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Still though, even if I win I still won't have a Gigabyte motherboard - I'm taking part to win the board for my team. Since my team helped me compete for it (taught me how to use LN2 and gave me the board I need), if I would win I'll have a giveaway to reward someone who needs a 990FX board. As for the board, if I had been given a UD3 I would have ran that... I think I would have been able to do about the same scores on it. I don't know that much about the UD7 vs UD3, however it looks like they both have 8+2 phase power, so thats all that really matters for raw benchmark performance in a contest like this. Do you know of any other features on the UD7 that make it advantageous? Multi-GPU support is better, but that doesn't benefit any of these stages.
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03-01-2012, 17:57
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I don't have a Gigabyte board as well. Couldn't find a cheap decent used board, so I'm buying tomorrow 970A-UD3 from the store.
That's not the best board you can use, but I will still participate just for fun. Hope I won't be too frustrated with it. Haven't used Gigabyte since 790FXA-UD5P (this is actually the only one board I've ever had from that vendor, lol). I don't think everybody have 990FXA-UD7 or similar high-end boards... Not very faimiliar with current GB lineup, but 970 chipset should be ok for this kind of competition (no multi-card setups required). Last edited by I.nfraR.ed; 03-01-2012 at 18:02.
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03-01-2012, 18:35
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I.M.O.G. - Hey..
 Its not about the board... problem is when people go through more than 1 mobo/cpu for 1 record in a competition... there shud be some limit to this.. eg - if you would go through 10 cpu's to set the record you set for the competition right now - then that is just wrong bro!!!
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03-01-2012, 18:55
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What you can do is work on your skills and try to improve on your own best scores. and compare yourself directly with those who are running similar hardware. HWBOT allows you to do that. You can compete at a very high level for global points, or at a lower level for hardware points. You can run 10 year old equipment and still compete. As for myself, every CPU i have ever used is a store bought one that i had no ability to pick and choose from. I can only afford to buy one. I do know that some competitors might buy 10 or 20 and bin them to see which has the most headroom and sell off the rest. But that costs them alot of money to do that and they are the ones deciding what their budget is for any given scenario. And so, in the end, this is what you have to decide. How will you compete?
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03-01-2012, 18:57
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@Why? - coz most of the people don't have so much hardware..??
It will probably give some people a fighting chance? kirbster - Hey ur right hwbot team does provide a platform where you can go for easier points (hardware points) also for people with less budget... that was just an opinion..
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03-01-2012, 19:04
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The 8120 I used in the comp is the only 8120 I've owned, and the 1st of 2 Bulldozer's I've owned - I also had an FX-6100, but I sold that so I could buy other processors. I currently have no Bulldozer CPUs since the 8120 died in this competition. That is kind of a bummer. The 8120 was bought retail at microcenter.
The 555 BE I used is the only 555 BE I have ever owned. Bought used via ebay. I also have a 970 BE which could beat my pifast score, and probably beat my pcmark score as well, but I'm not sure I want to run it because that means another 20L of LN2 at least. The only reason I still have the 970 BE is that I haven't been able to sell it, though I've been trying to so I can put that money back into the hardware fund as well. I have never bought more than 1 of the same model of AMD CPU though. Binning on AMD is less effective in my experience than just getting the most out of what you have. My air scores were competitive with top air scores, and my LN2 scores are competitive with top LN2 scores... I've never binned AMD.
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03-01-2012, 19:21
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Why not think from another point of view...
HWBOT competitions usually are motivating me to bench some specific hardware, that I could postpone forever. I don't do it for the prizes, I do it for pure fun or the national pride in case of CountryCup. Plus there are always plenty of interesting discussions going on. Another good thing is I can always learn something new or improve my skills. These are more than enough reasons for me to participate in competitions. Oh, and it's always pleasure to poke/joke HondaCity, Massman or Christian Ney, haha. Last edited by I.nfraR.ed; 03-01-2012 at 19:30.
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03-01-2012, 19:23
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Come on guys, nobody here buy a lot of hardware for a competition like this one. If you want spend $400 or $500 in CPUs a mobo for enter and win something, use that money for buy the mobo new and probably more cheap that try to win it.
The competition is open to any one, if your team help you just means that you have other two hands for LN2 that are very useful on extreme overclocking. All of us has taken the risk, if your mobo, CPU, RAM or other components die you have to accept it and move on to find another to replace it. I.M.O.G lost an FX CPU but still competing thanks to overclockers team, that's team work. In my case I only have two CPU if the main goes dead means that competition ends for me and my rig lost four cores. so? Not problem, I want to know until where I can go and do the best that I can.
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