MSI Xtreme Speeder P55 Announced!

[massman]

In co-operation with HWBOT, MSI is hosting a new P55 overclocking competition as of November the 14th. Prizes are to be announced soon as well, but I can guarantee it's pretty sick ... in the good way.

MSI launched P55 Xtreme Speed series motherboards for two months now, and countless worldwide top media gave MSI P55 the highest recommendation on performance, stability and quality. Therefore, on behalf of MSI, we invite all overclockers around the world to join the Xtreme Speeder P55 Online Competition and to challenge undiscovered extreme overclocking territory of MSI P55 and Intel Lynnfield CPU.

1. Concept

The Xtreme Speeder P55 online competition consists of one main competition, divided into three stages with each an extra challenge. Although this sounds extremely complicated in theory, you will see that it is in fact a very straight-forward and certainly most interesting competition.

The main competition consists out of three stages which will be discussed in the next paragraph. For each stage you can gather points and whoever gathers the most points in each stage wins the overall competition. Next to the main competition, there will also be prizes awarded for the winner of each stage and in addition a bonus prize for breaking a world record!

The competition period:

• Start: 15/11/2009 (15th of November 2009) 12:00:00 CEST
• End: 13/12/2009 (13th of December 2009) 12:00:00 CEST

2. Competition details

2.a. Stages

Before we go deeper into the competition, it’s important for you to understand that it is not an absolute necessity to submit a score to each stage of the competition. No submitting doesn’t lead to disqualification, but it does lower your chances of winning one of the big prizes awarded to the overall winners. In other words, it is perfectly possible to focus completely on one stage to win the prize awarded to the stage winner. Underneath a list of the three stages.

• CPU-Z: Highest CPU frequency validation
• SuperPI 32M
• Wprime 32M

2.b. Hardware requirements

As this an MSI P55 competition, we do have a couple of hardware limitations set in place to make sure the playing field is as equal as possible. Underneath a list of the competition-specific limitations.

• Processor must be Lynnfield core
• Motherboard brand must be MSI
• Retail hardware only

2.c. Scoring methodology

So, as you already know from the introduction, the overall winners are appointed using the total amount of points gathered during the three stages. Evidently, the overclocker who gathers the most points wins the competition, but this does not mean that this person has won all three stages. It is even possible to be the overall winner without winning any of the stages!

For each stage, this is the scoring algorythm:

• 1st = 10 points
• 2nd = 8 points
• 3rd = 6 points
• 4th = 5 points
• 5th = 4 points
• 6th = 3 points
• 7th = 2 points
• 8th = 1 point

In other words, the maximum amount of points that can be acquired is 30.

3. Prizes

The actual prizes will be revealed at the beginning of the actual competition (15th of November), but we can share that the estimated total value of prizes exceeds USD $10.000!

http://hwbot.org/article/news/msi_xt...ne_competition

UPDATE: Prizes

• Overall top three prizes
  
  • First Place: USD $2000
  • Second Place: USD $1500
  • Third Place: USD $1000
  • Special Prize for Core i5 Overall Top Score: USD $1000
  
  
• Stage winners
  
  • CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $1000
  
  
• World record breaker
  
  • CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $500
  
  
• Lucky draw
  
  • MSI Big Bang Fuzion mainboard: 1 per week (4 in total)
  • MSI Big Bang limited edition book bag: 5 per week (20 in total)

[Trouffman]

nice

So bad you haven't 3DMark 01... that way could maybe break the 01 WR on MSI P55 ^^

[BenchZowner]

Buy a MSI P55 motherboard and a LGA1156 CPU to win another MSI motherboooooard
Boooo, no thanks

Sorry for being an a*s but I had to say it.
The manufacturers seem to try to squeeze out every single bit of juice... erm money from us by luring us into "contests" that require buying their hardware in order to win something.
Hell, buy 1 PC from me and I'll give you a free i5 CPU + a 3D Mark06 key
I can do that too, you see ?

At least Gigabyte had the guts to allow us to use components from any branded and not necessarily Gigabyte's own stuff.

[massman]

Buy a MSI P55 motherboard and a LGA1156 CPU to win another MSI motherboooooard
Boooo, no thanks

Then you're not understanding the basics of this competition.

The motherboard that you can win is through the Lucky Draw part of the competition. If you buy an MSI motherboard, you can win cash prizes.

At least Gigabyte had the guts to allow us to use components from any branded and not necessarily Gigabyte's own stuff.

No. Check the rules of Gigabyte's P55 competition over at Futuremark ... what type of motherboard you need?

[A2C]

Thank you MSI and HWbot for this competition :-) now i must buy some retail i7 860 CPU

[SoF]

Thank you MSI and HWbot for this competition :-) now i must buy some retail i7 860 CPU

+1
Too bad I have just invested most of my money in a new 1366 system but maybe I can team up with a crew buddy

[@rne]

Looks interesting indeed. Trying to participate as well

[BenchZowner]

Then you're not understanding the basics of this competition.

The motherboard that you can win is through the Lucky Draw part of the competition. If you buy an MSI motherboard, you can win cash prizes.

Well, the prize details weren't there, so I assumed the usual stuff.
Now, what you said makes more sense, but still the contest isn't entirely "entry free" [ dare us to use any P55 motherboard MSI ]

No. Check the rules of Gigabyte's P55 competition over at Futuremark ... what type of motherboard you need?

I was talking about the Beat Me If You Dare contest Pieter

[massman]

I've updated the newspost with the prizes :-).

[K404]

Winning compos like this can bring overclockers to a companys attention for support etc. A much bigger prize than anyone cheque or one-off mobo IMHO

Good luck to those who enter! Im choosing to not buy a '750 just for a compo

[thijs]

Isnt it a bit tricky to go and bench Wprime with them P55's ? or are they using a lotus socket now?

[over@locker886]

Nice, I think I will join..

[Vivi]

i think it's fine if we can use only msi boards.

the cash prizez are huge, more than the cost of the board. and if you dont have a 5.3+ cpu don't waste your time entering with the hope of winning

like the beat me if you dare comp, if hipro is entering, don't get excited about winning ^_^

[Kabauterman]

Signed!

GD80 + X3460 For the Win!

[ekky]

looks very interesting... joined i5 section..

the cash prizez are huge, more than the cost of the board. and if you dont have a 5.3+ cpu don't waste your time entering with the hope of winning

yes vivi... but i just trying to participate benching just for fun m8...
cant afford to buy i7 870...

[Vivi]

looks very interesting... joined i5 section..



yes vivi... but i just trying to participate benching just for fun m8...
cant afford to buy i7 870...

whoops! sorry i sounded AMAZINGLY rude in that post! ! its always fun! YAAAA. i will enter also

[x-powerx800pro]

Unfortunately, China has not I7 870

[massman]

Unfortunately, China has not I7 870

MSI is awarding a special prize to the overall i5 750 winner

[miahallen]

MSI is awarding a special prize to the overall i5 750 winner

What's up Massman? I was debating for a bit, but I think I'll join in on this competition, thanks for getting this together, and thanks to MSI for continued OC'er support

Massman, is it OK to compete with two CPUs? Maybe an i5 for the i5 bonus prize, and an i7 for the overall win? Thanks!

[jmke]

Massman, is it OK to compete with two CPUs? Maybe an i5 for the i5 bonus prize, and an i7 for the overall win? Thanks!

you may compete even with 8 CPUs

[[XC] gomeler]

What's up Massman? I was debating for a bit, but I think I'll join in on this competition, thanks for getting this together, and thanks to MSI for continued OC'er support

Massman, is it OK to compete with two CPUs? Maybe an i5 for the i5 bonus prize, and an i7 for the overall win? Thanks!

Don't you be greedy, some of us only have Core i5 750 to play with

[Kabauterman]

Unfortunately, China has not I7 870

why do you need a 870? suxxs same as 860 in most cases I think!
for 32M Pi you can use 750(only lower UC)/860/870 with the same winning chance.

We will do our best to fight hard in this competion, I think MSI P55-GD80 is best MSI Board EVER!

[jmke]

0.37% of visitors come from China at HWbot

[miahallen]

That doesn't seem very "PURE" Chris

[[XC] gomeler]

That doesn't seem very "PURE" Chris

Some of us are on budgets