Corsair OC Main Event at Computex 2013 Featuring George Makris & Andre Yang *fixed audio*
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·2014-05-07
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all right guys I'm here at the corsera Intel overclocking event with George and
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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
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tracking the guys who at the various different records or try and break the
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record for the day so at the top of it the number one prize is Super PI 32m uh
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all the way down to you know stuff like 3D Mark uh for fire strike um the ASUS
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team here with Andre and Tiel actually just set our personal daily record on
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the uh CPU overclock they had 6.75 so far and they got the superp 1M number
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which is $1,000 award uh they got that down to 5.42 one which is our current
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fastest speed but you know the events been going on for less than an hour so
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we expect Maybe maybe some guys could break that number maybe these guys will break that number in a little bit so
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we're pretty excited these guys are dumping liquid nitrogen all over the
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place they're you know putting Vaseline on motherboards and rubbing shop towels
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on things this is dangerous and freaky stuff and these guys are are uh
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professionals I wouldn't practice this at home and they were wondering at what
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135 was that yeah they were at 134° C so
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that's insane
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so I've joined the rest of the team at the overclocking event and uh George
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what is this this is the leaderboard that shows uh who's currently in the
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lead of each specific score we're doing we're giving 11 different prizes away
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today starting at 1,000 bucks and going up to $5,000 for the prize total of
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$20,000 and prize money the uh the most uh the highest priz the grand prize is
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the Super PI 32 mag which is to you know see how fast the system can run a 32
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megabyte super P calculation or 32 million sorry super P calculation uh
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that's a $5,000 prize now the guys up there eight pack uh lead that right
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below them on the hasel memory frequency where they're at 3782 which is almost
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3,800 uh mehz on the memory frequency it
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was Way Beyond Ivy Bridge which was around 33 34 um so those guys knocked
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that out of the park and then underneath that we're at a 6.9 GHz on the processor
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overclocking record too so those are the top three records um then underneath
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that you can see that uh Andre and and team ASUS there have basically dominated
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all the other stuff Super PI 1 million calculation Pi fast W Prime 32 all that
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stuff so tell me about the strategy why is it that um Andre and team ASUS seem
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to be going after everything but the big prize pools up there what what is the
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deal like cuz there were some stipulations in terms of what Hardware
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you could bring or what you couldn't bring and what's their strategy I think
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um I mean you'd have to ask them specifically for their strategy my guess is that they looked at it and said look
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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
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take Awards four through nine than it take to take only one two and three
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there was a lot of competition there still is a lot of competition going on right now we got about 20 minutes left
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uh for the first and second and third spots I think they said look I don't
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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
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impressive numbers the pie fast number at 9.83 is really close to a world
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record and on day one of the I of the Haswell launch I mean that's that's
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incredible this is a year and a half of stuff from ivybridge and these guys are
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almost breaking it in one day so hasell is a really impressive launch already
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well that's fantastic I mean so don't believe everything you heard about
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Haswell overclocking so we're going to be following this up with a little bit
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more coverage once it's time to actually present the awards I had something else
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I wanted to talk to George about because really these these overclocking events
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it takes a long time to dial in an overclock you got to do some testing on
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it every time you change any any freaking thing but what tends to happen
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is we're still 20 minutes from the end this is where things get really exciting tell me about
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sandbagging uh sandbagging is basically you you go and you put up a number
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that's okay and uh other guys are like well whatever that's fine and a lot of
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guys wait till the very end to throw their numbers up because they they kind of want to see what the other guys are
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really doing so what you're going to see here like for example a lot of the guys
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waited till the end to do the 3D stuff the bottom ones a benchmark for uh uh 3D
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Mark and aqua Mark and stuff like that so I'm going to guess that those bottom
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four benchmarks you're going to see those change like every 5 minutes from
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here to the end of the competition and I think a lot of guys did wait to hit
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their best possible uh video card numbers cuz in the open category where
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they're allowed to bring whatever graphics card they want they already know what they're capable of doing they
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got their liquid nitrogen they're ready to go they know they can do it at home
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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
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if they can beat it with 2 minutes left that doesn't give their competition much time to beat them very very exciting so
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uh back back with Awards actually this time thanks again George no problem all
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right I'll try not to do this to you too many times thanks George not a problem
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actually finally award ceremony time here guys I'm just going to see if I can
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sort of cheat and just kind of Chuck my mic in here and see if that works so I
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haven't asked anyone's permission to do this just going to kind of sneak over
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here just kind of subtly okay so here we go we have two competitions today um one
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was uh the first was what we call the open competition where there were eight
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benchmarks that that everybody could run with the hardware that they brought and
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uh impressively uh one team ran all eight
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of those benchmarks and won the ball and that's Andre and TL so if they could uh
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step up on the stage please
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you you guys actually get eight
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trophies not sure what you're going to
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do um I could take a couple of them if you
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want so they they actually need a crew of ladies to carry all of their trophies
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for them need help the trophies
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so congratulations to these guys that was very impressive winning all those
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benchmarks finally the grand prize which is sort of a combination of CPU and
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memory frequency is the super P score
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and the winners of Super at 4 minutes
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49344 seconds are AP Pac and
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Zio i' like to see someone try and take that check
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for well I hope you guys have enjoyed the Corsair overclocking event here at
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