Massman

Fo' shizzle

You don't need a BIOS template or my settings to get your chip running, LOL. This board isn't much different from other boards BIOS-wise; certainly not more complicated. Sometimes you'll get 00 bios code, though. Quickest way to get rid of it is turn PSU off. After that, it should be back to C1.

FYI, although the theoretical balance between powerteam and user contribution to the team total is 10/1, in practice we noticed that it's pretty much 5/5. This means that it's not enough to just have a team with great amount of benchers covering a lot of bases, you'll also need benchers who can hit the high ranks. Both in powerteam global, powerteam hardware, but most certainly also in the user rankings. Fyi, having a lot of 2600K submissions isn't completely pointless. It's just that every user contribution that is not the best of the team in that specific ranking has 1/10th of the effect that it has today. Keep in mind, however, that the more benchmarks that are applicable for points, the more points you can gather with a single setup. For instance, with the 2600K a user could get hardware points in 7 processor benchmark rankings of R3, but with the recently added benchmarks in R3, that will be 10 benchmarks. It will become more clear once we can clearly show how scores and users are contributing to the team exacly in practice.

The Madshrimps have a public demo on May 21st with the X58A-OC mainboard, so I've been preparing this a bit. Testing first 990X ES tonight. Not a bad CPU, but definitly not the top. Next runs will be with better VGA (not 6950) and better memory (GTX2, I hope). Setup: - Core i7 990X ES - GIGABYTE X58A-OC - MSI Radeon 6950 Twin Frozr III - Coolermaster 1000W - 3x 2GB Adata XPG+ - Coldbug ~ -155°C with dual channel - Coldbug ~ -150°C with triple channel - Coldbug is very much related to VTT. Most optimal VTT is around 1.313V, from 1.395V and up, it's quite hard to get to -140°C . - AM3 max clock ~ 6550 MHz. 6600 will be doable when pushing really hard - Vantage CPU test clock ~ 6000MHz passed at 1.824V and -130°C. 6200MHz needs colder temperature, voltage doesn't really scale that well. - Uncore can be run at 5000MHz, but not much higher due to VTT/CB problem. - Vpll is best at 1.6V, lower is more instable. - Need to figure out how to enable more than 1.9V to see if frequency scale in AM3. Will post results to HWBOT once the Pro OC League is official. So, when official rev4 is here. Scores: - http://hwbot.org/blog/wp-content//437k.png - http://hwbot.org/blog/wp-content//6000.png - http://hwbot.org/blog/wp-content//434604.png http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1814081 Anyways, more testing soon!

Lowest 3DMark05, highest 3DMark11.

MSI MOA Vietnam 2011 online qualifier! - Date 05/02/2011 to 05/22/2011 - 3DMark 11 (Performance profile): overclocking and benchmarking to achieve the highest possible score - 3DMark05: DownClock and benchmarking to achieve the lowest possible score - Final Score: 3DMark 11 / 3DMark05 = Final Score - Top 2 will form one team and will attend MSI MOA APAC 2011 for Vietnam More information: http://vozforums.com/showthread.php?t=1932403

MSI MOA Thailand 2011 qualifier! - Online qualifier only - Date: May 8 to June 4. --- Session 1: May 8 to May 21. --- Session 2: May 22-June 4. - Intel X58 or Intel P55 (no P67!) - Competition Session 1: Super PI 32M result, CPU-Z (CPU / Memory / Motherboard / SPD tabs). - Competition Session 2: 3D mark Vantage result, GPU-Z, CPU-Z (CPU / Memory / Motherboard / SPD tabs). Winner goes to APAC final. More information: http://www.unlimitpc.com/gigotalk/showthread.php?t=17027

Feel free to post as much feedback as you want. I'm currently reading through other forums too and collecting all the feedback.

http://uat.hwbot.org/league/pro_oc Just updated manually. You're 21st. Out of 22.

L1 = F ?

No, I forgot to add the change to the code, so when Frederik installed a new update ... the changes didn't apply. I suck.

FX is socket L1, no?

1. Yes. The engine searches through your profile and looks for the 15 most rewarding global (global+3dwr) scores. It's possible that multiple scores come from the same benchmarks, eg: 2x CPU PCMark05 and 4x CPU PCMark05. All global rankings (benchmark and cores/gpu used) can be used to contribute to your profile. 2. Yes. A global ranking is completely different from a hardware ranking. The top-20 hardware scores are, just like the global scores, taken from your personal pool of hardware submissions. It's possible that one score is contributing through global and hardware points.

Wow, it must be hard to realize it doesn't matter where you go; you always suck. ()

Updated list in opening post - 21050 overclocking results - 970 overclockers - 254 mainboards - 91 mainboards used - 13 mainboard manufacturers - 10 chipsets

You have to manually select the ranking you want to play in here: http://uat.hwbot.org/profile/ Pretty cool to see how Pro OC works. Deanzo put a couple of big scores yesterday and would be 3rd in the league now! http://uat.hwbot.org/league/pro_oc

Backup power

The necessity to trick one subtest for 2+ core'd cpus. Hardware points means it's a benchmark that can be used for old-school processors, for instance.

The idea is to give hardware points to PCMark Vantage when Rev4 launches.

Interesting note for the AMD lovers out there. In the R3 version of the Overclockers League, the effect of hardware rankings was pretty minimal as there was a cap to 300. With the cap removed and the effect of hardware points determined by your 20 best (hardware) submissions, you can make your way to the top with AMD hardware too. For example: - 10th AMD Phenom II X4 955 BE SuperPI 32M = 23 points - 12th Intel Core i7 980X SuperPI 32M = 22,9 points In theory you can get as much as 1000 points from 20 #1 hardware submissions. //edit. The same goes for the multi-gpu overclockers. You no longer need to focus on the highly competitive single GPU rankings to score points, you can now also score points in the competitive dual gpu rankings. For example: - 5th 2x ATI Radeon HD 4870 3DMark06 = 16 points - 14th 1x Nvidia GeForce GTX 285 3Dmark05 = 15,9 points

Good question. First of all, it's important to understand the difference between a user ranking and a powerteam ranking. The user ranking is an hardware or global list of benchmark submissions filtered to show only the best score per user. Every single ranking of the current Rev3 is a user ranking. If you go to our test server and look for any random ranking, you can see a little filter that says: "best of: member | team". If you click on 'member', it will show you the user rankings. If you click on 'team' it will show you the 'powerteam ranking'. For each global and hardware ranking you currently find in rev3, there is a user and powerteam version in rev4. The points for a specific place in a user or powerteam ranking will be shown next to the submission. Currently this is not the case as the rankings need to be polished a bit. In any case, the way the powerteam points are calculated are very similar to the way the user points are calculated (both in rev3 and rev4): based on position within a ranking and the 'weight' or competitiveness of the ranking. In other words, the more teams are competing in a specific ranking, the more powerteam points you will get in the ranking. Note that just like the user ranking, the powerteam rankings are also split up based on amount of cores. The maximum theoretical points you can get per ranking are: - user, global = 150p - user, hardware = 50p - powerteam, global = 500p - powerteam, hardware = 150p As I mentioned in the opening post, the team points (on which the Teams League is based) are calculated as follows: Team points = SUM(all powerpoints) + [ SUM(all user points) / 10] In the current algoritm, the practical weight between user and powerpoints is +/_ fifty-fifty. By this I mean that you need a vast amount of user points in addition to the powerteam points to have a solid ranking. As for sharing. Note that the current hardware sharing rules are still applicable! So sharing a CPU for CPU benchmarks is not allowed, sharing a GPU for GPU benchmarks is not allowed, etc. The benefit of illegal hardware sharing has decreased by a factor of 10. Let me know if you have more questions. No worries, just look for a gym in the neighbourhood!

Non-retail silicon (like A0) is only allowed in Pro OC. ES of retail stepping (eg: B1 ES) is allowed in all categories.

I don't want to see your marketing spam of Cougar Power X

It would be cool to have a video service for HWBOT. I don't think we have the space to host videos, so maybe we should look for an alternative. Some website that allows users to upload relevant videos to one account, preferably linkeable to HWBOT accounts or so. Any ideas?

Sorry, missed the question. No. This for the simple reason that if Hicookie would get 50 extra points for winning GOOC WW 2011 and thus beating the ASUS guys, Hicookie would win GOOC. BUT! Maybe we can start with adding points and only remove the competition points if turns out manufacturers are in fact taking advantage of this?