The official HWBOT TEAM CUP 2021 - INTEL thread.

[unityofsaints]

Is DDR3 Z170 allowed? There is already 1 sub up with this config.

[Jumper118]

Very sneaky using z170 ddr3. I like it! Iq200 move for sure. I think it should be allowed. Also new benchmate 10.8 version fixed my issue on X79 with the rebooting bug.

[MaXtoRZP]

why 9900KF is allowed, but xeons are only 6 cores or less?? Does it honestly you think?

[yosarianilives]

2 hours ago, MaXtoRZP said:

why 9900KF is allowed, but xeons are only 6 cores or less?? Does it honestly you think?

Oversight

[GtiJason]

7 hours ago, MaXtoRZP said:

why 9900KF is allowed, but xeons are only 6 cores or less?? Does it honestly you think?

Well it's not like you can just run a Coffee Lake -R cpu with DDR3. There were only a handful of Z170 chipset 1151 boards made and they were 1 not very popular and 2 never meant for anything more than a budget solution to jump to Skylake. Some of the boards only officially supported up to 6700k cpu with 7700k being as far as these boards were designed to safely push.
So just getting an 8700k or 9900k to post requires modification to the bios as well as patching and finding a way to flash the modified bios without bricking the board .     

You also need physical modification the pcb itself, more specifically the Nuvoton chip / skt_occ.

Once you have all that working then you need additional modifications to feed enough vcore to the 8c cpu and you can see more issues like cooking the power delivery planes to a crisp to deal with etc.
So yeah oversight and loopholes have owned these competitions for years and if you're willing to track down such rare hardware and put all that work and testing involved just to run 1 or 2 benchmarks you deserve to be rewarded and 9900k cores and ipc is said reward. Good work Tagg
 

[yosarianilives]

1 hour ago, GtiJason said:

Well it's not like you can just run a Coffee Lake -R cpu with DDR3. There were only a handful of Z170 chipset 1151 boards made and they were 1 not very popular and 2 never meant for anything more than a budget solution to jump to Skylake. Some of the boards only officially supported up to 6700k cpu with 7700k being as far as these boards were designed to safely push.
So just getting an 8700k or 9900k to post requires modification to the bios as well as patching and finding a way to flash the modified bios without bricking the board .     

You also need physical modification the pcb itself, more specifically the Nuvoton chip / skt_occ.

Once you have all that working then you need additional modifications to feed enough vcore to the 8c cpu and you can see more issues like cooking the power delivery planes to a crisp to deal with etc.
So yeah oversight and loopholes have owned these competitions for years and if you're willing to track down such rare hardware and put all that work and testing involved just to run 1 or 2 benchmarks you deserve to be rewarded and 9900k cores and ipc is said reward. Good work Tagg
 

Don't have to short anything on board, just gotta short two pads on cpu so it posts on top of modding bios. Tagg just wants extra vdimm lol

[GtiJason]

I'd rather short on the board myself but yes that's always been an option. I was mostly just thinking if you were to run Strong Chiller or SS Phase change ( or colder ) then doing some hard modding would be quite beneficial