8 Packs 4ghz 32m Challenge win full Haswell 4770K Bundle.

Heres my attempt

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So how will they know if you use some software to overclock the CPU during the test and then set it back to 4GHz for the screen shot?
Obviously you wouldn't want to go 5GHz and get a silly time, but just enough to win the prize?
I guess 8 Pack (and others have a rough idea what's possible with each config) but surely that also means they pretty much know what sort of setup is going to win and that anyone without this setup will be wasting their time?

Also, why is there a speed limit on the CPU but not on the RAM? Unless RAM speed doesn't affect the test surely the people with fast expensive RAM have an advantage?
 
Oh I may just cut in at 4040mhz, 104x1.25x31=4040mhz while giving me a nice bit of room on the memory.

Ram is going straight to 1.75v for this.
 
I have to agree - only those with 'half decent kit' already stand a chance of wining 'half decent kit', I have an Ivy Bridge 3470 (3.6Ghz) on an Gigabyte H77-D3H board with 1333Mhz RAM and I cant overclock the CPU, so really its only for people who already have K series CPUs and overclockable motherboards which means they ALREADY HAVE DECENT KIT! - this competition should have been more universal???
 
snadge said:
I have to agree - only those with 'half decent kit' already stand a chance of wining 'half decent kit', I have an Ivy Bridge 3470 (3.6Ghz) on an Gigabyte H77-D3H board with 1333Mhz RAM and I cant overclock the CPU, so really its only for people who already have K series CPUs and overclockable motherboards which means they ALREADY HAVE DECENT KIT! - this competition should have been more universal???
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That's what I and a few others have already said... It is simply illogical.
 
GoogalyMoogaly said:
So how will they know if you use some software to overclock the CPU during the test and then set it back to 4GHz for the screen shot?
Obviously you wouldn't want to go 5GHz and get a silly time, but just enough to win the prize?
I guess 8 Pack (and others have a rough idea what's possible with each config) but surely that also means they pretty much know what sort of setup is going to win and that anyone without this setup will be wasting their time?

Also, why is there a speed limit on the CPU but not on the RAM? Unless RAM speed doesn't affect the test surely the people with fast expensive RAM have an advantage?
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Yeah we've been through this, pretty much whoever has the best stuff will win more of the best stuff. It's just for fun if you have anything less than a 3770K/2400mhz RAM.
 
Raikiri said:
Yeah we've been through this, pretty much whoever has the best stuff will win more of the best stuff. It's just for fun if you have anything less than a 3770K/2400mhz RAM.
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I wanna know how you got a faster time than me with worse timings and slower ram speed? I see the PhotoShop program open in your taskbar,maybe that's why? ;):)
 
4737Joker said:
1 entry and lots of posts moaning, i bet they are glad they decided to give away some free stuff.

Frankly i would just not bother at all if i were ocuk given all the moaning.

Yeah not everyone has the equipment to enter, but when they run competitions that anyone can enter people still don't bother. They run so many competitions that require no effort it doesn't hurt for them to run something like this now and then.
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Hey, I'm not normally one to moan. But again, to me the way the competition is being run is simply one that will lead to the people with the most modern hardware winning. If I may post a link:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1300766/super-pi-32m-4ghz-efficiency-challenge

Overclock.net has a scoreboard for 4Ghz 32m runs as well, handily broken down by architecture. Just take a moment to look at the different times posted by each architecture. Ivy bridge is sitting around the 7min 45 second mark, Sandy bridge CPUs are a full 20 seconds slower. Anything older than that, or AMD and you are simply way out of the picture. Haswell CPUs are reported as being 'about 3 percent quicker than Ivy Bridge' in SuperPI.

This isn't be being super anti competitions, of course not. See this Gigabyte contest for one thing. It challenged people to get the highest percentage overclock, and hitting a target score in 3dmark. This meant that it wasn't limited to those with a top of the line CPU. Anyone can overclock and underclock their CPU, and anyone can change clock speeds to try and hit a specific target. To me this is a better competition because a) Everyone has a chance at winning (Whereas in this the people likely to win are those that have the lowest need for the prize), and b) It requires more overclocking knowledge. You aren't simply going for the highest clock speed which you can follow a tutorial for. You're targeting a specific value. This means you need to modify your fsb to get down into the right area, but then you have to do little tweaks to try and actually hit the target bang on.

Again, please don't take this as a criticism of OcUK running competitions, because its not. I'm just providing my input on how I think the contest could be improved.
 
iviv said:
Hey, I'm not normally one to moan. But again, to me the way the competition is being run is simply one that will lead to the people with the most modern hardware winning. If I may post a link:
http://www.overclock.net/t/1300766/super-pi-32m-4ghz-efficiency-challenge

Overclock.net has a scoreboard for 4Ghz 32m runs as well, handily broken down by architecture. Just take a moment to look at the different times posted by each architecture. Ivy bridge is sitting around the 7min 45 second mark, Sandy bridge CPUs are a full 20 seconds slower. Anything older than that, or AMD and you are simply way out of the picture. Haswell CPUs are reported as being 'about 3 percent quicker than Ivy Bridge' in SuperPI.

This isn't be being super anti competitions, of course not. See this Gigabyte contest for one thing. It challenged people to get the highest percentage overclock, and hitting a target score in 3dmark. This meant that it wasn't limited to those with a top of the line CPU. Anyone can overclock and underclock their CPU, and anyone can change clock speeds to try and hit a specific target. To me this is a better competition because a) Everyone has a chance at winning (Whereas in this the people likely to win are those that have the lowest need for the prize), and b) It requires more overclocking knowledge. You aren't simply going for the highest clock speed which you can follow a tutorial for. You're targeting a specific value. This means you need to modify your fsb to get down into the right area, but then you have to do little tweaks to try and actually hit the target bang on.

Again, please don't take this as a criticism of OcUK running competitions, because its not. I'm just providing my input on how I think the contest could be improved.
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+1
 
I set myself a personal challenge of breaking 18 minutes. I think I've hit my limit though. Got a blue screen at 4.08GHz, but managed to get this by lowering the bus speed back to 200.
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