[GOOC 2009]Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2009

[massman]

Yes ... thanks for the insight on this benchmark. I must say that you two were the prepared the best for this event, kudos on the finding

[jmke]

I think I now know why massman & petit didn't do better with 3D.. they were focusing on the wrong hardware

[JamesBong420]

I think I now know why massman & petit didn't do better with 3D.. they were focusing on the wrong hardware

LOLLOLOLO!!!!!! priceless.... !!!

[Monstru]

Holy...c;mon Thomas, you have kids man!!!!

[massman]

We were just checking the voltages ...

[ownage]

We were just checking the voltages ...

And voltage there was, looking at the picture there definitely was a spark

[jmke]

tell me again why you pointed that picture out to me Massman... do you want confess something?

[miahallen]

Miahallen was just waaaay too funny . Even during the competition itself, these guys cracked me up:

" Aaaah, now I see the problem, we are just two dumbasses "

I fixed my title

[MACMAC]

Articles up!

Took for bloody ever to go through and edit the pics.

If there are any discrepancies, let me know


Glad to see to see Vapor's GT2 tweak has finally been revealed to the masses

[Mean Machine]

Articles up!

Took for bloody ever to go through and edit the pics.

If there are any discrepancies, let me know


Glad to see to see Vapor's GT2 tweak has finally been revealed to the masses

Yay, you wrote G200, not GT200.
Nice little article you got there, it has to be said. Good work.

[dinos22]

Clocks were just under 900 for the core (set to 888, not sure what it actually runs at when we set that) and 1300 for the memory. Unsure about shader tbh, we increased the ratio a bit and then relinked, so probably ~1950.

As for the GT2....we were using an old school D3D tweak + d3doverrider (in the Tools folder of RivaTuner, we didn't modify or introduce any software whatsoever). Overall it helps GT2 a bunch but doesn't do much to GT1, maybe even hurts a little. I'm surprised that GT2 was helped that much, in my testing at home, it was definitely boosted...but I was on air with pretty low memory clocks (cards I have suck), didn't expect it to scale that much with better clocks.

D3D overrider doesnt help with GT2 (or at least not to that extent)
it's already been tested by deanzo (unless he didnt test it right lol)
must be something else

did your cards artifact during runs?

[hipro5]

D3D helps a tiny bit if any at least on an GTX260.... From 700MHz up to 1080MHz, I - personally - see and not see any changes and when I see, they are about 0.6 fps.....There must be something else too.....

[hipro5]

We were just checking the voltages ...

Were they up?.....or down?.....

[dinos22]

[miahallen]

Articles up!

Took for bloody ever to go through and edit the pics.

If there are any discrepancies, let me know


Glad to see to see Vapor's GT2 tweak has finally been revealed to the masses

WOW!!! Bravo, very well done Patrick!
You article is incredibly thorough and well written! Thanks

Only discrepancy I found concerned our 5th mobo. It would not allow the operation of 2 GPUs at one time. The picture of the water near th NB was actually mobo #4. The 3rd PCIe slot broke when we decided to swap mobo #5 a little to hastly. Mobo 6 seemed to be doing fine, but we just didn't have enough time to do anything with it.

Thanks again, top notch journalism

[emo]

Were they up?.....or down?.....

[SF3D]

Articles up!

Took for bloody ever to go through and edit the pics.

If there are any discrepancies, let me know

Very good article!

But, we did not use 3DM06 in preparation day. In that pic we are warming up the system We tested all 5 chips in Vantage and all did 5.1GHz+ and the best one did 5.25GHz.

On second day we were having some problems with cards and we checked 06 like 5 seconds to see if everythign is ok

There should be more articles like this

[NeoForce]

hipro5

[massman]

Articles up!

Took for bloody ever to go through and edit the pics.

If there are any discrepancies, let me know


Glad to see to see Vapor's GT2 tweak has finally been revealed to the masses

One of the BEST OC contest articles I've seen.

D3D overrider doesnt help with GT2 (or at least not to that extent)
it's already been tested by deanzo (unless he didnt test it right lol)
must be something else

did your cards artifact during runs?

Other people have been reporting the same story: it's not D3D, it's not memory, it's not the triple SLI bridge (). I'm really hoping to read the final answer here some day.

87FPS is just way too high for GT2 ... none of the highly overclocked GTX295's at Hwbot come even close to that number.

Were they up?.....or down?.....

http://www.lolgay.com/images/2007/06...lolgayorly.jpg

If you really want to know: they were up and needed to be brought down.

Only discrepancy I found concerned our 5th mobo. It would not allow the operation of 2 GPUs at one time. The picture of the water near th NB was actually mobo #4. The 3rd PCIe slot broke when we decided to swap mobo #5 a little to hastly. Mobo 6 seemed to be doing fine, but we just didn't have enough time to do anything with it.

Let alone the fact that you indeed killed that many boards ... you want the articles to be accurate regarding what board died of which cause.

Please ask MSI to invite you to MAO as comedian

[Leeghoofd]

Nice pictures and excellent coverage

[miahallen]

Let alone the fact that you indeed killed that many boards ... you want the articles to be accurate regarding what board died of which cause.

Please ask MSI to invite you to MAO as comedian

Hey hey hey....we only killed 2 of them

<goes to search for MSI contact #s in Taiwan>

[Trouffman]

Hey hey hey....we only killed 2 of them

<goes to search for MSI contact #s in Taiwan>

need help ? PM me bro !

[dinos22]

:
Other people have been reporting the same story: it's not D3D, it's not memory, it's not the triple SLI bridge (). I'm really hoping to read the final answer here some day.

87FPS is just way too high for GT2 ... none of the highly overclocked GTX295's at Hwbot come even close to that number.
:

unless a better explanation is given this score is bugged. there is nothing like this sort of GT2 on HWBOT even with a more powerful card such as GTX295 ....... a "normal" run should not have GT1 that much below GT2 either. You'd expect GT1 to be up to 10% higher than GT2

[massman]

The GT1 is actually on par with the expectations of a 4.8G 900/1950/1300 setup

[dinos22]

The GT1 is actually on par with the expectations of a 4.8G 900/1950/1300 setup

i wasnt actually commenting on how good or bad GT1 is

i am saying in a normal run you will find that GT1 is usually higher

the issue here is with GT2 > that's the test i think is bugged