G.Skill World Cup Online Qualifier 2023: 1st of March till April 10th 2023

[Leeghoofd]

That is the definition of a lucky draw... why am I even replying to this lol

For your info two draws were planned for DDR5, one for DDR4

[yee245]

Yeah, I went for the lucky draw for the DDR4 draw because I figured I had slightly higher odds than the not-DDR4-only lucky draws, but I was under no illusion that it's still just random luck. There were what, like 10 users eligible for the DDR4 draw prize? If only the Strix D4 had an external clockgen... maybe RageBone could have BCLK'd that Pentium, but alas, it doesn't. I tried to convince some friends to make hwbot accounts and to just sub literally *any* scores (even if they're literally just running stock JEDEC) for the like 1 in 25 chance of winning free RAM, but I couldn't actually get any of them that had eligible hardware to actually do it. Would it have been any worse for the regular hwbot benchers who actually made an effort if some random drive-by user (that may never even log into hwbot again after the competition) won one of those kits instead?

Anyway, thanks for hosting the competition. G.Skill.

[Matsglobetrotter]

seems this sub https://hwbot.org/submission?resultId=5237031 was reported as a cheat on 9 april while i was away on weekend. Meanwhile I have no clue why online screenshot is garbled but here is the correct one. the sub had been up since 27 March.

 

[Splave]

Does the picture of IC's have to match the picture of the sticker have to match the SPD of the screenshot or are the pictures of the sticks just for fun? ?

[Leeghoofd]

Well I'm gonna sum up the replies to the current list of official/unofficial claims:

- G.Skill rep has confirmed that 2022 Week 1-2 are NOT ES kits, G.Skill has M DIE since 2021 Q4

- eVGA ( for their secret event)  was sponsored but the sticks used another IC version 

- Offcial eVGA statement: The sampled eVGA motherboards used are retail PCB versions, not ES. But they don't go through the labelling/package, so some stickers might be missing. On the videos the PCB version was requested.

- There was no 5th core in play with the 9 Ucode in the Y-cruncher stage, extensive video proof has been provided.

- The rules state: show the heat spreader with serial. if heat spreader removed the ICs need to be shown.    I'm no expert on these so the G.Skill judges checked them and approved the submissions.