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This is probably not the place for a general blabla, but why not.. The only people that are going to with in a Pro OC cup are KP/Tin, Andre/Asus and Russia, maybe Hicookie/GB team. Along with their obvious skill, a significant reason is they get the best and most CPUs and hardware. There are so many guys who bust their asses that cannot get close to this no matter how good they are.. This is OK in the normal R4 pro league, and accepted, yet under this new comp, they will be forced to spend a dewar load of money to compete, or else effectively GTFO or go back to the OC league (that no one cares about???? really?) All for the purpose of making OC and HWbot more compelling to the public. I would not want to spend thousand$ on 4x 7970 or AMD FX with LHe because I am forced to to come 18th or 27th at best. I would rather bench a decent 3770K, single GPU and be happy with that, even in my local forums, or towards the back of the current pro league in my case. Maybe once the public is more aware of how the top echelon of OC'ing works behind the scenes, they will not be so enthusiastic. (CPU Mafia lmfao I know this guy at Intel Oregon...) I see overclocking as a hobby and a bit of fun like in years gone past.. I don't think the public identifies with a 1 in 1000 CPU on ln2. Many people in forums could not care less about ln2, many care only about 24/7 and a heap run i7 920 with 5850 and see no reason at all to use the latest and greatest. Overclocking cannot be compared to gaming. Gamers can see action live and can follow blow by blow like most sports (Headshot! you sunk the battleship asshole!). Gamers follow pro gaming because they identify with it, they play the same games and identify with the culture. I understand what the bot is trying to do, but I need some beer goggles to see how professional overclocking can be consistently compelling to the public long term. Live event I see differently. Anyway, i'm off to get some food. Opinions are like you know what, i don't have the passion or commitment to OC I once did, these are just a few off the top of my head thoughts. I am sure there are counter opinions galore. Respect.

I would also like to see a preview. So I can see what happens to a current pro league local vendor rep or overclocking reviewer under the new system.. (one who chooses not to compete in the Pro cup and cannot go back to OC league) We go into limbo if I interpret correctly.. There are a lot of words in this thread.

I agree with SOF and Phil. I will not be competing in a competition but I still like to be ranked, even if I am towards the back in my case. I joined the Pro league because I got gear as a reviewer, and now I work for MSI. Though I have not used ln2 in over a year and rarely even use my cascade these days. I still bench though, so would someone like me be better off going back to the OC league? Or does the fact that I get gear restrict me to the pro?

Excellent!! Very strong 18k blown away

I haven't checked for vdroop but I think 2.15v is enough to kill any chip heh

lmao Sooge and Poola in Team Mipmap

Nice one Vivi, See you there mate

2.2.3 Afterburner is up, supports 680 Lightning and 670 Power Edition. Sweeeeet http://event.msi.com/vga/afterburner/download.htm

Well done boys! Strong benching all around!

Some info straight from Unwinder at Guru3D: http://forums.guru3d.com/showpost.php?p=4357961&postcount=12

Voltage control isn't supported yet. Patiently waiting for 2.2.3!

Go hard guys! You'll have to if EMEA was any indicator!

Hahaha... You own the OC memes Splave... classic

Interesting.. Maybe a 'best of the rest'? Can't conclude anything much from that statement though.

Nice one man

Wow, nice one mate! GTX 680 is strong in 06

Arrive on the 4th, leaving on the 10th.

No nothing really special. I think its important to play with the power settings on SB-E at high clocks. R4E has a lot of things to tweak that appear to help with long period load like the physics tests.

oops sorry i didn't even realize it wasn't in the screen. For my other benches at similar clocks I was using Kingston 2250 C9 in triple channel at 7-10-7-27 at 1066Mhz.

Well the chip is a C1 and since Intel states 1.4v max for both vsa and vtt I didn't think it was excessively high. I haven't had any issue. This was a new untested kit and perhaps was more than necessary, It certainly wasn't the bottleneck.

Quad channel 2500Mhz ok here on 1.2 Bios : ) 1.7vdimm, 1.33 I/O/vsa I think it was

I'm there. I already booked flights and accommodation hah I've booked at this place http://www.at-boutique-hotel.com/at-boutique/Dispatch.do?def=page.primaryLayoutEn Cost about 23000 Taiwan dollars for 6 nights and its located directly across the road from the Trade center and the Tavern (the guys at MOA last year would know all about that )

UPDATE BY HWBOT STAFF 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: // ORIGINAL FIRST POST // Almost time for a new thread Confirmation of the 2012 edition http://www.facebook.com/pages/MOA/127725360583064

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