Gigabyte Competition (awesome cash prizes and dead easy it seems too EEK)

[dinos22]

hey fellas

i was just checking out Anandtech page and noticed a Gigabyte comp happening until 20th January for N.America and Canada for 3DMARK06 CPU score with monster cash prizes

Follow the link here:

http://oc.gigabyte.us/index.php

gotta have GB X38 or P35 boards to enter

air cooled QX9650 and you'll come out on top
so far the highest bench was done on a Q6600 G0 lol under 4GHz



Go go go go!
be careful though
you can only submit once so make sure it's your best score

[Johnny Bravo]

Is this US only tho, gutting

[[XC] gomeler]

I've been sitting here waiting for my X38 DS4 to come in, was hoping this would stay under the radar

[toddm27]

nice, hah, got my dq6 x38t on the way to go with a pair of 2900 xt's and a qx9650 not to mention tubes for all

[[XC] DragonOrta]

And of course my 3870 had to die a few days ago...

[toddm27]

And of course my 3870 had to die a few days ago...

you do realize video card won't make a diff, as it wants 3d06 cpu score only, makes the quads the one to go after

[[XC] DragonOrta]

Ah, didn't notice it was based on CPU score. Hmmm

[dinos22]

as far as i can tell

USA and Canada ONLY

otherwise i'd be submitting a score lol

[[XC] DragonOrta]

as far as i can tell

USA and Canada ONLY

otherwise i'd be submitting a score lol

And thank God for that. Maybe some of us have a chance.

[[XC] gomeler]

And thank God for that. Maybe some of us have a chance.

I'm hoping this cascade I'm whipping up will give me the CPU clocks to secure atleast a placement in either the X38 or P35 category. Really wish I had a QX9650

[jabski]

Is this US only tho, gutting

+1

[[XC] gomeler]

+1

There was another contest on here that was EU only. Our turn

[ghost101]

Lots of people not using proper compare urls but the submission urls. Some arent even using legal keys.

[fragmasterMax]

damn, if only they would extend the date of submission, i would throw a open box p35 into newegg's cart.

[[XC] DragonOrta]

Congrats to Gomeler on taking first place in the P35 group.

I thought it ran until yesterday, only to try to submit my score to get me in 4th place, and have the site tell me the contest was over...

[dinos22]

+ congrats to toddm27 for the first spot in X38 category and overall

too easy Todd
i can't believe you guys let him get away with a 4.9GHz quad LOL hahahah

[[XC] gomeler]

My X38 board didn't arrive, Newegg screwed up the shipping. I spent about 24 hours fighting with the P35C DS3R to get my 5004MHz validation. For some reason the 13x multiplier didn't work, anything above 1.9vdimm defaulted to 1.9vdimm, and DDR2-840 was unstable at 5-5-5-15 1.9vdimm with any of my memory. DDR2 support on this board seems like it was a last-minute addition, I just completed a 5.4GHz run on my $80 MSI Neo2-FR. I bought this QX9650 just for this competition, it's a beast

Thanks for the recognition DO Too bad about the submission

[toddm27]

+ congrats to toddm27 for the first spot in X38 category and overall

too easy Todd
i can't believe you guys let him get away with a 4.9GHz quad LOL hahahah

hah, thanks man, and yeah this board definatly limited the clocks , over 100mhz plus less than the p5k3 deluxe and I really had to fight for the 4950, lol, thanks for the headsup man, I would've canceled my order if I didn't see your thread

[T_M]

unbelievable, 4.9GHz wins lol

[[XC] gomeler]

I wanted to "crush" the competition but even 5GHz was hard to coax out of my board. Now I'm hoping Gigabyte will possibly return my calls, I swear they ignore the phone when they see my number on the caller ID. What's it take to get in touch with their PR department, winning a competition or something?

[Planet]

I wanted to "crush" the competition but even 5GHz was hard to coax out of my board. Now I'm hoping Gigabyte will possibly return my calls, I swear they ignore the phone when they see my number on the caller ID. What's it take to get in touch with their PR department, winning a competition or something?

Yea I had the same issue with the P35 DS3R. After 5ghz it just died. You set 5ghz in the bios and it would set the FSB back down to 333. I had a cold boot issue to with my board. Stupid vdroop and bios options sucked so I only got a quick run it at 4.85.

[dinos22]

hah, thanks man, and yeah this board definatly limited the clocks , over 100mhz plus less than the p5k3 deluxe and I really had to fight for the 4950, lol, thanks for the headsup man, I would've canceled my order if I didn't see your thread

did you use the earliest bios like i told you

maybe you were fighting OVP
what voltage were you at in idle and load

[toddm27]

did you use the earliest bios like i told you

maybe you were fighting OVP
what voltage were you at in idle and load

I tried both, went with f2 first, f5 actually gave me better results, and I tried 1.75-1.85, seemed to need 1.85 to complete at 4950, on the p5k3 I could do ~5066 with 1.75 on dry ice

[-Acid-]

I cannot enter this ragin

the us gets all the fun comp's

[mnewxcv]

doesnt a crappy gpu boost cpu scores? thats what i learned bitd when my cpu scores went down upgrading from ti4400 to fx5900.