Master Overclocking Arena 2009

[massman]

Hey....you were supposed to be promoting me, so I could go!

If I were you, I wouldn't count on me to get in ... I'm having enough troubles already .

Try to go as North American press

[mike]

Crap happens. Maybe I'll get a Bad Luck award It was fun, just nothing worked out like it should. Should be a few days and we'll have an announcement for who won.

Sorry to hear you troubles - similar story here...2 dead boards and one borked 295 GTX... argh.

[dinos22]

oh man
i dont feel like sticking a CPU in my board to even practice

these boards sound like they are dying left right and centre

[mike]

oh man
i dont feel like sticking a CPU in my board to even practice

these boards sound like they are dying left right and centre

always make sure the the X58 chipset cooler has good contact - first board was running at 85C at default

[dinos22]

always make sure the the X58 chipset cooler has good contact - first board was running at 85C at default

[Sampsa]

Don't use X58 Pro and other cheap models for overclocking, PWM just isn't strong enough. Only Eclipse SLI is meant for extreme-overclocking and it actually worked pretty well in MOA 2009 EU Finals. Best MSI mobo I've tested so far.. and I've reviewed maybe 30 of them :P

[OBR]

I think i can prolong my Beijing stay for a week, and we can arrange some Trip to Great Wall (drinking, shopping HW, exploring Great China) and another funny events together with another guys from here ...

[Trouffman]

I think i can prolong my Beijing stay for a week, and we can arrange some Trip to Great Wall (drinking, shopping HW, exploring Great China) and another funny events together with another guys from here ...

That would be cool ^^

[Hazzan]

Don't use X58 Pro and other cheap models for overclocking, PWM just isn't strong enough. Only Eclipse SLI is meant for extreme-overclocking and it actually worked pretty well in MOA 2009 EU Finals. Best MSI mobo I've tested so far.. and I've reviewed maybe 30 of them :P

Yeah 100% I agree ....

...but so far I tried..MSI X58 Pro can run high BCLK and then blow up my i7 975XE.....

[TiTON]

Well.. US MOA Finals is now over. Best of luck to everyone that made it to phase II. Sound like we all had problems trying to get a final score up.

My boards (Eclipse Plus and Eclips) did very weird things.. it would post one min.. then when I reboot.. it woudl turn on.. and no post Very frustrating trying to swap parts between board with a frozen GPU, CPU and pots.

Mike - the chipset is ALWAYS hot on these MSI x58 mobo, you always have to keep a fan on the chipset to keep temps in line.

- Ton

[ME4ME]

does anyone have a link to a scoreboard or something, so we all can see who won for the USA?

[Mean Machine]

Mike - the chipset is ALWAYS hot on these MSI x58 mobo, you always have to keep a fan on the chipset to keep temps in line.

The first thing I did was screw mine in place, temps seem just fine. Switched to AS5 as well. Just put it in my 24/7-rig though, nothing extraordinary about my clocks or voltages what so ever...

[massman]

The IOH on the MSI X58 boards is indeed a bit more hot than on other boards; no idea why, though. If it was bad contact, the IOH heatsink wouldn't feel that hot.

[TiTON]

does anyone have a link to a scoreboard or something, so we all can see who won for the USA?

Hey Me4me,

I don't think the US Scores will be up till the end of the week. I think SEA ended on 7/31, but their results won't be up till 8/5 (http://www.oc-arena.com/SEA/rules.html).

Since US ended on 8/2, i figure our results be up by 8/7.

- Ton

[thebanik]

Hey Me4me,

I don't think the US Scores will be up till the end of the week. I think SEA ended on 7/31, but their results won't be up till 8/5 (http://www.oc-arena.com/SEA/rules.html).

Since US ended on 8/2, i figure our results be up by 8/7.

- Ton

For phase 1 SEA results they took their own sweet time to announce the winners, I am guessing even for 2nd phase results wont be out as promised but a day or two later.........

[TiTON]

For phase 1 SEA results they took their own sweet time to announce the winners, I am guessing even for 2nd phase results wont be out as promised but a day or two later.........

Hey Thebanik,

I hope the do the results sooner, versus later for both SEA and AM. There is alot of logistics to get ready for benchers to travel from the US to China. I believe direct flight from LAX to Beijing is almost 13 hours

- Ton

[thebanik]

Hey Thebanik,

I hope the do the results sooner, versus later for both SEA and AM. There is alot of logistics to get ready for benchers to travel from the US to China. I believe direct flight from LAX to Beijing is almost 13 hours

- Ton

I know I know, infact hoping against hope but if I get selected then I have to still to apply for a passport,

[dinos22]

The IOH on the MSI X58 boards is indeed a bit more hot than on other boards; no idea why, though. If it was bad contact, the IOH heatsink wouldn't feel that hot.

i got an eclipse board which would probably fall into the bad contact type heh

i think it may have been a demo/press sample board or something cause of the packaging, also 3xplastic clips broke off that hold the IOH and that smaller heatsink in place but i dont care about that...my point i am actually making is that the heatsinks were making poor contact with some really weird red paste. The paste was rock hard (assuming it was a paste at some point lol). i tried to slowly scrape it off the heatsinks and will have to sand them a bit as there are a few minor marks from blades

the heatsinks made about 20% contact with the chips. i dont know if this is just this board but maybe some more attention needs to be paid to this if this is more common particularly if they run hotter on average. i havent tried it yet but hopefully nothing else was damaged with that heatsink banging on the board in transport.

[thebanik]

i got an eclipse board which would probably fall into the bad contact type heh

i think it may have been a demo/press sample board or something cause of the packaging, also 3xplastic clips broke off that hold the IOH and that smaller heatsink in place but i dont care about that...my point i am actually making is that the heatsinks were making poor contact with some really weird red paste. The paste was rock hard (assuming it was a paste at some point lol). i tried to slowly scrape it off the heatsinks and will have to sand them a bit as there are a few minor marks from blades

the heatsinks made about 20% contact with the chips. i dont know if this is just this board but maybe some more attention needs to be paid to this if this is more common particularly if they run hotter on average. i havent tried it yet but hopefully nothing else was damaged with that heatsink banging on the board in transport.

I guess it falls under more common coz I had the same problem. Though my guess is that it simply runs hotter because of the bad heatsink contact and paste used.....

[thebanik]

Winners of SEA announced...Congrats to all the 3 Winners....

[Charles Wirth]

USA Results

Mikeguava
Fugger
Titon

It says all three will go to Beijing on the page.

Grats guys and see you in Beijing!

[Trouffman]

nice to see friendly face that gonna be epic in beijing;.. one more time !

[thebanik]

USA Results

Mikeguava
Fugger
Titon

It says all three will go to Beijing on the page.

Grats guys and see you in Beijing!

Did you guyz have a limit of using 1 card????

[dinos22]

holy
is that 44.6K 3DMARK P Vantage from ekky to take it out

congrats guys

see you all soon
dont forget to get those Chinese Visas or forget getting into the country heheh

[mike]

Did you guyz have a limit of using 1 card????

Unfortunately yes - didn't find out about this till a few hours before the end of Phase 2 , fortunately I had a bit of LN2 left to join the party with my W3570....
But have to say was shocked when I saw the SEA results - was a bit worried that they ran single card as well...

Don't use X58 Pro and other cheap models for overclocking, PWM just isn't strong enough. Only Eclipse SLI is meant for extreme-overclocking and it actually worked pretty well in MOA 2009 EU Finals. Best MSI mobo I've tested so far.. and I've reviewed maybe 30 of them :P

great to hear that the Eclipse was doing well at the EU finals! BTW looking forward getting to meeting you again - shall be a fun event!


Congrats to Fugger and TITON, will be fun to battle you guys again soon.

Of course congrats to all the rest of the participants, here in the US, as well all over the rest of the overclocking world. Shall be a fun benchfest!

PS

Hopefully I can get Gautam to be my 'mate, miss him telling me over and over again to: " give more vcore....vcore...."