The MSI X58 Pro-E I won for the Lords of Overclocking event arrived today in the mail. Looks like I have to purchase a Core i7 975 now as I promised myself if I received a board I'd compete :(
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The MSI X58 Pro-E I won for the Lords of Overclocking event arrived today in the mail. Looks like I have to purchase a Core i7 975 now as I promised myself if I received a board I'd compete :(
Don't buy ES though
Good to hear that. I've been reluctant to even open my box, as I thought I'd sell it right away. Maybe I'll put it in my 24/7 rig and pull out the Bloodrage for benching duties.Quote:
Originally Posted by hifiking
massman: Buying ES is alright, selling it is another deal. :D
I already have enough issues with Francois and policy issues, I stayed out of that thread :D We also can't use ES chips for the North American qualifier :shrug:Quote:
Originally Posted by massman
Let's just say I'm happy the thread was locked before I saw it :).
By the way, let me know what you achieve on the board. I've been testing the Eclipse SLI and there were a few surprises ... both negative and positive.
Now you actually made me want to try it out. I need a new CPU to start with.
Now i need to know... What were the positive points. It wasn't all that great in the qualifiers. We had some nice scores though!Quote:
Originally Posted by massman
I recive today mobo and gfx. But wtf, where is cpu and mems? Great organization like always MSI!! :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing great job and great employees who don't know anything about event, IT, overclocking ect.
And yes, event will start in next 9 days and almost all overclockers don't have hardware at home :rofl:
I understand you, but take it easy... at least you're able to join the competition :up:Quote:
Originally Posted by ryba
Report these situations to MSI Reps. and I'm sure they will try to fix the situation.
I'd say they're running out of time. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by N3RO
Btw, I heard Kinc was busy, so he can't go to the EU finals.
I can take it easy when we have 1-2 months to event, but not 9 days! Like always organization is very bad in MSI. They must learn a lot from Gigabyte.Quote:
Originally Posted by N3RO
I my HW comes at friday :D
This friday or next friday?:d :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by A2C
I hope this friday :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by ryba
My sample at home did 227MHz BCLK 3D stable with my ancient C0/C1 ;).Quote:
Originally Posted by Wava
Our hw should be there tomorrow...crossing fingers ! Like Ryba said, 9 days to prepare insulation/vmods/tweaks and discover the hardware is really really short. I hope the organisation during the event will be better :up:
Organisation during last year challenge was been really good, maybe this year it will be same. But the best it will be in Amsterdam http://phpbb3.ocmag.eu/images/smilies/evil.gif
You'll be the only one there since all the others are going to Munich ;)
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Originally Posted by A2C
Well, actually maybe he meets Gendo and me at Schiphol when we are boarding for Munich! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by massman
Yes, go to Amsterdam, this way i could win the MOA if i'm the only one there :rotf:
How funny would it be if you didn't, Benji :D
But ehm... Another question. Is there anybody who received flight details? And details on the hotel and stuff? Cause I'd like to know where we are staying and where I have to be at what time..
Your bicyles will be ready wednesday morning.
Damn.. I think MSI was too quick with this timetable. We dont have any time to prepare, cause I will leave my house on thursday and then I will come back and fly directly to munich.
I have no details about flights or anything, so let's see what will happen.
You'll be staying at Hotel Amstetten, I heard. An old basement with a great atmosphere.
I should leave around 15h from Paris and came back sunday, around 15h...I got this information today, but it's not confirmed yet. No more information about hotel, airline company or whatever !
:ROTF::ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by massman
hey guys ;)
i've more info, for each flight departure etc you need to checkl with you local MIS People that THEM that manage that ;)
agenda as you may have received by e-mail from your local contact :
I've no official info yet about the hotel :DQuote:
Informations for Master Overclocking Arena 2009 – EU Final
Agenda:
Thurday, 16th July:
3-7pm: Arrival and Check-In for the OC teams and media representatives.
Shuttle Bus transport from the airport to the hotel
8pm: Welcome drink at the hotel
8:30 - 11pm: Dinner and drinks at the hotel restaurant
After 11pm: Last preparations for OC team before the event
Friday, 17th July:
9:45am: Shuttle transport from the hotel to the event location
(Olympia Stadium in Munich)
10am - 1pm: Opening ceremony and technical presentations
1pm: Start of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 1
1pm – 3pm: Lunch buffet
6pm: End of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 1
6:15pm: Olympic stadium roof tour
7:30pm: Shuttle to the hotel
8pm: Meeting in the hotel lobby. Short “walk” to the Beer garden to have typical Munich food and drinks
Saturday, 18th July:
9:45am: Shuttle transport from the hotel to the event location
10am: Start of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 2
1pm - 3pm: Buffet lunch
5pm: Start of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 2
Collection of final benchmark results
5:30pm: Shuttle to the hotel and a short time to refresh in the hotel
6:30pm: Shuttle to the Olympic Tower for dinner
7pm - 11pm: Award ceremony at the top of the Olympic Tower with dinner
Sunday, 19th July:
9 - 12am: Departure and Check-Out. Shuttle to Munich airport
We got this.
Hotel address:
Derag Hotel and Living AG + Co. KG
Hotel Karl Theodor
Paschstraße 46, 80637 München
Phone +49(0)89-157 08-0
Fax +49(0)89-157 08-600
http://www.deraghotels.de/pages/KTH.htm
Wow! nice hotel
3D galery
OK.......Where are our hardware and our tickets?.... :D
Event is in few days, but it seem your hardware will be awaiting for you at Munich :D :D
Mobo and vga will arrive this afternoon for me, memory and cpu will follow soon.
No news about fly tickets, i'm gonna buy a cycle :D :D
Now i got a HW :D but only MB and VGA.
Curier comes 2 hours ago :p:
Well... I haven't received anything! Great organisation. I'm trying to reach my "contact" but she's always on the phone. What's the use of a contact when you can't reach them. I need flight details! Maybe we get the flight tickets in Munich, and we really need to cycle to Munich.Quote:
Originally Posted by A2C
I just spoke to my contact, she said the tickets were booked already and they are busy with making a list which will be sent to us asap. Hardware will be here this friday, so i hope everything will be ok for the finals.
Don´t worry last year we know when we have fly 2 days before competition, so you have more than 6 days to know how you will fly :rofl:
Edit:
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Originally Posted by Marco_MSI e-mail
If you didn't get that email with vmods, measure points etc PM me with your mail and ill forward it to you ;)
Yahoo in this mail i have thi too, this Vmod on GTX260 is soo easy, not as on GTX285 Super Pipe :D but we have finaly today this too :up:
GTX285 Super Pipe Vmod = Horor :D
I tore my Eclipse SLI out of the box and installed it for the hell of it... It actually works pretty well, I wasn't expecting it to almost impress me, to be honest. If you don't have any rush to set BIOS settings (as you will do during the competition) it's a pretty nice board. I wish you all the best of luck with it. :D
"We also got some requests for the volt mods of the system, you can find it attached for the N260GTX Lightning. For the Eclipse SLI volt mods are not needed. Our defaults values go so high that it would be dangerous to get them any higher. Attached you will find voltage measure points and one mod to give you a more stable system with high end 2000Mhz memory."
Isn't that what overclockers do? Just push it ... :D
So, there's no datasheet for the PWM controller so it'll be tricky if you need more than 1.4 volts.
I received the cpu and gfx today, so everything has arrived :)
Just received 260gtx lighting 1792mb ram, hope the cpu arrives soon too..
if you could use more than 1.2V it will be tricky ;) go and test yours gfx and I will put my in trash :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by elmor
Just received CPU. Does everybody get the same batch?
Mine is 3843A695 ES.
It's the same.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wava
I'm sure all of us will have the same cpu (week/batch)Quote:
Originally Posted by elmor
It wouldn't really have supprised me if we all had another batch...Quote:
Originally Posted by ryba
We have same batchQuote:
Originally Posted by Wava
Why ES, why? http://phpbb3.ocmag.eu/images/smilies/soob.gif
Aaahw you poor boy, don't cwyyyyy! What's wrong with ES if we all get them?Quote:
Originally Posted by A2C
The only person who'll buy them is Francois, that's the problem. :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wava
Hehe the problem is there:
Price Core i7 ≥ monthly payment in Slovakia
Cruel reality :rocker:
Your reality is less cruel than mine mate, I work 4 months for that money :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by A2C
I finally got all the hardware, motherboard and gpu just came in! It's a shame the memory got delayed, I'm dieing to know what it can do.
Mainboard and VGA received yesterday, but i'm leaving tonight...no time to test everything i'm afraid :( :(
BTW, no CPU yet, but i have a GSkill 2133 C9, which is (i guess) thye same as OCZ :p:
I just received flight details. But what to do with it? Do i have to print it or something?
Me too, was in the spam folder :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wava
There is a link at the bottom "You can check the status of your itinerary: here"
There is a booking number :)
Same here. MSI is considered spam bij gmail:rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by noxon
is there anybody who tested the lighting afterburner software on window xp and made it work ? if yes please post some screen.
It does not work for me and for some other contestants
Doesn't work here either. Already sent e-mail to MSI.Quote:
Originally Posted by giorgioprimo
at the French final we have use it and it was working on XP but not for all of us: a team can't raise too much the voltage (like > 1,2V) otherwise the card bugged :(Quote:
Originally Posted by giorgioprimo
Quote:
Originally Posted by marmott
what do you mean ?
card is the same for everybody, software is the same for everybody.
How is it possible that for some works and somebody else not ??
That may have been the card itself though?:confused:Quote:
Originally Posted by marmott
I don't know why one on three teams have issue with the voltage modification, we have all think about a crappy card but how to be sure ? :/
what I know is they try several times to reinstall the after burner and nothing change
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Originally Posted by marmott
the software wich i got is an exe file, there is nothing to install.........
sorry take another .exe file
Since some of you have PMed me for some mods, I thought it whould be unfair for all others not to have them as well, so here it is... :)
http://img249.imageshack.us/img249/6...260gtxmods.jpg
Vram you don't need it because it won't go high... :D
There's another 2 mods kept for myself (sorry) because I worked on this card over 16 straight hours to figure out, so I think that I deserve to keep them for me... :)
NOTE: This VGA IS "tricky"....
LEARN it... ;)
Thank you for sharing these mods! Kudos!
Thank you George :up:
I'm almost sure that came form an optimisation they made with the driver :/ or the OS...Quote:
Originally Posted by marmott
did you tried with 185.5 drivers ? thtat was the latest one i used and it worked out fine :) with the after burner
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Originally Posted by hipro5
thanks
big thanx for sharing!
:up:
Which Bios for this mobo whould be the best?... :)
its good to see you share the mod
i made sure all the competitors at GOOC world final knew about the OCP mod cause it would be been a joke if only a couple of teams had it
:up:
Somebody here wanted mod for MSI N285GTX SuperPipe here is it http://phpbb3.ocmag.eu/viewtopic.php?f=155&t=147
Bon appetit :rofl:
Hello guys.
During the french final, as said marmott, one of the team didn't succeed in using afterburner...btw, when it works, it's highly bugged. If you set 1.2v, sometimes it's 1.2v, sometimes it's 1.1v. Moreover, when you set a voltage, don't launch afterburner anymore, or you'll get some issues to set again this voltage.
The vga and the soft are really tricky
Thanks to hipro for sharing, i perfectly understand that you keep some mods for you as you work a lot on it. No work from my part, no time, no hardware (no CPU atm).
And last, i have a question : the hardware MSI send us is the hardware we'll use in munich or it's just for training ??
It is the hardware we have to use in munich...
Memory will handed out in munich...
Spare board/GFX/CPU are availible in munich...
wtf ? :eek:
I think i'll enjoy beer more than overclocking :rotf:
The one with the B2B setting available. Other than the rest, the bios version doesn't really matter. It's mainly the boards' limitation.Quote:
Originally Posted by hipro5
what's the bios called (version nr) and is it already available in public? :)
As far as I know, all recent bios versions have this timing included. Possibly not in a final version (=public), but most certainly in a beta version.
//edit: there's a new 1.7 final, it should be included.
Are the boards we received already tested for bclk or something? Because there were still overclock settings in it when i turned it on, pretty weird.
If someone need buy cpu/gpu pots let me know at PM :) I can bring them with me to Munich.
Bios 1.81b was installed on our board... /\ Ryba u is a legend :D
the 1.81 is the lastest beta version.
nm i found it :)
Could you share that 1.81 beta bios ? :)
Still no CPU here, only have a 965 c0 where 225-227BCLK is max.. Wonder if it will arrive before we go to Germany :D
The afterburner works fine here, but ill hardmod it if i get time..
Anyone tried the mem 2000mhz+ stability mod? I cant get the board stable at 1900mhz cl8 superpi 4M, but someone else had problem with this board and micron D9JNM..
Hmm boys i still not find where i can turn of some cores
and if i turn on HT i never have it. both options turn off HT :rofl:
Just modded the board, no stability gained on the ram.. Guess the board/bios just don't like D9JNM :s
What BCLK you guys get?.... :)
235 :cool:Quote:
Originally Posted by hipro5
Mmmmffff.......We can't pass 227MHz... :(
and you can make 23x227?:D You will be happy, if you make a little bit less.Quote:
Originally Posted by hipro5
@noxon: tried it, but board didn't start any more, maybe made some thing worng, soldered the resistor back
@BLCK: not maxed out, testing GFX...
max bclk for me is 230...me participating in SEA region though........
3D or 2D?Quote:
Originally Posted by hipro5
If I remember right, all of them.... :(Quote:
Originally Posted by massman
For 2D, you can always switch to QPI slow-mode. Remember, though, the QPI link is so heavily hurt by this, high performance 3D is virtually impossible.
I can reach 220 in 3D whith full QPI link speed but in 2D only 222, i still find where was been problem (between keyboard and chair :rofl:)
Is there anyone who has the 24x multiplier working? Or is it so heavily bugged that nobody can use it?
I really hope that someone figures out the pll-issues with even multipliers ... would help out A LOT of people
I hope the next competition I compete in is without 32m. Testing 32m for tweaks takes forever and ever and I don't know what to do in the mean time. :(
Hehe, i have never used much time on 32m tweaking, hate long benches.. -Not so long anymore with i7, but still zzZzzzz :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Wava