Overdrive: US Team Ironmods Wins!

[Guest]

hey, my Quad Core Xtreme computed Pi's 1M in 7,349. not overcloked...

 

[boop334]

Yes! USA ftw!

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]dieseldre2k[/nom][/citation]

The USA team had no choice but to win...just to come out even. That is to say, if the US wins spectators from other countries just say "that's fine, lucky break, whatever" but if the US loses they try to rub our noses in it...

Most spectators don't know anything about good sportsmanship, it's always "USA-v-everyone else".

Having noted what usually happens, I'm really happy to see very little gloating in this thread!

 

[Crashman]

that IRONMODS got a better sample and guessed the better mobo to use?

One of the other teams in the US competition made similar claims, because they basically ruined some parts and wasted too much time preping others. In fact, they ripped a pin out of a pre-tested (and pre-loaded) motherboard and claimed it was that way when they got it. I won't mention any names, but they did get a third board just to shut them up, so "unlucky", the other guys had lessers "skillz" etc.

It's all about strategy, you get a dud part and try to work around it. Everyone got two boards and processors, so everyone should have been capable of picking the "less dudly dud".

BTW, I've played lots of poker, I've only sat through like, one game where every hand I had was bad. Yes, if you're bluffing or folding at every hand people eventually figure out that you're getting a bad run of cards...but that only happens in what, one of 500 games?

 

[Guest]

Howcome you make an overclocking contest without inviting any Polish and/or Portuguese team?!

 

[miahallen]

[citation][nom]cangelini[/nom][/citation]
Thanks for all the encouragement everyone! We really enjoyed the contest, and thanks for your interest. To those of you who are critical of these types of events, I'd like to second C. Angelini's comments. It really is quite interesting to get involveved and/or see it go down in person. This contest lasted a total of 15 hours...if it was only about the hardware, and only up to chance...we would have only needed about 4 hours. However, it takes time to get the most out of the platform, and to extract the most of each benchmark, and the techniques/tweaks used by each team are often VERY different.

 

[Crashman]

Howdy Miah

 

[nebun]

[citation][nom]miahallen[/nom]Thanks for all the encouragement everyone! We really enjoyed the contest, and thanks for your interest. To those of you who are critical of these types of events, I'd like to second C. Angelini's comments. It really is quite interesting to get involveved and/or see it go down in person. This contest lasted a total of 15 hours...if it was only about the hardware, and only up to chance...we would have only needed about 4 hours. However, it takes time to get the most out of the platform, and to extract the most of each benchmark, and the techniques/tweaks used by each team are often VERY different.[/citation]
dude overclocking is done the same way, no matter how you look at it. i have my q6600 @ 4GHz on air. a lot of people say that it can only be done on water, that's bull. you do what they do and you can do the same thing. catch my drift? overclocking is not hard at all if you know what to tweak and how much to tweak.

 

[hurbt]

Isn't life just like poker, as described above? Sure some people get lucky, but that doesn't mean that hard work doesn't still pay off. It may pay off more for some... like my friend who lucked out and got a sweet deal on some property 10 years ago, and sold before the bubble popped... that doesn't stop me from going to work... or playing poker Any one competition can come down to luck, but the real hall-of-famers are the consistent ones that finish "in the money".

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]hurbt[/nom]Isn't life just like poker, as described above? Sure some people get lucky, but that doesn't mean that hard work doesn't still pay off. It may pay off more for some... like my friend who lucked out and got a sweet deal on some property 10 years ago, and sold before the bubble popped... that doesn't stop me from going to work... or playing poker Any one competition can come down to luck, but the real hall-of-famers are the consistent ones that finish "in the money".[/citation]

Haven't you figured it out yet? When the US wins it's luck...but when someone else wins its skill. A string of US wins would be a lucky streak.

 

[Guest]

hats off to IRONMODS, weee great ! i constantly follow what is going around , i'm from the Philippines, way to go IRONMODS , keep it up

 

[miahallen]

[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]Howdy Miah[citation][nom]Crashman[/nom]Haven't you figured it out yet? When the US wins it's luck...but when someone else wins its skill. A string of US wins would be a lucky streak.[/citation][/citation]
Howdy Crashman...been a while. I'm surprised you remember me

 

[Crashman]

[citation][nom]miahallen[/nom][/citation]Howdy Crashman...been a while. I'm surprised you remember me[/citation]

Yeh, it's been what, six weeks? Time flies when you're under the gun!