The official HWBOT Wild Card Contest thread

[Rauf]

I have payed already Nothing strange that you pay to enter a contest, like in every other sport when there is a decent prize pool.

 

But you probably have to change the rules. Retail/commercial BIOS only? That would make elmors and the stilts work useless. Also no XOC bioses for motherboards... Rule should be "publicly available" or something like that...

[websmile]

I agree, this was planned to be stated as "publicly available BIOS only"

We will change the rules

 

Edit Updated

Edited September 14, 2016 by websmile

[gavbon]

When does the €50 entry fee have to be paid by?

[Massman]

October 10, noon GMT+8. At that point we announce the contestants and there's a week to submit. The competition page will be available by the end of the day (so everyone can prepare their scores to submit between October 10 and October 17.

[JunkDogg]

Have HW and LN2.

 

Anyone want to sponsor me the entry fee? LOL

 

 

Hopefully have enough time with work to enter.

[nickolp1974]

October 10, noon GMT+8. At that point we announce the contestants and there's a week to submit. The competition page will be available by the end of the day (so everyone can prepare their scores to submit between October 10 and October 17.

 

So to clarify, is the wallpaper made available before October the 10th so benching can be done and then submitted in the final week?? If its not made available till the 10th then thats gonna make it hard for some.

 

Nice comp.

[Massman]

The wallpaper* will be up by the end of the day, allowing anyone who wants to prepare to bench up front. The competition itself opens only on the 10th, after the pre-registration closed.

 

Sorry for the confusion

[nickolp1974]

Thanks for the clarification.

[Massman]

Wallpaper available: https://hwbotnews.s3.amazonaws.com/Competitions/1744_HwcWildcard2016/HWS16-wildcard-Wallpaper.png

 

Best of luck everyone!

[Rauf]

Was it intended for the y-cruncher to be a low clock stage? I just tested the different calculation methods and the ones with avx2 are much faster. Even high clocks on ln2 won't help...

[Christian Ney]

@Rauf,

Woops, thanks.

y-cruncher will be replaced by 3DMark11 Physics:

a Core i3 (Skylake), Pentium (Skylake), Celeron (Skylake) processor

Only use latest version: v1.0.132

SystemInfo Version 4.48 (enabled and running)

Valid link mandatory

A verification screenshot is required

Download official wallpaper: here

a Radeon RX 460 videocard

Screenshot: CPUZ (CPU, Memory, Motherboard), GPUZ, 3DM11 Physics score.

Edited September 15, 2016 by Christian Ney

[Rauf]

@Rauf,

Woops, thanks.

y-cruncher will be replaced by 3DMark11 Physics:

a Core i3 (Skylake), Pentium (Skylake), Celeron (Skylake) processor

Only use latest version: v1.0.132

SystemInfo Version 4.48 (enabled and running)

Valid link mandatory

A verification screenshot is required

Download official wallpaper: here

a Radeon RX 460 videocard

Screenshot: CPUZ (CPU, Memory, Motherboard), GPUZ, 3DM11 Physics score.

No worries, I only charge 52.50€ for beta testing

[Rauf]

Which versions of Fire Strike and GPU-PI are ok?

[websmile]

GPUPI 2.3x, which is mandatory now, on FSE latest sysinfo and all versions except for 1.00. As you saw, Christian just works on rules update, so for this I will ask Christian for confirmation to be 100% sure. Usually I recommend latest version because it is most reliable

Edited September 15, 2016 by websmile

[Rauf]

Confirmation as soon as possible on Fire strike version would be much appreciated!

[websmile]

Use the latest version, dated 16.08. (2.1.2973), it is best to avoid problems. Latest sys info is madatory, 4,48

[Rauf]

"Best to use it", or is it mandatory? It's an important question as results likely will differ a bit from earlier versions. I don't want to be beaten by one with version 1.1 if I run latest...

[websmile]

Use the latest version should be clear - 2.1.2973 is mandatory

[Christian Ney]

Yep

[Strong Island]

man cant believe I killed my golden 6500mhz 6100 right before this came around. I am so upset with myself, that chip still looks like one of the fastest around, goodbye, what a horrible feeling that is.

 

 

Is anyone going to try a power board mod. If nobody else does I wouldnt but if some people do then I would want to try. But might not even help with this gpu.

[Rauf]

man cant believe I killed my golden 6500mhz 6100 right before this came around. I am so upset with myself, that chip still looks like one of the fastest around, goodbye, what a horrible feeling that is.

 

 

Is anyone going to try a power board mod. If nobody else does I wouldnt but if some people do then I would want to try. But might not even help with this gpu.

Really, didn't know that. Too bad, it really was a one of a kind. But I saw you ran some crazy Vcore for i3, they are not as tough as 6700K

And now the cpu stage will be a little tighter I guess. Quite a few cpus out there around 6350MHz.

 

I will not use powerboard, don't have one, don't know how to use one

[Strong Island]

Really, didn't know that. Too bad, it really was a one of a kind. But I saw you ran some crazy Vcore for i3, they are not as tough as 6700K

And now the cpu stage will be a little tighter I guess. Quite a few cpus out there around 6350MHz.

 

I will not use powerboard, don't have one, don't know how to use one

 

ya I benched on impact the night before and let it sit 14hrs but I guess it wasnt enough, it was still a little wet and shut down and next start was 00. Really killed me for days. I just couldnt believe it.

 

Ya I have never done power board mod with amd card, not sure if rx460 is easy like nvidia, because the last few generations werent.

[nickolp1974]

man cant believe I killed my golden 6500mhz 6100 right before this came around. I am so upset with myself, that chip still looks like one of the fastest around, goodbye, what a horrible feeling that is.

 

 

Is anyone going to try a power board mod. If nobody else does I wouldnt but if some people do then I would want to try. But might not even help with this gpu.

 

Man that sucks, fantastic CPU

[gavbon]

ya I benched on impact the night before and let it sit 14hrs but I guess it wasnt enough, it was still a little wet and shut down and next start was 00. Really killed me for days. I just couldnt believe it.

 

Ya I have never done power board mod with amd card, not sure if rx460 is easy like nvidia, because the last few generations werent.

 

Really sucks about your i3 man

[der8auer]

ya I benched on impact the night before and let it sit 14hrs but I guess it wasnt enough, it was still a little wet and shut down and next start was 00. Really killed me for days. I just couldnt believe it.

 

Ya I have never done power board mod with amd card, not sure if rx460 is easy like nvidia, because the last few generations werent.

 

Really sorry to hear this