GIGABYTE Super Tuner Contest !

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For all of the 3DMark01 pros out there: time to get out your wrenches and show us your tuning skills! From May 15th to June 15th, GIGABYTE and HWBOT are hosting the GIGABYTE Super Tuner Contest. There are 3 stages to this competition based on GPU. Stage 1: Nvidia GeForce 200 Series (single or multiple), Stage 2: Nvidia GeForce 300/400 Series (single or multiple) and Stage 3: AMD/ATI Graphics (single or multiple).

Contestants can use any GIGABYTE 6 series motherboard (aka Sandy Bridge) with the tops 3DMark2001 scorers in each category winning one of the latest GIGABYTE Z68X-UD3H-B3 motherboard.

Good Luck everyone and get tuning!

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GIGABYTE Super Tuner Contest ! is closed since 15 June 2011.
This competition is between Members.

This competition is closed. You can no longer join.

Stages

Stage 1 - 3DM01 - Nvidia 200 series
Stage 2 - 3DM01 - Nvidia 400/500 series
Stage 3 - 3DM01 - ATI/AMD Graphics

Participants

This competition was open to everyone.

Discussions (5)

Discuss the competition at the HWBOT forum (43 comments)
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Prizes

3x Z68X-UD3H-B3

The winner of each stage will be rewarded with a brand-new GIGABYTE Z68X-UD3H-B3 mainboard!
Combining the advantages of the Intel® P67 and H67 platforms in one complete package, the GIGABYTE Z68 series offer the best of both worlds; users can take advantage of the system tuning and overclocking features found in the Intel® P67 platform as well as the built-in visual features of the H67 platforms when combined with 2nd generation Intel® Core ™ processors.

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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GIGABYTE Super Tuner Contest ! ranking

FoX [OCXLAB.ES]

15 pts

Dinos22

14 pts

The Mutt

12 pts

SniperOZ

12 pts

SuicidePhoenix

10 pts

icebob

10 pts

Voidn

9 pts

Vivi

8 pts

Mafio

6 pts

R3D

6 pts

Aristidis

5 pts

longsiew

5 pts

topdog

3 pts

_0CooL_

1 pts

kirbster

1 pts

rebelion

0 pts

jeff88rey

0 pts

Nathan94124

0 pts

bm3m3

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 (43 comments)

Rasparthe says:

9 years ago –

Bah, why the 1155 restriction? Would have loved to see the E8600/Sandy Bridge question finally answered about 3dmark2001. Too bad.

Dinos22 says:

9 years ago –

can't wait to see this get under way , time to dust off ur old school cards and skillz fellas

Hondacity says:

9 years ago –

bad

1. dual gpus will beat single gpus, my ticket to not join

2. [5.7-5.9]ghz cpus will crush the comp, shared cpu will make this comp *****ed

good

1. price for every stage, unbelievable!

Massman says:

9 years ago –

dual gpus will beat single gpus, my ticket to not join

I think your 3DMark01-teacher from high school would be very upset when he saw you write this ...

rebelion says:

9 years ago –

What does it means?

"Only use videocard from the 184,186 family."

It´s in 3DM01 - Nvidia 400/500 series ranking

Massman says:

9 years ago –

Small bug, should be fixed soon.

Hondacity says:

9 years ago –

I think your 3DMark01-teacher from high school would be very upset when he saw you write this ...

look at gradus and stummerwinter's sli'd 280...

or im wrong lol

and vivi's dual gpu bug is a bug indeed for sli drivers...

G H Z says:

9 years ago –

Not sure why this is called a tuner competition without a frequency limit. Whoever got lucky with the best CPU will win.

Dinos22 says:

9 years ago –

We'll see

rebelion says:

9 years ago –

Small bug, should be fixed soon.

Now it´s OK.

Vivi says:

9 years ago –

look at gradus and stummerwinter's sli'd 280...

or im wrong lol

and vivi's dual gpu bug is a bug indeed for sli drivers...

yes you are wrong

sandy bridge and 2x gpu have a nature wall at 1750.

It will be very close, but i think 2x 275 won't beat 1x 275.

Maybe a single 295 hmm. Dinos any reports of a 295 going past 1750 ish nature?

look at this result

http://www.hwbot.org/community/submission/2159231_vivi_3dmark2001_se_2x_geforce_gtx_275_130468_marks

When i did 1200 core on each 275 on ln2, nature didnt budge, and drag high went from an air 1070fps to a ln2 1080 fps. So all tests are limited, not only nature.

Dual card wont win this comp i think, but 295 might

Massman says:

9 years ago –

Dino only had 1720

[hwbot=2158285]submission[/hwbot]

Hondacity says:

9 years ago –

sandy bridge pcie capacity?

R3D says:

9 years ago –

So are we allowed to participate in all the classes?

Dinos22 says:

9 years ago –

Vivi i will let you know this weekend

So are we allowed to participate in all the classes?

yes

Iron says:

9 years ago –

Given that nothing is written, I suppose yes, but anyway here is the question: we can partecipate using 1, 2, 3 o 4 videocards, in the different categories? So, no distinction is made basing on number of cards but only on gpu type (nvidia 200, nvidia 400 and radeon 4000).

Thanks!

edit: nevermind, already answered a few posts above, my fault

Dinos22 says:

9 years ago –

for people that have issues with the comps why not provide some well thought out suggestions on how to do it better

one that was alluded was dual and single cards > Honda you have not tested it so that really isn't an argument until you fire up the rigs. SB is definitely different from E8600, a lot different vivi would be able to tell you what a struggle it is to really do a lot better when switching to duals. There are some interesting things and James and I will test with dual but no matter what the outcome why not TRY first before you giveup . For me the fun part is the 2-3 weeks of pretesting to figure shit out. Pumping out scores in the end is cool also but unless there is someone pushing you what's the point .

Maxi > what do you suggest? A fixed frequency comp? Who will administer all the cheaters? Doing this like MSI and Gigabyte did in live comp is fine as you have judges looking over people's shoulders but what about online? There was a fair few cheaters last time in H55 comp! Sam even tried to win that H55 comp and when hwbot figured him out he goes off and chucks a major tantrum and makes a youtube video setting a GBT board on fire. How will you know who is being legit? Unfortunately there will always be opportunist asshats which want the prize or recognition by taking shortcuts and it ruins the whole comp for everyone.

What makes you say that this is not a tuning contest? Have you benched with big clocks on GPU with 01? Look at the current rankings with suicide 135K vs smoke 132K. You have yourself a 100MHz+ window in which you can still compete seriously maybe more depending on who you are up against, what setup they are on and what they are doing with their hardware. That gap will reduce as smoke starts tweaking more or will it i dont know but there is certainly no 3K difference between those setup, it's how it was tuned that made the biggest impact. This competition is certainly not all CPU and there is a tonne of shit to figure out to get the setup running just right.

This competition is perfect for anyone that loves tweaking 01 imo as you will have people with 5GHz and upwards CPU and you will have people doing similar points as you and it will be up to YOU to make outdo that guy. This comp you have to push your GPUs HARD. Without some serious clocking and tuning you will need hundreds of extra CPU Mhz to outdo someone with higher GPU clocks and tuning. That's the cool thing about comps for me. You find your opponent, hone in and let loose.

If the prize draw was $3K+ for top spot or something like that sure then it would be a different ballgame but hwbot & Gbt are just giving ppl something interesting to bench every month. it's up to you to make it fun for yourself or skip and try the next one imo.

Mafio says:

9 years ago –

nice competition, i will join the stage 1 and maybe also the stage 3

Nathan94124 says:

9 years ago –

Okay I'm pretty new here but wanted to get involved in the competition, just one small question. What has to be included in the verification screenshot? (Other than 3DMark01 results obviously)

EDIT: Oh and the competition background, I assume this has to be your wallpaper in the screenshot, right?

Dinos22 says:

9 years ago –

Okay I'm pretty new here but wanted to get involved in the competition, just one small question. What has to be included in the verification screenshot? (Other than 3DMark01 results obviously)

EDIT: Oh and the competition background, I assume this has to be your wallpaper in the screenshot, right?

hey man there are example screens of submissions once you try enter so just use that as guide and yes that needs to be your wallpaper

Voidn says:

9 years ago –

Pssh way to rain on my parade Dinos. jk

Dinos22 says:

9 years ago –

guys i am not competing for prizes so if i end up winning any of the categories the prize will pass down to whoever is under me...... so im not really raining on anyone's parade

Christian Ney says:

9 years ago –

wisdom be with you

Déjà vu ?

BenchZowner says:

9 years ago –

guys i am not competing for prizes so if i end up winning any of the categories the prize will pass down to whoever is under me...... so im not really raining on anyone's parade

I'm giving you the permission to compete for the prizes for me

Eeky NoX says:

9 years ago –

I'm giving you the permission to compete for the prizes for EeKy

You're what's called a friend BZ Thank you so much !!

Great comp on the paper...

BenchZowner says:

9 years ago –

Ok, I'll give you my Dinos prize permission, but in return you ought to find me a 5.9G 2600K

Eeky NoX says:

9 years ago –

Only have a dead 5.444 and now a bad 5.333 atmo ...need a 5.9 RMAed one

How could I compete with this without a frequency limit @5.2/5.3 ??

cyclone says:

9 years ago –

Not sure why this is called a tuner competition without a frequency limit. Whoever got lucky with the best CPU will win.

+1. Putting some CPU clock limits would involve more people to try their best, and this time it's not only benching for fun but also GBT motherboards promo or smth like that. More guys involved = better PR efficiency..

Nathan94124 says:

9 years ago –

Wow you guys are pretty serious about this overclocking stuff, I wish I had access to all the crazy cooling stuff you all use.

cyclone says:

9 years ago –

all the crazy cooling stuff you all use.

That won't help much to OC Sandy Bridge, which is ~50% result for this contest -)

Voidn says:

9 years ago –

guys i am not competing for prizes so if i end up winning any of the categories the prize will pass down to whoever is under me...... so im not really raining on anyone's parade

I was just kidding. I knew my air scores wouldn't last. but I hoped for more than 24hours . Going cold 4 days after the contest ends doh. Its good of you (as an employee) to pass on the prizes!