[GF]Duke Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Like i said Congratulations to everyone that played. My apologies to the community for the drama. If i had not recieved pm's and emails from 7 people in the HWBot community i would not have pushed this. But i did. And like a man i owned up to it and like a man i am apologizing for it. There is no need to push me any further. You know who you are. Leave it alone. Quote
Splave Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 holy shiot nows the time to post a 7970 lightning on ebay cotdamn! $900 thats more than I paid lol Im sure it was not MSI's intention to have no stock, Im sure they would have rather been able to SELL their products to the contenders. But great work to all the guys that ran reference cards, you had to work 10x harder then us with lightnings....my wife could have clocked this card to 1680/1920 Glad this is over, because now its IVY TIME!@!#$@#$ Quote
[GF]Duke Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Im sure it was not MSI's intention to have no stock, Im sure they would have rather been able to SELL their products to the contenders. Yes. Good point. Quote
Massman Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Official PR follows on Friday. That one includes the lucky draw too . Quote
sergiorb Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 As I said before , HWBOT will be fair ... congratulations Splave , Rbuass and Gnidaol , good luck at Taipei and , of course , congratulations also to all contenders ;-)) Quote
Electroneng Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Congratulations Splave , Rbuass and Gnidaol! Nicely Done! Quote
rbuass Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 @Duke Lightning was not needed to win MOA, and you can get a very good Lightning or you can get only a regular card. My best card was a reference, and I got better score than mine to MOA. http://hwbot.org/submission/2258829_ This score using 1.03 3DMark11 version is hardest and my MOA score using the cheatweaker to 1.01 version (that gives lots of points more). The diference to the Lightning and to the reference is that reference, to go to the max, needs hardmods That was my best card...I killed because VRM is not strong and mosfet was burned. There are more work to try with reference, but you can see reference cards running 2000 Mhz at RAMs easier than Lightnings and their clocks GPU clocks similar. Now...a question. Some people complain about to have no acess to hardware...now...can feel what we from Brazil need to feel always. If Lightnings was dificult to find there...you can understand for us...all...ever...can be hard to find. FYI, '""there are NO ONE" X79GD 65 or Big Bang official import in all Brazil"...I think it shows how hard is to get hardware here. My X79 GD65 was killed benching, and I looked for another one to improve my result...because I did not know what good result competirors coud have... I did not find any one, in any place...and to import from ebay, can delay 1...2...3 months in the customs... So I asked MSI Brazil...and the X79 still not arrived to Brazil. I hope you understand. I really loved MOA...looking forward to know my friends will be there in Taiwan. Quote
Electroneng Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Very Impressive Soldering on that card. It takes good skill to attach to those little Pads! I still screw up 1/3 of the cards I try to modify. Quote
easegantini Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Congrats to Splave, Rbuass and gnidaol.... P.S.: Jealousy can kill!!! Quote
Splave Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 rbuass, a big bang and gd65 was not needed to win this competition. I could have won first place on a gd45...its the lightning that won them. Why did you buy 3 of them if they were not necessary Its never fun when hardware is not available I will agree to that. congrats on 2nd and 3rd place guys! Quote
rbuass Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 (edited) The problem is not to be Lightning Splave. The problem is to have a MSI card (reference) with a BIOS that works hardest way. Since I went to USA, I did prefer to buy Lightnings than reference... but MSI reference "was not available" too. Since I was never tried one Lightning, sure, if I was in USA, prefer to buy the Lightning cards than reference (with a detail that, before to get the Lightning, I was thinking it must be so better than a reference, but noticed that it clocks is pretty similar...but not good VRM). To win is needed a complete rig...so even you binned lots of CPUs that we can not bin in Brazil (lol). http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-237951164-placa-me-msi-x79a-gd45-chipset-x79-lga-2011-box-_JM http://produto.mercadolivre.com.br/MLB-237949872-placa-me-msi-x79a-gd65-chipset-x79-lga-2011-box-_JM There are the 2 only places in Brazil selling the X79 MSI "now" Is no official import... GD65 (4D)- in the picture is about USD 700 and GD45 is about USD 600 I loved to go there...because I can go to places you have no in Brazil. To give you a simple exemple. To buy clothes for my daughter for 1 year and 9 months, there is a very good brand called Carter. A set from 60 to 70 dollars in Brazil, I can buy U$6 or U$ 7 for an outlet. I do not say that I bring a truckload of stuff from there and the trip ends up paying my work (That's a pity I can not always do this). P.S. about GD45 I never tried, but even is good, I am sure is not SO good as GD65 or Big Bang @Splave - one more time, congratz to your well deserved result...so...will happy to meet you in Tw. Let's have fun there again. Edited May 15, 2012 by rbuass Quote
Splave Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 thanks, Im sure it will be a blast as always...I have had not one drop of alcohol since last time I was there lol Still feeling a little drunk.. Quote
Patagonian Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Congrats to Splave, rbuass and Gnadiol, good luck at the finals! Quote
ME4ME Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Now that everything is official: Congrats to top3! Quote
rbuass Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 thanks, Im sure it will be a blast as always...I have had not one drop of alcohol since last time I was there lol Still feeling a little drunk.. I remember you...just a lit bit dranked...lol Quote
Splave Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Idk man, think I had about 6 Jägerbombs, 6 Beers, then we started shots and I lost count. I do remember using dentlords concealed carry permit to get in to the one clubs lol while he was right behind me. Quote
Planet Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Idk man, think I had about 6 Jägerbombs, 6 Beers, then we started shots and I lost count. I do remember using dentlords concealed carry permit to get in to the one clubs lol while he was right behind me. You looked pretty rough the next morning. Congrats on the win Quote
Massman Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I can't remember that evening clearly. Must've been good. Quote
Splave Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 I can't remember that evening clearly. Must've been good. very well put Quote
Massman Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Oh well ... let's check the video footage again! Quote
[GF]Duke Posted May 15, 2012 Posted May 15, 2012 Some trash talk for the masses. If i had a lightning i would have pwned 3D11 in this comp with a 5.1ghz cpu. Unfortunately i didn't have the mods for the reference that Rbuass. The one mod i had killed a rare 600.00 MSI OC version card. Those were not my only losses. Try a 1K 6ghz 2500K also. Yea i just forked out over 3k for a lousy $180.00 motherboard. Thank you very much. It was fun though. And i just might buy a ticket to Taiwan for the fun of it. Really. I need some time away from the business. Quote
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