Lucky_n00b

I'm going Arriving May 24th, going back at June 3rd. So looking forward meeting with you guys Edit: As for party, I assume there's Galax Overclocker Night 2019 on May 30th? I haven't been informed for other parties though..

Sub 4 mins is near, Congrats!!

:O :O Thanks for the opportunity Micka!

Great! Will go to Computex for office coverage anyway, I'll stop by the stages to see you awesome folks

Thanks guys

Thanks! It was made last minute, I bought XI APEX but it died on me on the last day, so i had to switch board to my MSI one. Glad the board responds well with these kinds of experimental setting edit: the board is limited to 1.55v VCore for now, that's why I can't get my CPU to 7Ghz (also the Ring is rather slow and I can't clock it to 6.2++ with this vcore limit). Already asked for BIOS to unlock volts, but it didn't made the BIOS deadline for GSkill OCWC

STRONG!!

Hi man, you have use Integrated Graphics (Intel HD Graphics) on your CPU for this stage. Disable/remove it from your systems first and bench again - good luck :)

You forgot Memory Tab man :)

Keep pushing it! :D

With decent memory controller and good A2 sticks, it should be possible. On my short test I got DDR4-4666-4700 CL14 geekbench-able (not tested for full out performance just yet, still messing with the subs) Also there's a couple shared voltage rails that might made XOC full pot run a bit challenging (DMI is tied to CPU VccIO, and 'PLL Termination' is coupled with 'CPU Standby voltage'), will try this when I have time

Unrelated to the Z370I Gaming Pro AC Files on this thread, I've found a Test BIOS for Z390I Gaming EDGE released on the same day as my Z370I BIOS, I just put the link here for anyone who wanted to try it. I try to buy the Z390I gaming edge but the unit doesn't managed to get sent so I have NOT tried this file. https://drive.google.com/file/d/1eC9Jkh3bWUpSdvRD2B3uOi_Pi_7t4prE/ Will make a proper topic/thread when I got the board and get all the tools for it, probably some time after gskill.

Strongggggggggggg Where does these Godly CPU come from dammit :p

It will vary greatly depend on the board and what the problem the M/B RD Team is trying to solve, sometimes it offers elevated voltage levels the normal BIOS don't have, maybe some fine-tuned auto-rule for DRAM timings, slightly tweaked DRAM training parameters to make boot easier at certain speed, etc. Too bad usually these 'Test' BIOSes were made without a clear release log.( I would call this simply a 'Test BIOS', not a 'XOC BIOS' though, as it's sometimes not really validated for XOC). FOr the T.O6 in particular, the only message I have is that this is the BIOS to try when I wanted to use 9th Gen CPU for RAM Clocking. Not tested much yet, but compared to the 154 BIOS i have previously It solves some training/booting issue I have with 4600CL14 settings on A2 PCB DIMM modules, hope that info helped

Putting it here for G.Skill OCWC 2019 Qualifier T.O6 BIOS for Z370I Gaming Pro Carbon AC (BIOS Release Date 8 April 2019), This should be the latest beta for now. https://drive.google.com/file/d/10Q-uY8y4LbsKPUXfBMX9HjSuzovww0Jk/ Disclaimer: I've flashed the BIOS just to check that it's working, but have not checked the differences in clocking compared to official 1.54/1.6 BIOS, USE AT YOUR OWN RISK!

Noted, thanks Dad

Ah yes I got the BIOS must be shared here, what I asked was whether there's a 'deadline' date for sharing the BIOS versions, e.g is there any rule like "BIOS must be shared/made available before xxx date" ? Or simply made it available before 16 April?

Hi, Just in case I get my CPU and motherboard on time (unlikely considering Indonesian Customs, but hopefully my luck will prevail :p), is there any deadline for BIOS revisions? a.k.a the last day for the bios to be uploaded to HWBOT to be considered public and valid for competition use. Or there is no BIOS deadline? Thanks

Great! Time to do some shopping then, hopefully all arrive in time. Thanks Dad

Whoa 9 places So reading the rules, all Z170,Z270,Z370,Z390 allowed to compete, along with all Skylake, Kaby Lake, Coffee Lake 6C and Coffee Lake 8C processor(and its IGP) ? no clockspeed limit in all stages Correct?

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Ah yeah there's that too I've been talking to UL sometime ago about making a CPU Test preset(Including a CPU Stress Test Preset), so it can be run with a single click just like the normal benchmark and be validated. They seem interested about it, and they have 2D/CPU Ranking board already, but not sure if/when they will implement those 'CPU' benchmark presets.

Btw since we're discussing benchmarks, what do you guys think about modern 3DMark CPU/Physics tests? In my notes, Fire Strike physics doesn't show much scaling to DRAM Tweaks, but the Time Spy / Time Spy Extreme Physics scales a lot with memory performance(not just CPU clocks), these tests also showed up quite often of big International OC competitions, the scores also quite consistent and not much run variation like the old 3D11 Physics. IMHO these TS/TSE Physics would be a nice addition to the 2D benchmark we have now. The downsides are Time Spy/Extreme test need an advanced key, some overclockers don't seem like to cash another couple bucks(even though they bought hardwares that costed many times the benchmark).

Definitely a platform where LN2 cost will outweigh the electricity by Far hahahahahah I feel ya mate. Great job btw :D

My particular CPU need 1.5v on IO/SA for these. But the problem is sometimes we need a LOT of retries to just get it to boot, 55 most the time, retry, and do it again . It took me 1 and a half hours just to get this done, wrong strategy on the comp as I haven't get any good 3D scores out.