Master Overclocking Arena 2009

[Wava]

Thanks Leeghoofd. I'll give it my best and if it doesn't work out I'll just kick Wava's butt so I'm going to kick butt either way

Thanks for the headsup Marco! Looking forward to the event in Germany.

Congrats to all European qualifiers, see you all there!

Ah! So that was his plan! I wondered every time he said we were going to kick some butt. I didn't know he meant my butt

Now I see all those big names I'm ting my pants right now. Well, I'm looking forward to the EU finals and meeting the rest of the qualifiers. Very well done everyone

[Mean Machine]

If you think the Danish qualifier was uneven, look at this, which is the Swedish result after I've been disqualified... I suppose crappy oc'ers (I'm harsh, I know) are more important to promote than those who at least come up with some half decent scores. The next time you do this, MSI, make sure to have clearer rules before you start the competition instead of wasting my time and money.

3DMark 2001

1. elmor (132 672)
2. IllusioN OC (96 602)
3. tyoma (84 458)
4. Forze (80 522)
5. trä (78 242)
6. STimmyS (77 445)
7. Tippo (77 324)
8. kalle@anka (74 979)
9. Merlinen (60 175)



Super Pi 1M

1. elmor (7.031)
2. IllusioN OC (7.97)
3. tyoma (8.704)
4. Forze (9.250)
5. trä (9.5)
6. Robbaz (9.523)
7. STimmyS (9.766)
8. Pontus_mRI (9.860)
9. Calathea (10.484)

[Solarfall]

wtf you were disqualified in the country you live in now cos you have double citizenship in Finland and in Sweden... that does not make any sense msi really should have though this thing trough more.. ohh well i hope they wise up and get it right next time

[[XC] gomeler]

I won the 1st week Lords of Overclocking North America for Futuremark. Just received an email, my prize is.. an MSI X58 motherboard! Looks like I'm competing in at least the 1st round of the North America qualifier. I'm screwed on the 2nd round though, no GTX295s

If you think the Danish qualifier was uneven, look at this, which is the Swedish result after I've been disqualified... I suppose crappy oc'ers (I'm harsh, I know) are more important to promote than those who at least come up with some half decent scores. The next time you do this, MSI, make sure to have clearer rules before you start the competition instead of wasting my time and money.

Bummer dude, those scores are pathetic. A noob with an E8600 on single-stage could achieve them

[dpa]

Hifiking and myself will be joining from Norway.. see you all there

[Mean Machine]

wtf you were disqualified in the country you live in now cos you have double citizenship in Finland and in Sweden... that does not make any sense msi really should have though this thing trough more.. ohh well i hope they wise up and get it right next time

Yeah, it seems so. I met up with Sampsa last night, and even though he'd had a few beers he still made it pretty clear that MSI didn't like it. At least I got to pick which country to get disqualified in, which in this case is a pretty easy choice. I mean, what would you rather pick, a N285GTX SuperPipe OC or an X58 Eclipse when you've already got a Bloodrage? Sure I'd have both, maybe sell the mobo, but it seems I won't get that. I enjoyed the finnish competition way more as well, as it was a real competition with nice people in the Muropaketti forums, kudos to all competing finns.

Bummer dude, those scores are pathetic. A noob with an E8600 on single-stage could achieve them

The second placed dude used an i7 920, which in itself is pretty funny. The first two pages in the thread on the site that held the competition was mostly like "OMGLOLWTFBBQ, YOU WON'T STAND A CHANCE WITH THOSE WOLFDALES!!11 WAIT TILL SOMEONE WITH AN I7 POSTS SCORES, HAHAHAHA!". And now everybody's ing about me competing in two countries, both in Finland and Sweden, or to be completely fair, it's been a week since the competition ended in Finland so they've sort of calmed down a bit. I don't see what the Swedes are on about though, with those scores... There was at least a few good scores in Finland, bearing in mind that not everyone can afford a GTX295 and a good CPU.

I've got three E8600's for sale, if anybody's interested... Turns out I couldn't afford three €250 CPU's either, really.

[ME4ME]

@ Mean Machine:
yeah, i don't really understand why people are complaining.
I think you got some pretty nice scores there, and you played fully by the rules, so i don't see any problems.

Good job! I hope it turns out in a positive way

[Mean Machine]

@ Mean Machine:
yeah, i don't really understand why people are complaining.
I think you got some pretty nice scores there, and you played fully by the rules, so i don't see any problems.

Good job! I hope it turns out in a positive way

The scores were decent, I probably could've done a bit better, but since neither you or crotale were going to compete and I knew elmor/Kinc had good CPU's, I was fried anyways, so I opted to just post my scores and cash in the prizes... It isn't finalized yet, but I suppose we'll hear more of this tomorrow when Sampsa hears from MSI.

I'm sorry you never got around to compete, a bit more competition would've been good for everybody, really.

[BAGR_001]

Finaly i have oficial results from MOA 2009 Czech and Slovak Qualify

here is:


so we have there public names
1st - me & dvsk
2nd - Godzzila & Bagr_001
3rd - OBR
4th - Aerou
5th - 0Ro! & Josifek
6th - Owlet
7th - mr.biker

So we are meet in Munich

Congratulations A2C! You had too much better tuned your system ;-) Well done!

[TiTON]

Quick question. The US MOA has been posted, and it is two phases. In the rules, phase 1 is SuperPi 16M, which was stated in this this thread. There is no mention on the site what the Phase 2 bench will be. It was mentioned it will be Vantage, but all others MOA have beend 3DMark01. Can anyone confirm what USMOA Phase 2 bench will be?

- Ton

[Deux]

Was just poking around on the MOA site and found this



Surprised me, I could have sworn I saw Vantage mentioned somewhere on the site itself. Regardless, seems kinda odd to pick 16M and 32M given how similar they are, not to mention both being 2d. Least it means you don't need to buy 295s to be competitive

Edit: WTF, they are going to make us bench 32M on Vista?

The more I look at this the more is seems like it is supposed to be Vantage and they just wrote the wrong thing. First of all, Vista is required and second, further down the page it mentions PhysX enabled.

[TiTON]

WTF?!?!? How lame is that.. I could have sworn it was Pi then 3d. But Pi then More pi? Very weird. I figure if you win 16m, you will win 32m. Its not like 1m vs 32m.

Here is the page that shows both phase. I really think its a typo on phase 2.

- Ton

[Viss]

Looks like the level of organisation is rather consistent all over the globe....

[[XC] gomeler]

lol! Time to bone up on my SPi 32M benching. Looks like it is time to go shopping for a w3540.

[ekky]

Any Update Rules for SEA? there's no info yet for the benchmark in phase 1 and 2 at msi site until now....

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sorry for my bad english

[Trouffman]

hey guys i'll ask for more infos from MSI about US (Why spi & spi) and alos SEA

Watch MOA 2009 France Live Broadcast on Overclocking-TV.Com

actuals scores : around 1Min 30sec in Spi 8M and 8900 to 9635 SM3.0 in 06 !

X58 PRO
965 XE (Retail )
GTX 260 Lightning

[Trouffman]

Brice28 & benji won the french final \O/ See you in munich !

[A2C]

Congratulation boys

[MaSell]

Polish qualifications was simple as always

[paill]

good job Brice and benji

[Benji Tshi]

Thanks guys I would never thought i would pass the finals, so i have to inform me about this EU final now
See you in munich all of you, hope to meet some good people

The results was really close, so it was really intense up to the end of the competition (3h30).
If i remember well, here are our results (but trouffman will give you something clearer)
Team | SPi 8M | 3DM06 SM3 | 3DM06 Global
marmott & florian76 | 1m29.1xx | 95xx | 222xx
jmax_oc & westyle | 1m29.3xx | 94xx | 224xx
brice28 & benji tshi | 1m29.6xx | 96xx | 227xx


Good job from the two other teams, good level here, really funny

[tranngocminh]

Can not connect to http://www.oc-arena.com/SEA/index.html

[ryba]

After easy event in Poland we can go to EU Finals See you there!

[tranngocminh]

Vantage & XP

MSI MOA PHASE ONE (June 22nd to July 12th)
Hardware, OS, Benchmark, Utility, Driver, BIOS Configuration:
* Processor: Retail INTEL CPU Only. (ES CPU is prohibited)
* Mainboard: Must be MSI Intel P43/P45/G43/G45/X58 Motherboards
* Graphics Card: MSI NVIDIA Graphics card
* Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
* Benchmark: Super PI v1.5 16M test
3DMark Vantage 1.01 (P-Score)
* Utility, Tools:
RIVATUNER v2.22
CPU-Z v1.49
GPU-Z v0.3.1
* Graphics Driver: GeForce Driver (PhysX enable)

[ekky]

Vantage & XP

MSI MOA PHASE ONE (June 22nd to July 12th)
Hardware, OS, Benchmark, Utility, Driver, BIOS Configuration:
* Processor: Retail INTEL CPU Only. (ES CPU is prohibited)
* Mainboard: Must be MSI Intel P43/P45/G43/G45/X58 Motherboards
* Graphics Card: MSI NVIDIA Graphics card
* Operating System: Microsoft Windows XP SP2
* Benchmark: Super PI v1.5 16M test
3DMark Vantage 1.01 (P-Score)
* Utility, Tools:
RIVATUNER v2.22
CPU-Z v1.49
GPU-Z v0.3.1
* Graphics Driver: GeForce Driver (PhysX enable)

only superpi 16M in 1st phase
but dunno why physX must enable