Overclock.net Grand Champion Series | Toronto | June 30th, 2012 | $10,000 Prizing - Page 57

Originally Posted by Chipp 

For sure! The official bracket will be poll winning games, but, we're building plenty of breaks into the formal schedule that can be used for gaming folks to watch a little LN2 benching, attendee-organized gaming, etc.
We're still working on the exact structure, but keep in mind that there is $5000 in cash prizing to be divided up just for the gaming side of things (plus some physical prizes given away at the event from various sponsors). There should be quite a nice distribution of rewards.

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

Originally Posted by kevinf 

http://store.steampowered.com/app/240/, go go go! 66% off Source!
If you need an up to date steam version of the game....

Originally Posted by FtW 420 

Get tweaking, you have a couple weeks . Same for me, I'm used to sub-timing tweaking to get ahead, this will be interesting.

Originally Posted by MSIalex 

Not sure where to post since the admin (cough cough) has yet to make a thread... but I'm attending the event.
Anyone have any questions you wish to ask me? Maybe I should have a thread started elsewhere so I can collect answers.

Originally Posted by reflex99 

can i get a hug?

Originally Posted by MSIalex 

Not sure where to post since the admin (cough cough) has yet to make a thread... but I'm attending the event.

Anyone have any questions you wish to ask me? Maybe I should have a thread started elsewhere so I can collect answers.