OC Guru is YOU! - GIGABYTE AMD HD 5870 OC Challenge

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GIGABYTE announces the launch of a global Graphics Card overclocking competition, "OC Guru is You!". This event coincides with the recent announcement of GIGABYTE’s latest family of Graphics Cards, the Super Overclock Series. Contestants around the world are invited to upload the ultimate score at HWBOT. In total, three prizes are on the line: the winner of the 3DMark Vantage - Performance stage takes home a cheque of US $1500 and the winner of the GPU Score stage wins a GIGABYTE HD 5870 Super Overclock series graphics card with GPU Gauntlet Sorting and Ultra Durable VGA. In addition, one lucky participant will receive a GIGABYTE HD 5750 (GV-R575SL-1GI) just for submitting a score to the competition. The competition will be held from April 1st to April 30th. Please, pay close attention to the benchmark limitations: Gigabyte VGA and Gigabyte mainboard only!

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OC Guru is YOU! - GIGABYTE AMD HD 5870 OC Challenge is closed since 30 April 2010.
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Stages

Stage 1 - 3DMark Vantage - Performance
Stage 2 - 3DMark Vantage - Performance (GPU)

Participants

This competition was open to everyone.

Discussions (6)

Discuss the competition at the HWBOT forum (32 comments)
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Prizes

Highest GPU score: GIGABYTE HD 5870 Super Overclock Series graphics card

The overclock who hits the highest score in the 3DMark Vantage - Performance: GPU Score stage will be the happy owner of a GIGABYTE HD 5870 Super Overclock Series graphics card.
Highest Vantage Overall: US $1500

The overclocker who manages to grab the win in the 3DMark Vantage - Performance stage takes home a US $1500 cash prize.
Lucky Draw: GV-R575SL-1GI

One lucky participant will receive this passively cooled Gigabyte HD5750 at home ... just for being a participant! For more information, please visit: http://www.gigabyte.com.tw/FileList/WebPage/vga_090306_sc/models04.html

HWBOT General Rules and Guidelines

Here at HWBOT we try our best to deliver a fair and enjoyable playing field for all those who participate in the rankings and competition. To be able to provide this kind of service we have tried to design some submission and general rules to help remove any doubts about whether something is allowed or not. Based on continued experience these rules will be updated, expanded and completed as time goes by. Please check back for any updates.

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OC Guru is YOU! - GIGABYTE AMD HD 5870 OC Challenge ranking

Aristidis

18 pts

Beaux Loy

12 pts

Toppc

11 pts

elmor

10 pts

stephenyeong

10 pts

miahallen

7 pts

X-POWERX800PRO

4 pts

EnisDonKing

2 pts

bennylodewijk

2 pts

Dinos22

1 pts

m i k e

1 pts

Victor

0 pts

WEI

0 pts

SniperOZ

0 pts

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Official competition

This is an online event. Participants can compete from all around the world, and make submissions online.

As this is an official level 1 OC-ESPORTS competition, competitors will receive points for the final ranking as following:

First place: 10 Points
Second place: 8 Points
Third place: 6 Points
Fourth place: 4 Points
Fifth place: 2 Points

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Comments

Discuss the competition at the HWBOT forum (32 comments)

Gomeler says:

12 year and 6 months ago –

Before I get too excited... single GPU or multi-GPU?

Massman says:

12 year and 6 months ago –

Single GPU

alamakota says:

12 year and 6 months ago –

What does "only retail hardware" mean exactly? I'm not a native speaker, so this question may sound stupid.

Custom cooling on the video card is banned?

Massman says:

12 year and 6 months ago –

No ES samples allowed.

miahallen says:

12 year and 6 months ago –

No ES samples allowed.

Sweet...I may have a chance in this one

buttons says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

So if we dont have a "gigabyte" video card can we just use the onboard video from our gigabyte motherboard?

George_oc says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Who is Gigaboost? :confused:

Gamer says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I think Hicookie

Jor3llBR/Elano says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

So the winner is: Gigabyte.

Wow Gigabyte now has their own set of Gigabyte prizes! Amazing.

leeghoofd says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Time to slay the beast Jor !!

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I was prepared to take part of this competition..

BUT when I show Gigaboost and sadness my arss, I just quited uploading scores.....

It ain't worth it becasuse once again, the Gigabyte's competition became another FIASCO......period..... :mad:

The BIG joke is that I kinda like hicoockie BUT after his 1M Super-Pi with his 670 CPU and after this, I don't want to face him anymore.....

To be a crazy guy (like him) it's cool and I liked that BUT to be an arsshole, it's AGAINST my principals.... :mad:

elmor says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I was prepared to take part of this competition..
BUT when I show Gigaboost and sadness my arss, I just quited uploading scores.....

It ain't worth it becasuse once again, the Gigabyte's competition became another FIASCO......period.....

I know the feeling George, my system is far from maxed out because of those scores. Time was limited and with those results I figured it was a waste of time to try and improve. I'm still curious what kind of result you got though

chispy says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

So indeed Hicookie is Sadness and GigaBoost at the same time ???

Did he submit scores for this competition using different names been the same person AND also been an employee of Gigabyte to win this competition???

WHY ???

Why is still GigaBoost still having points for hwbot submisions ???

Thats shocking isnt it

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=7103&page=1

""Multiple accounts"" , ""A person can only have one account. If a user wants to have a joined account, the personal account must be deleted.""

http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=5462

:confused:

richba5tard says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I think they all work for GIGABYTE, but they are not the same person.

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I know the feeling George, my system is far from maxed out because of those scores. Time was limited and with those results I figured it was a waste of time to try and improve. I'm still curious what kind of result you got though

Let's just say I could do this with the VGA 1400/1430... and I had UP to 1.9V to feed my CPU...

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I think they all work for GIGABYTE, but they are not the same person.

He is the ONLY ONE you know....

HATS OFF to Andre for PULLING his scores off....

AT LEAST there are TWO DECENT people from Taiwan - Shamino and Andre to pull up their flag...... :ws:

Massman says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Andre didn't pull his score.

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

You have pulled it off?...

He may didn't knew he was playing with an ES card....

To be specific, there is ONLY ONE IC that exists on ES cards BUT it's doing nothing more than "helping" work the Gigabyte's program to feed more VCore........I don't use this program - I always mod....

chispy says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I think they all work for GIGABYTE, but they are not the same person.

With all the Respect RB , this screenies speak more than a thousand words ...

By chispy at 2010-05-02

richba5tard says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

And? That screenie shows they share a company 3dmark account, not that they are the same person. I'm not trying to annoy you, just telling this is not proof that they are the same person.

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

And? That screenie shows they share a company 3dmark account, not that they are the same person. I'm not trying to annoy you, just telling this is not proof that they are the same person.

OK.......WHO ELSE benches from Gigabyte EXCEPT hicoockie in there?...

Do you know ANYONE ELSE?....

Gamer says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Maybe you can ask him Hipro ?

Just to be sure.

He will tell you, don't you think ?

elmor says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

It's not him, I asked. He has shared his account with many though, both inside and outside Gigabyte. Still no clue about who some of these people are.

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Excuse me!......WHAT exactly did you expected to say to you elmor?.....

Point me ONE inside Gigabyte (or outside as he claims) benching THAT HIGH! except him......

As for me, hicoockie IS GUILTY - PERIOD.....

AndreYang says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Point me ONE inside Gigabyte (or outside as he claims) benching THAT HIGH! except him......

hicookie5

knopflerbruce says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

So... basically we have to find someone who can bench "high enough" to be able to tell if Hicookie is innocent? That's BS.

What motivation does Hicookie have to create multiple accounts in this case?

I think people should start thinking a bit more, and stop spreading gossip like little girls.

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

What motivation does Hicookie have to create multiple accounts in this case?.

Imatureness maybe?...

BenchZowner says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I don't know if it was hicookie posting scores via multiple accounts.

But from my communication with a few Gigabyte contacts that I have I have the impression that they were working under pressure and they needed to attract as many people they could to participate in this contest, there was an "urge" to get people to submit scores.

Maybe an angry boss ? I don't know, but that's how I comprehended their e-mails and behavior.

knopflerbruce says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

Imatureness maybe?...

If immatureness is a reason for banning, we'd need to recruit more mods... based on what I read in different forums every now and then.

PS: just to make a statement before this thread is filled with anti-hicookie junk posts while people wait for our decision: drop him a PM instead of posting it here.

hipro5 says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I - personaly - DON'T have anything to blame hicookie.

As for me, he's a GOOD guy but a bit imature if you ask me when he's doing things like that.

When I have to say something, I ALWAYS say it in PUBLIC and not in PMs/e-mails....

That's the way I act from the begining.

I can't understand why you guys are talking for "bannings"....What did he did?...You can't ban his imatureness - he'll grow up a bit and next time he'll think before he reacts....

Finaly, I like hicoockie as a crazy guy but I'll tell him when he's doing something wrong....IF he's not arrogant (which he isn't), he'll understand....

In General, it's BETTER when you have to say something to someone, to say it "face to face" instead of PMs/e-mails and "under the seen"...

IF he's "man" enough, he'll understand, if he's still a "boy" he'll think about it....

knopflerbruce says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

I - personaly - DON'T have anything to blame hicookie.
As for me, he's a GOOD guy but a bit imature if you ask me when he's doing things like that.

When I have to say something, I ALWAYS say it in PUBLIC and not in PMs/e-mails....

That's the way I act from the begining.

I can't understand why you guys are talking for "bannings"....What did he did?...You can't ban his imatureness - he'll grow up a bit and next time he'll think before he reacts....

Finaly, I like hicoockie as a crazy guy but I'll tell him when he's doing something wrong....IF he's not arrogant (which he isn't), he'll understand....

In General, it's BETTER when you have to say something to someone, to say it "face to face" instead of PMs/e-mails and "under the seen"...

IF he's "man" enough, he'll understand, if he's still a "boy" he'll think about it....

Using a public forum is like announcing through the PA system during a soccer game. If you feel that's "face to face", then OK. I just say... keep it civil. Just saying this BEFORE this thing turns into flaming.

jmke says:

12 year and 5 months ago –

check the results: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_r5870_challenge

seems they cleaned it out

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Prizes

Highest GPU score: GIGABYTE HD 5870 Super Overclock Series graphics card

Highest Vantage Overall: US $1500

Lucky Draw: GV-R575SL-1GI