Master Overclocking Arena 2009

[giorgioprimo]

Why is everyone so opposed to AM3? It's gonna be véry challenging!

came'n massman, be serious, AM3 is one ot the most hardware ( CPU) dependant and randomly result bench .......... definatly the skill doesn't make any difference if youh have 200 mhz more in the chip, and even modding and cooling the vga to rise the frequency doesn't help a lot ............

[massman]

It's actually very memory/uncore dependant. Even with high cpu, you can lose if someone hits high mem/imc frequencies. It's a really interesting benchmark for competitions, imho.

1M is not so cool, though, especially since you're gonna work with 950's, which are locked.

[Wava]

Well, AM3 is a pretty random benchmark, so everything will be mobo related. Most cpu's will be limited by the motherboard in this case. And last but not least, AM3 is not really tweakable to my knowledge. Kill some processes is the only "tweak" I know that will get us some extra points....

I can't wait for Germany!

[hifiking]

AQ3 is highly tweakable on nv chipsets, but I don't know if it's true for intel aswell.

[@rne]

AM3 will be a lot of fun

Does anybody already have a time table for the event?

[Benji Tshi]

AM3 is sompething i called "hardware tweakable". Playing with memory timing and bclk can help you more than software tweaking.
But AM3 could be fun if we had a real skill based benchmarks, like Gorgioprimo said. Something like Spi 8/16/32M...Only 1M and AM3 is not a good choice fur such a contest i think.

BTW, we'll see it in munich, a lot of things can be changed...

[NeoForce]

MSI Russia decide to send to Germany - Dimdirol and Polymorph . http://overclockers.ru/sitenews/33484.shtml
I wish them good luck.
Especially for Dimdirol, who let me, DeDaL, pofigist and others to leave his project topmods.net and now I know the reason why he ask us to leave =)

[Dimdirol]

who let me, DeDaL, pofigist and others

DoNNy, pofigist and you. DeDaL and others made their choice themselves.

[NeoForce]

C`mon man =) Let`s stop this mud throwing Just GOOD LUCK. And nothing more =)

[Dimdirol]

C`mon man =) Let`s stop this mud throwing Just GOOD LUCK. And nothing more =)

No mud throwing, I've just corrected the information.

[dinos22]

there is some tweaking involved in AM3 but '01 would be so much better dont you think

1M is a joke in comps i'm sorry......

[Benji Tshi]

there is some tweaking involved in AM3 but '01 would be so much better dont you think

1M is a joke in comps i'm sorry......

totally agreed

[Wava]

Damn, bad communication at MSI. My contact doesn't even know what benches we are going to do. (hurray for XS) They also don't know the flight details and what hotel we are going to stay.
Great organisation

[hifiking]

Damn, bad communication at MSI. My contact doesn't even know what benches we are going to do. (hurray for XS) They also don't know the flight details and what hotel we are going to stay.
Great organisation

I thought it was our contact that was smoking stuff he shouldn't, we have to give him another chance then.

[Benji Tshi]

Damn, bad communication at MSI. My contact doesn't even know what benches we are going to do. (hurray for XS) They also don't know the flight details and what hotel we are going to stay.
Great organisation

Same for us, but he told me that he will gather all the information and send it to me quite soon.

[Brandybuck]

MSI announced ;

All overclockers will use the same hardware components to tweak, bench and modify: MSI Eclipse SLI, MSI N260GTX Lightning, Intel® Core™ i7 950 CPU, Seagate Hard disc drive and OCZ DDR3 memory.

[OBR]

Great program there:

Thurday, 16th July:

3-7pm: Arrival and Check-In for the OC teams and media representatives.
Shuttle Bus transport from the airport to the hotel

8pm: Welcome drink at the hotel

8:30 - 11pm: Dinner and drinks at the hotel restaurant

After 11pm: Last preparations for OC team before the event J


Friday, 17th July:

9:45am: Shuttle transport from the hotel to the event location
(Olympia Stadium in Munich)

10am - 1pm: Opening ceremony and technical presentations

1pm: Start of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 1

1pm – 3pm: Lunch buffet

6pm: End of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 1

6:15pm: Olympic stadium roof tour

7:30pm: Shuttle to the hotel

8pm: Meeting in the hotel lobby. Short “walk” to the Beer garden to have typical Munich food and drinks Uhaaaaaa thats great, girls like on Octoberfest ...
Saturday, 18th July:

9:45am: Shuttle transport from the hotel to the event location

10am: Start of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 2

1pm - 3pm: Buffet lunch

5pm: Start of MOA 2009 EU Final competition Day 2
Collection of final benchmark results

5:30pm: Shuttle to the hotel and a short time to refresh in the hotel

6:30pm: Shuttle to the Olympic Tower for dinner

7pm - 11pm: Award ceremony at the top of the Olympic Tower with dinner


Sunday, 19th July:

9 - 12am: Departure and Check-Out. Shuttle to Munich airport

Looks really fine, will be GREAT weekend and event ...

[dinos22]

oh man sounds like fun

[Monstru]

Short “walk” to the Beer garden to have typical Munich food and drink

I really, really hate you guys right now

[NeoForce]

Monstru I think not after whole phrase, just after this word:

Beer garden

BTW, me too.

[emir]

I'll go with my country's team, thought it'll be boring. But the beer garden made my day, now i can't wait to go

[Wava]

I really, really hate you guys right now

Don't hate me plz! I need to drink coke or something when I'm at the beer garden. That's cause I'm not 18 I really hate Germany. Can't we go to the kintergarten?

[Mean Machine]

Don't hate me plz! I need to drink coke or something when I'm at the beer garden. That's cause I'm not 18 I really hate Germany. Can't we go to the kintergarten?

I don't think you need to be 18 to drink beer in Germany. Or maybe it was just my festival visit at Wacken that made me think otherwise...

[viper_4111]

Hi master overclockers,

Michael here from MSI Europe, since allot of suggestions where given to change benchmarks i would like to propose this,

if we change superpi1m to 32m and leave AM3 would that be a good choice? Since AM3 is a very challenging benchmark (as said by a couple of peepz here on the forum) i think it would be a nice idea to keep this benchmark.

if you have any other questions feel free to ask them, i will keep a watch on this forum and forward the questions to the person responsible for the OC event this year!

I hope we can all have the same good time as we did last year, i will also join the event and be the 'assistant' of the german FAE

[dinos22]

nice to see MSI contact everyone direct, welcome to the forum viper_4111

i am not going to be part of European contest so i wont speak for these guys but i just wanted to say it's great that you've decided to change to 32M Superpi as it is definitely more challenging and it takes more system performance than just pure CPU MHz

should be a good contest

good luck fellas