Alex@ro Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 This leads to having only a few choices like Gene,Hero and maybe Msi boards lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zeropluszero Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
phobosq Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 That's fantastic. Â Â HyperX Fail. Â oh and btw, you can't buy OCF here in AU either so ban it as well. :rollseyes:. Â No problem to get Z170 OCF in Poland, just ordered one, arrives tomorrow. I checked at seller's, they can have it on stock in 4-5 days. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrWeez Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 no Z170 OCF in africa Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex@ro Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 you can ban Z170A Xpower Gaming too,no availability in Romania for sure ,sounds legit... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators websmile Posted October 20, 2015 Administrators Share Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) I have retail ocf for six weeks now, SOCF not available, M8E available in low quantity. Btw, in germany you might as well ban skyfake because of availbaility - all big stores do not have it in stock and even amazon gives six weeks until it is restocked, you only get it sometimes at prices higher than Haswell-e. On the topic, I think you can´t ban boards because at certain areas there are no distributors who import them. This has nothing in common with paperlaunch, it seems to have other reasons like customs or sales Edited October 20, 2015 by websmile typo :p Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucky_n00b Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Just trying to give suggestions here, maybe next time HWBOT(and its partners) need to discuss the definition of 'retail availability', and add it to the rules. IMHO, the board can be considered 'retail' if at least these two criteria were met - The manufacturer says so, and already list the final product detail on their website, AND - There's at least 2-3 online stores that ship worldwide in each region(USA,EMEA,APAC) who already sold that product for at least 3 weeks. Â And would be better, if the vendor can give help to the overclocker who wanted to buy that specific product that will be used for competition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators websmile Posted October 20, 2015 Administrators Share Posted October 20, 2015 Then some boards were never retail... Z97 SOCF LN2 was never available at german online stores and newegg doesn´t ship worldwide, germany for example is other than mighty NL or poland not on their list There are certain regions at which distributors also don´t bother to import special products, I really apprciate your proposal, Alva, but I think it is not that easy, in the end hwbot staff might have to rely on common sense more than on rules or guidelines that cannot be used because you can´t influence policy of distributors for example. Just my 2 private cents on this^^ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MrBreeze Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 MM need update on Asrock OC Formula. Legal or not? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Achill3uS Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 (edited) not available Z170 OCF, Z170X SOC Force, M8Extreme, M8Impact in Hungary as well. but i have no problem with the Gene Edited October 20, 2015 by Achill3uS Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Szeged Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 ban all the motherboards, north korea cant get most of them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxbassplayerxx Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Seems like almost no board has complete, total worldwide availability yet. Why not rule if available in 2/3 places? So far it seems that all the boards that would be used for this competition are not allowed. Â AUS doesn't have X board but they do have Y board. The US doesn't have Y board but they do have X board. EUR has access to both X & Y. Seems silly to block both boards at that point... especially when those are the boards specifically designed to have the best memory tweaking. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtsurfer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 The only 'special' board on that list is the Impact. Â I say block the Impact & move on. All the other boards can equally max out MFR anyways. Â Also while we are at it, how is Hwbot going to make sure that people are not using the 2 slot OCF.??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splave Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=13-157-649  Only $219 let me know if you need one can buy and ship for you   Rtsurfer the 2 dimm ocf is a fail it's no better than the 4 dimm. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Random Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 What about the matx ocf? Is it gonna be available by then. Other than the banned impact it was the only other board i was thinking of getting  With asus... they might not get another batch of boards for weeks or a month after first sells out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rtsurfer Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 http://m.newegg.com/Product/index?itemnumber=13-157-649 Only $219 let me know if you need one can buy and ship for you   Rtsurfer the 2 dimm ocf is a fail it's no better than the 4 dimm. Wait, you talking about the big one(full size ES board) or the upcoming small one.??  The only reason I didn't buy the big one till now was because the mATX version was supposed to be better. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex@ro Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 since it is not even launched before competition starts it is clear that won't be accepted.As far as i know the 2-dimm version of OCF is just a normal OCF with yellow slots not soldered,so no difference at all... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxbassplayerxx Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 For those of us that won't be entering HOT but are still interested in 2-Dimm boards...... what about the Mini OCF as mentioned above? Â Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splave Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 its not ready yet, trace issues. nick shih has the only working one and I dont think he is playing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Splave Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 what do the winners get, it just says the winners from each region and the lucky draw will win an... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrators websmile Posted October 20, 2015 Administrators Share Posted October 20, 2015 what do the winners get, it just says the winners from each region and the lucky draw will win an... Â autograph of MSI Maxocer Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xxbassplayerxx Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 its not ready yet, trace issues. nick shih has the only working one and I dont think he is playing  Bah  I want too many boards this gen lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dinos22 Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Seems unfair to ban SOC Force and M8E considering other special boards from other manufacturers may not be available in some markets also. If you are going to ban these, you will need to be others too imo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marmott Posted October 20, 2015 Share Posted October 20, 2015 Which special boards are we talking about? Â The whole point of banning some boards is to make sure we get a competition as fair as possible, I think it's no mystery that it will never be perfect. Â The Impact was the most problematic one because we saw it has an edge with memory on a lot of Z170 mobos and only a selected few got one for now. I think there are no debate on this one, I put the SOC Force LN2 in the same category, we know it exists but if you are not a GBT ocer or very close to GBT HQ you can't have access to it. Â It's difficult for me to say that the SOC Force or the M8E are as widely available as the OCF or the XPower. The last 2 were released weeks ago where the first 2 are more problematic to find. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JunkDogg Posted October 21, 2015 Share Posted October 21, 2015 The whole point is that every board is not available everywhere. I highly doubt there is one high end OC board that is available worldwide yet. So why ban some and not others? Â It's just reducing the amount of people who can compete. Â Just ban Skylake and be done with it. Be the easiest way to fix this sort of rubbish. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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