GIGABYTE BIG XTU Challenge Round 1: Z97 2 cores

GIGABYTE TECHNOLOGY Co. Ltd., a leading manufacturer of motherboards and graphics cards, today announced one of its most rewarding overclocking competition as of yet with the GIGABYTE Z97 - X99 BIG XTU Challenge, its latest contest hosted at HWBOT

The GIGABYTE Z97 - X99 BIG XTU Challenge gives the overclocking community a chance to tweak their systems on for Intel’s XTU. By submitting scores to hit a secret target, you cumulate points and run the chance to win not only cash and hardware, but also a fully planned trip to Taipei, Taiwan to attend the Computex 2015 IT trade show with GIGABYTE. Use Z97 and X99 platforms to hit as many targets within a limited window. USD $4,000 in cash, 4 motherboards and an EPIC grand prize are on the line!

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  • GIGABYTE BIG XTU Challenge Round 1: Z97 2 cores is closed since 30 March 2015
  • This competition is between members

Stages

In case you have problems with XTU reporting an accurate temperature or frequency, try changing the language settings of your system. More inforemation in the forum: CLICk

General Rules

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  • Round 1 is limited to GIGABYTE Z97 motherboards and Intel 2 cores CPU only.
  • Round 2 is limited to GIGABYTE X99 motherboards and Intel 6 cores CPU only.
  • Round 3 is limited to GIGABYTE Z97 motherboards and Intel 4 cores CPU only.
  • Round 4 is limited to GIGABYTE X99 motherboards and Intel 8 cores CPU only.
  • Target submission will be open on the first day at 00:01 (UTC +8) and close on the last day at 23:59 (UTC+8)
  • During the 3 days the target is open, participants can submit as many INDIVIDUAL scores as they want. No duplicate scores allowed in the same round from the same participant.
  • Air and water cooling ONLY, temperature must be above 25⁰ Celsius. Cooling CPU or RAM with LN2 or dry ice is not acceptable.
  • Every submission must include the competition background, CPU-Z (CPU, Motherboard) information, the XTU CPU frequency and a picture of your rig. HWBOT submission and verification rules apply.
  • Computex trip winner and cash prize winners are not eligible for lucky draw.
  • A participant is eligible to win only once. If he is found to be the winner in multiple categories, the prize will go to the runner up.
  • Except Elite overclockers, everyone is welcome to participate, but employees or affiliates of the hardware industry (including retailer/distributor/manufacturers) are excluded from wining prizes. (you still can join for fun)


Prize Rules

  • You get a 3 day period to submit within a window of targets (High and low).
  • You can submit any scores within that window.
  • The actual winning target is kept secret until after the submission period.
  • The participants who reached that secret target cumulate a point.
  • The participant with the most point at the end wins the stage.
  • Tie breakers are decided by looking at submissions time, if two participants hit the same target starting from the earliest target) the one with the earliest submission wins.


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(items in orange are mandatory)

Prizes

  • USD $1,000: The participant with the most points at the end of a round wins the cash prize! Tie breakers are decided by looking at submissions time, if two participants hit the same target starting from the earliest target) the one with the earliest submission wins.
  • GIGABYTE X99-SOC Champion motherboard: One lucky draw winner will be selected within each round.
  • GRAND PRIZE, Computex 2015 Trip: To win the grand prize, participants must collect the most points across all 4 rounds. Trip includes flights to and from Taipei, hotels for 5 nights and a full schedule around Computex 2015 from June 1st until June 6th, 2015. (final details to be arranged with the winner.)

Ranking

First Position

52 pts Coldest

Discussions

stubass
February 27, 2015 at 7:42:59 AM UTC

So for this round, all the 10 stages is only 2 core CPU's only with air/watercooling with temps above 25C??

 

just need some clarification please :)

bartman1973
March 3, 2015 at 12:47:35 PM UTC

I am having this issue when trying to submit my score :( ==> Invalid data file: Data file does not contain an XTU Profile authentication.

Critical Power
March 9, 2015 at 5:59:10 PM UTC

zzzz......

Massman
March 9, 2015 at 6:20:54 PM UTC

Fixed

rtsurfer
March 9, 2015 at 7:05:35 PM UTC

15-45.??

 

And I thought running XTU on 2 Cores @ 4.5Ghz was slow & time consuming.

This is going to be like watching paint dry.

rtsurfer
March 9, 2015 at 10:50:15 PM UTC

Edit:- Fixed.

Critical Power
March 11, 2015 at 2:22:52 AM UTC

The participants who reached 1st secret target cumulate two point. Real good. :) 1pts = 1 st = 2nd ... 7 th.... :/ copy - paste.

Dinos22
March 30, 2015 at 10:30:17 AM UTC

pro tip, score as low as you can in current stage

Paulie_AU
March 30, 2015 at 12:43:45 PM UTC

XTU crashing right at end of runs. Doesn't like 84 BLCK it seems (for me anyhow).

Strunkenbold
March 30, 2015 at 4:52:35 PM UTC

pro tip, score as low as you can in current stage

 

Damn that last one drove me crazy. Managed to get 81.77Mhz but result didnt lower. Relaxing Ram timings resulted in "benchmarking process has failed" also the same with playing with Clock Modulation.

What was we supposed to hit in last one?

skulstation
March 30, 2015 at 5:39:32 PM UTC

my setup don't like low BLCK.

was abel to run one time at 88.9 and never agen.so traid other strategie ,xtu whit other progs to slow system down but xtu don't like this.

Strunkenbold
March 30, 2015 at 6:15:19 PM UTC

XTU 5.1 is very picky, it seems 4.4 is far better. I assumed its not allowed, because its outdated but apparently it works. Just finished a Run with 87,75% clock modulation which results in 18 Points.

grrr

Dinos22
March 31, 2015 at 12:41:52 AM UTC

Damn that last one drove me crazy. Managed to get 81.77Mhz but result didnt lower. Relaxing Ram timings resulted in "benchmarking process has failed" also the same with playing with Clock Modulation.

What was we supposed to hit in last one?

 

put it this way, keep trying :D

leeghoofd
March 31, 2015 at 6:27:20 AM UTC

Why not run several programs at once guys :)

Strunkenbold
March 31, 2015 at 9:00:17 AM UTC

Why not run several programs at once guys :)

 

That was the first thing I thought of but running a second program side by side is crashing the benchmark process. You really have to extremely reduce bclk and tweak to steal some cpu cycles with programs without letting XTU crash. Taking into account that one run takes up to one hour this was for sure the hardest stage of the competition.

Strunkenbold
March 31, 2015 at 9:03:47 AM UTC

put it this way, keep trying :D

 

Well its over. One hour after dead time I also got 18 points. But too late. Congrats to Coldest for winning this.

Massman
May 4, 2015 at 4:26:50 AM UTC

Fastest submission time per stage tie:

 

stage 1 - Coldest

stage 2 - Strunkenbold

stage 3 - Coldest

stage 5 - Coldest

stage 7 - Coldest

stage 8 - Coldest

stage 9 - Coldest

 

(Coldest already wins Computex trip)

Strunkenbold
May 4, 2015 at 8:50:04 AM UTC

Fastest submission time per stage tie:

 

Yup, this was it what I talked about. Really wondered how I could win that stage. I knew that Coldest made his entries earlier than me. Though, I didnt understand the rules correctly. I always thought in case of a tie, submission in first stage would determine who wins.

 

Anyway, thx Gigabyte for this great Competition.

sotoss
May 4, 2015 at 9:59:07 AM UTC

when the lucky draw winners will be announced ? ^_^

Massman
May 9, 2015 at 2:55:17 AM UTC

The lucky draw winners were announced in the news item: http://oc-esports.io/#!/article/2871/gigabyte_z97_x99_big_xtu_challenge_ends_coldest_goes_to_taipei

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