20 pts Klan-OC

What does Winning Team (ECS user only!) in the prize structure mean? You are only eligible to win the prize if you use an ECS board?

What does Winning Team (ECS user only!) in the prize structure mean? You are only eligible to win the prize if you use an ECS board?

I think you are allowed to enter with Non-ecs board, but not win with non ecs board

lol....Never have seen any retail shop in India selling ECS mobos. It would be an easy competition it seems. There would be only 3-4 users on ECS mobos anyways,

If this celebrating ECS joining Bot, why not allow various ECS motherboards? Not just boards with the Z77 chipset .

With ECS distribution worldwide, HWBOT fails again in giving enough/ample time for Members to get motherboards ahead of time.

Where does it say ECS only? It doesnt, so stop bitchin.

look @ prizes... "Winning Team (ECS user only!)"

Where does it say ECS only? It doesnt, so stop bunnyin.

You are so smart.......I am in awe

PCMark 05? Really? Are you serious? I don't know about the discussion, but the last score i saw was about 110k, even without extreme cooling.... If you can go from 30k to over 100k points in a benchmark, just with "tweaking", then it's time to disable points or to forbid tweaks I guess

PCMark 05? Really? Are you serious? I don't know about the discussion, but the last score i saw was about 110k, even without extreme cooling.... If you can go from 30k to over 100k points in a benchmark, just with "tweaking", then it's time to disable points or to forbid tweaks I guess

You're my new best friend.

You're my new best friend.

The friend of my friend is my enemy

sorry for me english

The friend of my friend is my enemy

 

sorry for me english

Maintenez vos amis étroits et vos ennemis plus étroits. Désolé pour mon Français.

Lol Mr. Scott, you just won Ney's Medal of Approval.

If you can't beat them, ban them.

If this celebrating ECS joining Bot, why not allow various ECS motherboards? Not just boards with the Z77 chipset .

Clever (not really) marketing maybe? Can't win if you don't have an ECS board, so if you want free stuff, by default, you have to buy one of their boards. Guaranteed sales right there .

From another viewpoint. Its not a sales project for ECS, but rather reaching out to our overclocking community. Which is "HC Approved"

Manufacturers usually don't get involved in overclocking for direct sales increase. OC is a small market. They do get involved to get power users to talk about their boards.

Overclockers are 'opinion makers'

From another viewpoint. Its not a sales project for ECS, but rather reaching out to our overclocking community.

True, always good to see them supporting the community

True very true Nuke'em

there will be no any winner, it's so hard to find ECS z77 board.... Hopefully the regulation will change. even we have local distributor they don't have z77 board

Sounds alot of fun

I didn't touch mine yet but this doesn't sound fun...

Okay I spent some time with the board.

There are some bad issues they have to solve or it's almost impossible to do any benchmarks with this board

- BIOS update only with utility in windows

- Max CPU voltage 1,5 V (WTF)

- All other voltages only selectable as offset (e.g. +0,05 but you don't know the current voltage)

- You can save profiles but if you load and save them nothing happens

- Max BCLK 100 (101 out of BIOS doesnt work and in windows if you use the OC utility it straight freezes no matter what you select)

- There are no "AUTO" memory timings. You have to set every single timing including all subtimings

- Default memory voltage is 1,64 volt and you can't decrease it

Meh all I can say:

All that glitters is not gold

Sweet, board built for warriors, I want one

Well Roman i benched that board , use Intel XTU for BCLK. I know it has alot issue`s you can Call me Roman i can help you with some settings.