86 pts The Stilt

W00t, 3rd places for AM3+ have $100+ higher values than the 2nd and for FM2 it is somewhere around 2nd places too

Yap, I noticed it too

I'm in!

opa :celebration:

Yes, cool contest, thanks!

I have the boards and some mediocre cpus, but will play for fun.

Let's see some records broken

I thougth Bulgaria was excluded from this competition ? not Dino ?

Looks like fun, I'll definitely give it a shot. I'm just curious what it means by WR though? Does it just mean the fastest time in that category?

For instance, would this be considered a WR if it had been submitted to the competition?

http://hwbot.org/submission/2409944_hobiecat_superpi___1m_fx_8350_10sec_93ms

WR is the group record.

On Monday we'll post the target scores for each WR to make it more clear for everyone. The WR prize is awarded to the person who has the WR at the end of the competition, not the first to break it.

Gigabyte motherboard only?

nice prizes!

and cash is a welcome change of course.

its always funny seeing the usual comps with hardware prizes being given out, that most people would be using in the actual comp already...

Gigabyte motherboard only?

Yes.

I'm in

Time to search the stores for an F2A85X-UP4

Gigabyte motherboard only?

Yes.

Can you make that more clear in the rules? Right now it looks like just the wallpaper is needed.

WR is the group record.

 

On Monday we'll post the target scores for each WR to make it more clear for everyone. The WR prize is awarded to the person who has the WR at the end of the competition, not the first to break it.

That's what I thought. Thanks for the clarification.

I got a few questions.

First, is this open to only for Gigabyte Board users only? or open to anyone with any motherboard as long as the CPU is AM3+/FM1 or 2 board compatible?

2nd, isn't it gonna be unfair for people that cannot afford extreme cooling (LN2), I mean I can see people will be going hardcore on this using LN2 just to get the edge, wouldn't hurt if you guys clarify if LN2 users are allowed or ask gigabyte if you guys should put a sub category for LN2 users.

And 3rd, the pic requirement for the rig, wouldn't it be good if you require users to put a sign that mentions their user name (forum name), date of the score being posted and the score to verify that it is their rig.

1 - already mentioned. its a gigabyte competition. you need a gigabyte board.

2 - Yep. its going to be very unfair if you dont have LN2. I dont, but still going to have some fun.

3 - That seems like a lot of work. I always take a rig photo, but i cant be bothered making a sign and dating it.

1 - already mentioned. its a gigabyte competition. you need a gigabyte board.

2 - Yep. its going to be very unfair if you dont have LN2. I dont, but still going to have some fun.

3 - That seems like a lot of work. I always take a rig photo, but i cant be bothered making a sign and dating it.

it takes a lot of work to write your name, date and the score on a piece of paper and take a photo of your rig showing that piece of paper?

'murica eh?

Added the target scores for the WR prize. I see MikeCDM already set a new target score.

Group A - FM1/2 (Llano/Trinity/Richland)

• Super Pi 1M Target score: 11sec 359ms
  
• Super Pi 32M Target score: 10min 40sec 875ms

Group B – AM3+ (Bulldozer/Piledriver)

• Super Pi 1M Target score: 10sec 93ms
  
• Super Pi 32M Target score: 10min 31sec 770ms

Can you make that more clear in the rules? Right now it looks like just the wallpaper is needed.

It's all there on the stage pages. Also, if you try to submit a score without a Gigabyte board the score is not going to be accepted .

Added the target scores for the WR prize. I see MikeCDM already set a new target score.

 

Group A - FM1/2 (Llano/Trinity/Richland)

• Super Pi 1M Target score: 11sec 359ms
  
• Super Pi 32M Target score: 10min 40sec 875ms

 

Group B – AM3+ (Bulldozer/Piledriver)

• Super Pi 1M Target score: 10sec 93ms
  
• Super Pi 32M Target score: 10min 31sec 770ms

 

 

 

It's all there on the stage pages. Also, if you try to submit a score without a Gigabyte board the score is not going to be accepted .

 

During the first hour of the announcement those rules isn't there. but yeah now its been updated I guess and its more clear now.

Hm, interesting. We'll check what could have caused that.

Sorry for the inconvenience!

Hm, interesting. We'll check what could have caused that.

 

Sorry for the inconvenience!

It's the main page info that is lacking, once you click on each stages it shows more detail on the contest limitation part, while on the info of the contest limitation on the main page doesn't show that this contest requires contestants to use Gigabyte board.

The only thing I don't like about this is that just 3 people that uses LN2 needs to join and those 3 will surely lock 1st,2nd and 3rd easily.

I am pretty sure they would spend more than 500bucks just to win this for the publicity. =P

Ah, I see. I've added the information to the main competition page now too! Thanks for the feedback!

Dear Massman,

I had the A10-5800K , A10-6800K

and AMD FX-8350 will I able to submit this 3 APU for the competition

Thanks

rayhow

It's the main page info that is lacking, once you click on each stages it shows more detail on the contest limitation part, while on the info of the contest limitation on the main page doesn't show that this contest requires contestants to use Gigabyte board.

 

 

 

The only thing I don't like about this is that just 3 people that uses LN2 needs to join and those 3 will surely lock 1st,2nd and 3rd easily.

 

I am pretty sure they would spend more than 500bucks just to win this for the publicity. =P

To be fair though... you are on HWBOT where subzero cooling is quite common. I imagine there will be more than three people using subzero, as well.

I often wondered if there shouldn't be point separation between cooling methods, but in the end it would be difficult to properly police it. So rules wide open, run what ya brung! Do the best you can.

I often wondered if there shouldn't be point separation between cooling methods, but in the end it would be difficult to properly police it. So rules wide open, run what ya brung! Do the best you can.

No way to police it other than videoing the runs, and that's a major PITA.

it takes a lot of work to write your name, date and the score on a piece of paper and take a photo of your rig showing that piece of paper?

'murica eh?

You bet.

-Australia out.

lol matt

I thought it was funny too haha.

Robbo's in the house!

I will in

I will also try to get some prizes I don't have golden AMD cpus though, but 3rd place looks tempting!

ehehe jsut for the fun and because it's good to have some NON UBER Exepensive contest sometimes

I may give a try too

Not sure where I need to post this.

I had problems with Gigabyte FA85X-UP4 - updated the main bios, restarted and tried to change some settings.

Saved and restarted, then it was stuck at 84 code. Apparently, the main bios got corrupted (I guess during the flash process and trying to change some settings and save them triggered the bad block).

Board was trying to load from backup bios, but what I got was just a blueish gradient screen with a gigabyte text. It seems the board didn't detect main bios is corrupted and that's why it didn't rewrite it with the backup bios.

I tried different ram and cpu and what not, but didn't go further than that. Shortcut keys didn't work.

So then I searched for the datasheet of the bios chips - MX25L6406E. According to the datasheet pin #7 is HOLD and pin #4 is GND, so I took one paperclip, shorted the pins and turned on the board. It booted and I released the short. Luckily it detected the main bios is corrupted and reflashed it with the backup.

It might be useful for other people. This method should work for most of dual-bios Gigabyte boards.

You can short pin 6&7 also with a screwdriver, it's easier

Wow very usefull, thanks a lot for sharing this Infrared!

Just asking in case, can an A88X motherboard be used?

Every gigabyte fm2 or fm1 regardless of chipset. The rules are pretty clear about that.

Oh, A88X is FM2+. Really legit question by RSNUBJE then.

Will check this today.

A88X is pretty much like A85 chipset, FM2+ is just FM2 with Kaveri support.

Except for that it's not really available yet, but I just happen to have a hand on an A88X board. Will probably just use good old A85, or 990FX with FX-8350.

Nice score hazzan

Will check this today.

 

A88X is pretty much like A85 chipset, FM2+ is just FM2 with Kaveri support.

Oh right,

A88X is allowed since the only difference is official support for USB3, PCI-e Gen3, and Kaveri.

Kaveri CPU is of course not allowed.

Hi.

Daveburt714's gem FX-8120 will be up on teh bench hopefully before comp is over.

I have an A6-5400K and ASRock FM2 M-ITX but it's not gonna win anything. Can't even get DDR3-1866 divider to work

Just got everything set up (8350 and UD7), went and filled up my dewar, I get home and the set-up doesnt want to boot (post code 00)

Looks like I'm out.

Can I ask somebody with UP4 check what post code is displayed on the debug led when no cpu installed?

Something failed last week and I thought it's the board, because then I tried with 5800K and it was switching off immediately (I think the PSU protection kicks off).

So I bought another UP4, but when I start the board only 2 segments on the debug display flash for a blink of an eye and it turns off (the led). Board stays on, but does not post. It's the same with both cpus and without a cpu installed.

I though if both cpus are dead it should display 00, no?

It would be pity if the faulty board killed the other cpu too when I tried it

I'm scared to try the dead board again, so I will just throw it, don't want to risk the PSU too.

When our CPU died the motherboard didn't show anything, just turned itself off immediately, but an A10-5800K worked with the same motherboard.

00 on the UD7 here meant CPU dead. But, I also had the situation where after testing a working CPU, that afterwards the 00 would be gone with the "dead" CPU. I think 00 might also mean CPU not recognised (microcode issue) or so.

Can I ask somebody with UP4 check what post code is displayed on the debug led when no cpu installed?

Something failed last week and I thought it's the board, because then I tried with 5800K and it was switching off immediately (I think the PSU protection kicks off).

So I bought another UP4, but when I start the board only 2 segments on the debug display flash for a blink of an eye and it turns off (the led). Board stays on, but does not post. It's the same with both cpus and without a cpu installed.

I though if both cpus are dead it should display 00, no?

 

It would be pity if the faulty board killed the other cpu too when I tried it

I'm scared to try the dead board again, so I will just throw it, don't want to risk the PSU too.

When the CPU dies it usually shorts (either VDDCR or VDDNB).

Unless the VRM CC protections acts fast enough usually the VRM burns too.

In case of a UP4, the VRM CC protection is fast and usually saves the board.

If you put a broken APU in the socket and try to start it, the Port 80 segment display flashes briefly and then turns black. Depending on how the APU is damaged, the board turns off immediately or continues running (segment still blank).

The most common reasons for a APU to burn is a voltage spike (e.g a large voltage swing from low to high voltage) or simply too high voltage. This is the reason you want to have a smallest possible delta between the cool down (Slowmode) an the running voltage. It will hurt you temperatures, but it will save your APU.

In case the VRM fails it usually kills the CPU in about 90% of cases too.

And a broken APU can definitely kill a working board too.

To check if the CPU core part of the APU (FM2 or FM2r2) is fine:

Measure the resistance between the two pins (VDDCR & VSS).

Anything under 25 ohms means the APU is burned.