GIGABYTE March Madness Discussion

[websmile]

The board is allowed, apart from the LN2 1151 boards and the soc gaming z270 all boards should be eligible for use

 

P.S. I asked at GA again to see if I am right, if it is much better than z270n wifi we might have problem, it is not listed in europe

 

P. P.S. Board is ok, it seems to have no technical advantage above others

Edited March 13, 2017 by websmile

[GtiJason]

I found a few price compare sites a while back. This one shows prices from Feb 27 from 9 shops

 

https://www.priceme.co.nz/Gigabyte-Z270N-Gaming-5/p-898785404.aspx

 

This site claims 02/22/2017 release date

 

https://dgxtech.com/sales/gigabyte-ga-z270n-gaming-5-lga1151-intel-z270-rgb-fusion-hdmi-dp-usb3-1-type-c-mini-itx-ddr4-gaming-motherboard

Edited March 13, 2017 by GtiJason

[websmile]

A couple of hints, LOD is not allowed for time spy, it is explicitly ruled out and this is also valid for time spy physics, second point is that 5003 is the limit, if the futuremark link shows higher results you are out, and please only use publicly available BIOS versions, we do not want guys to have an unfair advantage by new xoc BIOS others cannot use

[skulstation]

A couple of hints ... and please only use publicly available BIOS versions, we do not want guys to have an unfair advantage by new xoc BIOS others cannot use

 

So the x06 bios on a z97x-soc force is not alowed,than i know what to do tomorow after work.

[websmile]

This is an old BIOS which was published several times on hwbot and elsewhere, I only refer to new Z270 Bioses which might be given to Beta testers

[zeropluszero]

https://www.mediafire.com/?wsldl1r1wlh2ris

X8e bios for Z270N Gaming 5.

I make absolutely no claims that its any good, I haven't had a chance to properly test it myself

[websmile]

Thanks for the BIOS, but we will not allow it for the march madness because it came too late. We will re evaluate this like all restrictions for the next parts of the Gigabyte series, yes, there is more to come

[websmile]

Another heads up - for time spy physics the rules of time spy apply for LOD (not allowed) and latest system info with monitoring enabled is mandatory - we orientate on screenshot and validation link for seeing if the 5003 cap was not violated, when I see 4ghz as max turbo or something similarily ridiculous I have no choice but to remove the entry

Edited March 17, 2017 by websmile

[zeropluszero]

Thanks for the BIOS, but we will not allow it for the march madness because it came too late. We will re evaluate this like all restrictions for the next parts of the Gigabyte series, yes, there is more to come

 

thats what I figured.

good luck guys, I'm out.

[buildzoid]

Another heads up - for time spy physics the rules of time spy apply for LOD (not allowed) and latest system info with monitoring enabled is mandatory - we orientate on screenshot and validation link for seeing if the 5003 cap was not violated, when I see 4ghz as max turbo or something similarily ridiculous I have no choice but to remove the entry

 

wait so do I need to redo my 102.05BCLK run? Because I have 5G CPU-z but 3Dmark is showing 5004MHz

[websmile]

wait so do I need to redo my 102.05BCLK run? Because I have 5G CPU-z but 3Dmark is showing 5004MHz

 

Unfortunately yes, CPUZ and futuremark readout have to be 5003 or less

[buildzoid]

Unfortunately yes, CPUZ and futuremark readout have to be 5003 or less

 

Great so I can go back to rerunning timespy for a while but at 0.02 less BCLK or what ever it is that will make 3Dmark happy.

[Plasma_Carrot]

I have the best Haswell, I'm taking that as a moral victory.

[fgi]

What was wrong with my submissions?

[websmile]

I checked stage 1, remaining subs should be ok @fgi please check the time spy rules again, you used tesselation tweaking which is explicitly disallowed for time spy - sorry, but it is written in the benchmark rules and I also gave a heads up here at support thread that rules are applying also for physics on top

Edited March 19, 2017 by websmile

[Lucky_n00b]

Really tight 1st round - around 2.6% from Top 10 to 1st place, awesome competition

[websmile]

You had no chance - north american slacker timings owned you :'(

[Lucky_n00b]

Still in for Lucky draw, right? Hahahahahah :p

[Leeghoofd]

Not the fastest but at least I'm the oldest one around here

Edited March 19, 2017 by Leeghoofd

[websmile]

Somehow I think it might be time to enter stuff like this again someday iin the future...

[PKBO]

Guys, now when 1 stage is done, can you tell me how the hell you get 200 more points with less core speed and not so tight RAM like i get

i was going to bad at 7AM, so my wife was werry angry with me all the day -> this must be enough for you

[Nik]

 

I tested all, z270x 5 with Kaby Dual and Quad, z170 Soc with Kaby Dual and Quad.

 

I have strong RAM Setting with 1900 cl12 1T

 

But No chance

 

Please tell use the tweak

 

 

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[Leeghoofd]

Look at the GPU-Z... yep GPU-Z

 

my run was utter luck was always between 6780ish and 6815ish then this 6865 appeared...

[Demac]

I had 6850+ and 1-2 was 6900+. 5g/5g 1933 tight(at least for my mobo). But according to the 6950+ scores, the less you clock the better you score.

I dont judge anyone but it would be better if we know what we were doing wrong.

Edited March 20, 2017 by Demac

[Leeghoofd]

GPU mem clocks aid the score apparently, lowering cache too... thx to Splave for revealing their tweaks

Edited March 20, 2017 by Leeghoofd