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GIGABYTE Z97 - X99 BIG XTU Challenge
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
You can find the more information about the rules and the targets on the competition pages:
GIGABYTE Z97 - X99 BIG XTU Challenge Roadmap
28 February 2015
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30 March 2015:
GIGABYTE BIG XTU Challenge Round 1: Z97 2 cores
28 February 2015
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30 March 2015:
GIGABYTE BIG XTU Challenge Round 2: Z97 4 cores
30 March 2015
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29 April 2015:
GIGABYTE BIG XTU Challenge Round 3: X99 6 cores
30 March 2015
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29 April 2015:
GIGABYTE BIG XTU Challenge Round 4: X99 8 cores
28 February 2015
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29 April 2015:
GIGABYTE Z97 - X99 BIG XTU Challenge
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
Download Official Competition Background: click
- 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.
Example Screenshot
(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.)
Sorry I posted something similar in round 1..
Just to clarify, all rounds, all stages are done with air or water with temps in XTU above 25C?
Correct
Thanks Massman for the confirmation.
Because the rules you confirmed, this is going to be a great competition for all levels of overclockers...
Great job HWBot and Gigabyte
Round 2 (4 Cores) appears as starting April 2 on the round page, it shouldnt start on march?
Yes, let me check ...
Should be fixed
what to do if you have a xtu score whit -- for the temperature and a 0 for the Ghz?
its a clean instal of win 7 whit sp1
i am not alowed to submit becos of this.
* The CPU load temperature must be higher than 25°C - your submission is incomplete.
edit:
i trayd 3 windows and 2 bios versions stil the same -- and 0 for temp and cpu speed
So to clarify, we are only trying to reach the targets. One of the two targets will be the real target, but scores in between don't really matter? Only hitting the target or closes to the target without going over/under is what matters?
Use English version of windows or ask dancop. It seems he had this same issue and I think i remember something about him switching to an english version fixed it.
I will bold this so others can see
The rule is to submit as much as possible between the shown range. The target is secret and will be revealed only after the submissions are closed for each stage. What we have provided for you is the range (so the target score for current stage is between 300-340 points for example, it might be 301 or 315 or whatever, we will reveal that at end of the stage). If you hit the target you get a point. So if you submit 2 scores only for a stage and range is for 40 points difference, you have a 2/40 chance of hitting the target score. Therefore, all the subs matter for each stage.
I have preset all the ranges and targets before competition started if you were wondering.
Thats a much better explanation than what the rules state.
Got more questions and a bit of criticism.
1-The winning target is not really kept secret. Once someone has reached the target, it shows that they have hit it. The image below shows this.
2-Does this mean that everyone that hit the "secret" target will receive one point. As of now, it looks like 3 of us will receive 1 point for the 2 core stage.
4-If we continue to hit the secret target from every stage until the end. Will the winner be the person who hit the target first for stage 1? If the trend continues until the end, it looks like Paulie_AU was the first to hit 339.
i have used 3 english versions 2 whit sp1 and one whit out sp1, and all have the same situation.even whit upping the multi by one above stock gave me -- for the temps and 0 for cpu speed.
i am letting this comp go, good luck to the rest.
Which version of XTU do you use?
With the newest version it works fine
i have us 5.1.1.25 and tha latest Intel Management Engine Driver version
wtff if that's the case.
I have exactly the same problem.
Two different systems with different Windows Installations, one Asus Z87 Impact for my daily rig and one Gigabyte Z97 as my bench rig give all 0 Ghz and -- Highest CPU Temp. Also latest XTU from Intel website.
edit:
Reinstalled XTU: no change
Updated Bios on Asus to 1603: no change
Used Bios F7e on Gigabyte: no change
Tried ME 9.5: no change
Seems Im lost...
edit2:
Tried new Win7 Sp1 installation without any updates or drivers. Just XTU 5.1.1.25. Again no change.
Has this something to do with Watchdog?
I got:
Watchdog Present: true
Running at Boot: False
Failed: False
This better not be true.
Xtu is one of those benches that are a real pia to even get working. I couldn't get it working for over a year from laziness of not figuring out why. In the end for me, it was due to my "base" os being stock win7. Iirc, it needed some random ms updates to get working. That's on top of upto date intel management drivers. So give a fully updated windows is a shot.
My 24/7 rig is fully updated but still I get nothing. Why doenst XTU installer checks for needed updates? Who does fully update his bench OS?
Yeah, I'm not sure either. My daily gaming pc had no issues running it, on fully patched Win7 64bit Ultimate.
My base bench os, was Win7 sp1 enterprise, wouldn't work. Eventually got it working somehow, imaged right away at that point for a new base os.
But yeah, for most of 2014 I did no XTU because it just wouldn't run at all for me.
switching to english language solved also for me the temp issue with uploading the xtu file. thanks for the tip Mike.
but the rules still confusing me sorry. so you have to reach an exact target score which is secret until you dont hit it, so basically we just blind shooting the scores within the range and hope you will hit the bulls eye? what is the tweak in that?
Switch to English version of Windows will resolve the temperature issue. IIRC Dancop posted this a month ago for the ROG competition.
The target hits are now obfuscated until the end of the competition. Achill3us, that's correct.
got it. thanks for clearance PJ! ok guys lets move away from this 339 mark
Target number also changed if it was indeed guessed earlier?
No, the targets are all the same.
I guess you guys got a lucky one this time around (if 339 was indeed the target)
Got it working on my rigs, no need to install the english version just change under Region and Language, the Format to English (USA).
For german users:
Systemsteuerung/Zeit, Sprache und Region/Region und Sprache/Datum, Uhrzeit oder Zahlenformat ändern/Format: Englisch (USA)
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