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all right guys I'm here at the corsera Intel overclocking event with George and
just maybe tell us what's going on with the leaderboard here all right well we got a leader board uh that's going to be
tracking the guys who at the various different records or try and break the
record for the day so at the top of it the number one prize is Super PI 32m uh
all the way down to you know stuff like 3D Mark uh for fire strike um the ASUS
team here with Andre and Tiel actually just set our personal daily record on
the uh CPU overclock they had 6.75 so far and they got the superp 1M number
which is $1,000 award uh they got that down to 5.42 one which is our current
fastest speed but you know the events been going on for less than an hour so
we expect Maybe maybe some guys could break that number maybe these guys will break that number in a little bit so
we're pretty excited these guys are dumping liquid nitrogen all over the
place they're you know putting Vaseline on motherboards and rubbing shop towels
on things this is dangerous and freaky stuff and these guys are are uh
professionals I wouldn't practice this at home and they were wondering at what
135 was that yeah they were at 134° C so
that's insane
so I've joined the rest of the team at the overclocking event and uh George
what is this this is the leaderboard that shows uh who's currently in the
lead of each specific score we're doing we're giving 11 different prizes away
today starting at 1,000 bucks and going up to $5,000 for the prize total of
$20,000 and prize money the uh the most uh the highest priz the grand prize is
the Super PI 32 mag which is to you know see how fast the system can run a 32
megabyte super P calculation or 32 million sorry super P calculation uh
that's a $5,000 prize now the guys up there eight pack uh lead that right
below them on the hasel memory frequency where they're at 3782 which is almost
3,800 uh mehz on the memory frequency it
was Way Beyond Ivy Bridge which was around 33 34 um so those guys knocked
that out of the park and then underneath that we're at a 6.9 GHz on the processor
overclocking record too so those are the top three records um then underneath
that you can see that uh Andre and and team ASUS there have basically dominated
all the other stuff Super PI 1 million calculation Pi fast W Prime 32 all that
stuff so tell me about the strategy why is it that um Andre and team ASUS seem
to be going after everything but the big prize pools up there what what is the
deal like cuz there were some stipulations in terms of what Hardware
you could bring or what you couldn't bring and what's their strategy I think
um I mean you'd have to ask them specifically for their strategy my guess is that they looked at it and said look
we know we can knock this one we can knock this one we can knock this one and I said you know it makes more sense to
take Awards four through nine than it take to take only one two and three
there was a lot of competition there still is a lot of competition going on right now we got about 20 minutes left
uh for the first and second and third spots I think they said look I don't
think there's going to be as many guys fighting here we're going to go full bore for it and they hit some really
impressive numbers the pie fast number at 9.83 is really close to a world
record and on day one of the I of the Haswell launch I mean that's that's
incredible this is a year and a half of stuff from ivybridge and these guys are
almost breaking it in one day so hasell is a really impressive launch already
well that's fantastic I mean so don't believe everything you heard about
Haswell overclocking so we're going to be following this up with a little bit
more coverage once it's time to actually present the awards I had something else
I wanted to talk to George about because really these these overclocking events
it takes a long time to dial in an overclock you got to do some testing on
it every time you change any any freaking thing but what tends to happen
is we're still 20 minutes from the end this is where things get really exciting tell me about
sandbagging uh sandbagging is basically you you go and you put up a number
that's okay and uh other guys are like well whatever that's fine and a lot of
guys wait till the very end to throw their numbers up because they they kind of want to see what the other guys are
really doing so what you're going to see here like for example a lot of the guys
waited till the end to do the 3D stuff the bottom ones a benchmark for uh uh 3D
Mark and aqua Mark and stuff like that so I'm going to guess that those bottom
four benchmarks you're going to see those change like every 5 minutes from
here to the end of the competition and I think a lot of guys did wait to hit
their best possible uh video card numbers cuz in the open category where
they're allowed to bring whatever graphics card they want they already know what they're capable of doing they
got their liquid nitrogen they're ready to go they know they can do it at home
so if they see the number here that they're actually able to beat they're not going to beat it until they have to
if they can beat it with 2 minutes left that doesn't give their competition much time to beat them very very exciting so
uh back back with Awards actually this time thanks again George no problem all
right I'll try not to do this to you too many times thanks George not a problem
actually finally award ceremony time here guys I'm just going to see if I can
sort of cheat and just kind of Chuck my mic in here and see if that works so I
haven't asked anyone's permission to do this just going to kind of sneak over
here just kind of subtly okay so here we go we have two competitions today um one
was uh the first was what we call the open competition where there were eight
benchmarks that that everybody could run with the hardware that they brought and
uh impressively uh one team ran all eight
of those benchmarks and won the ball and that's Andre and TL so if they could uh
step up on the stage please
you you guys actually get eight
trophies not sure what you're going to
do um I could take a couple of them if you
want so they they actually need a crew of ladies to carry all of their trophies
for them need help the trophies
so congratulations to these guys that was very impressive winning all those
benchmarks finally the grand prize which is sort of a combination of CPU and
memory frequency is the super P score
and the winners of Super at 4 minutes
49344 seconds are AP Pac and
Zio i' like to see someone try and take that check
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