Here's the Benchmarking layout. Still plenty of spots open. Reserve yours today! I look forward to meeting some of you guys.
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Grand Champion Benchmarking Competition
Competition Hardware:
AMD FX 8150
MSI 7970 Lightning
MSI 990 FXA-GD80
1866 DDR3 (possible upgrade coming)
120GB Corsair Force GT
Enermax Platimax 1000W
Qualifying Round: Low Clock Challenge 3 hours
Benchers will get to tweak their benchmarking skills with the competition hardware. All machines will be running the same clock speeds, but the benchmarkers must tweak their operating system for the fastest run.
Qualifying Benchmark:
-SuperPi 8M, Version 1.55
Qualifying Rules:
-8 Fastest SuperPi 8M submissions guaranty a Captain spot for the main competition
-40 minutes per person at a Competition rig
-A version of XP will be installed on the Competition rigs, but you can chose to bring your own Operating system, but you will still only have 40 minutes at the competition rig.
-No Clock adjusting software can be used. Any attempt to change the system's clock speed from the LCC format will disqualify
-Use supplied wallpaper with CPUz CPU and Memory tabs visible
-Use only supplied hardware at set LCC speeds
Main Competition: 4 hours
-The 8 fastest from Qualifying(Captains) will have to choose a team mate from the remaining benchers who participated in the qualifying round to help them in the main competition
Main Competition Benchmarks:
-wPrime 32M
-CPUz Validation
-Unigine Heaven
Main Competition Rules:
-8 Competition rigs, 8 teams of two
-Use supplied wallpaper with CPUz CPU and Memory tabs visible
-Use only supplied hardware
-Bring your own cooling equipment. Cooling sharing is allowed!
-Vaseline will be supplied, but you're welcome to bring your own insulating solutions.
Prizing:
-Each team will split the prize 75% Captain, 25% Assistant
-1st $2000
-2nd $1250
-3rd $750
-4th $500
-5th $250
-6th $100
-7th $100
-8th $50
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