** WIN!! - Gigabyte Masters of Overclocking Competition - Open NOW! **

I've got an overclocked bundle that I could benchmark (even though the %OC is probably not that great) but unfortunately due to warranty concerns I'm not willing to underclock it (probably not technically able either as I bought a bundle because I fail at overclocking). :(


I understand that OcUK runs these comps out of the goodness of their hearts and we all appreciate them.
However on a few competitions there might be a bit too much effort involved or the competition might cater to only a small niche of forum users (this one for example where people have to be able and willing to spend the time overclocking/underclocking/benchmarking/validating).

I've tried hard to make this not sound like "wah wah competition too difficult/I'm too lazy". :p
 
Purely from a feedback POV, not fishing for sarcastic replies - I think it's a lot of hassle to min-max and get good scores on this kind of competition.

I am eligible with my setup but I decided not to, down to effort required and my own limited knowledge of overclocking. Hell the settings I have now I plucked from another overclocking forum, I don't know how to tweak things accurately myself.

I'd assume a lot of other people are the same.

Like tibbsey said;

I've tried hard to make this not sound like "wah wah competition too difficult/I'm too lazy".
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But in essence, that's what it comes down to.

Unless theres a minimum entry stipulance, then congrats to the people who have entered. You're bound to win something :)!
 
The last one was a good comp, the top 5 entires we're a mix from people with humble AMD systems to people using 3 different sockets for each category and sub-zero cooling.

The 3d mark is the most time consuming if your trying for a bang on score rather than being a few points off.

Come on guys, get entering
 
Hmm got a bit of spare time now i've just finished a masters course. I'm guessing unlocking a PII X2 to an X4 doesn't count as a 100% OC :p. In fact is the max/min %age oc just for the achieved frequency vs stock frequency regardless of cores enabled or disabled?
 
jak731 said:
Hmm got a bit of spare time now i've just finished a masters course. I'm guessing unlocking a PII X2 to an X4 doesn't count as a 100% OC :p. In fact is the max/min %age oc just for the achieved frequency vs stock frequency regardless of cores enabled or disabled?
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If its anything like the last one then its purely done on core frequency, the number of cores doesn't matter. Though I didn't find any extra performance last time by disabling cores on my cpu :(
 
 
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Well this was an epic let down :(

Ill get the results toted up from those who actually entered.

Thanks to those who did though :)
 
Ack, I forgot about this and didn't actually get around to doing anything more than the 3dmark test D:

I vote extend a week so more people can enter XD
 
You should use the same system for all the tests.

The results should be submitted in private, so no one really knows what to be achieving for maximum points, which will also stop someone submitting results with a minute to go that cant be beat before the competition closes.

Test should be a bit more fair, the minimum multiplier available to a i5 2500K for example is 16X, and changing base clock as you may know throws a wobbly, so trying to get the best underclock is flawed and isnt like the thread title suggests "overclocking" not "underclocking"

I was speaking to someone else who owns another forum and he suggested the best way is .

Must use the same system from test to test.

No one knows other peoples results.

The competition runs for multiple weeks, every week a new target score/individual test is put up to try and get close to, only after this week will the results that have been submitted be displayed, then the next test is run for the following week.
 
Making each entrant stick to one socket/CPU is a very fair point, those like myself with only Amd chips will never compete in Max oc and those with Intel will never compete on max underclock, that in itself makes those two categories fair, this leaves the only other test of 3d mark which has a target set per socket.

maybe this one needed some more tests, just think but it could include wprime and Fritz, even superpi if these are done per socket rather than as a whole.

Heck you could pick pretty much any bench in HWbot to do it by
 
You say that, Stulid, but the exact same competition was run a couple of months ago and it was extremely successful, the thread had 300 replies and it was a closely fought competition. Which I didn't win D:
 
iviv said:
You say that, Stulid, but the exact same competition was run a couple of months ago and it was extremely successful, the thread had 300 replies and it was a closely fought competition. Which I didn't win D:
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But the competition could be better:)
 
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