Master Overclocking Arena 2009

**mike** · 08-29-2009, 06:27 AM

Huge congrats again to team Sweden to their stellar performance! Outstanding work there!

It has been a very exciting competition and was great to meet all the competitiors. MSI put a lot of effort into this event and the level of talent here in Beijing was outstanding!

Gautam and I were pushing as hard as we could and were able to quickly put up competitive scores in Wprime. Our plan was to actually improve our score in wprime towards the very end of the competition,but due to a sudden change in the schedule / rules we were not able to fully unlock the potential of our Core I7-975...too bad we were holding back a bit there, when it was intitally announced that we can put up scores thru-out the entire competition...oh well...

In Vantage unfortunately we couldn't keep up with the top scoring teams due to lack of us having / figuring out the v-mem mod to the MSI GTX-275 Lightening. I wish we could have had some quality time with this GPU prior to the competition , in order for us to prepare a bit better in this aspect. But I believe MSI had a shortage of these cards before their official release and therefore only a few teams were able to test them before the contest. But we certainly enjoyed the core clocks that these cards can produce. Very impressive how easily there cards can reach 1100mhz on the core and more under LN2.

All in all it was a very interesting experience and has been a great trip so far. The show and entertainement that MSI put up during the competition was outstanding, thanks a bunch to MSI and all the other sponsors for having us there!

**Oliver** · 08-29-2009, 06:44 AM

thanks for posting in,

congrats to team Sweden, aswell as the other teams which got into the finals

beg up and keep pushing it

**sofos1990** · 08-29-2009, 06:49 AM

Congrats to all the teams

**Charles Wirth** · 08-29-2009, 08:02 AM

Grats to the winners, our first mobo killed two processors. I am very familiar with the board and went for my known good settings of .3v on the CPU and 160 bclk and scale up from there with cas 8 at 2ghz memory. What we didn't know is this new board scales up vcore with multiple so when we rebooted the vcore randomly shot up beyond 1.7v and catastophic failure to the mobo. Due to the battle rules with two of the same dead part you are dq'd so we neve seen 1 second of competition. They gave us some hadware to play with so we could stay busy, we did manage one run of wprime that never got posted to the board, the result was handed in on the hd and stoolman said it was accepted but never done. No biggie but with that result we were not in last place officially but we did not press to get the result listed.

On my gtx 275 I was benching vantage with 1250mhz CPU, I will upload the ss when I get back home, the lightening is a killer VGA card

**borec** · 08-29-2009, 08:15 AM

Congratz to all

**Xyala** · 08-29-2009, 08:19 AM

mouarf that is back luck :/ Next time will be better \o/

**Drwho?** · 08-29-2009, 09:53 AM

Don't forget to try the Beijing Duck in Beijing!

Have fun now!

**Hondacity** · 08-29-2009, 11:23 AM

Originally Posted by mikeguava

Huge congrats again to team Sweden to their stellar performance! Outstanding work there!

It has been a very exciting competition and was great to meet all the competitiors. MSI put a lot of effort into this event and the level of talent here in Beijing was outstanding!

Gautam and I were pushing as hard as we could and were able to quickly put up competitive scores in Wprime. Our plan was to actually improve our score in wprime towards the very end of the competition,but due to a sudden change in the schedule / rules we were not able to fully unlock the potential of our Core I7-975...too bad we were holding back a bit there, when it was intitally announced that we can put up scores thru-out the entire competition...oh well...

In Vantage unfortunately we couldn't keep up with the top scoring teams due to lack of us having / figuring out the v-mem mod to the MSI GTX-275 Lightening. I wish we could have had some quality time with this GPU prior to the competition , in order for us to prepare a bit better in this aspect. But I believe MSI had a shortage of these cards before their official release and therefore only a few teams were able to test them before the contest. But we certainly enjoyed the core clocks that these cards can produce. Very impressive how easily there cards can reach 1100mhz on the core and more under LN2.

All in all it was a very interesting experience and has been a great trip so far. The show and entertainement that MSI put up during the competition was outstanding, thanks a bunch to MSI and all the other sponsors for having us there!

wow 1100 on the core...the 285's should do that too right if it had the proper electronics.. right?

**mike** · 08-29-2009, 02:23 PM

Originally Posted by Hondacity

wow 1100 on the core...the 285's should do that too right if it had the proper electronics.. right?

Yes, MSI did a great job improving upon the reference design and the lightening series with it's super strong power regulation, can clock insanely.
We were able to hit 1152mhz on the gpu core. The highest core clocks attained during the competition by one team was 1200mhz on the core.

The memory clocks on the cards also were impressive, we managed to hit 1250mhz there without upping the v-mem; and team Sweden with the memory mod for example managed to hit a whopping 1400mhz

for some crazy bandwidth!!!

Big props from my end to what MSI did on the GPUs! I can't wait to get my hands on the 285 lightening and see what this monster can do!

**Hondacity** · 08-29-2009, 04:11 PM

Originally Posted by mikeguava

Yes, MSI did a great job improving upon the reference design and the lightening series with it's super strong power regulation, can clock insanely.
We were able to hit 1152mhz on the gpu core. The highest core clocks attained during the competition by one team was 1200mhz on the core.

The memory clocks on the cards also were impressive, we managed to hit 1250mhz there without upping the v-mem; and team Sweden with the memory mod for example managed to hit a whopping 1400mhz

for some crazy bandwidth!!!

Big props from my end to what MSI did on the GPUs! I can't wait to get my hands on the 285 lightening and see what this monster can do!

thanks for the reply mikeguava

285s? WOOOOO

**A2C** · 08-29-2009, 05:47 PM

Originally Posted by mikeguava

during the competition by one team was 1200mhz on the core.

I think this will team Singapore, nice job
we have some problems whith board and GPU voltage, after competiton i ask to skilled teams and i have problems whith temperature. 900MHz on GPU was been realy small frequency :-(, but we are been first time ane we just collecting info abouth OC. So for us is 14 place verry nice result

Onesmore big congratz to all teams and bigger congrats to winning teams. Good work boys

**borec** · 08-30-2009, 01:59 AM

14th ....

Do not go back to Slovakia!!!

no no no, 14th is still good

**littleBoy** · 08-30-2009, 04:34 AM

Hi EveryOne.. I'm LittleBoy in Korea Team.
I came back home early in the morinng with OC_Windforce. Because it's my Job. ㅜ.ㅜ

First of All, Congrats Sweden Team...

In Competition Day, We Start Wprime 8Th. in this time, mobo is very Fine..
So, Vantage Time Mobo is very unstable. the Symtom : mobo operate only default Clock. and I set a Vcore +0.250 but, real Vcore is 1.40v.
We don't raise 1 clock over default clock. So, I run vga overclock in cpu Default Clock!. That's too bad. ㅠ.ㅠ

I hope that good result in Next Competiion!

**Mean Machine** · 08-30-2009, 07:49 AM

I managed to catch ME4ME on camera, and I'm proud of it. This picture's just so good...

Also have a rare one of a posing Fugger...

**Gautam** · 08-30-2009, 09:18 AM

What a blast!!

Congrats to elmor and ME4ME for a complete home run of a victory.

And HUGE props to MSI for treating us all like royalty, and to stoolman for having to take so much moaning.

**rbuass** · 08-30-2009, 09:26 AM

Congratulations to Sweden
we have a big problem with the first motherboard and they (MSI) change our first motherboard after more than 1:20 hour.
unfortunately we got another motherboard, but it was not working well, freezing until the bios in stock (i show to fugger...lol).
Even so we decided to run the tests.
I know we could make it get much better results, but it was not our lucky day too.
Does not matter.
I am very happy to participate this wonderful event and very well organized.
hugs to all participants.
Been an honor to be competing with you guys.

p.s. the best of the party...very nice reception from MSI
everything very very good
unbelievable

Sorry the broken english

**dinos22** · 08-30-2009, 09:53 AM

congrats Team Sweden
a win well deserved

thanks to MSI for a great event. Perfect job guys

Unfortunately we were not competitive in the second round due to a bad choice of a GPU mod with OVP limited 1.3v core and too much time wasted trying to make something work. I think we'll get cards to prepare better for next comp so that we dont have to experiment during one hehe

**TheGoat Eater** · 08-30-2009, 10:28 AM

Originally Posted by Mean Machine

Also have a rare one of a posing Fugger...

I may have3 to make that an avatar

LOL

**Hondacity** · 08-30-2009, 11:45 AM

congratulations Team.Sweden

what bclks and ram speed and timings are they getting with the msi mobos?

**Mod_Aap** · 08-30-2009, 12:50 PM

Congratz Henry and Elmor.

Good job

**Vapor** · 08-30-2009, 02:58 PM

Congrats to the winners

Great job winning both WPrime and coming so close in Vantage

Lots of fun pics to look at too...thanks to those who were there taking them

**~~TheKarmakazi~~** · 08-30-2009, 03:30 PM

congrats to all the winners, looks like a awesome event put together by MSI!

**[XC] gomeler** · 08-30-2009, 04:28 PM

I really enjoyed the event apart from killing two boards and two processors before the event even started. It was great seeing everybody again and having a chance to watch everyone benchmark hardware. Now it's time to travel home and the USA teams have no tickets

We were told our flight schedule had been changed to go straight to USA from Beijing but there was a miscommunication and now we missed our original flights to Taipei and have only 2 hours to get tickets for the better flight to San Francisco. Hope we don't get stuck in China till MOA2010

**OC_Windforce** · 08-30-2009, 09:14 PM

Originally Posted by dinos22

congrats Team Sweden
a win well deserved

thanks to MSI for a great event. Perfect job guys

Unfortunately we were not competitive in the second round due to a bad choice of a GPU mod with OVP limited 1.3v core and too much time wasted trying to make something work. I think we'll get cards to prepare better for next comp so that we dont have to experiment during one hehe

We team was very despair. Windows entry was possible in CPU defualt clock.

Vantage RUN~~~
CPU 3.3G

GPU 1070 MEM 1300 (Vgpu 1.4V)

I was very very sorry because do not help you.

I hope to meet you in next year..

congrats Team Sweden ~~~!!!!!!

**OC_Windforce** · 08-30-2009, 09:17 PM

It is result testing in the Korea before MOA participation.

Only GPU Test (PhyX on)
Vgpu MOD + After buner = 1.4V

Vgpu MOD ( 2D = 1.2V OVP , 3D = 1.45V OVP)
Stable voltage = 1.4V

Trimmer Pin2 GND

Vmem

Trimmer Pin2 GND

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