Lucky_n00b

1) Please correct me if my understanding of the World Series rule was mistaken down here. To join the World Series QUALIFIER, we: - MUST use CPU Provided by HWBOT (Next-Gen Intel Extreme Series?) - CAN use motherboard provided by HWBOT, or - CAN use our OWN motherboard as long as it is retail + using retail BIOS - MUST bring our own 2D VGA What about Memory, SSD+OS and PSU for the Qualifier, are we allowed to bring our own for these ?Or We MUST use HWBOT-provided Memory, SSD+ OS and PSU as well? 2) On the World Series 1v1 face-off at the end of the day, I assume we MUST use every component provided by HWBOT, correct? ( All of it - CPU, M/b, RAM, VGA, SSD, etc. ) Thanks

Dat clock....*speechless*

Whoaaaaaaa :eek:

I smell 5G 32M AMD Platform will be crushed within weeks

PM'd

:eek: One hell of an effort man, congrats!

Thanks! Finally got a semi-decent cpu. Still far from the top-bin 6700K, but all my previous ones were junk compared to this

The 2.1Ghz Overclock in the launch demo was certainly very impressive and shows what their 16nm FinFET is very capable of. I'm amazed they could squeeze that much clocks and still maintain the power consumption and thermal output in check. Now let's see if AMD's 14nm can do similar specs in terms of clocks and performance

Ticket bought! Now only need to finalize the flight ticket on Monday

If we buy bench spot, can we use these 'next-gen' CPU but not for competing in the world series? I'd like to use one day just to do some preview article for those CPU, since I brought all my review gear and stuff hahah

From what I've been reading about Fury / Fury X, those card have complicated clock/power/voltage regulation mechanism. In which some controller dynamically adjust/sense/monitor its power/voltage output. Maybe this said algorithm can make Epowering the card difficult? unless the 'control' mechanism on the card can be bypassed of course.. I've seen some awesome overclocking with Fury series in your blog btw, please tell us more if this experiment is a success

So far the T-Grizzly Kryonaut worked wonders as replacement for Skylake TIMs. But since those things cost a lot and cannot be found in Indonesia, I only use it in competition purposes haha ^^

Nice :D Looking forward for the hardware requirement & Benchmark list for the qualifier then, wanted to know what I need to be bringing to the area :D

Well done man!!

Amazing effort man!! I wonder when will Intel release a higher i3 SKU so we can see those 742 limit being crushed

Hi Roman, on Aircooling with 1.45V vGT, I found all three of my CPU got the same exact limit, 1450Mhz bench 3d11 but completely refused to run at 1500Mhz (maybe GT1 pass, but always fail later, maybe temperature?). On cold the difference starts to show though, the 'bad' ones on LN2 -140C(pot temp) @ 1.7V GT gave me 1700Mhz and won't budge much from there(managed a 1750 on 1.82V but IGP died afterwards). The only good chip on LN2 managed to hit 1750+ 3d11 on 1.7V vGT.

Used gear is okay, you just have to make sure all its functions are working as intended, especially the motherboard, since it controls most of the overclocking functions. The 'safe' option for used gear are CPU and RAM(not easy to damage these, unless the one overclocking it goes too far), but usually i recommend buying new motherboard if you have no experience testing it. But if you have friends to help you check the conditions, you could consider buying used mobo.

Hi there, congratulations for your first step in overclocking! You already have a working laptop, so that makes things easier to pick a PC just for learning overclocking. Here's what I recommend for some first time-builder: Keep things cheap and simple (so on the rare case you do break it, it's not that big of a deal) Depending on budget, there's lots you can choose. I wanted to give skylake i3 to do Non-K OC since it's more modern and upgradeable, but Z170 motherboard and the platform overall cost are not that cheap, and since the oc is 'unofficial' there's a couple things you cannot do with non-K OC (IGP is disabled, XTU is crippled without AVX), so I'm probably not going to suggest that. Some of my really cheap options but still offers plenty to learn are: A) Intel Based, DDR3 Processor: Pentium G3258 Anniversary Motherboard: Any Cheap Z97, like ASRock Z97 Anniversary Board RAM: Any cheap 2x4GB DDR3 will do, in my country the Team Vulcan DDR3-2133 2x4GB can be had for 50 USD, and that's using quite a good ICs that can reach 2600+ on some system GPU: Integrated(IGP) will do SSD: Any 120GB SSD Cooling: No need to be too fancy, something along the lines of medium-sized Heatsink are Enermax ETS-T40 or B) AMD APU based, DDR3 Processor: AMD A8-7650K or 7670K Motherboard: Any cheap A88X motherboard(even some A68 will do), ASUS A88XM-A or ASRock FM2A88X Extreme6+ RAM: Same as above, cheap 2x4GB DDR3 will do GPU: AMD's integrated GPU is quite powerful SSD: Same as above Cooling: AMD A8-7650K/7670K offers a '95W' quiet cooler that's OK-ish to do some mild OC, but if you can spend more to buy medium-sized heatsink why not Any two of the above should be suffice to learn the basics of overclocking, such as: - Knowing what BIOS variables to change - What software to change settings on-the-fly on the OS - I suggest Integrated graphics since IGP tuning involves playing a lot with RAM as well, which will be important in competitive OC later - Learning the benchmarks(just running some benchmark to see what variables increases the score, etc) - The more important things, these two platform can scale quite well using more advanced cooling if you wish to do so (like waterchiller / Dry Ice when you're ready) I think to make your learning process easier, no need to think about BIOS mods & hardware mods on the first try, your priority should be: 1) Knowing what your system can do, and how to maximise it 2) Installing some benchmarks and running it on your system, while figuring out how to maximise the score Hope that helps

Nice Guide Allen :ws: :ws: Now hopefully I've annoyed the Indo's ASRock distributor enough so they see my message asking to buy this stuff for review

Dat CPU Freq :eek:

I Wanted to buy some flight ticket soon, jusy want to confirm: is there an oc/benching event after computex? If not I can go back on the 5th then..

Hahah, actually I did kill this one. Once I go past 1.82V on GT Voltage suddenly the IGP don't want to run at default. But there's overclocker giving 1.9V on the GT and don't kill the GPU, I still wonder how..

Whoa! :eek: Excellent result man

Impressive!!

Pretty cool slide Looking forward to see Computex and the World Tour this year, hopefully the oc competition schedule is not too tight