Massman Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 In co-operation with HWBOT, MSI is hosting a new P55 overclocking competition as of November the 14th. Prizes are to be announced soon as well, but I can guarantee it's pretty sick ... in the good way! This topic is here to answer all your questions regarding rules, prizes, hardware and so on. If you're discussing the competition in your local forums, just let us know and we'll add a link on the MSI Xtreme Speeder P55 competition page. MSI launched P55 Xtreme Speed series motherboards for two months now, and countless worldwide top media gave MSI P55 the highest recommendation on performance, stability and quality. Therefore, on behalf of MSI, we invite all overclockers around the world to join the Xtreme Speeder P55 Online Competition and to challenge undiscovered extreme overclocking territory of MSI P55 and Intel Lynnfield CPU. 1. Concept The Xtreme Speeder P55 online competition consists of one main competition, divided into three stages with each an extra challenge. Although this sounds extremely complicated in theory, you will see that it is in fact a very straight-forward and certainly most interesting competition. The main competition consists out of three stages which will be discussed in the next paragraph. For each stage you can gather points and whoever gathers the most points in each stage wins the overall competition. Next to the main competition, there will also be prizes awarded for the winner of each stage and in addition a bonus prize for breaking a world record! The competition period: Start: 15/11/2009 (15th of November 2009) 12:00:00 CEST End: 13/12/2009 (13th of December 2009) 12:00:00 CEST 2. Competition details 2.a. Stages Before we go deeper into the competition, it’s important for you to understand that it is not an absolute necessity to submit a score to each stage of the competition. No submitting doesn’t lead to disqualification, but it does lower your chances of winning one of the big prizes awarded to the overall winners. In other words, it is perfectly possible to focus completely on one stage to win the prize awarded to the stage winner. Underneath a list of the three stages. CPU-Z: Highest CPU frequency validation SuperPI 32M Wprime 32M 2.b. Hardware requirements As this an MSI P55 competition, we do have a couple of hardware limitations set in place to make sure the playing field is as equal as possible. Underneath a list of the competition-specific limitations. Processor must be Lynnfield core Motherboard brand must be MSI Retail hardware only 2.c. Scoring methodology So, as you already know from the introduction, the overall winners are appointed using the total amount of points gathered during the three stages. Evidently, the overclocker who gathers the most points wins the competition, but this does not mean that this person has won all three stages. It is even possible to be the overall winner without winning any of the stages! For each stage, this is the scoring algorythm: 1st = 10 points 2nd = 8 points 3rd = 6 points 4th = 5 points 5th = 4 points 6th = 3 points 7th = 2 points 8th = 1 point In other words, the maximum amount of points that can be acquired is 30. 3. Prizes The actual prizes will be revealed at the beginning of the actual competition (15th of November), but we can share that the estimated total value of prizes exceeds USD $10.000! http://hwbot.org/article/news/msi_xtreme_speeder_p55_online_competition Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 2, 2009 Author Share Posted November 2, 2009 Will move back to the competition subforum when the HCE page is finished. URL on top of this topic refers to:".../competitions/...". Should be ".../competition/..." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstru Posted November 2, 2009 Share Posted November 2, 2009 lab501 discusion topic: http://lab501.ro/forum/showthread.php?t=682 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 Added the link Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 to the competition page Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 3, 2009 Author Share Posted November 3, 2009 No Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monstru Posted November 3, 2009 Share Posted November 3, 2009 Thx Pieter. Them competitions are getting nicer and nicer, aren't they? Jeez, 2-3 years ago you would kill to find one, now I don;t even have the time to participate to most of them. My how the world is changeing Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dragon Oc Team Posted November 13, 2009 Share Posted November 13, 2009 what about xeon 1156? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Also allowed. The limitation is set to 'Lynnfield' core; the Xeon 1156 are also 'Lynnfield'. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crew NeoForce Posted November 13, 2009 Crew Share Posted November 13, 2009 (edited) http://occlub.ru/index.php/about/271-msi-xtreme-speeder-p55-msi- - announcement http://occlub.ru/forum/showthread.php?t=685 - discussion ________ Nexium Classaction Edited May 13, 2011 by NeoForce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 Added to the list! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 13, 2009 Author Share Posted November 13, 2009 that page is not publicly visible yet? YES! http://hwbot.org/competition/msi_xs_p55 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|ron Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 Here we are, Official discussion Topic on Hwproject.net: http://forum.hwproject.net/showthread.php?t=4410 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 reference added. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenchBros Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 today we upped a Result: http://hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=920954 it is marked as Speeder Competiton but I dont see the result in the Rankings of the Speeder competion. How long would it take to see it there? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 Apparently, the result was attached to the competition, but not to the competition stage. I updated this manually in the database, so the score is now visible in the competition page. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenchBros Posted November 15, 2009 Share Posted November 15, 2009 I deletedt my post because now the result is shown, but only since I submitted the other two results Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 15, 2009 Author Share Posted November 15, 2009 it's possible there are others results already posted... but not linked to the compo due to a bug Just checked the list of submissions using an MSI motherboard since 14/11. No other scores are not linked. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predator Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 (edited) I have a quick question, i think is not explained in the rules, if it's already explained, i ask for apologizes but i wasn't able to find it out can you compete with more than one CPU per person? i mean, let's say i make submissions with a i7 860 CPU, could i also submit scores with an i5 in order to try the best overall score for i5 for the extra award? thanks in advance edit: also, let's say you have a 860 and a 870, imagine the 870 can go higher for super pi 32M and CPUZ, but the 860 is stronger with all cores and you would like to use it for the wPrime, would that be allowed? Edited November 16, 2009 by Predator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Predator Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Yes, you can compete with as many CPUs as you want thanks for the quick reply man Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|ron Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 I have a question guys: is it possible to post scores made time ago or we must post results obtained from 15nov to 13dec? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 If the verification is perfect (cpuz cpu, mem, mobo) and you have a matching setup picture you can upload a score achieved before 15th of nov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
|ron Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 Ok, thanks pieter! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Massman Posted November 16, 2009 Author Share Posted November 16, 2009 For the record: I am not participating for any prizes . Just teasing you overclockers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BenchBros Posted November 16, 2009 Share Posted November 16, 2009 CPUZ WR is at 5720... no ES CPUs are allowed (these restrictions are fine and I appreciate)... but WR to beat was made with a ES CPU... just a small note Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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