(Unofficial) THF Overclocking Contest! [CLOSED]

You Can now Vote for the following People:

lucuis
Dunkel
roadrunner197069
closed_deal
Lupiron
B-Unit

Oooooo.... Can't wait!! I believe my little baby can go up up and away!!
anyways, I will just enter for the fun of it.. hope I can get my 3.2ghz e6750 @1.3125volt to run at 3.5 or higher ^^. And my memory running @ 1ghz atm woot. Lets see what happends.

I would like to see either some limitations IE.. no dry ice, LN, air or water only.

Or create classes is you want to include extreme.

Personally I dont give a crap how high you can run on LN or Dry ice.

The contest should be for a 24/7 setup, and no one uses that extreme for a 24/7 build.

You should also consider giving cash prizes, and make all contestants register for $10 Paypal with their Forum name in the notes, so you can keep tabs on who paid. I would pay $10 to play.

Depending on money we could even offer Hardware prizes for 1st, 2nd, and third.

If it has extreme cooling and such I'm not interested at all, but with some standard rules and decent prizes, I'm all over it.

Note that although some people would achieve high OCing results they would most likely still be ranked below people who run Prime95 for 8+hrs.

I'd like to enter, when my new case finally arrives and i can finally fit my water cooling inside not out. Determined to break 20k on 3dmark . I've been waiting for an excuse to burn this PC in hehe. If i don't need to RMA summit afterwards I've failed .

*Edit* Damn notice you want Sandra. Sandra not work with comp grr. Think getting her to work will be more difficult than o/cing .

**UPDATED SUPERPI** NOW LATEST VERSION


GPU

Notice. All screenshots are cropped so you all don't have to see my background twice due to my second monitor.

http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/dfkx6/

3DMark06

Used EVGA Precision to OC

Ati Tool
lol about 15-30 seconds between artifacts.

When i had it clocked to a core of 761 it ran for nearly 30min before artifacting.

Also these clock speeds where used only for the benchmarks. I run the card at 777/1917/1032 as the 24/7 clock speeds.

CPU 43.75% OC

http://valid.x86-secret.com/show_oc.php?id=354584

PCMark05


Superpi


Sandra Arithmetic


Sandra Multi-Media


Prime95
Screenshot at 6.5hrs in.


Pic using camera at ~7hrs. Couldn't take a screenshot as it was froze.

Looks exciting, but the GPU overclocking 3DMark part will kill me. I have a volt-modded 7900GS(that for the competition I would try to take even higher, 1.5v instead of 1.4v), but it will lose to plenty of barely overclocked cards that are newer in 3DMark. Hopefully you don't count that for much, or compare it to 3DMark06 scores above stock for the card you have, rather then compare it to a competing card. IE, have people submit stock legitimated 3DMark scores for their card then do it overclocked and see the difference, because someone with a quadcore and 3xSLI is going to clearly beat my 7900GS to death, but if its compared to stock, maybe I can overclock higher then he can and get a better overclocked to stock performance ratio then they can.

Updated: Due to requests CPU stability was changed to 8+hrs as a requirement.

I noticed you have Windows Aero on. Does turning this off increase your scores at all?

My e7200 comes tomorrow, then I'll see whats up.

::Yawns and looks around.:: Maybe I should get to firing up my 1.2000 VID q6600? if only you all knew what it takes to go from 3.6 to 3.8 and stay prime stable!

Deuce271, I can help you find that stable voltage!

And alot of those 3.8 on air are NOT prime stable. Trust me, I know! (q6x00 series.) I ran my chip on air at 3.8 for a long time and had zero errors, but prime would blow up in a few minutes.

Thats because it takes minimal power because you'll never get the full drain and speed that a test can get. Sooo.. stability is in the eyes of the beholder. Is it stable when I can do everything I normally do for 2 weeks straight and have zero errors.

Or is it stable only when Prime is through with it?

--Lupi!

Updated:
Prime 95 Small FFT is now at least 7hrs stable required.

Mmm, Chicken! Wonder if you could toss a chicken in the oil filled fish tank cooler after a round of Crysis? Since yer whole MoBo and everything else is in it. Should be nice and toasty! (can 88c cook?)

Did anyone else look at that thing?

--Lupi

Deep fry.

I guess it's mod 1.5 XS?

You guys made me pull my poor 1.2000 VID chip out of my primary comp and get it ready for the OC of its lifetime!

Normally I would just whip out the q6700 and junk, but since its based off of over OC percentage as well. My 2.4 will look better than a chip that starts at 2.66!

So I guess in the next day I will toss her in my Formula and get her all warmed up!

--Lupi!

Thanks for the links. I had stumbled around a bit and found some downloads but they weren't working. The links you set up are fine. It will be nice to have everyone using the same utilities. I'll OC and post results after hell week. FINALS!

I am going to go all out once I get my good PSU(Antec NeoHE 500) back from RMA. Going to clean out the cooler, get some ram sinks, up the memory voltage and core voltage and see if I can squeeze out 720/950 on my 7900GS, currently with only a lower core volt mod I'm at 685/900 ATI Tool stable. Lets hope I don't break anything...

1M is standard I think. If you have intel it'll be sub 20 secs. If it's an o/c'ed AMD 6000+ it takes 21 Seconds+

^Nice work.

But, the images are not very detailed since it was scaled to 1024*786. Could you updated the pics with bigger ones?

Download Paint.NET. It is free hand has very good editing capabilities (esp. if you get the free ad-ons from the PDN Forums).

Link:
http://www.getpaint.net/

You can upload the images to Flicker (has 100MB limit per month, but I never use up more than 20MB each month). You need to create a Yahoo mail account though ( which is also free).

Link:
http://www.flickr.com/

Hit "PrintScreen" paste (Ctrl+V) it to Paint.NET.Save as JPEG/PNG. Up load it to Flicker.

Still gettin other benches, but here is my 58% OC e7200.

Shadow....I've had some major problems after attempting to download that paint software. I started a new thread if in case you can help.

http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] -back-this

Hopefully you can us those photos for the competition. If you have trouble seeing some of it let me know. It might be awhile before I get back to that OC.

^?