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ASUS ROG Experience Tour Overclocking Competition

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***Update to the contest!***

Starting 7/29/10 - 8/5/10 we will randomly draw a lucky submitter everyday of their choice of an ROG thermos, ROG t-shirt, or ROG mousepad.
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Online Tournament Outline:

Overclockers will use SuperPi 1m as the benchmark tool to achieve the fastest SuperPi 1m time. The TOP 2 overclockers to set the fastest time will advance to Round 1 finals and compete at QUAKECON 2010!

Online Tournament rules:

* Participants MUST be registered on the ASUSROG forums to be eligible for any prizes.
* Participant must be registered on HWBOT.org with the same user-name as the registered name on ASUSROG.com
* Participant must upload their submission on to HWbot for validation.
* Participant must post a link of their HWbot submission and insert an image or screen shot of their results in the Round 1 submission thread.
* Participant must take a picture of their ROG or ASUS motherboard and insert it on ROG forums Round 1 submission thread.
* BSWRHS Rules apply. Please refer to the ROG RULE BOOK for more details...
* ONLY SUBMISSIONS POSTED AFTER THE SUBMISSION DATE ON BOTH HWBOT AND THE ROG SUBMISSION THREAD COUNTS. BENCHMARKS SUBMITTED ON HWBOT AND THE ROG SUBMISSION THREAD BEFORE THE SUBMISSION DATE WILL NOT APPLY.
* In the event that there is a TIE, the submission with the lowest CPU speed will win. This result will show the user was capable of tuning their system better.
* Any signs of cheating will be banned for LIFE!

* You MUST have the ASUS ROG Experience Tour wallpaper set as your background when taking your screenshot and submitting it or it will not qualify!!! Wall paper can be downloaded HERE
* You can download SuperPi HERE
* You can download CPU-Z HERE
* Here is a great example of a SuperPi 1M screen shot HERE
* Submit your ROG motherboard benchmark HERE
* Submit your ASUS motherboard benchmark HERE


For more information please read the Terms and Conditions.
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hey guys,
just wanted to add that we are aiming to put in about $13k in prizes.
there are 2 teams of 2 that may go to quakecon. 4 in total. each "TEAM" will get to take home the hardware they bench on currently we have:
2x Rampage III Formula
2x Crosshair IV Formula
2x GTX460
2x Intel 980x

This is for EACH TEAM so multiply that by 2
we are also working on getting more prizes in the pool once confirmed
2x SSD
2x Mem kits
2x 1200watt PSU
1x grand prize that is still TBD but well worth over $1000


Each team is roughly getting $6k in hardware that they get to keep plus an all trip expenses paid to the 2011 OC SUMMIT where you can win even MORE prizes.
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Original Source
http://www.asusrog.com/rog_experience%20round 1.html

Benching time!!! 🙂
 
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Sorry to say this..

but the chances of anyone on this forum winning this competition is close to zero.

And if you do have a chance of winning this competition, then you would already know about.

With that being said, i think i am in at least the top 2% of the benchmarks in this forum, and i would even get slaughtered at such a contest.

🙂
 
Well this part would disqualify me:

You MUST have the ASUS ROG Experience Tour wallpaper set as your background when taking your screenshot and submitting it or it will not qualify!!!

As for anyone on this forum? Ha!
The guys that test my stuff hit 6.55GHz with a gulftown.
Let's add cinebench 11.5 and iometer as well.
After all a computer with slow storage is a slow computer...

aigomorla said:
Sorry to say this..

but the chances of anyone on this forum winning this competition is close to zero.

And if you do have a chance of winning this competition, then you would already know about.

With that being said, i think i am in at least the top 2% of the benchmarks in this forum, and i would even get slaughtered at such a contest.

🙂
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I'd like to see such a competition, but with a value cap on the parts. Let's say, $1000 MSRP for all hardware.
 
This type of overclocking has killed much of enthusiasm (for me). I'd be more interested if the competition was about achieving the fastest Pi time at a given (i.e. set) CPU frequency.
 
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lopri said:
This type of overclocking has killed much of enthusiasm (for me). I'd be more interested if the competition was about achieving the fastest Pi time at a given (i.e. set) CPU frequency.
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would still exclude AMD systems.

Super PI is just WRONG to use period.

richierich1212 said:
so that means AMD systems are automatically excluded, hahaha
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Yeah.. since it majorly favors intel.

AMD system would get handed on super pi.
 
Even if we disregard super pi, is there any benchmark where you might select an AMD processor over the top Intel model with the same core count ?
 
PiFast. Or that one non-free H.264 encoder the Zoners like.

edit: While I should have expected it from the rule about the picture of "your Asus or ROG motherboard" in the rules, it looks like submissions from systems not running an Asus/ROG motherboard are disqualified. Boo.

Doesn't help that the top prize is probably worth less than the price to set up a winning entry. The winner will probably be an i5-655k on LN2.
 
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DrMrLordX said:
Odd. I had thought AMD CPUs were more competitive in PiFast than in SuperPi. The highest listed score is for an x4 965 on LN2 running at 4.8 ghz . . . with PiFast, a Thuban on air should be faster than that.

Very strange.
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The top x4 965 score is running at 6.8, not 4.8.
http://hwbot.org/community/submission/970247_gyrock_pifast_phenom_ii_x4_965_be_16.02_sec

The top Thuban is a bit behind at 6.5
http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1014616_chew_pifast_phenom_ii_x6_1090t_be_16.88_sec
 
Just so you guys realize what exactly you need to do to even stand a chance...

The current top score for 1m is:
5sec 921ms with Intel Core i7 980X at 6843MHz on Jun 1, 2010

My score on 1m is:
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about 9.8 seconds @ 4.2ghz.

Unless your score is under 8sec.
Dont bother, you'll only embarrass yourself.

This is for EACH TEAM so multiply that by 2
we are also working on getting more prizes in the pool once confirmed
2x SSD
2x Mem kits
2x 1200watt PSU
1x grand prize that is still TBD but well worth over $1000
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They are allowing teams... and that means it will be even more unfair.
 
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If I could run 16 instances of superpi and divide the average time by 16 I'd beat that "record" score 5X over! 😛

Use cinebench and iometer and we'll talk. 😛
 
hey guys, just wanted to clarify a few things...

the top times are taken only from the rog submission thread. not hwbot. and you can not use existing scores, you must bench on a new validation with ONLY a retail CPU. currently for asus boards the top time is : http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1033345_oregonslacker_superpi_4x_core_i7_875k_10sec_140ms

for an ROG submission the top time is: http://hwbot.org/community/submission/1032778_splave_superpi_core_i7_980x_8sec_484ms?new=true

we are also doing a random drawing for the people that submitted every day for tshirts, thermos, mousepads, small goodies.

there are about $15k in prizes in the final round. ASUS submissions will win an ROG board.

so again its anyones game =P
 
aigo, looks like you would be in the lead at present.

let's focus on the great PR that asus deserves for this. they're spending $15k and even have employees checking out our forums to see how the contest is received. that's kudos x2 in my book.
 
bryanW1995 said:
aigo, looks like you would be in the lead at present.
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im half tempted to go out to smart and final this weekend.
Pick up some dry ice.. and some acetone at a hardware store.

However i think my Dice Pot is somewhere deep in storage.
I would seriously need to get off my butt if i wanted to bring that back out.

But if i was gonna enter this contest, i would borrow my friends westemere-EP, throw her on dice, ram up at around 6.0+ /w around 1.6-1.7vcore and see if i can break sub 7.

brian@asus said:
with ONLY a retail CPU.
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DOH.. goes off to kick a can..

bryanW1995 said:
aigo, looks like you would be in the lead at present.
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no im disqualified. LOL...
 
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bryanW1995 said:
aigo, looks like you would be in the lead at present.

let's focus on the great PR that asus deserves for this. they're spending $15k and even have employees checking out our forums to see how the contest is received. that's kudos x2 in my book.
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This is the sort of contest I'd like to see, but I'd like to see it be multi-vendor and, as Rubycon pointed out, it really should focus on a multitude of benchmarks.

As it stands you're going to see an Intel rig on LN2 or LHe pwn everything, including other Intel rigs with the same cooling. Given the current climate, I would think any open-ended benchmark including both AMD and Intel rigs will heavily favor Intel anyway, since the 980X pretty much murders anything AMD has released at . . . everything. Unless you're going to bring in a 1P Magny-Cours OCed with K10Stat, and then all bets are off.
 
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