Contest Erodov Overclocking Contest 2011 - Sponsored By Coolermaster and MSI

[vijayninel]

Click Here to View The Ongoing Contest Results

Overclocking computers is a fascinating science, art and hobby. We have a lot of overclocking enthusiasts here on the Erodov forums so we are pleased to bring to you the the Erodov.com Overclocking Contest 2011 in collaboration with Choiix and MSI.

We will be having five contest categories and a total of twelve prizes. The categories are divided by the types of processors being used. Your processor can be overclocked to only the maximum specified clock speed for each category. The rest of the gains are expected to come from operating system optimisations.

The categories for the contest are as follows:

1. i7/i5/i3 2nd Generation (Eg. 2600K, 2500K, 2400, 2300) - The clock limit on these CPU's should not to exceed 4000MHz or 4GHz. This means 4000.1MHz is over the clock limit and not allowed. Do not allow your CPU clocks to exceed this limit at any point during the running of these benches.

2. i7/i5/i3 (Eg. 980X, 950, 920, 860, 661) - The clock limit on these CPU's should not to exceed 4000MHz or 4GHz. This means 4000.1MHz is over the clock limit and not allowed. Do not allow your CPU clocks to exceed this limit at any point during the running of these benches.

3. Bulldozer/Llano/Phenom II/Athlon II series CPU - The clock limit on these CPU's should not to exceed 3600 MHz or 3.6GHz. This means 3600.1MHz is over the clock limit and not allowed. Do not allow your cpu clocks to exceed this limit at any point during the running of these benches.

4. Intel Core 2 Duo and Core 2 Quad CPU's - - The clock limit on these CPU's should not to exceed 3600 MHz or 3.6GHz. This means 3600.1MHz is over the clock limit and not allowed. Do not allow your cpu clocks to exceed this limit at any point during the running of these benches.

5. Legacy (e.g. Phenom/Athlon/P4)/ Best Effort - The clock limit on these CPU's should not to exceed 3200 MHz or 3.2GHz. This means 3200.1MHz is over the clock limit and not allowed. Non-categorized winners will be decided on best effort/efficiency basis.

The Prizes For The Contest Will Be



Ten Choiix Power Fort 10Whrs Rechargeable Power Backup Battery Packs
The top two winners in each category will get one Battery pack each. More details of the power pack can be had from here

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In addition the top winner of the i7/i5/i3 2nd Generation category will get



One MSI P67A-GD65 Motherboard

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Also the top winner of the Bulldozer/Phenom II/Athlon II series CPU category will get



One MSI 890FX-GD70 Motherboard

Please note that these mainboards have been used as review samples but are fully functional with warranty.

The rules are of the contest are as follows:

• The contest is open for to all members from 16th October 2011 to Wednesday, 30th November 2011. If you are not already an registered member, you must first register as a member on Erodov.com. Registration is free and can be done here.
• The benchmarks used for the contest will be SuperPi 8 million run using Super PI Mod v1.5 and Hexus Pifast Run. Only results form Super PI Mod v1.5 will be considered and no other version is allowed. You can download it from here. Hexus Pifast can be downloaded from here.
• You can participate in multiple categories but you are allowed to win only one prize in the contest.
• You can submit multiple results in the contest. Only your best run will be considered as the contest entry.
• To submit your results you must post a image screenshots of the SuperPi 8 million run and the Pifast run along with the current CPUZ CPU, Memory, Mainboard tabs and temperatures showing in Real Temp or Core Temp in this thread. The results will be updated in the second post of this thread. The images can be in JPEG, GIF or PNG format. Here are examples of a ideal screenshots :-

Example Superpi 8m and Hexus Pifast run screenshots

• You must post separate screenshots of both Superpi and Pifast runs. Every participants best score from each bench will be combined for a total time. The lowest combined time overall will be the winner.
• You must use the official contest desktop wallpaper set in "tile" mode for the contest entries. You can download the wallpaper here. Everything must be plainly visible with no vital information blocked for your result to count.
• You may use any CPU, RAM and Graphic Card combination on a single socket motherboard you would like.
• ONLY Air or Ambient Cooled Water are to be used anywhere on your setup for the contest benchmarks. Use of cryogenic coolants and dry ice is prohibited.
• The winners are expected to disclose the tweaks they used to arrive at their scores at the end of competition so all can benefit from their knowledge.
• Decisions of the contest judges are final. Any form of cheating can be easily spotted, and strict action will be taken against the members.
• The prizes are not redeemable in cash and must be accepted as awarded.
• The prizes will be shipped to people residing in India only. Winners from other countries will have to bear any additional shipping and tax costs.

[Dark Star]

^^Phenom II turbo is a dupe. Plus it won't do 4ghz +, max they can do is 3.7g when 3 cores are loaded Phenom II - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

[rajan1311]

but the turbo core clock also goes up when you OC right..?

[d6bmg]

Originally Posted by vijayninel Member amritabh is banned from Erodov for cheating in the contest. It is unfortunate that people are trying to abuse the system in this manner. I hope this does not happen again.

OT: I can't understand why people do cheat. They should understand that in 99% of these cases eventually they would get caught. :-/

[ViKiD]

@thebanik sur...update my score pwease...

[Jasku]

Hello peeps!... Its been long since I played around with my system. I am a relative noob when it comes to OCing...so with the basic windows tweaks, here are my scores-

Pi - 2m 48.636s
Hex- 26.46 s

@kris - You have a really good super pi score mate, despite me having higher memory clocks, I am unable to come close to the 2m44s range, what other tweaks did you use? did you use the waza copy tweak?

Other OCing veterans, please guide us with how we can better our scores.

Great contest, keep it Erodov.

[Man]

@Jasku
Go through this thread properly and you will find lots of tweakes.
You would be require to use the official background.

[wingzero]

Originally Posted by Jasku Hello peeps!... Its been long since I played around with my system. I am a relative noob when it comes to OCing...so with the basic windows tweaks, here are my scores- Pi - 2m 48.636s Hex- 26.46 s @kris - You have a really good super pi score mate, despite me having higher memory clocks, I am unable to come close to the 2m44s range, what other tweaks did you use? did you use the waza copy tweak?

Basically much higher fsb and also overall speed is higher in case of kris. Try for higher fsb and lower multiplier and copy waza ofcourse. Should yield you better results.

[Jasku]

thanks guys, will definitely try it.

As for the background, I am unable to change it, probably cause its disabled for the performance setting?

[KrashNBurn]

Originally Posted by roboghost hey E5xxx series processors will fall in which category ?

The fifth group - Legacy!?

[Man]

Originally Posted by roboghost hey E5xxx series processors will fall in which category ?

@thebanik????

[thebanik]

Originally Posted by roboghost hey E5xxx series processors will fall in which category ?

Full model number please, but as such mostly they should fall in the 1st Generation i7 Category.....

[harryneopotter]

I guess he meant pentium dual cores like E5300 etc.....

not sent from my pc....

[thebanik]

Originally Posted by harryneopotter I guess he meant pentium dual cores like E5300 etc..... not sent from my pc....

Thats why the full model number is needed, without which it becomes difficult to tell which family of processors it will fall in.....

[harryneopotter]

Yea....I agree...otherwise it can be too ambiguous.


OT: damn..I forgot to call u last nyt...

not sent from my pc....

[wingzero]

Originally Posted by thebanik Full model number please, but as such mostly they should fall in the 1st Generation i7 Category.....

1st gen i7 category e5xxx series?...seriously?..