Massman

Okay, this is a seriously awesome board. Normally I don't get overly excited about products (as most of them are pretty much the same), but this one has made me go 'holy shit' during a Pi32M run again. Switched to Thuban - 400HTT no problemo ... and more incoming. (but it's too expensive)

High-class of Sniper to withdraw his scores! Simply amazed to see someone do this . FTW will be contacted by GBT soon.

It's partially CPU, but it's as much mainboard, bios and memory as it is CPU. With the GD70 I couldn't get 370 on LN2, with the C4E I can get 390 on SS. With the Kingston memory set I have here I can not pass 310HTT 1:2 on single stage, but with the GTX2 I could do 340HTT 1:2.

Also ... open categories are easier to set up (). In the HWBOT Country Cup, one of the stages was Core i7 with fixed max multiplier of 20x. This allowed everyone from 920 to 975 to compete.

It's CPU, MB, Bios and MEM dependant ... This chip could do 342 1:2 and 325 3:8 on the 790FX-GD70 on single stage; on C4E with same cooling and memory it can do 350 3:8 and 390 1:2 ... now someone tell me it's 'CPU related'.

Specifying to GPU/VGA gives as nasty side-effect that more people will actually have to buy new hardware to compete. Using more general limitations allows more people to give it a shot. You do realize that the idea behind multi-stage team competitions is that it's encouraging teams to work together to take the win, right?

Haven't really pushed the HTT on air. Raw HTT is meaningless anyway ... there's no performance in running single channel

No, I just saw you are now ranked in top-20 so you've switched to priority mode.

All screenshots with less than 1.4V are air cooling, the ones with more than 1.5V are with single stage

Should we add fields for things like cooling device, HDD, PSU etc? We've got a sweet idea for getting batch integrated on HWBOT. I'm genuinly excited to see how RB will implent this one ...

This I like:

What's the Virus scan in this run?

Yeah, I fixed the amount of cores, hoping that the engine would rescan them automatically. Apparently it doesn't ...

Nice! Probeer eens met Windows Vista/7 ... zou normaal je score nog wat moeten boosten.

You cracked the code - I don't feel for the community. The second set of X5687 results were submitted incorrectly yesterday, just now I set them to no-boints and you got all your points back. The ranking system is not severely broken. It's one ranking having a bit of trouble with an unreleased sample. This site has a few thousand rankings ...

Hey guys, For last month's OC challenge I was using the 790FX-GD70 as in a previous OC challenge it proved to be a very efficient board memory-wise. The problem was, however, that this board was very limited for PCMark runs. I had to run either: - 325HTT, 3:8 866MHz CL6 or - 342HTT, 1:2 684MHz CL5 With the 1:2 divider, I wasn't able to pass 330MHz and on LN2 I was completely HTT-limited at 370MHz. Not so good in other words. Since yesterday, I have the C4E on the test bench for a while and ... in the first few tests, the board looks REALLY decent. Especially given that it's a DDR3 board. Here are some preliminary results.

That's something I want to know from you guys: what is considered 'too high' for a competition that's only for fun (MOA and GOOC are not in this category). A prototype of the ranking will be available in december.

Prizes are awarded per #cores. So, to win the 4-core prize, you only need to compete in 4-core Wprime 32M and 4-core Wprime 1024M. Not competing in the other stages is no problem

The main idea is to give people who have a lack of hardware a chance on improving their personal rank through a competition. It's not to make ot obligatory to compete in competitions, rather as a small reward for those who try. It's not like this would be 50% of the individual rankings; rather 5% or so.

1/08/2009 -- F1 Competition - 2009 Q3 17/08/2009 -- AMD Phenom II X4 Competition 9/09/2009 -- Massman's Nehalem/Westmere 3DMark01 challenge 14/09/2009 -- XtremeSystems Cheapazchips Challenge Fall 2009 4/11/2009 -- HWBOT Country Cup 2009 12/11/2009 -- MSI Xtreme Speeder P55 16/12/2009 -- Malaysia HWBot Super Pi 32M Online Challenge 1/01/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge January 2010 1/02/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge February 2010 1/03/2010 -- GIGABYTE H55/H57 IGP OC Challenge 1/03/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge March 2010 1/04/2010 -- OC Guru is YOU! - GIGABYTE AMD HD 5870 OC Challenge 1/04/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge April 2010 12/04/2010 -- Overclockers.com Benching Team SuperPi Competition! 13/04/2010 -- Gigabyte GOOC2010 Iran Qualification 1/05/2010 -- OC GURU IS YOU – GIGABYTE AMD HD 5000 OC Challenge 1/05/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge May 2010 1/06/2010 -- You've Got The Xtreme Power! 1/06/2010 -- MSI Fun! OC Festival 1/06/2010 -- Pentium G6950 Contest 1/06/2010 -- GOOC 2010 Serbia (ex-YU) Online Qualifiers 1/06/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge June 2010 10/06/2010 -- MSI Invites you to be part of Campus Party Colombia 23/06/2010 -- Overclock.net's GPU challenge! 1/07/2010 -- GIGABYTE 800 series contest! 1/07/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge July 2010 25/07/2010 -- ASUS Overclocker 2010 1/08/2010 -- GIGABYTE H55 miniITX contest 1/08/2010 -- Latin MOA 2010 1/08/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge August 2010 1/09/2010 -- GIGABYTE 2010 Best 3D Overclocker Contest 1/09/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge September 2010 16/09/2010 -- MSI's hunt for 450 & 460 - OC Challenger 1/10/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge October 2010 18/10/2010 -- MSI MOA 2011 Americas Online pre-selection 25/10/2010 -- MadOnion Nostalgia Festival 1/11/2010 -- Gigabyte Core Prime contest! 1/11/2010 -- HWBOT OC Challenge November 2010

Should I reduce the number of stages? What about the team competitions? Less or more fun than individual comps?

It's like it is in normal HWBOT: you're allowed to unlock cores and play in a 'higher' league, but you're not allowed to disable cores to play in a 'lower' league. So: unlocking 2 to 4 is allowed (playing in 4), but disabling 6 to 1 is not allowed (you'll still be playing in 6-core league). Hyperthreading is a feature, so of course you can enable it for the 4-core category.

I have never run PCMark Vantage in my life ... so this challenge will be the first time The more stress is put on the CPU, the better. I like tough benchmarks. That's okay. The competition is mainly to motivate people to bench something new, it's not to get people to submit old results. No, subtest scores must be in the screenshot.

Yeah, limited to 4x CPU because I want to see CPU limited runs :-) Older benches can be submit as long as they fit the limitations

Hey guys, It's almost a year since we started the monthly HOC competitions and since winning/participating in these competitions will give you some points for the individual league, I'd like to know your thougths on the competitions so far. Anything we need to change? What do you like, dislike? Other comments?