Are You PiFast Enough Contest
 

Wussup ladies :D I think its about time Splave gets what's coming to him.... a little taste of defeat. :D Yep that's right I'm calling you out there Spligmaster and any other panty waisted pansy that wants some too. :P Hell I'll just challenge all of you to battle. :taunt: So who is gonna step up to the plate? :cool3:

Kal-EL I am definitely calling you out too. You never compete in contest and its about time you do so I can hand your ass to you too ;)

Challenge: Pifast
Platform: X58
Length: July 2nd through August 7th
Clock Limits: 4000mhz CPU | 4200mhz Uncore
Cooling Limits: None
Prizes: Bragging Rights :)


Rules:

• Clock Limits: CPU @ 4000mhz | Uncore @ 4200mhz
• Any OS
• Any legal tweaks - Think hwbot rules
• CPU: Any Core i7
• RAM: Unlimited
• Mobo: Any X58
• Any cooling method
• Big boy shorts optional
• Smack talk is MANDATORY :D

Screen shots must have all info visible!! In the screenshot you need to have the latest and greatest CPU-Z with CPU and Mobo tabs, most current CPU Tweaker open *with* sub-timings shown, and obviously all info in the pifast window not obstructed from view.


Leaderboard:

1. 69_Goat - 21.00s
2. sofos1990 - 21.00s
3. DOM - 21.14s
4. Splave - 22.02s

whats that :laughing:

the only air cooler i have is a thermaltake big typhoon from 06 :blush:

Awesome Chuch! Love this bench.

I'm rocking an AMD stock cooler.....:eek:

hehehe, maybe we can add water cooling into the rules, but I think the advantage may be too big with the added uncore mhz it might allow. We can hash that detail out when the guys get the balls to come in this thread. :P


**Rules are subject to change while the community speaks. Tomorrow morning the rules will be FINAL.**

Man......... all I have is the Intel stock POS

:ohcrap: I don't have a board, except my 24/7 beater

i dont mind running on air just idk when im going to have time to hook up the cooler lmao

and it should be better the the 980X cooler right ?

This is going to have clock limits. I just haven't decided on the mhz yet. ;) 24/7 beater should work as long as its an X58 platform.

Honestly I don't know anything about either cooler. I thought the new 980x cooler was actually usable vs the older ones? Once again this contest will be a low clock challenge of sorts. MHZ will have a reasonable restriction put on them. Cooling will still matter though because it will decide on the uncore you can pump out.

I don't have an air cooler and my 980x was OEM.......water would work, though.

I vote water :) or cap the uncore
+1 to cpu tweaker in pic, nice addition

also be prepared to explain any tweaks you used at the end of the contest for the betterment of the hive :)

i don't have air or water...i only have a coppoer pot :D

Wtf do you use to do OS installs?

the pot...installs take minutes on ssd's

http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c5...25/photo15.jpg

chuch what is the ruling on air conditioning? Cant be below 65F ambient? Or all you can get. No chilling with ln2 on radiators or HSF's

I'm guessing water is gonna be a have to thing to get ok participation. Doesn't bother me any at all if that's what you guys want. :thumbsup:

I'm glad I wasn't able to respond when I first read this. At first I was all for it, but now I'm not so sure. I'm kinda 50/50 on capping the uncore too. If we do it, it needs to be atleast 4.2ghz maybe?

:good:

Well I think everyone needs to be reasonable here. I mean if you want to pay the power bill to pull your house down to 60f to bench then I don't have a problem with it. I think chilled air/water or pouring ln2 on the hsf kinda goes against the spirit of what we are trying to do here. If this was for some good prizes then I'd say go for it, but the goal here is to have fun and get everybody excited and active benching again; myself included. :)


Maybe we can add some cheap prizes later, but really I just want to have fun, talk some shit and learn some tweaks for pifast. :good: Now just wait till Kal gets in here. That guy can talk some smack. :rofl


@ Honda - what pot is that? Plus how many damn pots do you have? Please don't tell me you have as many pots as you do ram kits :D

lemme see i still have one pot coming from mr d8r...i can't remember his full nick :))

Alrighty guys what do you think about this?

- Air/Water only
- No chilled water, force inducted chilled air cooling. If you want to bench in a 60f house then that's fine.
- CPU mhz cap at 4ghz?
- Uncore mhz cap at 4.2ghz? I'm 50/50 on this. 4.2ghz still leaves room for high ram clocks.

Tell me what you guys want so we can finalize the rules and adjust the dates. It has been discussed to maybe throw in a cheap VGA for HTPC or 2d benching usage. That's not final though.

I think cooling won't matter if it is capped at 4 Ghz

mem timings should be static as well ....

That is true if the uncore is capped too. If it's not then cooling matters a ton. We won't have any non sub-zero guys playing if they gotta go against someone with a ss and pushing 4.8ghz+ uncore.

I don't want to cap timings at all. I am curious what guys can find out about how pifast responds to certain timings. Think of this contest as a massive tweak and test session. :thumbsup: I know guys with hypers are going to have an advantage, but I think it could still be close. I'm gonna try finishing up some 32m testing tonight and then start on pifast in between 1156 testing. This month is starting to look like fun for me. :)

if speeds are capped can i use ln2? :D

If everybody is cool with capping the uncore too then I don't see a problem with it. You sure you want to waist ln2 on a low clock challenge? Why not just buy a $50 cooler?

This is more of a tweakoff guys :) Bring out your most bad ass 2d OS, tweak the shit out of your ram and learn some new stuff.

sounds good, guys... I need to dust off all my shit and get everything mounted. I haven't even had my board plugged in since it got back from Cali.... :blink:

If we get enough subs together from this, we could get an efficiency calc together like supi, unless it already exists.. :thumbsup:

Ok so like this now?

- Any cooling
-CPU cap @ 4ghz sharp
-Uncore @ 4.2ghz sharp
+ all the other rules in post one?

Works for me..... sounds like a lot of fun is going to be had here...

OCA battles.... nothing quite like 'em. :cool3:

I don't know. Usually I don't pick on the kids who ride the short bus, but it might be fun this time :P

bwahaha sounds good, lets get it crackin!

Done dealio. Post one is updated. I get to start handing your asses to you guys tomorrow. :smackbum:


http://www.overclockaholics.com/foru...11&postcount=1

cas 6 ddr2-2000 commin up lol! should have my new 980x back early next week

Alright Chuck, I'll play.

Since you didn't get me anything for father's day (you ungrateful lil' shit), I'll have to run some pifast on that ass.... :taunt:

You're gonna need all the help you can get. :)

Bring it on biatch :cool3:


All I want to know is if Rick is going to hear low clock challenge and think that means pulling sub 100mhz runs. :taunt:

sounds good...dual channel guys will cry ::D

is there a dead line ?

can you get 4.2 uncore on water ??? never tryed lol

but im leaving out of town tomorrow and wont be back untill tuesday but ill see if i can get the uncore up there in the hot south tx cuz im taking my rig with me :) would like to take the ss

but just got my rig to post with 6gb last week always bend a pin that makes the 1st slot go out when using the ss

There is an arbitrary deadline of Aug 7, but that is fluid for sure. This is all for fun and the learning experience anyways. :thumbsup: 4.2ghz is possible on air cooling for sure. Just not on every chip. I decided to have it there for the guys that can run high memory mhz. It puts the cap on the memory at 2100mhz.

Not with Gulftown. GT bios on Classy only requires uncore to be 1.5x ram freq.

Right, but everybody doesn't have a GT yet ;)

So who all wants to get their ass whooped by grandpa??? :P

Waiting for 980X RMA and then I can jump right in....

I'll take you on, pappy. :taunt:

You guys make sure to wear the good panties for this... when I rape you I want to see no less than lace. :cool3:

which one of you mouth breathers is going to strike first with toyota prius type speed.

rofl.... fully functioning prius, or the "stuck on light speed" prius?