Lucky_n00b

Damn, I think I just set the new low for GTX-Titan-Died-During-Stock-VRM-Benching club, GPU Died on me at 1.3V. There is a short somewhere on the VRM, and with that I'm pretty much done.. :( Let's see if I can push better 2D with these sucky retail CPU See ya guys in a couple hours then,

Strong result!

Ah yes, Finally!! Will be waiting for the BIOS

Nice!!! Strong result bro!

Nice set of prizes, have fun with those dude !!

I dunno mate, maybe bug with the GPU-Z? I tried reinstalling the driver but the it always detected as 'XP'

Thanks bros, I'm still trying to get okay-ish retail 4770K though..All my retails maxxed out @ 5.8Ghz pi 32M X_X

Reading a few pages back, I just can't understand why somebody would just point fingers to Massman and Vivi as if they're responsible for this set of annoying new rules. Vivi made this thread to ask for OPINIONs from different overclockers who passed the qualifier about the use of Titan and benchmark preferences. It turned out that majority ocers preferred that Titan is not used, But that DOES NOT affect the 'allow Titan' rule. So no harm done by the making of this thread here. If Massman already did try his best to explain things to MSI and MSI choose NOT to listen, then it's not massman's fault, isn't it? I totally agree that there's something that you cannot change no matter how hard you try, especially when it comes to dealing with 'high-up' people whose decisions does not come from deep understanding on how things work. I've been in many of those situation before, believe it or not. Moving on, I kinda have mixed feeling about MOA now, on one side I'm still glad there's a vendor who still cares about doing live overclocking for the OC community despite the 'drop' on Desktop PC Sales. But on the other, the new sets of rules made me loss interest on the semi-finals. Waiting for the final rules on the July 1st, let's see how it goes then..

IMHO, even though I don't have the proper skill to mod the titan the 'right' way with external power regulator, modding it only with variable resistors to increase volts is even more riskier. I've seen one of my friend's card going 'badum-tss' with only 1.35V @ 1250-1300Mhz-ish core, and I certainly don't wish to own a paperweight worth 1300 USD I think I can see why MSI is doing this, maybe they are afraid that the Epower-module gaining fame(and branding for EVGA) in their very own competition. And the availability of Epower v2.0 is very scarce at best. But I agree with Michal, how are they going to validate a vmod anyway? They might as well ban the Titan,and hold off the competition to allow the release of 780 Lightning.

Now i feel kinda sad leaving those overclock-heavy-week with all the overclockers and going into 'regular working mode' back in my country. Those past two weeks was surely tiring, but it was worth it

Phew, back at home at last. Was nice meeting all of the overclockers, hanging around benching something or just chillin' in the oc lab, great experience! (aside for buying 4 equally-sucked retail 4770k though :D ) I think the number of overclockers gathered in the Computex this year was way larger than any of those live overclocking competitions, so we should definitely do this annually Until next time, Cheers

Interesting topic Vivi, AFAIK, the rule about semifinals are known beforehand, but it's not like it was set in stone, right? I already bought 2 Titans(and its retail price are USD 1300-1400 each in Indonesia) and if the MSI wanted to use it for semifinal, then so be it. Many Pro overclocker say that modding Titan using bolt-on external VRM is the ultimate test of skills, so I can understand that. Anyway, these are my opinions: No Titan ( prefer non-reference 780 if any) SuperPi 32M on Haswell 3DMark2001SE (haswell again) Fire Strike / Fire Strike Extreme on 780s As for the point weight, I prefer it to be 30% SuperPi 32M, 30% 3DMark2001SE, and 40% Fire Strike Extreme.

@ Wizerty : AFAIK, on Z87 platform, putting PCH on cold can sometimes help you with extra BCLK clocking margins

Making claim before the product was launched, that's.......bold. Anyway, Nancy's that good huh?

The new XTU should be great, a vendor-agnostic utility which can set a lot of variables(I do mean A LOT). Tested the early build of the XTU with a mobile i7-4930MX (mobile xtreme edition), nice to see that you can overclock a laptop CPU to 4.5Ghz and more (before it throttles down due to heat though)

Holy Shyte that's FAST!!

Nevermind, that email mistakenly goes to my spam folder, my bad x_x

I haven't got one, could you help me resend that email again? Thanks!

My Ticket Confirmed: Depart from Indonesia on May 30th, will be back on June 11th ;)

New Stepping? I wasn't aware of this.. Did the 'S-SPEC' change? (the Sxxxx code)

Ouch, this trip to computex is probably going to max out my credit card limits :D

Beside voices, it could be funny if there's 4-digit POST-Code LED that shows 'SHIT' , 'DEAD' or 'FAIL' instead of 00 or FF :D *this is doable, right?*

In for Gigabyte as well :D

Thx for the reply, will try it under 4-way 680

*crossing fingers*