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Introduction
Hello and welcome to the return of South Africa's Overclocking League. The idea of this friendly competition is build each other's overclocking and benchmarking skills while, most importantly, having fun. The rules have been designed in such a way as to remove most variables from the game to give anyone with a modern machine a fair, fighting chance. Everything you need to get started is in this post. Please be sure to read through this post so that you have a full understanding of the competition.
Rules
Example BCLK limits at various multipliers
Submissions
As the forums resize images to a very low resolution, please host your screenshots on one of the many free image hosting sites around the net. Please do NOT use ImageShack, as people who do not have an account will not be able to see your images. Submissions should be followed by your name, a dash, the benchmark name, another dash and your score. Use "." (period) as your decimal separator and "," (comma) as your 1000s separator. Examples are as follows:
Oj0 - SuperPi 8M - 1m24.677s
Oj0 - 3DMark03 - 116,253
Discussion
Please keep all score discussion in [hyperlink to discussion thread] and use this thread only for submitting results. Any discussion in this thread will be moved to the discussion thread, but you'll make our lives easier by posting in the correct thread. ANY SCORE DISPUTES ARE TO BE SENT MY WAY VIA PM. Publicly calling out a score may result in your points being penalized or your removal from the current round.
Scoring
The scoring system will work as follows:
Prizes
While the idea of this is friendly competition, Firestrm_ZA is sponsoring an ASUS GX900 mouse for first prize of round one. Prizes may or may not happen again in the future, don't make winning a prize your goal. The idea here is to learn how to get the absolute best out of your system while constantly being pushed by your "peer pressure" over here.
Download Links
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AquaMark3
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3DMark03 v3.6.0
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3DMark Vantage v1.1.0
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3DMark 11 v1.0.3
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MaxxMem
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SuperPi / mod1.5XS 8M
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Hello and welcome to the return of South Africa's Overclocking League. The idea of this friendly competition is build each other's overclocking and benchmarking skills while, most importantly, having fun. The rules have been designed in such a way as to remove most variables from the game to give anyone with a modern machine a fair, fighting chance. Everything you need to get started is in this post. Please be sure to read through this post so that you have a full understanding of the competition.
Rules
- Maximum clock speed is 5,000 MHz; you can go up to 6 MHz higher than this but no more. This is to allow for combinations that will land you just above 5,000 MHz, such as 104.2 MHz BCLK with a 48x clock multiplier for 5,001.6 MHz. The absolute hard cutoff speed is 5,006.00 MHz.
- Core i7 users are to disable HyperThreading in order to level the playing field with Core i5 users.1
- Any single GPU graphics card can be used. Multi-GPU solutions including cards such as the Radeon 6990 are not allowed.
- Should you be using an NVIDIA graphics card, be sure to configure PhysX to be handled by the CPU, NOT the graphics card.
- Any cooling may be employed on any system component.
- Screenshots to follow the standard HWBOT guidelines. In short, all screenshots must have the following visible:
- Final score
- CPU-Z open on the CPU tab
- CPU-Z open on the memory tab
- CPU-Z open on the motherboard tab (optional)
- 3D benchmarks must also have GPU-Z open
- Rounds will start on the 1st day of a month and run through until the last day of the following month. As an example, should a round start on the 1st May, it will run through until the 30th June.
- Late entries will be entered into the next round.
Example BCLK limits at various multipliers
- 46x - 108.8 MHz (results in 5,004.8 MHz CPU speed)
- 47x - 106.5 MHz (results in 5,005.5 MHz CPU speed)
- 48x - 104.2 MHz (results in 5,001.6 MHz CPU speed)
- 49x - 102.1 MHz (results in 5,002.9 MHz CPU speed)
- 50x - 100.1 MHz (results in 5,005.0 MHz CPU speed)
Submissions
As the forums resize images to a very low resolution, please host your screenshots on one of the many free image hosting sites around the net. Please do NOT use ImageShack, as people who do not have an account will not be able to see your images. Submissions should be followed by your name, a dash, the benchmark name, another dash and your score. Use "." (period) as your decimal separator and "," (comma) as your 1000s separator. Examples are as follows:
Oj0 - SuperPi 8M - 1m24.677s
Oj0 - 3DMark03 - 116,253
Discussion
Please keep all score discussion in [hyperlink to discussion thread] and use this thread only for submitting results. Any discussion in this thread will be moved to the discussion thread, but you'll make our lives easier by posting in the correct thread. ANY SCORE DISPUTES ARE TO BE SENT MY WAY VIA PM. Publicly calling out a score may result in your points being penalized or your removal from the current round.
Scoring
The scoring system will work as follows:
- 10 points
- 8 points
- 7 points
- 6 points
- 5 points
- 5 points
- 4 points
- 3 points
- 2 points
- 1 point
Prizes
While the idea of this is friendly competition, Firestrm_ZA is sponsoring an ASUS GX900 mouse for first prize of round one. Prizes may or may not happen again in the future, don't make winning a prize your goal. The idea here is to learn how to get the absolute best out of your system while constantly being pushed by your "peer pressure" over here.
Download Links
- AquaMark3 (HWBot version)
- 3DMark03 v3.6.0
- 3DMark Vantage v1.1.0
- 3Dmark 11 v1.0.3
- MaxxMem
- SuperPi / mod1.5XS
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ALL RESULTS DUE BEFORE THE 30TH APRIL 2012
WHEN THE FIRST WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED
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Global RankingsALL RESULTS DUE BEFORE THE 30TH APRIL 2012
WHEN THE FIRST WINNER WILL BE ANNOUNCED
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AquaMark3
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3DMark03 v3.6.0
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3DMark Vantage v1.1.0
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3DMark 11 v1.0.3
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MaxxMem
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SuperPi / mod1.5XS 8M
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