April 6, 201213 yr "participance is according to the participant’s nationality. Ex: a citizen of Canada can only participate at the America Region Qualifier." This is an important rule to make sure people know about. If you hold an American passport but live in EU/Asia, you have to participate in this qualifier.
April 6, 201213 yr So then Lightning 7970 is allowed, but only vanilla GTX-680 Correct! (welcome back, Splave, lol, it's been a while)
April 6, 201213 yr could one use say a 2600k for pi and a 3960x for the 3D benches? or do the CPU and mobo have to be the same for the whole benchmark suite?
April 6, 201213 yr yes for your 1st question. no for your 2nd question. you can use any cpu/platform.
April 7, 201213 yr This might be too early but I'm curious, last year the MOA finals and regional qualifiers were two person teams. Do we know if that will be the same this year?
April 7, 201213 yr At the end of competition on May 10th, the top three winners are qualified as MOA representative of the Americas. They are free to choose another friend to team upwith and have the chance to continue their journey to the MSI Master Overclocking Arena Grand Final!
April 7, 201213 yr yes for your 1st question.no for your 2nd question. you can use any cpu/platform. Always that mobo and GPU be MSI brand.
April 7, 201213 yr I'm not complaining but since there's no regionals it could be five teams of each online qualifier. Anyway time to bench a lot and have tons of fun! =)
April 7, 201213 yr Well i have to pass this one, im pretty sure that will be very diffcult to any of the Latin America people to win this competition and not due to economics or other money-related but due to hardware avaibity, the NA people will have the advantage when Ivy will be released and by the time we get the Ivy CPUs the competition finished. Lets wait for Lords of Overclocking.
April 7, 201213 yr ivy is not allowed for americas. rbauss has 5.9 sandy gunslinger has 5.9 sandy dom has 5.9 sandy but has bad sp32m efficiency hahahah
April 7, 201213 yr Well i have to pass this one, im pretty sure that will be very diffcult to any of the Latin America people to win this competition and not due to economics or other money-related but due to hardware avaibity, the NA people will have the advantage when Ivy will be released and by the time we get the Ivy CPUs the competition finished. Lets wait for Lords of Overclocking. Lol, and you dont have a decent SB cpu at this time....
April 7, 201213 yr Where is stated that Ivy is not allowed to the competition? (it is only 1 rule against the use of noncomercial hardware, but what happen when Ivy will hit retail?). Saint you dont even have a decent SB cpu so dont lol at me ahahahah. Good luck Ronaldo!
April 7, 201213 yr Since Ivy Bridge will launch at the end of April (29th according to the rumours), they are not eligible for the Americas qualifier. For the EMEA and APAC qualifiers, they will be allowed. check this thread for reference http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=38872
April 7, 201213 yr Where is stated that Ivy is not allowed to the competition? (it is only 1 rule against the use of noncomercial hardware, but what happen when Ivy will hit retail?). Saint you dont even have a decent SB cpu so dont lol at me ahahahah. Good luck Ronaldo! I have not tested mine totally...
April 9, 201213 yr I don't understand the scoring method. can someone kindly explain? I don't know if all qualifiers will be the same (usually it's not), the american qualifier will be composed of three benchmarks, in each of them you get different scores depending on the ranking position that you achieve. After that you sum the scores obtained in all three rankings and you get a final ranking. Top three in this final ranking at the Americas will qualify for the worldwide finals. the 4th and 5th places will get prizes and two lucky OCers will receive prizes too.
April 9, 201213 yr Correct! (welcome back, Splave, lol, it's been a while) thanks mate good to be back
April 10, 201213 yr thanks mate good to be back Welcome back to the competition, another hard competitor for all of you guys.
April 11, 201213 yr anyone know where you can get a lightning 7970 in the USA? Swim the Pacific Ocean and there you are Straight to the factory lol Glad to see you back in action bro!
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