MSI held on 11 and 12 september, the global finals are overklokcompetitie Master Overclocking Arena 2010 in the sports centre of the Taiwanese university in Taipei. Twenty teams competed for the first place.
MSI held in the weekend of 11 and 12 september, the global finals are overklokcompetitie Master Overclocking Arena 2010 in the sports centre of the Taiwanese university. Twenty teams were competing for the title of best overclocker to win.
After a preliminary round through Gathering of Tweakers were the best overclockers of the Benelux chosen. In other European countries were winners in a similar way, selected or directly to Paris sent. There was the European final of MSI MOA 2010 will be held in which the Belgian team, Massman and PT1T, the fourth place obtained. That place was good for a ticket to Taipei, where the Tweakers team was allowed to compete with the world summit on overklokgebied.
The finals took place on the campus of the university of Taipei, the NTU Sports Center. The participants had the decision on a Intel Core i7-980X, MSI Big Bang-Xpower X58 motherboard, a N480GTXZ Lightning video card, three geheugenrepen of Kingston and Enermax-power-supply. Of course, flowed the liquid nitrogen is plentiful in the Master Overclocking Arena. After a testronde to the hardware to configure, had the twenty teams their overklokkunsten prove with the 32M test in Super Pi and the Performance benchmark of 3DMark Vantage. The average best percentage overklokscore of these two tests would be the prize.
During the testronde, in which the hardware could be set up and the best cpu could be chosen, turned out to be the first 980X team Swinging the Lightsaber is not really high clocks; the 5.6 GHz was not exceeded. Also, the second hexacore wanted to be difficult towards the 6GHz crawl, despite the ln2-cooling. The video card was during this preparation time is not overclocked; it was only insulation is applied to the card against the extremely low temperatures to protect.
Super Pi 32M
At 11.30 went to the first ‘battle’ will start. The challenge consisted of the drop of as quickly as possible time for Super Pi 32M. Here were the teams in 2.5 hours time. Still need the graphics card under ln2 to be put, as this is a pure cpu bench. Not much more than five minutes later appeared the first scores on the board. To change the voltage to what to perform, it was announced that the fastest clock the 980X to 6.1 GHz was; this was, however, no score is achieved. Or followed the scores together, then in rapid succession; the first was by XtremeSystems dropped, with a time of 6m 41s, followed by team Belgium with 6m 47s.
Then it was time for the configurations to continue to optimize, which resulted in the times under the 6m 30s went into hiding. Massman and P1TT competed with the Taiwanese-hong Kong-duoteam no hardware.info user has written to the fastest score in the Super Pi test, the Ukrainian team took the lead picked up. With a clock speed of over 5.8 GHz fell a little more out of the cpu to pick up, and given the very small difference of only 0.3 per cent, with the leader chose Team Swinging the Lightsaber to ensure on Vantage to concentrate. Do you want to know Italy, the Belgians, however, are still out of the top 3, but the small difference remained.
3DMark Vantage
The second battle of the competition consisted of the Performance test of 3DMark Vantage. This was not only the cpu but also the gpu load. Naturally, this was cause for the card to strip it and a ln2 pot. Massman and PT1T originally had problems with their first GTX 480; the card wanted, Vantage does not work. That was the reason for the second card to isolate and a ln2 pot, while with the first card still attempted a score on the board to get. In the meantime, knew other teams did a Vantage run to run; under the PURE-team from the usa did a respectable score of more than 33,000 points to put down.
After a period of time and managed to Massman and PT1T a score of slightly more than 31,000 points, but the league was already the 34,000 points passed. To make things further complicate, broke down the setup of the plots, which raced to a second set of hardware had to be seized. The insulating board and video card cost, of course, precious time. The gpu, however, wanted no more than about 1100MHz walk, reason for the Belgians to get the towel into the ring to throw, because the gpu of the neighbors at 1450MHz ran. Team Swinging Lightsabers remained thus, although the hardwaresetje 1 had drawn, a twelfth place.
Results
The eventual winners, team The Expandables of Elmor and ME4ME from Sweden, took the top prize of $ 3000 to house. They won the 2009 edition of the MSI MOA competition, which they have proven consistently to be able to perform. The runners-up, team XtremeLabs of cyclone and t0lsty from Ukraine, and team ASDcrew of ryba and BORKO from Poland, won their second and third place, respectively, 2000 and 1000 dollar. Of course, were the used motherboards and video cards as well to the prize that everyone could keep.
PlaatsTeamSPi 32MVantageTotaalscore
1
Elmor & ME4ME (Sweden)
6.35.797
37.424
181,65%
2
cyclone and t0lsty (Ukraine)
6.20.688
35.416
178,07%
3
ryba and BORKO (Poland)
6.38.956
34.640
172,53%
12
Massman & PT1T (Belgium)
6.22.138
31.173
164,72%
