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All Gigabyte retail boards available in shop before 1st of march 2017 are allowed, this excludes z170 and z270 LN2 board and Z270SOC Gaming. Zhe Gaming k3 is in shops, so it is allowed

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You cannot compare voltage on MOCF in BIOS to Asus boards bc MOCF overvolts memory, 1,85 will be 1,9-1,92v depending on sample. So it is normal that Asus boards need more BIOS voltage for same settings than OCF or MOCF

This decision was made in dialogue with Gigabyte, we both agreed that it is a shame but to give all contestants the same chance we had no other choice.

Yes Matt, we all would have liked to get Z270 Gaming SOC in the march madness as well, but shop availability is delayed

As far as I know the board was alibi retail at some time so it should be OK for the lucky draw

Yes, Z170 is allowed, I see no restriction on this - but no unreleased hardware (LN2 boards or sadly the z270 gaming soc)

Background - it will also be added to the competition page - happy benching

First statement before the competition starts, the new Gigabyte Z270X Gaming SOC will not be allowed for the march madness. Unfortuantely it is not available at shops at the competitions start (in europe not listed). In case something changes we will make an announcement, this thread is also open for questions but we already included the non released hardware not allowed rule from the first day of announcing the contest. Good luck and have fun at the contest

Last price drop time to make your hw-stock great again

This is fake news, insufficient verification

Lowering volts is is always a factor at mobile devices because of battery life, plus heat

For me as a passionate Mem tester this is a very uncomfortable situation, if I buy, test and resell after this I have to ask prices I do not like and also think cannot justify. So my last kit I ordered that worked and was resold was from december, (after this I got 3 doas and stopped) ,and even on this I only was even because I was lucky. neat 200 euros for 3600c17 or 250 to 300 for 4000 bins is madness, and even 3200c15 2x8GB kit are 150+

We want more

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Good old day, now Kits are listed at 180 Euros that were 115 half a year ago^^

Final check done, result is final from my side - let´s get some feedback on how you liked the benchmark and if you see a future for it at hwbot

Good morning and price drop

Nice points, good job

Not sure about chip 2, chip 1 is at the hands of a good friend who bought it, first test on LN2 resulted in 6,82ghz pifast I think and he said it is not maxed out most likely

L642G171 - not delidded, VID Asrock MOCF 1,088v, Air cooling, CB15 50/45 -3866c12 - 1,22v 51/45 -3866c12 - 1,27v L642G169 - not delidded, VID Asrock MOCF 1,072v, air cooling, CB15 50/45 -4000c12 - around 1,15v 53/48 -4000c12 - 1,29v

For hwbotprime, make screenshot at normal resolution, screenshot at 4k and similar settings kill the file limit of 2mb. On gpupi 1b, do you submit to right category and also bench cpu?

We removed the background task for validations for this round bc we should have stated this more clear. This means screenshot is not mandatory for round 1 cpuz and memory validations for round 1 of division 2017. Next round we will add it explicitly and clearly if we want this. Sorry for the unneccessary troubles

http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=36329 Not sure this is still up to date

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