13 pts NickShih

So ES chips are ok for this contest?

Check again

the only prize is lucky draw?

the only prize is lucky draw?

Since most of you are in this sport for the love of overclocking, and not for the love of prizes, we’ve decided not to announce any. That’s not to say there won’t be any at the end of the competition for the winners, but for the true overclocking purists out there, it gives you the chance to show the community you are doing this for fun (and maybe just a little for the bragging rights). We are also looking to see who is the fan favorite, so make sure to vote using HWBOT’s voting system (there might just be a lucky draw prize in it for those of you who vote).

Aww how cute

//Was hoping for a h55m contest

im looking forward to this one very much.....................gotta dust off the old single stage and warm up a bit hehehe

contest sounds really nice but I got rid of all my 1156 things a bit earlier - well let's see maybe I'll give it a go after my summer holiday (what only would left a week but maybe a nub like me has some luck in stage 1 before getting badly owned when using only DICE in stage 2 :D )

im looking forward to this one very much.....................gotta dust off the old single stage and warm up a bit hehehe

I already have the board, looking forward to as well

sure mate i'm behind the comp......I'm allowed to have fun right .... not prizes

let's play nice boys, this comp has been insipired by Sam's thread at OCX and XtremeSystem 32M challenge thread for everyone in love in all things SuperPi :celebration:

let's all have some fun

Woohoo !! A Mini-ITX Torture and SuperPi 32M Fun!!! ()b

I'm in for sure, will buy that H55N-USB3 tomorrow

* btw, does anyone know what mITX case MassiveOverkill is using? It's pretty cool case *

Woohoo !! A Mini-ITX Torture and SuperPi 32M Fun!!! ()b

 

I'm in for sure, will buy that H55N-USB3 tomorrow

 

* btw, does anyone know what mITX case MassiveOverkill is using? It's pretty cool case *

That would be a Silverstone SG07....

I have this board laying ready as well.

I thought I'd never say this about hardware, but it looks 'cute'

I cant find if there is a cpu limitation?

Are there any?

No CPU limitation.

4000.0MHz is max, 4000.1MHz is not allowed, right?

4000.0MHz is max, 4000.1MHz is not allowed, right?

I think you just answered your own question.

It should have been open to all Giga P/H 55 boards??? Dont have this particular mobo in hand sadly,

I have this board laying ready as well.

 

I thought I'd never say this about hardware, but it looks 'cute'

o said the same thing when i held it the first time hahahah

sam yes 4000.00 is MAX

Sorry guys, forgot to put the Super Pi time in and it actually took it

copywazza allowed?

of course man

same as all other tweaks etc that you would normally use on HWBOT and elsewhere

we are on HWBOT right

just got this little board myself

I must say ...damn its good!

its really a performance per cm2 killer!

anyhow... does anyone have a indication about what times to get with clarkdale at 4Ghz?

(not that im gonna run clarkdale for that part of the contest... just to compare )

I had 9:29 on a H55M-UD2H (222x18, qpi4440, mem 888@6-6-6)

How competitive would 5GHz QPI be, against Lynnfield?

Any body prepare to LN2 memory? !!....lol, i think this competition will be more exciting in

super pi efficiency spirit.

How competitive would 5GHz QPI be, against Lynnfield?

it wouldnt

but it would be interesting for ppl to bench both CPUs

i will time permitting do both chips and LN2 on RAM it if lives

400-450MHz on QPI gains about 3s with high CPU speeds, don't think that Clarkdale is a competitor for 4GHz category

400-450MHz on QPI gains about 3s with high CPU speeds, don't think that Clarkdale is a competitor for 4GHz category

Agree with u m8, I think Lynnfield 8xx will be the main contender on the 4Ghz Category..

With CPU & RAM on Cold, I guess with the CPU at 235x17, and DDR3-2350 with Tight timings and subs will give a nice score

Anyway, with the CPU positioned sooo close to the DIMMs, I think putting LN2 on the CPU also means giving your ram a decent temp for benching :D(10-20C perhaps?)

So many layers of copper will also transfer heat/cold through the PCB quite rapidly.

-100°C = board under ice?

With CPU & RAM on Cold, I guess with the CPU at 235x17, and DDR3-2350 with Tight timings and subs will give a nice score

as for mems, I'm planning on 940 @ 5-6-5

Woohoo !! A Mini-ITX Torture and SuperPi 32M Fun!!! ()b

 

I'm in for sure, will buy that H55N-USB3 tomorrow

 

* btw, does anyone know what mITX case MassiveOverkill is using? It's pretty cool case *

It is the new Lan Gear box that he is one of the beta tester

http://www.lan-gear.com/

That would be a Silverstone SG07....

Nopp, much smaller case

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1535164

Hmm interesting contest

SS + mini-ITX = perfect fit

Haha. That's a perfect fit!

hahahahah LOL

Now the mobo DOES look small when you mount an SS into it dude : D

first impression, the board won't do past 235 bclock while using the integrated GPU.

It will boot, but when pressing Del to enter the bios, the screen will just turn black.

So in the end, a real VGA is needed

otherwise, the board does just fine.

just did 250x16 with memory at 2000 7-7-7-21

crashed though, because of high qpi. Need to do more tuning

Downclock the iGPU?

haven't tested that, but i don't think thats gonna work.

I tried increasing GPU voltage, and also cooled down to -55 .. but it still was no go.

well... don't care much about it either,

with the current mounting, a normal VGA fits perfectly

SS + mini-ITX = perfect fit

 

Pics...

 

Hahaha... looks awseome

ordered a few new parts. . .

Haha. So this board is actually luring people into extreme overclocking.

The H55N is doing what the UD9 was build for

Haha. So this board is actually luring people into extreme overclocking.

 

The H55N is doing what the UD9 was build for

Well I was actually going to end up getting a pot from Vince, however I was waiting until he released a new pot which is supposedly coming very soon but I just bit the bullet and figured now is a good as time any especially since the contest was going on.

I figured out to have a chance at winning I am going to need some dice and probably LN2 and for the first stage I am going to have to go buy an i7 860/870/875k. I need some recommendations for a digital thermometer (fluke, UEI) and other hardware that might be needed for dice, I realize for LN2 I will have to find a dewar and I am going to look locally first.

As for the UD9. . . I could buy six H55N's and still have some change for the same price:D

As for a thermometer: the Flukes look most professional, but if you don't care for that you could go for cheaper ones. I have this Voltcraft K102 with two ports for probes and cost me less than 60€. Works perfectly. Flukes will go for 100€ or more.

In stage one, the speed limitations is 4ghz. Gigabyte Easy Tunes, SetFSB and other software can do the overclocking in Windows, bench superpi approximately 4.3GHz in speed, then back again in 4GHz speed and make screenshot. How to know if superpi was run at not more than 4GHz? This could be a tweak or cheat result but harder to prove. Considering almost all the overclockers used "oc on the fly" software to bench superpi.

Sory for my bad english

If you cheat in a competition where you cannot win anything, you're just lame.

Yes I know, I hope no one cheat in this competition

ordered a few new parts. . .

As for the UD9. . . I could buy six H55N's and still have some change for the same price

H55N - 88€

UD9 - 450€

5:1 here.

Just recieved 655K and 875K ... playin' time will be for after the 14th though ... lots going on.

UD9 $699.99 @ Newegg

H55N $104 @ ewiz

things are heating up i see

bevan just jumped to first spot in stage 2 from australia with his nice 670 :nana:

cant wait to see it frozen

dino quit screwing around and get in here with me. Lets roll man!! are you just gonna hold back until the last second of the contest and unleash the beast? cmon dudes this isnt an ebay sniping/ get in here. lets see the real deal. btw the guy that got the clocks in stage 1 you guys are killing me. the hw dudes shoulda made this contest a little better. split the lynnfield and clarks the for the 4ghz stage one. Or is stage one for lynn and clarks for 2? ohh okay..I see. nevermind.

hahah man if you had any idea how much work i have you would let me be

put it this way....massman's proposal for 36hour days would be useless in my case.....i need 48hour days

i will bench next week most likely

SS + mini-ITX = perfect fit

 

FAINTS lol :ws::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::nana::celebration:

May I join in as well?

hahahah awesome shot

dino quit screwing around and get in here with me. Lets roll man!! are you just gonna hold back until the last second of the contest and unleash the beast? cmon dudes this isnt an ebay sniping/ get in here. lets see the real deal. btw the guy that got the clocks in stage 1 you guys are killing me. the hw dudes shoulda made this contest a little better. split the lynnfield and clarks the for the 4ghz stage one. Or is stage one for lynn and clarks for 2? ohh okay..I see. nevermind.

I jumped in for you Despite my workload.......now it's time for me to ship stuff and pack up for quakecon, see you guys after the 15th sometime.......

Ok this is preety funny

I propose that giga gives away 1 prize.......but not for the best scores.....a prize for the most ridiculous hardware config imagineable LOL

lol

hahaha chew I saw your submission as you say "a guy walks into a bar" I added the next line of the joke. I wish you and dino were here right now. I'm about to take it all down. I tried to guess where the cbb mod was on this board. Its cold bug around -70c and thats pathetic. Im gonna wipe it off and do it on the cpu instead. this is where I did it on the board.

hahaha chew I saw your submission as you say "a guy walks into a bar" I added the next line of the joke. I wish you and dino were here right now. I'm about to take it all down. I tried to guess where the cbb mod was on this board. Its cold bug around -70c and thats pathetic. Im gonna wipe it off and do it on the cpu instead. this is where I did it on the board.

btw chew that stage 1 submission kicks ass. I think that will keep everyone busy for a while. okay get back to work.

btw chew that stage 1 submission kicks ass. I think that will keep everyone busy for a while. okay get back to work.

It's actually preety slow

No need to guess. you will find continuity at a resistor on both sides and each of these 2 points on all 1156 boards.

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/Max%20III%20Extreme/Hard%20mods/IMG_2671.JPG

Ok here' you go.......

clarkdale CBB mod point circled green according to pin outs.

argggh So that was it. I just kept looking at the h55m usb3 and the ud2h points and I thought I was on the right track. Thanks again buddy. I revert back and try those points out. Do need to both points cpu and mobo or one or the other? I always thought it was one or the other.

If testing those pins you will test one pin in socket and all resistors in general area both sides.

When you find continuity you test other pin in socket and other side of resistor.

Just solder across that resistor and you should be good to go.

got it. Lemme redo this thing and get in this thing. be back soon.

Nice competition guys! Wish I had the board to play too.

It's actually preety slow

 

No need to guess. you will find continuity at a resistor on both sides and each of these 2 points on all 1156 boards.

 

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/Max%20III%20Extreme/Hard%20mods/IMG_2671.JPG

 

Ok here' you go.......

 

clarkdale CBB mod point circled green according to pin outs.

 

http://chew.ln2cooling.com/Pocket%20Rocket/pocketrocket5.jpg

maybe just let the others know what is involved in doing the mod

Dino Ive always thought it was one or the other. Like do cookiemonsters mod on the cpu:

or you do it on the board at the points chew marked. (each board is different) I usually just do the cpu and it worked fine in the past. but after a few board swaps using an conductive ink pen it wears off so I then started just doing the each of my boards separately so it doesnt matter what cpu is on. the board is already done. Am i wrong? this is the thread i made using help from cookiemonster and my own experience.

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showthread.php?t=250025

the points chew directed us to is the 1st resistor (it threw me off cuz the h55m-usb3 and h55n-ud2h are right here I know it worked because Ive had no mod and cold bug at -90c on both boards and after the mod on just the board (no cpu) I was getting past -125c

ok so it looks like that is the mod then

I dont know about everyone else but Dino it was you that got me excited about this board in the 1st place in the xs thread you made. what was your limit on the board with the last cpu u had on it? have u messed around with the other bios's? for example I just started clocking on the shipping bios right out of the newegg box and was fine. then today I saw chews submission and he got that on the beta bios on the ga site. (the 1st one) I flashed to that one and rebooted and set optimised defaults F10 then tried my old settings and it wouldnt take anything. maybe Im missing a setting but I'm almost considering going back in time. or trying something in between. I just finished reinsulating the board. Im gonna crank the container on now. gimme a few.

maybe just let the others know what is involved in doing the mod

Sure theres a number of things you can do....remove resistor and connect the 2 points with solder. bridge the top of the resistor with solder. Last you can solder a wire in on each side of resistor and use a jumper pin on a fan header from a old mobo.

Basically you want 0K reading at that res. IIRC its like .75X k ohms nominally.

just stick to that F5b bios or whatever the name

that bios is the best

i am yet to test the limits

okay sorry this is taking so long. I bought these skinny rods and they strip easily so I just cut down some thicker ones with a dremel. I have 2 containers. the one Im using on this board is the skinnier one for obvious reasons. This thing looks totally ridiculous with a container mounted. thanks to gigabyte for making this contest. Its rad to see something this small that can actually clock with its bigger brothers. Its really amazing and if Ive gained anything so far the 1st stage has made me really focus on tightening everything down. Ever since I got the containers ive focused on the thrill of having cold and getting cpu as high as I can. this 1st stage has really made me concentrate on my ram and qpi and Im on clarlsdale so Im just pushing even harder to keep up with everyone else on lynnfield. thanks guys. thanks dino for being one of the 1st to show us the potential of this thing. Lemme get these rods in so i can start clocking.

well that took care of the cold bug. Chew nailed the spot. that 1st resistor at the top is definitely it. I can cold boot at much lower than -70c now. I dont know why im screwing around on stage one with a clarksdale. Is that extra 4mb in cache on lynnfield my problem or is it that I need to tweak my reg? (wazza/large system cache/max mem hacks) I just installed winxp 32 on a vertex2 with no updates. I killed as much as I could in services. other than that I just installed the chipset and gfx drivers.

well that took care of the cold bug. Chew nailed the spot. that 1st resistor at the top is definitely it. I can cold boot at much lower than -70c now. I dont know why im screwing around on stage one with a clarksdale. Is that extra 4mb in cache on lynnfield my problem or is it that I need to tweak my reg? (wazza/large system cache/max mem hacks) I just installed winxp 32 on a vertex2 with no updates. I killed as much as I could in services. other than that I just installed the chipset and gfx drivers.

Why wont it let me subimit my score? I did the stage one but my stage 2 wont submit. I get the follwing msg: error An unexpected error occured when saving your result. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later. Message: 'org.apache.torque.TorqueException: com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column 'system' at row 1'

wtf???

well this is what Im trying to submit:

http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1335411

I guess I have 1st place but stupid error wont take my submission. im going to bed. Thanks chew for the right point to mod. i had it past -145 from -70. U made it happen buddy. for the record i did no os tweaks as I dont really have any idea except disabling services and running in real time before the bench. other than that this is totally raw overclocking.

from what i see, the first thing you want to do is using a lower multiplier, and increasing the bclock. That way you'll be running higher uncore and thus gaining performance. Also try increasing the QPI frequency, you should be able to run 4500+ quite easily

as for software tweaks, you could look into the following page to get started with CW.

it might just get you a few seconds off

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=3469

QPI clocks are key to fast 32M with clarkbar before anything else.........

Why wont it let me subimit my score? I did the stage one but my stage 2 wont submit. I get the follwing msg: error An unexpected error occured when saving your result. We apologize for the inconvenience. Please try again later. Message: 'org.apache.torque.TorqueException: com.mysql.jdbc.MysqlDataTruncation: Data truncation: Data too long for column 'system' at row 1'

It sounds like you're writing too much in the description field. Either that or the name of the screenshots/pictures you're adding is too long.

This is getting interesting Mounted the SS

the comp is looking pretty popular i see

nice :nana:

Damn ... I thought it would be easy to get a top-5 or top-3 in this competition, but seems like everyone is putting up good scores.

THanks admin for fixing it. I was able to submit. I'll see what else I can do in the meantime. THanks for the tips guys. I'm surprised none of you commented that I was able to get in and actually get that score at -140c. That is fackin' mind blowing for me as Ive never had anything work that cold before. ALso I mustve done a decent job insulating because I didnt put grease in the ram or the socket and I benched for 8hrs straight friday night and i didnt have a single problem. maybe not a big deal if I was on a full-sized board because everythings more spaced out but it blows me away that I didnt run into problems when the ram is basically on top of the cpu socket and the critical components are so close. so much couldve gone wrong and didnt. pretty amazing imo. what gets me is it took me 8hrs. to get only 7m17s. hahahaha oh well.

**********edit. holy crap I just noticed I just got 2nd place 32m 655k spot (after "the thunder from down under" aka dino) and I unlocked something other than found the submit button.. kick ass man! wow! this little board kicks serious ass!

-Alvin (TA)

Damn ... I thought it would be easy to get a top-5 or top-3 in this competition, but seems like everyone is putting up good scores.

 

@massman. this contest mustve been forged by the mighty OVERCLOCKING GODS in the sky.. I'm so happy for this contest! I dont care who wins. I dont think its the point. Its a bunch of friends getting together and helping each other on this little motherboard that is truly ground breaking. mitx boards have been around for a while now but this is the 1st time a mitx has gone this far in the clocking dept. Its about fackin time! I've gone through so many boards this year for clarksdales and this board is doing better in clocks and cold bug / qpi and than all of them and its a mitx board. is it just me or are you guys totally freaked out by this little thing?

@massman. this contest mustve been forged by the mighty OVERCLOCKING GODS in the sky.. I'm so happy for this contest! I dont care who wins. I dont think its the point. Its a bunch of friends getting together and helping each other on this little motherboard that is truly ground breaking. mitx boards have been around for a while now but this is the 1st time a mitx has gone this far in the clocking dept. Its about fackin time! I've gone through so many boards this year for clarksdales and this board is doing better in clocks and cold bug / qpi and than all of them and its a mitx board. is it just me or are you guys totally freaked out by this little thing?

It kinda proves that not all manufacturers are out there to screw over the overclocking community. This is a good evolution .

Only problem is that I'm now constantly hitting myself in the head because I lack the time to get starting with this board ... I wish it was next week already!

@massman. this contest mustve been forged by the mighty OVERCLOCKING GODS in the sky.. I'm so happy for this contest! I dont care who wins. I dont think its the point. Its a bunch of friends getting together and helping each other on this little motherboard that is truly ground breaking. mitx boards have been around for a while now but this is the 1st time a mitx has gone this far in the clocking dept. Its about fackin time! I've gone through so many boards this year for clarksdales and this board is doing better in clocks and cold bug / qpi and than all of them and its a mitx board. is it just me or are you guys totally freaked out by this little thing?

:nana::nana::nana:

even if it's miniITX - your cat will still find a way to sleep in the box

haha ... that's just awesome!

Your cat loves the box so much, it doesn't allow you to put your mainboard back in

even If It's Miniitx - Your Cat Will Still Find A Way To Sleep In The Box

 

Rolf

BTW I ordered one little board like that

the cat was like :woot: nice box

even though I got 6.6, this board has some serious problems

- after I got the 6.6 screenie, I tried 32M stability first (with low mems and qpi) - 233x27 was a crash at loop 15, 230x27 was a crash at loop 19, even 223x27 (6.0ghz) was a crash at loop 20

- 32M efficency with Clarkdale is worse than similar model, H55M-UD2H (32M at 4GHz is about 7 seconds slower)

- there is no SetFSB support for this board, so you have to clock it like a Phenom - boot with desired BCLK/MEM and then change CPU multi via CPU Tweaker

- takes VERY long to POST (22-24 seconds to bootscreen after you save settings in BIOS), makes it very hard to debug

- (same as other H55 board) only 3 subtimings can be adjusted via BIOS on Clarkdale, rest you put "1" or "255" - no difference at all

- Vcore settings closer to the top end do not work properly

- Cannot recover in 1 step (loading profile , F10, Enter) after a BIOS crash

- does not work properly with my OS (install / reboot problems)

i am shocked that you can actually do that...........i didnt think the VRM is able to handle it

i think your crashes are VRM related ... WAY too much load for such a small power circuit

it seems as though 5.6-6.0 might be 32m stable, I can't believe the BCLK/QPI clocks, very nice job SamOCX

even if it's miniITX - your cat will still find a way to sleep in the box

 

If anyone ever wants to see Sam OCX's cat ever again you ALL will comply with the following:

You will lower your BLCK to 100

You will lower your multiplier to 10

You will lower your voltage to 1.1V

You will lower your RAM frequency to 533

You will move your Super Pi folder to a pre-USB 2.0 external 3200 RPM drive

You will then delete your existing Super Pi submisions and re-submit with the above settings

hey sambo you need to reapply your nail polish, it is starting to flake bro!

 

wrong image tag....works now heheh

i think that's MassiveOverkill's nail polish hahahah

Waiting for the first person to submit a pictures with an elephant

wrong image tag....works now heheh

 

i think that's MassiveOverkill's nail polish hahahah

That is why the kittah is so worried. Every hour that my wishes are not met, another nail will have the polish scraped off and kittah forced to watch it.

If your cat is remotely like my cat, it will watch for about 5 seconds and then wander off to eat some food and sleep.

time to submit my first result,

closing in on youngpro, but still A LOT of tweaking left to be done.

had quite alot of trouble getting the memory to work at cas 6. My dommies 1866C7's just don't seem to like it, and had to push them with 1.96v

more to come

 

even though I got 6.6, this board has some serious problems

- after I got the 6.6 screenie, I tried 32M stability first (with low mems and qpi) - 233x27 was a crash at loop 15, 230x27 was a crash at loop 19, even 223x27 (6.0ghz) was a crash at loop 20

- 32M efficency with Clarkdale is worse than similar model, H55M-UD2H (32M at 4GHz is about 7 seconds slower)

- there is no SetFSB support for this board, so you have to clock it like a Phenom - boot with desired BCLK/MEM and then change CPU multi via CPU Tweaker

- takes VERY long to POST (22-24 seconds to bootscreen after you save settings in BIOS), makes it very hard to debug

- (same as other H55 board) only 3 subtimings can be adjusted via BIOS on Clarkdale, rest you put "1" or "255" - no difference at all

- Vcore settings closer to the top end do not work properly

- Cannot recover in 1 step (loading profile , F10, Enter) after a BIOS crash

- does not work properly with my OS (install / reboot problems)

SAm that is amazing! crash or no crash. What were the temps? Did you have similar temps as me? higher? get in here man. you run out of juice or the did the wife come home? goddamn it guys. get your crap done so we can all play. massman you too. dino? quit getting high with tim and my rich uncle fess. and wheres my rhode island friend chew? Chew get yer arse in here! lets roll! cmon, lets start some static! cmon! lets roll!

here we go, those mod might help you to get better overclocking score.

Cold bug mod for clarkdale

Vcore offset mod

HiCookie

nice

How cold can you possibly get on this board? All I did was that 1st resistor (the top one) then I did the regular cpu mod cookiemonster did in the CBB clarksdale thread. I can cold boot at -125 and bench in windows (highest i went was -150c)

how cold can this thing get?

that depends on the CPU and QPI used but im sure you will find that your CPU with low QPI will actually take a full pot of ln2

always check this before you start to bench anyway man

right now im on the last qpi setting to auto. THis is the highest setting. its booting in but I keep screwing up by shooting too much ln2 in. I did a crazy 1m run for you guys. I'll post it. I tried all night messing with the os tweaks but I dont get the copy waza at all. I reinstalled win on a 60gb vertex2 and took half for the os and the other half for the 2nd partition in windows drive manage. I did the reg mem tweak aand set to 1. I dont know whats going on. I jsut started benching again. raw dog style I kicked my last scores ass by a few seconds. and that 1m run was pretty good. I went 1 up on the qpi but im still around 5.6-5.8 area. just trying to keep things stable at this point.

-125°C and -150°C means that the mod is working. Without the mod, the CPU bugs around -90°C

Sam pulling out the big guns

nice QPI

what is the point of RAM on LN2 with a clarkdale?

Anyone know what NB frequency field means in CPUz with a clarkdale

Sam pulling out the big guns

 

nice QPI

 

what is the point of RAM on LN2 with a clarkdale?

 

Anyone know what NB frequency field means in CPUz with a clarkdale

Clarkdale's uncroe is fused. the design of clarkdale Uncore is a logic clock.

IMC controls ddr3 speed and performnace. and clarkdale put it into 45nm GPU die,

from CPU die L3 cache the path to GPU die is QPI bus.

Normally, QPI bus limits DDR bandwidth, in theory, when QPI bus is 6.4GT/s,

DDR3 speed 1333, the DDR3 banwidth will be 21GB/s ( in theory), also DMI bus is tru

QPI. thats why increase QPI bus affects DDR performance a lot. even you don't use

IGP. properly you might say with clarkdale the L3 smart cache path to IMC is the performance that we concern.

what is the point of RAM on LN2 with a clarkdale?

here we go, those mod might help you to get better overclocking score.

 

Cold bug mod for clarkdale

 

Vcore offset mod

 

HiCookie

cookie that bottom pic. I was up to -150 by just shorting the top resistor. do you think I should take down the insulation and do yours? Also the offset vcore mod. is it worth it?

I just dont feel like taking it all apart.

what is the point of RAM on LN2 with a clarkdale?

You do it ... because you can

1175 7-8-7 (tRRD/tRTP/tWTP/tWTR(same rank) = 4/4/20/18) and 940 6-6-5 (2/2/18/16) gets almost exactly the same score for me (around 8:49.1), changing tRP from 7 to 6 gained me good 1.5 seconds

it seems Dedal worked out what SetFSB to use in the comp

looks like RTM885N-914 works ok

dino are u benching this week?

Im about to strap it on again.

I am ... just mounted the board for the very first time!

on hoes, Massman enters ... will my backups hold up ?

yeeehaww!!

awww crap. I got all excited when I saw dino was gonna start benching so after spending the last week getting the os straight I put the itx back in. (note I didnt change anything since I had it on last, container was still on. all i did was take the mem out and unplug all the headers and the vga card and set it aside. so I just plugged it all in and no post, no fans. no power to the board at all. I just took it all off and looked at the cpu top and bottom look perfect. pins and socket look perfect. so no burns here. I took all the eraser off and the bottom insulation. wiped it clean and just put the stock hs on and same crap. no power..nothing.

took all the ram out and vga. made sure slots are clear of any crap that might be shorting it out. its clean. gonna try a new psu and swap cpus. any other ideas please post. I just had the i3540 and h55m-ud2h on this same psu and it was fine. brb.

:shrug:

here we go, those mod might help you to get better overclocking score.

 

Cold bug mod for clarkdale

 

Vcore offset mod

 

HiCookie

Cookie,

Can you explain the difference or the benefits of the CBB mod you posted versus just changing the resistance to 0K on this resistor?

Cookie,

 

Can you explain the difference or the benefits of the CBB mod you posted versus just changing the resistance to 0K on this resistor?

 

I 2nd that question also I'd like to tell you guys I think the itx board is dead. It wont post / power on at all. I swapped cpus but i3 540 is same thing. Its definitely not the psu. I noticed the cb i drew on the 655k was starting to wear off. Should I wipe it all off including the resistor on the board and see if thats the problem? I tried the 655k in my h55m-ud2h and it will spin on and then shut off and loop. no post. tried 1 stick and same crap. Im praying to the ocing gods I didnt kill that 655k and the mitx. I'm gonna wipe the 655k off completely clear of ink and try it again in the h55m-ud2h. If it posts then my next step is wiping the mitx board clear of mods. the only thing I did on the mitx board was short the top resistor with ink. if its not that then the board is cashed and I'm out of the contest. I have no more money this month to buy another one.

I'd appreciate it if all of you could take a moment of silence and say a silent prayer to the Mighty Gods of Overclocking on this beautiful August night.

Let us pray:

"Dear mighty Overclocking Gods, We thank you for creating this contest for us. It has brought us all together despite our differences, location, ethnicity, overclocking level of experience, etc. etc. We have all come together in the name of overclocking during these turbulent times to overclock to the best of our ability in the name of Massman. We honor your faithful disciples at gigabyte technology. (bless them for creating this motherboard) But today a dark shadow has been cast upon one of our fellow brothers, Trans Am. he is need of your hardware healing powers tonight. Please lead him through his hardware woes and show him the righteous path so we can all be together again in harmony and overclocking spirit.

Please guide our fellow brothers Chew, Cookie Monster, dino, massman, george and everyone else through the hardware darkness and shed your light and let us all stay in harmony with our brave and faithful brother Uncle Sam (sam ocx). He has made us all proud and we rejoice in his overclock....in the name of the hardware

....the software

....and the holy clocks

-Amen."

I can tell you guys haven't prayed yet cause it midnight and neither the board or cpu works still. I swapped again and again and both are dead. I wish all of you the best in this contest. Unless there is a miracle and a board shows up on my doorstep I'm out of the contest.

I had fun while it lasted.

bad luck man

try to check that pins are ok with a macro shot and good look

shame that it died if it did but that's always a possibility

First shot: http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1041354_massman_superpi_32m_core_i7_875k_8min_59sec_391ms

I'm sorry 1Day

Further ram tuning is pointless ... I will switch to single stage for more BCLK.

Tight trfc massman ! 59-60 should be possible Subtimings are very loose

tighter tRFC (~60) / tRTP (~3) don't help ?

massman keep it up buddy. get that single stage strapped on asap. I want to show you guys some pics of my board and cpu if that okay with everyone. I have a bad habit of leaving the board after a session and going to bed. You've all been there. Its 6am..you can barely reset the cmos jumper on the board let alone set your clocks. You've more than a few beers, You started benching 8 hrs ago and you are completely spent. You just cant wait to get in the bed. So you take as much off the board as you can without breaking or dropping something.

my usual routine is:

unplug the atx, 12v headers, ram, sata and vga card and leave the board sitting there with the cpu container still cranked to hell and its frozen stiff. "oh thats cool...I'll just let it do its thing...it'll evaporate...

... this has been my bench routine since I got a container. It finally caught up with me and it cost me a 655k and my board for the contest. The only other thing I can think of was before I turned it on, I had a hairdryer plugged into a powerstrip that was heating up insulation on another board and the hairdryer caused a surge and it shut off the powerstrip the psu was plugged into that was connected to the mitx board but the psu still works and the ram still does. so I seriously doubt that was it. after looking at the pics I think its pretty obvious. on the backside of the board images I posted, look at all the white spots on the atx area and the dimm slots. its all oxidized to hell.

..Even after 2 coats of this crap. http://www.hmcelectronics.com/cgi-bin/scripts/product/1530-0098/Chemtronics-CTAR12

(dont buy it) it leaves a cloudy white film on the pcb and it doesnt provide much protection and unreliable. I dont know why i bought it but I wanted to try something new. Its crap!

the one that always worked was this one:

http://www.mgchemicals.com/products/419b.html

anyway, back to the problem.

http://s239.photobucket.com/albums/ff94/jackalsmith/mitx%20TA%20fubar%20pics/

Is there anyway to fix the board or apply something that will clean if off? kind of like putting your old rusted skateboard bearings in gasoline and soaking them overnight? I have a little ln2 left so I'm gonna mount the h55m ud2h with a i3 540 and see if I can get some better pi runs than I previously submitted. I'm so tempted to get on the egg and order a replacement. I still have a 660 that still works.

hard to tell

pins seem ok.....nothing looks burnt but who knows...it might have shorted somehow no idea

I 2nd that question also I'd like to tell you guys I think the itx board is dead. It wont post / power on at all. I swapped cpus but i3 540 is same thing. Its definitely not the psu. I noticed the cb i drew on the 655k was starting to wear off. Should I wipe it all off including the resistor on the board and see if thats the problem? I tried the 655k in my h55m-ud2h and it will spin on and then shut off and loop. no post. tried 1 stick and same crap. Im praying to the ocing gods I didnt kill that 655k and the mitx. I'm gonna wipe the 655k off completely clear of ink and try it again in the h55m-ud2h. If it posts then my next step is wiping the mitx board clear of mods. the only thing I did on the mitx board was short the top resistor with ink. if its not that then the board is cashed and I'm out of the contest. I have no more money this month to buy another one.

 

I'd appreciate it if all of you could take a moment of silence and say a silent prayer to the Mighty Gods of Overclocking on this beautiful August night.

 

 

Let us pray:

 

"Dear mighty Overclocking Gods, We thank you for creating this contest for us. It has brought us all together despite our differences, location, ethnicity, overclocking level of experience, etc. etc. We have all come together in the name of overclocking during these turbulent times to overclock to the best of our ability in the name of Massman. We honor your faithful disciples at gigabyte technology. (bless them for creating this motherboard) But today a dark shadow has been cast upon one of our fellow brothers, Trans Am. he is need of your hardware healing powers tonight. Please lead him through his hardware woes and show him the righteous path so we can all be together again in harmony and overclocking spirit.

Please guide our fellow brothers Chew, Cookie Monster, dino, massman, george and everyone else through the hardware darkness and shed your light and let us all stay in harmony with our brave and faithful brother Uncle Sam (sam ocx). He has made us all proud and we rejoice in his overclock....in the name of the hardware

....the software

....and the holy clocks

 

-Amen."

the CBB/CB mod won't kill your processor

but will change the chips charactor. it possiblely only can work

on the Moded boards once the board done the mod,

Chew*, yes, you could just short the resistor, to make it 0Kohm.

or you can short to any ground.

hicookie

modifications here;

voltage measurepoint

QPIVtt mod

vcore mod

CBB/CB mod

hicookie

By the way, this is how I mounted the cooler:

..what happend with Sam's 4Ghz score.. It's gone ??

I noticed something strange with his tREFL and mentioned it. I didn't even report it so that no fuss is created, somehow though it got deleted. Have you ever seen tREFL at 1123? Its max value is 1023...

Can somebody please explain? Here is the screenshot, same time yesterday. I've circled the irrational value.

I've got another question, irrelevant to the above-mentioned. Can somebody run at the exact same settings as my 8m59sec run and post his 32M result here? The reason I'm asking for such a favor is because I'm losing about 2k performance product with this board, in comparison with an ASUS P55 one. 213k with the Maximus, 215k with the Giga And on top of that, I can't even work out the problems I face with 2:10 divider... My RAMs operate without the faintest problems on the Maximus at about 1030MHz 7-7-6-19, but I can't get passed loop 2 or 3 on H55N-USB3.

got the exact same problem, memory ratio 2:10 and also 2:12 seem very unstable.

Not sure what the reason is... stil testing though

2:10 and 2:12 works here.

Thanks Pieter-Jan, I'll for sure try that

if you are referring to his latest screenshot i would say no as he has no maxmem so no point running wazza either

Can somebody run with these settings http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1041500_george_oc_superpi_32m_core_i7_860_8min_59sec_578ms (performing copywaza as well) and post the result here?

hmmm 2:12 works fine for me to. no waza.

George your problem is QPI, I ran higher, it was slower. Sometimes less is more.

This board is OCP-ing all day long

Much appreciated Brian

What kind of Maxmem are you guys running?

I have the feeling that I'm not running a really good C-W ... avail/sys is still 480/518 :-/

What kind of Maxmem are you guys running?

 

I have the feeling that I'm not running a really good C-W ... avail/sys is still 480/518 :-/

massman what the hell is that aircooler doing on that board? Its cool that you got the massive thing to contact. but what about the 1stage cooler? I want to see you get in the 2nd stage with the better cooling.

on another note, I took the burned mitx board off and the 655k is in the graveyard so last night I took my i3 540 and insulated the mitx big brother (h55m-ud2h) I had about 1/16 of 35L of ln2 to work with and no settings saved and started from scratch after I got home from work. I wish I was a little more ballsy but I think I got a decent score considering i was only at 5.3ghz

http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1041807_trans_am_superpi_32m_core_i3_540_7min_43sec_157ms

I downloaded this ocx tweak thing and I have no idea. what the hell I was doing. I basically plugged in a raptor so that could be waza drive. bench disk /os was on a 64gb c300 using the entire drive as the partition since its ssd.

Then I open spi and selected 32m and before hitting start I opened task manager and set task manager to lowest priority then set spi at realtime and minimized task window. Then I open the ocx thing and dialed in spi partion as c (c300) and 2nd partition to the raptor. heres the ss.

I hit clean then burn then run. and the thing counts down for 35seconds and closes then I run the 32m bench. I have no idea if it helped. i think I have the settings totally wrong but I'm reluctant to ask for help because of Chews thread on xs. I'm not asking for anything specific. i just need to know what the hell I'm doing. for example. what is the check box for CDT and IV mean? is there a thread somewhere that has the basics for this thing?

Chew what are you doing this weekend?

Chew what are you doing this weekend?

reviews and overclocking.

My board is 95% waterproof now + modded and ready to rip but i have 2 sets of ram that quakecon put me behind on so thats prioity 1 atm, doesn't mean someone can't bench on one of the stations while i work though.

I don't want to push my luck but is it you cool with you if I bring 2 of my buddies? ones a black guy and the other dude is a robot. They are really nice and will throw down on the Ln2. The robot can do beer runs or go to Radio Shack if we run into trouble. because he's a robot and alcohol doesn't really slow him down. We go bar hopping all the time in nyc and no matter how many drinks he's had he always insists the he drives to the next spot.

the black guy is the head engineer on a space ship so bios settings are like 2nd nature to him.

seriously chew, I think it would be better if we planned for next weekend when the contest ends tues night. so if I drive up friday night and we bench all day saturday or something like that. I think if you are doing tedious data collection for a review and you have this total stranger with a star trek uniform on pouring ln2 in your living room you will drop everything and want to bench too and then you have someone that gave you the product to review asking for your results. And you tell him "oh man i'm sorry I invited trans am over to bench and he just started asking all these dumb questions and I felt obligated to help him out because he drove all the way to Rhode Island from new york with a full 35L taylor wharton dewar in the back seat of his car and ln2 was splashing all over because he blew his money on german racing suspension on a 10 year old volvo but he can't afford to buy a 2nd mitx board for the contest. ....so he finally gets to my house in the middle of the night and im already in bed and he's tapping my doorbell button like its a F10 key! I open the door and he has about a 1/3rd left of ln2 and he's already asking me whats for breakfast?

chew. email or pm me so we can make a plan. I think we should do this. I'm just joking earlier. I'm actually pretty mellow and respectful/professional. the oc forums make me want to do the comedy routine.

I don't want to push my luck but is it you cool with you if I bring 2 of my buddies? ones a black guy and the other dude is a robot. They are really nice and will throw down on the Ln2. The robot can do beer runs or go to Radio Shack if we run into trouble. because he's a robot and alcohol doesn't really slow him down. We go bar hopping all the time in nyc and no matter how many drinks he's had he always insists the he drives to the next spot.

the black guy is the head engineer on a space ship so bios settings are like 2nd nature to him.

 

 

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Best to bring one guy or find a way to tag along with msimax if he's coming. Black dudes are cool, I'm a minority here, most of my buds are black.

..what happend with Sam's 4Ghz score.. It's gone ??

+1

its gone? is it hidden?

wheres msi max live? whats you ln2 situation? when do they close? can we get it on the weekend? PM me on xs or here. and what is with sams submissions? is he out? I figured he just took them down and hes clocking like crazy so everyone else thinks they have a chance then tuesday night he puts up 2 runs that make everyone run the other way.

think sams runs were suspect for speeds, is the time possible sure, at that uncore? I doubt it.

msimax live in ummmm the city? I forget where to be truthfull even though I have been there in person.

Ln2 situation is rental dewar is 50c a day and cost me with tax like 36 to fill one ( 30L ), my dewar is in shipping atm.

Has to be filled by 12 noon saturday or your bumming.

dang... thanks...

For those who want to see how well they are doing while running the benchmark, or need comparisons: I'm uploading all my runs to Photobucket for reference. Most of them are with copy-waza (maybe the slow ones not - unsure), but you can use these runs for reference without waza as well. I'm gaining approx 5-6sec with Waza.

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/9m5s141.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/9m4s641.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m59s781.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m59s391.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m58s110.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m57s812.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m55s750.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m55s234.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m54s610.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m54s359.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m53s875.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m53s719.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m52s781.png

http://i154.photobucket.com/albums/s261/Massman-/HWBOT/GIGABYTE%20H55N-USB3%20SPI%2032M%20runs/8m52s609.png

You are the man Pieter Whenever we meet I'll buy you dozens of beers

wow 5-6 seconds? I didnt think it would make that big of a difference. I need to go back and mess around more.

Thanks man.

@chew. thanks I cant believe your ln2 is so cheap. I pay $70 plus tax in the city to fill the 35L.

I brought it to work.

I just found a guide to work that ocx thing.

man.... I was way off!

ME4ME posted the link for us back in the 70s in the middle of the thread. the link and the instructions are there I just never read it. *******edit here it is****

http://www.ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?t=3469

the only thing that baffles me is the countdown thing.

Changelog :

- add another spincontrol for Sleep Period. This is the time in seconds the application wait between single copy process from one to another partition.

default sleep time is 35 seconds. :ocx2008s04:

35 seconds is so long and i'm pouring ln2 and wasting it to keep the temp stable. then if that box is checked its going C/ to D/ to /C: to / D with 35s in between each drive so so its almost 3min has gone by and you're just blowing through ln2. does it matter if i set it lower so Its like 15 sec?

On another note I went to get my dewar filled after work. I just got home. I got a huge scare! I was taking the dewar out of the back seat and got it on my skateboard. so I could roll it into my building. I get it on the skateboard but its not my usual board. its my friend petes. He has a 7.75 and I usually have 8in wide deck so there is better support. So i leave it on the sidewalk and I go to lock the door to the car with my key because I havent bothered to change the battery in the keychain remote. As im locking the door I hear a "SLAM" and see vapor everywhere. (Take note this is on a new york city sidewalk but lucky there werent many pedestrians. ) im also wearing sunglasses and gloves and a snowboarding jacket to protect myself when Im squeezing it out of the rear seat. the most dangerous part of the whole mission. Anyway I run around the car and get the dewar upright again. I check for any damage. the only thing i noticed is the plastic rim at the top is slightly bent but there is no leakage or dents. I had the withdrawal unit attached and that didnt get bent or snapped off. it couldve been much worse. This is a massive $1600.00 35L taylor wharton xt. The same one I roll in at the begging of the oc music video.

wow 5-6 seconds? I didnt think it would make that big of a difference. I need to go back and mess around more.

Thanks man.

 

@chew. thanks I cant believe your ln2 is so cheap. I pay $70 plus tax in the city to fill the 35L.

I brought it to work.

 

I just found a guide to work that ocx thing.

man.... I was way off!

Yah it's my frequent flyer price. Comes with time. Took me a year of non stop benching to get that price, I use to pay what you pay.

Yah it's my frequent flyer price. Comes with time. Took me a year of non stop benching to get that price, I use to pay what you pay.

I just paid the price BIG TIME!

had the 32M clarkdale WR and lost it all!

@ Massman I know its friday night and you are probably with the lady or getting your swerve on at the bar. When you get online again maybe you can help me and my buddies out. We got a 4min 32m run with my i3 540, Geordi was able to fix the mitx board by submerging the whole board in a mixture of Worf's Klingon blood wine and some experimental concoction Guinan had had been working on after hours in ten forward. Basically she was making moonshine in her ships quarters and trading it illegally to the Ferengi's. Star fleet command started to get suspicious so freaked out and flushed it all down the toilet but kept one bottle.

we didnt manage to get a screen shot because Data had his emotion chip installed and got so excited we got that 4 min run he knocked over Picard's beer and spilled all over the bench drive and then I saw some sparks and it all went south. it ended up killing the mitx board that we spent 2 days fixing, the i3 540, the best elpida hyper kit I had and my 5850!! Can you please see if you can make an exception for me?

I've basically lost the majority of my best hardware from participating in this contest and came close to breaking my 35L dewar.

I dont have anything to show for it other than this crappy jpg counselor Troi took with her iphone.

I'm going back and looking at everyones submissions. my mem is crap. massman wtf? is that just lynnfield or a really good kit? All of you are kicking my rams ass. is everyone pretty much using a elpida hyper kit and all of my kits are garbage? im seeing george is doing 1880mhz at 6-7-5-18 with gtx2. arent those like 200 bux for single stick? and massman is at 2100 at 7-7-6 also with the gtx2. damn! a few months ago I was at the corsair site and ordered them then benchzoner told me I paid $200bux for a single 2gb stick. I canceled the order because I thought it was for 2 sticks. now I can finally see why they were 200 bux a stick. i have 4x2gb hyperx 2000 cas 8 kits and 2x2 gskill pi blk 2200 7-10-10-28 kits.

I still havent really taken the time to max them out. I think the highest vdimm ive gone is 1.7v with air. may I ask you guys what your vdimm is at on those gtx2 kits on air?

I'm going back and looking at everyones submissions. my mem is crap. massman wtf? is that just lynnfield or a really good kit? All of you are kicking my rams ass. is everyone pretty much using a elpida hyper kit and all of my kits are garbage? im seeing george is doing 1880mhz at 6-7-5-18 with gtx2. arent those like 200 bux for single stick? and massman is at 2100 at 7-7-6 also with the gtx2. damn! a few months ago I was at the corsair site and ordered them then benchzoner told me I paid $200bux for a single 2gb stick. I canceled the order because I thought it was for 2 sticks. now I can finally see why they were 200 bux a stick. i have 4x2gb hyperx 2000 cas 8 kits and 2x2 gskill pi blk 2200 7-10-10-28 kits.

I still havent really taken the time to max them out. I think the highest vdimm ive gone is 1.7v with air. may I ask you guys what your vdimm is at on those gtx2 kits on air?

I have plenty of hypers here, and after we are done we can go to skatepark, see if i can crack a few more ribs and shatter a wrist perfecting my 180 ollie to 50/50 grind on the bench to ollie 180, that is if they fixed the bench since my ribs broke it.

Been over my settings a million times now, but still can't find a way to get the other 3 seconds Sam's telling me about . I guess I won't be doing much better than this:

I'm going back and looking at everyones submissions. my mem is crap. massman wtf? is that just lynnfield or a really good kit? All of you are kicking my rams ass. is everyone pretty much using a elpida hyper kit and all of my kits are garbage? im seeing george is doing 1880mhz at 6-7-5-18 with gtx2. arent those like 200 bux for single stick? and massman is at 2100 at 7-7-6 also with the gtx2. damn! a few months ago I was at the corsair site and ordered them then benchzoner told me I paid $200bux for a single 2gb stick. I canceled the order because I thought it was for 2 sticks. now I can finally see why they were 200 bux a stick. i have 4x2gb hyperx 2000 cas 8 kits and 2x2 gskill pi blk 2200 7-10-10-28 kits.

I still havent really taken the time to max them out. I think the highest vdimm ive gone is 1.7v with air. may I ask you guys what your vdimm is at on those gtx2 kits on air?

The Lynnfield IMC is a lot better than the Clarkdale IMC, so you probably won't be seeing these clocks on Clarkdale.

Since Leeghoofd is pressuring me not to kill the GTX2 ... I only run 1.74V on the memory.

I thought so to ... untill Dino said it's all alright

What?

The CPU MHz is limited ... it doesn't matter whether you have ES or not.

I am running 210MHz BCLK?

you are NB limited and your time is fine with those settings

make it cold and fight the bclock now

1) im seeing george is doing 1880mhz at 6-7-5-18 with gtx2. arent those like 200 bux for single stick?

2) I still havent really taken the time to max them out. I think the highest vdimm ive gone is 1.7v with air. may I ask you guys what your vdimm is at on those gtx2 kits on air?

1) Hehe, take a good look at CPU-Tweaker trans am. My RAMs are Corsair Dominator 2000 C8 2x2GB kit. I got them second-handed from a friend of mine, in exchange for 200€ (approximately $260 USD).

2) ~950MHz 6-7-5-18 with 56 tRFC and 13 tWTP comes at a price... What price? 1.94V on air. However you gotta cold your IMC before messing with such sky-high voltages

The difference between 2000 C8 and GTX2s is pretty obvious. 6-7-5-18 vs 6-6-5-17 I don't have more money though, that was the max I could pay and I'm pretty happy with the result

Now I need to work on my efficieny. I do 213k pp on P55, but only 215.8k on H55. Don't know why is that, but I'll try and figure out asap!

1) Hehe, take a good look at CPU-Tweaker trans am. My RAMs are Corsair Dominator 2000 C8 2x2GB kit. I got them second-handed from a friend of mine, in exchange for 200€ (approximately $260 USD).

 

2) ~950MHz 6-7-5-18 with 56 tRFC and 13 tWTP comes at a price... What price? 1.94V on air. However you gotta cold your IMC before messing with such sky-high voltages

 

The difference between 2000 C8 and GTX2s is pretty obvious. 6-7-5-18 vs 6-6-5-17 I don't have more money though, that was the max I could pay and I'm pretty happy with the result

 

Now I need to work on my efficieny. I do 213k pp on P55, but only 215.8k on H55. Don't know why is that, but I'll try and figure out asap!

George when you say cold imc do you mean you are cooling the cpu with ln2 or do you mean you have the ram cold? Im sorta confused I see guys cooling the ram with fancy pots but the ram is so close to the cpu pot that its already cold to the touch. I just had to break out the hairdryer.

fyi I just got my ass kicked by 7 sec by rick tonight. Nicely done buddy

I'm messing around with a 540 and the ud2h tonight on ln2. Nothing special yet. just doing wprime 1024 runs and I keep freezing because I keep running to this thread to type while its running and not paying attention to the fluke. lemme concentrate guys. So far im finding this 540 is not liking vcore too much. maybe that a good thing. Im sorry to keep posting in the thread when Im basically out until i get another board but I like to pretend Im still in it in the meantime.

I fixed all my OCP issues just with the one OCP modification?

for me QPI/VTT OVP kicks in at 1.63v (tested on LN2)

anyway ..2:10 isn't working for me above 950 mem, so there is no need to push the IMC in any way. Personally im thinking of memory ocp, but don't know for sure

hotglue overdose

closing in on pro and still on air cooling on both CPU and RAM

Dino, Pro...

our favorite uncle is in the contest too and is kicking ass! Tim needs to get in here now. (sorry guys I just love the aussie team. such a rad team and so small but they are rad and nice guys.)

Nice work fester! Im totally surprised i thought he was strictly gulftown these days. I'm stoked that he's in here! I ordered another mitx tonight so I'll give it another try.

@ uncle and everyone else with a live account and a cam. hook up your cam next time and lets all bench together this weekend. like friday or sat night?

We should all coordinate for a live show this week in some synchronized overclocking..

we all bench together in a crazy frenzy in a mass live event.

I think it would be awesome! Ive seen fester live before. Ive never seen dino. I think I saw chew a year ago or so live, never saw massman or anyone else in here. I think it would be cool to see all you guys all in the same event.

Think of it as a live overclocking event at a convention center except we dont have to be in the same physical location and there is no money or sponsored crap involved so there is no pressure or expectations that lead to any crap. There is no crazy prize to cut and slash each other for.

We all just have fun and have some drinks and just overclock as friends and push each other further and have a few laughs at the same time but we are in completely different parts of the world but are all overclocking together and friends on the same board at the same time and its LIVE on the internet!

I cant be the only one here that thinks this would be awesome.

anyone? We should all get in here soon decide on a date and time so massman can post the live event on the front page so people know about it before it happens. Then we all start clocking at a time for a couple hours and while we are waiting for the cpu to get back to cold boot temps we are checking out how our friends are doing and pushing them to do better.

okay forget it. i just thought it was a good idea but maybe its too good for its own good. lets all just bench and be disconnected from everyone else and just do what we always do and just be in our own world and just make our submissions to the computer like robots. I just thought it would be cool if we all did this together. I remember benching while uncle fester was benching and how fun we had knowing we weren't alone and someone on the other side of the world was doing the same thing at the same time and shared the same frustrations and had a drink or a cig while waiting for the board to warm up after crapping out. I didnt even know him but he had a sense of humor and I could relate to and cant remember ever having so much fun overclocking. I just want to do it again. I wish you guys had that experience that day because I watched him while at work and got home and he had so many problems and i've been there so many times. I dont have any friends in new york ive clocked with except dr kim and none of my friends understand it. It was just cool to see a complete stranger going through the same crap as me on the other side of the world at the same time.

im ugly as sin

no one wants to see me bench live

My boards acting retarded atm ever since i stuck a 650 in, praying to OC gods and giving acetone bath for the time being.

I'm praying for you buddy.

omg, thats like a trabbi with a v8

any chance of having a VGA stage?

sure if we could get those pcie expanders

The will be released soon. They are going be be sold under the name "Ultra Durable Expander".

i hope its not more expensive than the h55n-usb3

omg , how you make this for two vga.

can you add more pics only bridge pci-e

I'm officially out of the contest One memory channel doesn't work, probably due to some bent pins or something. Even with 1.49V VTT I couldn't make 2:10 divider work... Only a few times, but I think that was completely random.

Nevermind, what matters is that I had lots of fun. Amazing little bastard could overclock my i7 860 up to 5GHz - 4930MHz 32M benchable. Congratulations to Gigabyte for manufacturing it! I wish I knew how to mod it, so that I could bump VTT at 1.55V or even more. That way I would have made 2:10 work flawlessly (my chip needs high VTT anyway).

Most popular OC competition thread here at the bot, by the way ... 203 replies!

I'll straighten out the pins in the following days and test the board a bit more, not in 32M again. I want to push it for some good 24/7 CPU clocks. It's a solid memory clocker, I know that for sure!

Max bclk from my testing was around 242MHz.

George, you could have bent one of memory slots (trying to keep it 2mm further away from the cpu) like I did on mine - solder quality on these boards is crappy in some places

5mins in the oven should fix your issue

Thanks man. Bent pins are visible though (accidentally ), I'll straighten them first and if it doesn't work I'll try your way of fixing

george just stay positive and see what you can do.. I know how you feel my friend. It sucks. I just got another board and 655 so I'm in the process of doing the mods and insulation. after seeing fester's board I'm taking my time and taking every precaution. did you see the pic of his board after the last session?!!!

holy crap!

holy crap, that's what i call condensation.

^^ i know! I'm wondering if his board even turns on after that session. I've never seen anything like that before. It mustve been raining or something that day. Ive benched for 8 hrs at -100 - -140 and it never looked anything close to that. I didnt have grease in the dimms on the last run but I think I might do it and fill the recessed center of the socket just to be safe. also I always seal the battery circle with eraser. his is just out in the open. The leaderboard speaks for itself... I've said it before and i'll say it again. The Aussie team is the raddest!

Just submerge the whole rig in vaseline

Just submerge the whole rig in vaseline

I think you're right Bizzy Bone. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bizzy_Bone

I cant take any chances. Its been raining for the past 4 days in NYC and today is the 1st day the sun came out. I just sprayed it all down and I plugged the new 655k in and the stock cooler and its all good. I'm gonna do some driver crap and then take it all down and do the next steps. I usually never grease the dimms because the last time I did it it just attracted so many particles but I think its the only way to ensure it makes it through a long session. Are you a contender too? it would be awesome to have you here. Sorry to call you bizzy bone. I'm not a huge rap fan but bone thugs in harmony wouldnt have been the huge 90s success if it wasn't for your beautiful voice and tweaks on the sound engineers computer when you guys cut the 1st record.

holy crap have you seen this yet??? you guys are famous! Its on the official gigabyte site for the board. I think they need to update the site asap with fester's frozen picture.

that would be hilarious!

http://www.gigabyte.com/fileupload/microsite/246/default.html

fester didnt use mounting or anything just plonked the pot on top lol

dino how far do live from him? i dont know how tight you guys are. I just imagine you guys are all hanging out together in the parking lot of an AC/DC show talking about overclocking. you know what I mean? A good analogy for au team would be a band that has 3 guys that are masters of their instruments and just kick ass (AU team)

or a jam band with 15 guys, maybe the drummer and bassist are really really good but the dude on harmonica and rest of the band screws up and makes the band sound like crap. I know I give you guys a lot of crap with the fosters and outback steakhouse jokes but the truth is I am jealous because AU team is the best metal band I've ever seen.

Wow thanks man but we are a bunch of jokers too that don't take themselves too seriously heheh

Distances are pretty bad...here is how far the rest of team au guys are from me

Youngro 1400km

Kayl 4500km

Eva2000 1000km

U F 4500km

T_M 6000km

Bob(nz) 7000km

Eeeeek wish we could get together more often as we have a lot of fun.

nickshih putting the hammer down

...hope he doesn't have backups

nickshih putting the hammer down

Yep , and i have maybe no time to bench 32M this WE because of my birthday

My board is in oven now after a 3 day acetone bath, prays.

Fire up your P55 Giga pro, I'm getting close

whats everyone doing right now? I finally got it all on and have like 1/4 tank of 35l left. chew whats your status? did you get it going again? hit me on the radio. anyone else clocking tonight get in here so we have something to do while the boards are warming back.

I have no expectations of myself. I just want to beat my last score and see what this new 655k can do. other than that I'm just excited to be back in here. Get in here with me! chew call me.

@dino I'm listening to the ac/dc Dirty Deeds record in the background. maybe it will give me some aussie luck.

im benching this weekend between both of my kids birthdays sometime lol

this latest 8/20 bios is crap. I need to revert. Any good bios lemme know. Im just gonna go back and see what everyone is on. I cant even complete 32m at 5.6 its not qpi and its not ram. its something else. Its freaking me out.

i tried it

same as F5b for me in terms of clocks and stability

im benching this weekend between both of my kids birthdays sometime lol

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Q - "Daddy? Where is my birthday cake?"

A - "Shit ... well, here's a Twix ..."

*benching*

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F6A works great for me, 2:10 is finally working!

all left to do is re-install the OS, and try improving at 4Ghz.

crap f2 ...i didn't know there was f6a

Mine had reboot loops issues after doing mod but it never saw cold, it eventually just stopped working while pretesting on air with a 650. It just loops now.

My bath and bake seemed to help none at all even after all mods removed. You win some and lose some, thats the name of the game.

O well time to see if i can pull a results out my ass in the AMD 01 challenge with almost no pretesting done.

thanks 1day trying qflash now..its a nice tool ..lol so late in the game flashing.

had that looping problem too...i think its a bios bug. it doesn't recognize oc failure. a simple reset fixes it

this comp taught me alot of stuff

keep pushing guys..

cheers

*edit vcore fluctuates 1.478v - 1.482 v .....i hope it doesn't fluctuate @ 5ghz+ hehhehe

gt210 we have those already sheet conformal coated it...

nice post day1

totally agree wit yah...

** my os is crappy compared to everybody else's os

*** i7-875 totally crapped out...

stage 2..now

nice run from Perica

GT210 has coldslow issues around -20°C.

Yes, i tested it.

8800GT comp FTW

Thought the 875K was dead.

It's not.

Hooking up Phase-Change.

SuperPI ruins my weekend. Again.

I love you, Gigabyte!

Board doesn't look really healthy anymore, though/

Thought the 875K was dead.

 

It's not.

 

Hooking up Phase-Change.

 

SuperPI ruins my weekend. Again.

 

I love you, Gigabyte!

875k is dead on my end...lol

bsod with 000000078

4ghz needed 1.5vcore

stock vcore is 1.32v lol (out of spec) i think the spec is 0.8-1.3v

if u're after F6a it's here

http://forums.tweaktown.com/gigabyte/28441-gigabyte-latest-bios.html

usually all bios updates are there

I couldnt do a single run no matter what on friday night. I checked the temps in bios around -15c and the fluke and they matched up perfectly but as soon as I started adding voltage in gigabyte t clocker in windows it would take it but as soon as I hit any thing. even a 1m run it would bsod. I got absolutely nowhere that night. I took a break all weekend and I think I have tiny bit of ln2 left so I'm going to remount and try one last time before the contest ends. I cant believe the runs you guys managed to get. Its absolutely incredible overclocking! I'm so proud of all of you! everyone in this contest deserves a high five and a round of cold ones! INCREDIBLE OVERCLOCKING ! The overclocking gods are happy once again!

did you try colder than -15?

15 hours left

who's holding onto backups, who's still looking to bench

Tried again yesterday and threw the setup out of the window. This board is not build for (Massman's) overclocking.

i'm still tweaking my os..... you guys prolly have your os image all tweaked hehehe....

its hard going against experts..while others learn from grandmasters..hehehe

good thing this mobo is stable...i'm enjoying learning tweaks after tweaks....

Sam please provide video evidence of the 8m47s run claimed to have been done on air cooling which you pulled a couple of weeks ago as well as the current run in the 4Ghz category.

As I already told on OCX, there is a valid reason why this cannot be done now (specifically, not having any Lynnfield at the moment).

If this is a case of double standard, fair enough, use the "gigabyte employee rule" to remove my (not my own, obviously) super-cheat-photoshopped scores, it's not like I lose anything in a "fun" contest.

Congrats to all competitors...I have a lot of fun benching for this competition....

I am simply intrigued at the runs you've done and would love to see it happen. Why can't you borrow one of the two CPUs back and try it again? Give it a try at least.

I would also like to see some proof as well Sam as your scores have been questionable in the past. What happened to the 8m 47 second run?

There's a prize for last place right?

As I already told on OCX, there is a valid reason why this cannot be done now (specifically, not having any Lynnfield at the moment).

If this is a case of double standard, fair enough, use the "gigabyte employee rule" to remove my (not my own, obviously) super-cheat-photoshopped scores, it's not like I lose anything in a "fun" contest.

It's not a double standard. It's a legit question.

Questionable scores by Sam OPB ? no way!

What's gonna happen next? are you going to delete Perica's scores as well and so on until some of those Gigabyte PR guys take a throne Nice "for fun" contest Somehow I feel glad I didn't waste money to enter this contest

I can not remove them "as well" since I haven't removed any to begin with.

Then why there's discussion about videos- was it mentioned in the rules before competition?

Sam has attended in a few live events where people have seen his skills. And you can check his other Pi submissions- he always has great cpc. There's nothing special- afaik at least dino and massman have access to OCX tweaking section and you have seen his video explanation to cdt so there's nothing new and the rest of the settings are seen on the screenshots

How does 'discussing a result' have anything to do with me 'not removing a result'?

Where is Sam's result? I was rooting for him all this time)

Congratulations NickShih, truly the greatest and the most skilled 32M guy as of today! Well deserved win!

Appart from score and person, i think its no big deal to ask for some more validation in a contest where its all about trust, because of the 4Ghz limit.

Besides that, id love to see a score like Sam's actually being done on video. It doesn't even have to include CW etc ... just cpu-z showing 4Ghz and the superpi screen running 32M would clear up things for sure

Edit: ooh bye the way, congrats to Nickshih for winning Stage2.

Not because he came #1, but because of the really amazing score he pulled of. Great benching there Nick

Its Redonkyless

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YAMAHA DSP-1

So what happened with the result, was it removed by mods or did sam take it down? Whoever did it why was it done?

Clare I will explain why i asked for a video run. Sam posted a score in the early stage of the competition with a time of 8m47s running on air cooling with 235Mhz bclock on 2:10 ratio 7-8-6.

I am going to spend some time to talk about this result first

Now if you've ever seriously tried to bench H55 or p55 platform even you will know how extremely hard if not impossible to actually be able to run these settings on air cooling. 2:10 ratio is the hardest ratio to run on this platform. The P55 range is also stronger and has a higher likelihood of actually achieving such OC

Sam not only managed to get it up to 235 but he got the timings, ratio and a 4Ghz run out of it. Now the time. I do not think that time is possible with those settings. If he was able to hit 8m50s or so i could see that happening perhaps dip into 49 but to find another 2.5 seconds with those subtimings, well i don't think that is possible personally.

I know Sam's OS and people close to me have tested it. It is nothing special and clock for clock his efficiency is no better than any decent 32M bencher. I can guarantee you that 100%. The settings he used are all doable at those clocks, George O/C questioned his TREF as it looked wild. I havent tested the tref but i have other settings and they are all doable (cold). That TREF is out of CPUTweaker range so only a bios straight boot to 235 with 2:10 would be able to give that TREF so it can be checked. That run was booted into windows at 235 as Sam was not aware of SetFSB at the time and CPU Tweaker itself does not update...it shows the bclock you boot at.

NOW, no one commented on that score and it was up in the rankings for a couple of days and then it disappeared........Why? Why did Sam pull that score? Did he try to save it for the end? Was he hiding something? Some guys asked and got no response. This behaviour to me is suspicious particularly because of the circumstances in which scores were obtained with settings done on air cooling and a wild efficiency which should not be doable with those settings. I can tell you that i have actually tested my 870 during F1OC last year with 235MHz 2:10 with 7-7-6-x (YES tRCD was 7 which gains a good 3 seconds) and my time was about the same as Sam's, perhaps up to half a second faster. Things may have changed since a year ago when i did that testing too but my air testing seems slightly more efficient but certainly not to the extent this score seems to be at.

I asked Sam on OCX last week to do a video of his 8m47s run and i expressed my doubts back then. I was met with the usual excuse used in the past dealings with Sam when the scores were questionable and in this case the response was that he borrowed CPUs (2) and returned them, he also sold his Corsair kit used in this run to Kovsk.

Second score i have less issues with but at the same time i marvelled the 250MHz bclock and I honestly wanted to see this happen in action. I do not doubt the efficiency of that run. That time to me looks on par judging by the settings used. What is extremely tough here is just hitting that bclock on this board and why i wanted to see a video. I thought that Sam might have obtained the chip again as he also had new RAM in the new run (G.Skill).

Why did Sam post 8m48s time as his final time and not 8m47s in the end that is another mystery

So let's be clear about this. I did not call Sam a cheat or wanted his results removed because i doubt the results. I consider myself well versed in SuperPi and Gigabyte board overclocking to be able to tell what is and what isnt doable on the fly with some exceptions. I wanted simply some form of clarification, proof, something that I am wrong and he is right. Sam has a history of cheating unfortunately and once you do it is up to you to be as transparent as possible and not leave any doubt in people. Every time someone quizzed Sam about his results in the past the same thing would happen, typical OPB behaviour. Remove scores, shout profanities, call people out as haters, world against me, I am master and everyone else is a noob, small guy having fun against bitter opponents. This sort of behaviour only further confirms in my mind the guilt they feel and the psychological response they give off.

Sam, please I beg you, borrow that CPU back and link this thread to the owner that I am asking him PLEASE to give you that chip back so you can do a video and put this case to bed. I would love to be wrong and have no problems apologising for doubting you if this truly is the case.

Clare, the reason i have not asked anyone else to show me their time is that I have specifically concentrated on 4GHz category and there is no other time in that category that surprised me the least. Well maybe massman's time...that was gay but otherwise it all looked fine to me. I did do some benching with 655K on P55 board a couple of months ago and was faster clock for clock compared to Sam's first 6Ghz score he posted with less QPI but i attributed some of it possibly to being on a better platform perhaps (i was actually not even using my normal Pi OS so that run of his certainly was comprehensively beaten). One thing that was a big surprise to me is that the VRM was actually able to handle such load but seeing how many guys clocks past 6GHz with those volts it obviously wasn't a one off. Had there been only one guy with 400Mhz more clocks than the rest well that clearly would have deserved another PLEASE EXPLAIN. Is that fair?

It is nice that pro has expressed a wish to repeat his run on video and that's great. If others want to join in that would be great too. I can do it myself as well no problems. Sam do the video and I am sure any of us that you feel should do one too can be done as well if you reckon someone else had results that don't match up.

As for first score- yes he pulled it because of strange tREF bug as he already expected exactly you would be whining

But he already had sold his GT kit to Kovsk, so I borrowed him my GSkill PS kit to make new run which he submitted yesterday and it was done under LN2 not air cooling

As for first score- yes he pulled it because of strange tREF bug as he already expected exactly you would be whining

 

But he already had sold his GT kit to Kovsk, so I borrowed him my GSkill PS kit to make new run which he submitted yesterday and it was done under LN2 not air cooling

when was the second run done then?

of course i know the second run was done under subzero

Another bug that happens only to 1 person ?

I like this

So... when are the rest OCX team members planning to come here ( big fan of Predator here ) to post "Sam is great, he's not cheating, you are noobs" as per case #69 ( OPB ® ) ?

i don't know when he benched but he received my mem kit on 26th of August and is going to return today

i don't know when he benched but he received my mem kit on 26th of August and is going to return today

he told me on 28th (27th your time) that he cannot reproduce the video because he returned the CPU to its owner

Another bug that happens only to 1 person ?

I like this

Stop that tone before you haven't checked other submissions

here you go for example massmans score with same tREF bug http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1042885_massman_superpi_32m_core_i7_875k_8min_52sec_0ms

he told me on 28th (27th your time) that he cannot reproduce the video because he returned the CPU to its owner

I don't have any lynfield CPU- I borrowed him only mem kit

Bill....really it isnt helping doing that man....pls dont troll

Stop that tone before you haven't checked other submissions

 

here you go for example massmans score with same tREF bug http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1042885_massman_superpi_32m_core_i7_875k_8min_52sec_0ms

are you sure that's a bug? That looks about right if you boot direct at those settings

I don't have any lynfield CPU- I borrowed him only mem kit

I didn't mean CPU but only memory

He borrowed the CPU from someone else

http://ocxtreme.org/forumenus/showthread.php?p=85197#post85197

Sam can you video your superpi run from bios setup to windows boot and actual run on H55N-USB3 with those settings

I sure can, but I already got rid of both X3460 (given back to the owner) and Dominators (sold to Kovsk), finding someone locally who can borrow this type of hardware won't be easy .. what's the problem?

So if he borrowed it them he would have had the CPU at the time of replying to me

Sam is great, he's not cheating, you are noobs

Sam is great, he's not cheating, you are noobs

btw i'm sorry to have not being able to compete in the contest, due work ate my whole time for 3 weeks

now i have some free time and i'll try at least a 4ghz run, but i'm afraid my 860 is in the group of "crap"

So if he borrowed it them he would have had the CPU at the time of replying to me

I don't understand you? I gave him my GSkill kit on 26th so he could have already borrowed those CPUs before and could bench same day or next day and give those CPUs back right after. He replied you on 27/28th (don't get those time zones )

Sam is great, he's not cheating, you are noobs

hahahah :D

You muppet the competition is finished. :D

hahah Clare...he's a little slow

'tis ok Pedro ()

You muppet the competition is finished. :D

d'oh!

i know it's finished, but i owe a run for my "fans" here :D

hahah Clare...he's a little slow

 

'tis ok Pedro ()

you know i'm late as always

i want to do more of these comps just have to find a way to minimise hurt egos when they get asked to repeat runs

wow thats awesome clare, was that with a lynnfield?

btw TREF cannot be set in bios

I would like to to see Sam's two runs that he posted here... they both have some settings which look pretty damn crazy...why wouldn't anyone want to see that sort of OCing is beyond me

How much are you ready to pay for this type of p0rn? maybe I can set hidden camera somewhere when I'm visiting him next time

Stop that tone before you haven't checked other submissions

 

here you go for example massmans score with same tREF bug http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1042885_massman_superpi_32m_core_i7_875k_8min_52sec_0ms

I iz cheatah?

I iz cheatah?

oh man, i can see you enabling oldschool tweak in registry and switching off the monitor, you cheater...

I tried turning off the monitor to optimize copy-waza, but eventually realized I cannot see when it's finished. I waited hours to start the 32M ...

grats to everybody...i think everybody deserves a beer ...

my noobness learnt alot during this comp...

Sam, please dude, I would love to see your result on video as well. It doesn't have to be a huge video from boot-up + CDT, something like this will be great

You have to understand something. We are not haters. We surely don't want to murder you. We definitely didn't call you a cheater. All we want from you is FOR ONCE to step up, BE A MAN and FACE THE REAL WORLD. You are incredibly smart, so you ought to have figured out yourself that your runs are kinda doubtfull. Why didn't you pick up the damn camera and videotape the run BEFORE posting it? YOU KNEW that people were going to have doubts, so why didn't you think of recording the run on the first place?

Instead, you posted it, and after being questioned, you started acting up all weird for no reason. GROW UP!

<== Selling a custom coded SuperPi 1.5 XS Mod-look-alike program with preconfigured run display support for "video-proofing"

Write the desired time in a txt file, open the program, run 32M and watch it work

40p?

Or.... another offer...... 60p for you to spill what it is you've been talking about... i'm curious.....

40p?

 

Or.... another offer...... 60p for you to spill what it is you've been talking about... i'm curious.....

Catch me on MSN/AIM/FaceBook and I'll show you

WTF happened to our friendly contest? someone cheated?

massman please ban the guy that screwed it up for everyone else. It makes us all look bad. We are in here to have an honest contest and some jackass screws it up for everyone else that are legitimate and just wanted a clean contest. Its not fair man for one dude to make us all look bad. either he comes up with a really good explanation or just ban him. Its not fair to the dudes that spent their friday nights when they couldve been getting laid or benched during the week and went to work hungover and got crap from the boss for not being productive. if this dude is bad news then hes ruins it for everyone. get his ip address and notify cpuz and FM admins that this guy is a known cheater and the oc community wont tolerate it. either come up with some vids fast to save your ass or sell all your hdwr and buy and mac so you can at least get an internet connection to see the legitimate dudes talk trash about you.

tail between your legs and all. we had a decent contest for once and you screwed everyone and made us all look bad. FTFOHere PLEASE!!!

that remark about this being a friendly contest and you have nothing to lose since there is no major prize.. wtf??

.its no skin off your ass remark is horse crap and you know it. you lost your dignity and respect from everyone once again. gtf out of here!

Sam has cheated before.

Sam always appears with those crazy lucky gem hardware ( very close to impossible and unbelievable stuff ) like a mobo with which all the overclockers couldn't get past 500MHz FSB, Sam comes out with 670MHz FSB.

This time Sam posted a score with settings that none of the H55 mobos the rest contest entrants couldn't work with not boot with and complete a 32M run to begin with.

tREF is also out of range in his pic... a bug.

The question is, is everybody here a noob who can't get the proper settings for this specific mobo to work at such settings, or Sam is doing his thing.... once again ?

All I know is that everytime somebody asked Sam for some kind of proof he always claimed not to have the hardware at his hands at the given time, or just ignored the request.

Last but not least, Sam worked his a$s off yesterday and made 2 videos with proof for his run... NOT!

He took 2 vids of gigabyte hating, hitting a board with a rock, setting another one on fire, etc.

Don't ask me for the links, I don't have them here

Well ... I kinda have to agree. This video is actually good

Videos directed by a 5 year old ? Lack of inspiration there think they ran out of budget for the special effects

Yea, the CG fire looks SO cheap

i like the drama ending

Sam has cheated before.

Sam always appears with those crazy lucky gem hardware ( very close to impossible and unbelievable stuff ) like a mobo with which all the overclockers couldn't get past 500MHz FSB, Sam comes out with 670MHz FSB.

 

This time Sam posted a score with settings that none of the H55 mobos the rest contest entrants couldn't work with not boot with and complete a 32M run to begin with.

tREF is also out of range in his pic... a bug.

 

The question is, is everybody here a noob who can't get the proper settings for this specific mobo to work at such settings, or Sam is doing his thing.... once again ?

 

All I know is that everytime somebody asked Sam for some kind of proof he always claimed not to have the hardware at his hands at the given time, or just ignored the request.

 

Last but not least, Sam worked his a$s off yesterday and made 2 videos with proof for his run... NOT!

He took 2 vids of gigabyte hating, hitting a board with a rock, setting another one on fire, etc.

Don't ask me for the links, I don't have them here

Sam is great, he's not cheating, you are noobs :D

Hi guyz

So NickShih won the challenge?

What happens with Tapakah??

We'll just let NickShih enjoy winning his last competition on HWbot for the following 12 months

Sam has cheated before.

Show me that cheated result once again I guess it was similar situation to this when a few haters can't accept the truth and just call someone (in this case Sam) cheater without actual evidence.

Show me that cheated result once again I guess it was similar situation to this when a few haters can't accept the truth and just call someone (in this case Sam) cheater without actual evidence.

XtremeSystems.org ...

We can find cheats there? Oh the irony .

To all: this is really simple. Dino asked Sam if he could shed some light on some of the scores that was submit to this competition (tref bug, 250BCLK capability). Sam deleted the scores and declared NickShih the winner. If Sam doesn't want to help out and removes his results from the competition, then that's his decision.

Now let's drop this topic. It's been discussed at length before ... no need to do it all over again .

Thanks for the clear answer Massman.

XtremeSystems.org ...

oh you mean that place where the xtreme own(cheat)er lies?

wrong

we're in the right place to discuss about this

oh you mean that place where the xtreme own(cheat)er lies?

That doesn't change the facts.

oh you mean that place where the xtreme own(cheat)er lies?

 

wrong

 

we're in the right place to discuss about this

Now let me refresh my mind.

Wasn't it you that was banned from XS when OnePageBook was banned from XS for cheating?

If I remember right you were spamming the forum defending him long after it was known that he was cheating.

Maybe you should change your "holier than thou" attitude here.

Okay boys, here's a lollipop for ya.

Smile

KABLAAAAM! Thread is open again.

Press release about the competition: http://hwbot.org/article/news/gigabyte_announces_winners_of_the_gigabyte_h55_mini_itx_overclocking_contest_on_hwbot

Congrats to everyone for participating and making it the most successful competition HWBOT has had. Also congrats to Ross, ME4ME and 1Day for getting some prizes

Congratulations to everyone except Nick