting for the public release of Rev4. I will join the Pro OC League and then I'll enable points for this. The reason is quite simple: the hardware used for this score fits the idea and concept of the Pro OC League.

I wouldn't even dare to tell anyone what to bench! I want to grab the opportunity to point out that there is a difference between 'telling people who and what to bench' and 'designing a league so it's challenging for those who want to participate'. I think we had this discussion right before Rev3 launched too. Designing the league is basically setting up a few algoritms to make the league as competitive as possible. These algoritms are supposed to fit closely to the the main concept and key principles you want to apply to the league. Now, for each type of league, the design will 'tell' users what to bench to be competitive. Even if there would be no limitation to global or hardware, the design would still be telling users how to bench. In this case, for instance, the design of the league would say to users 'bench as much as possible' as there is no limit to global or hardware points. Now, the design of the Overclockers League can change over time. In revision 3, for instance, we put at lot of stress on the global points and very few stress on the hardware points. In Rev4, this balance will be around 50/50. In other words: the new design is allowing users who are nailing #1 spots in competitive hardware rankings to compete at the top of the league. Even AMD-only overclockers can be competitive in this design! The 2D/3D benchmark ratio for the Overclockers League can be seen in the same light. The principle for this rule could be: "the Overclockers League should be displaying the best allround overclocker". Following that principle, a fixed 2D/3D ratio can help finding the best allround overclocker. But, this is not for Rev4.0! Just something we can keep in the back of our heads. There is a fine line between 'giving people an opportunity' and 'telling them what to bench'. I think it just depends on how you look at the design: negative people will see it as yet-another way of hwbot to control the way you overclocking, positive people will see it as a new way to compete and work your way to the top. In any case, HWBOT is absolutely not trying to control the way people enjoy the overclocking game. In fact, I would even say that the leagues and the points are not important. If you don't like the league, no problem: just don't look at it and bench for your team. If you do like the league: have fun with the design and do your best to get the best position you can get.

"epic fail contest" Luckily, we're not aiming for huge participant ratios with the HWBOT OC Challenges. Just aiming for having fun and giving peeps who normally are not in the spotlights a chance to show off their skills or not so common systems.

As promised - the results. SETUP: - Intel Core i7 990X - GIGABYTE X58A-OC - 2x AMD Radeon HD 6990 (1x GIGABYTE, 1x Sapphire) - Corsair Dominator GTX2 (thank you, Leeghoofd) - Corsair AX1200 (again, thank you Leeghoofd) - Samsung HDD The CPU was clocking like expected: 6400 in 3DMarks, 6000 for 3DMark Vantage. Too bad the cards couldn't be pushed further due to me lacking the right software. Luckily, the main focus of this event was not efficiency or top scores, but just showing off a 6.4GHz 990X with liquid nitrogen. Once again, thanks to Tones for hosting this event! SCORES [hwbot=2171795]submission[/hwbot] [hwbot=2171799]submission[/hwbot] [hwbot=2171802]submission[/hwbot] [hwbot=2171798]submission[/hwbot]

Welcome Munkhtur! Any chance you can help the overclocking community to learn more about the Mongolian community? Are there any local OC forums? Some pictures of your bench rooms etc?

The SOC one will probably not work if it's not reference design. I'll try to find some peeps who want to provide 560 and 550 ti BIOSes.

Sweet:)

Hehe, no. Fun day, will post comments and scores tomorrow (extremely tired now)

Wow, nice and clean system!

I think eventually we'll have to move to a fixed balance between 2D and 3D benchmarks anyway. Thebanik brings up a fair point.

Quoting this because it's true. FFS, it's a (small) bug on stock settings. How come no other reviewer caught this. People need to step up their game ...

Heyo Boys and Girls !! Tomorrow, the men (yes, men!!) from Madshrimps are heading out to the Belgian 'most powerful computer shop) TONES to help with/ host the second edition of the Tones Overclock Academy. Just like last time, 8 enthusiasts are invited to an exclusive session with the Madshrimps 'oc experts'. In return for their undivided attention, we'll give them a crash course in overclocking, extreme overclocking and of course explain them how benchmarking works. This time 'round, our main partner is GIGABYTE! Thanks to the efforts of the local marketing Guru Sibren, we were able to set up 3 X58A-OC platforms for the enthusiasts to play with. Fun, fun, fun! PLANNING: - introduction of the X58A-OC board, including an overview on the features - crash course in X58 overclocking - food, drinks, and more of that stuff - have a (friendly) competition to find out who's got the biggest(*) - introduction to extreme overclocking: insulation, dangers, benefits and so on - extreme overclocking demonstration SETUP: - Intel Core i7 930, 975, 990X (OC for all chips!) - GIGABYTE X58A-OC - GIGABYTE G1 Assassin (need comparison to show how OC board kicks ass) - GIGABYTE Radeon HD 6990 - GTX 580 Direct CU II - Kingston DDR3-1600CL9 memory - Antec High Current Gamer 750W And of course some prizes. PICTURES and VIDEO Here are a few quick shots I took with my cell phone. I'm sure Leeghoofd has much better quality pictures!

You bought one?

None have reached my inbox so far. It shouldn't be too difficult to make those; just ask your contacts

How's the flash procedure of this BIOS? AAAARRRGGH!! Now you remind me? After I'm done benching? CCC limit override? Nothing so far.

Nothing received so far. Super! - GTX 570 Reference coldslow bios: http://91.121.148.119/downloads/VGABIOS/570refcs.rom

Works here?

Sure, send to my email and I will put it here . I don't see one. Everyone at hwbot is running at low clocks, so I can only imagine no one has one.

Don't think they've ever been posted in public

Collecting all the coldslow BIOSes. If you have others, don't hesitate to either post them here or mail them to pieterjanplaisier@hwbot.org if you want to remain anonymous. BIOS - 7800 GTX coldbug BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/7800gtxrefcb.rom - HD 3870 Reference pll fixed BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/3870refpll.103 - 9800 GTX coldbug BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/9800gtxrefcb.ROM - 9800 GX2 Reference coldbug BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/9800gx2.rar - HD 4890 Reference coldscaling (fixpll) BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/4890refpll.bin - GIGABYTE GTX 460 Super Overclock coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/460soccs.rom - MSI GTX 460 Hawk coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/460hawkcs.rom - ASUS GTX 465 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/465refcs.rom - ASUS GTX 470 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/470refcs.rom - ASUS GTX 480 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/480refcs.rom - GIGABYTE GTX 480 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/480refgbtcs.rom - GIGABYTE GTX 480 SOC coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/480soccs.ROM - MSI GTX 480 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/480refmsics.rom - MSI GTX 560 Ti Hawk coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/560tihawkcs.rom - MSI GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/560titfcs.rom - MSI GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr III coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/msi560ti448tf3ln2.rom - MSI GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr III PE coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/msi560ti448tf3peln2.rom - GTX 570 Reference coldslow bios: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/570refcs.rom - ASUS GTX 580 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580refcs.rom - ASUS GTX 580 Direct CU II coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580dcucs.ROM (unlocked to 2GHz core freq) - ASUS GTX 580 Matrix coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580matrixcs.rom - Gainward GTX 580 Phantom coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580phantomcs.ROM - GIGABYTE GTX 580 Reference coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580refgigabytecs.rom - MSI GTX 580 Lightning coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580lcs.bin - MSI GTX 580 Lightning Extreme coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580lecsV256142.rom - Palit GTX 580 Sonic (Reference) coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/580refpalitpcscs.rom - MSI Radeon HD 7790 (reference) ln2 coldslow BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/msiRef7790ln2.sb - MSI Radeon HD 7870 Hawk ovp BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/7870hawkovp.sb - AMD Radeon HD 7970 (reference) xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/Tahiti_XT_C3860100_X00_BIOS_Dec20_2011.exe - ASUS Radeon HD 7970 DirectCU-II 3D BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/7970dcu23d.bin - GIGABYTE Radeon HD 7970TO xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/R797TO3D_OC - MSI GeForce GTX 760 Hawk (Elpida) xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/760HawkElpida.140 - MSI GeForce GTX 760 Hawk (Hynix) xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/760HawkHynix.112 - MSI GeForce GTX 780 Lightning xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/780LightningMoa.200 - ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti Direct CU II xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/780tidcu2ln2.rom - EVGA GeForce GTX 780 Ti Kingpin Edition xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/780tiKpXoc.rom - Nvidia GeForce GTX 780 Ti (reference) xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/780tirefln2.rom - GIGABYTE GeForce GTX 780 Ti (reference) xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/780tirefln2_v2.rom (fixed memory oc) - Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan (reference) xtreme oc BIOS: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/VGABIOS/GK110XOC.rom Tools - ASUS Matrix GTX 580 tools: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/tools/asus_gtx580_pack.rar - GIGABYTE SOC tool: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/tools/N580SO_SW.rar - ASUS GeForce GTX 780 Ti Direct CU II Disable OCP/OVP: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/tools/Disable780TIDCU2ocp.zip - EVGA EVBOT Flash Tool (for 780Ti KP edition): downloads/tools/EVBOTFlashTool1030_780i31.zip - Nvidia PowerMizer Manager 1.01: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/tools/NVPMManagerUni.exe Mod Guides - OC Guide for Gainward GTX 580: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/PDF/OC_Guide_for_GW_GTX 580_2011-08-19.pdf - ASUS GTX780/780Ti DCU2 OV Rework SOP: http://downloads.hwbot.org/downloads/PDF/ASUS%20GTX780-780TI%20DCU2%20OV%20Rework%20SOP.docx

WRONG! Macci doesn't live in NA anymore

Asus P5E aka Maximus Formula aka Rampage Formula ?

But, they can't all be "a leading" manufacturer, right? I mean, it doesn't even make sense logically: if everyone is leading, then there are no followers. So technically, no one is leading anyone.