[GOOC 2009]Gigabyte Open Overclocking Championship 2009

[miahallen]

now the drinking contest begins!

sno.lcn and I may have lost the OCing comp BIG TIME... But we won the drinking comp hands down during the contest!

From the very begining, we had issues, the first mobi we got was DOA, we went through 4 CPUs with the second mobo. Today we decided to start fresh with the 5th CPU and a new mobi, and it turns out the second mobi we had wasn't so hot either! The third mobo and 5th CPU (what we started with today) was the best combo we had touched, but we got condensation immediately after the beginning of 32M. The room was small, and with so many people we overwhelmed the AC. The 4th mobo was also lost to condensation, so we conformalled the socket area on the 5th. But after starting Vantage, we found that Windows would not see both GPUs. We swapped PCIe slots and moved the GPUs to slots 2 and 3...but the OS would still only see one card. So we swapped the mobo again, and then both GPUs were recognized and we were ready to rock, unfortunately we were only left with about 20 minutes, which did not allow us to get a score up

Congrats to Charles and Eric and all the other teams, we're glad they all did so well. We're bummed we were not more competative, but we'll be back next year!

Thanks to GB and the other sponsors for an amazing venue for us, thanks!

[[XC] gomeler]

sno.lcn and I may have lost the OCing comp BIG TIME... But we won the drinking comp hands down during the contest!

From the very begining, we had issues, the first mobi we got was DOA, we went through 4 CPUs with the second mobo. Today we decided to start fresh with the 5th CPU and a new mobi, and it turns out the second mobi we had wasn't so hot either! The third mobo and 5th CPU (what we started with today) was the best combo we had touched, but we got condensation immediately after the beginning of 32M. The room was small, and with so many people we overwhelmed the AC. The 4th mobo was also lost to condensation, so we conformalled the socket area on the 5th. But after starting Vantage, we found that Windows would not see both GPUs. We swapped PCIe slots and moved the GPUs to slots 2 and 3...but the OS would still only see one card. So we swapped the mobo again, and then both GPUs were recognized and we were ready to rock, unfortunately we were only left with about 20 minutes, which did not allow us to get a score up

Congrats to Charles and Eric and all the other teams, we're glad they all did so well. We're bummed we were not more competative, but we'll be back next year!

Thanks to GB and the other sponsors for an amazing venue for us, thanks!

Ack that sucks man Sounds like for next year you need to conformal coat all the boards at the start and shotgun blast them with vaseline