First statement before the competition starts, the new Gigabyte Z270X Gaming SOC will not be allowed for the march madness. Unfortuantely it is not available at shops at the competitions start (in europe not listed). In case something changes we will make an announcement, this thread is also open for questions but we already included the non released hardware not allowed rule from the first day of announcing the contest.

Good luck and have fun at the contest

Where is official competition background?

Only Gigabyte board I have is LN2........

is z170 allowed

Yes, Z170 is allowed, I see no restriction on this - but no unreleased hardware (LN2 boards or sadly the z270 gaming soc)

Z97 LN2 board allowed or not? Using Haswell is competitive disadvantage no matter the board's DIMM layout

As far as I know the board was alibi retail at some time so it should be OK for the lucky draw

thanks for the update

Yes, Z170 is allowed, I see no restriction on this - but no unreleased hardware (LN2 boards or sadly the z270 gaming soc)

so...its Z270 or the Z170 SOC Force

ugh

Yes Matt, we all would have liked to get Z270 Gaming SOC in the march madness as well, but shop availability is delayed

you're going to have so many people with the same score haha.

Thats a shame, all I have is a z270 gaming soc, was excited to enter, definitely dissapointed but I understand from hwbot point of view.

This decision was made in dialogue with Gigabyte, we both agreed that it is a shame but to give all contestants the same chance we had no other choice.

ya I understand, it makes sense

Please specify clearly whether the panel at the Z170 gaming can be

Z270 Gaming K3 GIGABYTE

may be allowed

All Gigabyte retail boards available in shop before 1st of march 2017 are allowed, this excludes z170 and z270 LN2 board and Z270SOC Gaming. Zhe Gaming k3 is in shops, so it is allowed

When stage 2 and 3 will be open?

When stage 1 closes stage 2 opens, when stage 2 closes stage 3 open

Is Aorus Z270X Gaming 5 not allowed? I bought at my local store on February 9. I cannot upload submission.

Hi, I'm new, so please forgive my idiocy. How can I delete a submission? I posted score for the wrong test!

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Normally at hwbot,org there is a button on the right to edit or delete results

How can I delete my submission too? Seems like XTU read my mobo wrong. Just noticed it after submitting. Supposed to be Z270X Gaming 5 instead of Z170X Gaming 5.

How can I delete my submission too? Seems like XTU read my mobo wrong. Just noticed it after submitting. Supposed to be Z270X Gaming 5 instead of Z170X Gaming 5.

Can't you edit the mobo type after submitting the score? So submit first, let the database calculate your score/ranking. Afterwards press the EDIT button on the right (as Websmile mentioned before) and edit your mobo type

Looking to confirm if GIGABYTE GA-Z270N-Gaming 5 is allowed. I think it was released March 1st or so in US but earlier overseas

The board is allowed, apart from the LN2 1151 boards and the soc gaming z270 all boards should be eligible for use

P.S. I asked at GA again to see if I am right, if it is much better than z270n wifi we might have problem, it is not listed in europe

P. P.S. Board is ok, it seems to have no technical advantage above others

I found a few price compare sites a while back. This one shows prices from Feb 27 from 9 shops

https://www.priceme.co.nz/Gigabyte-Z270N-Gaming-5/p-898785404.aspx

This site claims 02/22/2017 release date

https://dgxtech.com/sales/gigabyte-ga-z270n-gaming-5-lga1151-intel-z270-rgb-fusion-hdmi-dp-usb3-1-type-c-mini-itx-ddr4-gaming-motherboard

A couple of hints, LOD is not allowed for time spy, it is explicitly ruled out and this is also valid for time spy physics, second point is that 5003 is the limit, if the futuremark link shows higher results you are out, and please only use publicly available BIOS versions, we do not want guys to have an unfair advantage by new xoc BIOS others cannot use

A couple of hints ... and please only use publicly available BIOS versions, we do not want guys to have an unfair advantage by new xoc BIOS others cannot use

So the x06 bios on a z97x-soc force is not alowed,than i know what to do tomorow after work.

This is an old BIOS which was published several times on hwbot and elsewhere, I only refer to new Z270 Bioses which might be given to Beta testers

https://www.mediafire.com/?wsldl1r1wlh2ris

X8e bios for Z270N Gaming 5.

I make absolutely no claims that its any good, I haven't had a chance to properly test it myself

Thanks for the BIOS, but we will not allow it for the march madness because it came too late. We will re evaluate this like all restrictions for the next parts of the Gigabyte series, yes, there is more to come

Another heads up - for time spy physics the rules of time spy apply for LOD (not allowed) and latest system info with monitoring enabled is mandatory - we orientate on screenshot and validation link for seeing if the 5003 cap was not violated, when I see 4ghz as max turbo or something similarily ridiculous I have no choice but to remove the entry

Thanks for the BIOS, but we will not allow it for the march madness because it came too late. We will re evaluate this like all restrictions for the next parts of the Gigabyte series, yes, there is more to come

thats what I figured.

good luck guys, I'm out.

Another heads up - for time spy physics the rules of time spy apply for LOD (not allowed) and latest system info with monitoring enabled is mandatory - we orientate on screenshot and validation link for seeing if the 5003 cap was not violated, when I see 4ghz as max turbo or something similarily ridiculous I have no choice but to remove the entry

wait so do I need to redo my 102.05BCLK run? Because I have 5G CPU-z but 3Dmark is showing 5004MHz

wait so do I need to redo my 102.05BCLK run? Because I have 5G CPU-z but 3Dmark is showing 5004MHz

Unfortunately yes, CPUZ and futuremark readout have to be 5003 or less

Unfortunately yes, CPUZ and futuremark readout have to be 5003 or less

Great so I can go back to rerunning timespy for a while but at 0.02 less BCLK or what ever it is that will make 3Dmark happy.

I have the best Haswell, I'm taking that as a moral victory.

What was wrong with my submissions?

I checked stage 1, remaining subs should be ok @fgi please check the time spy rules again, you used tesselation tweaking which is explicitly disallowed for time spy - sorry, but it is written in the benchmark rules and I also gave a heads up here at support thread that rules are applying also for physics on top

Really tight 1st round - around 2.6% from Top 10 to 1st place, awesome competition

You had no chance - north american slacker timings owned you :'(

Still in for Lucky draw, right? Hahahahahah :p

Not the fastest but at least I'm the oldest one around here

Somehow I think it might be time to enter stuff like this again someday iin the future...

Guys, now when 1 stage is done, can you tell me how the hell you get 200 more points with less core speed and not so tight RAM like i get

i was going to bad at 7AM, so my wife was werry angry with me all the day -> this must be enough for you

I tested all, z270x 5 with Kaby Dual and Quad, z170 Soc with Kaby Dual and Quad.

I have strong RAM Setting with 1900 cl12 1T

But No chance

Please tell use the tweak

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Look at the GPU-Z... yep GPU-Z

my run was utter luck was always between 6780ish and 6815ish then this 6865 appeared...

I had 6850+ and 1-2 was 6900+. 5g/5g 1933 tight(at least for my mobo). But according to the 6950+ scores, the less you clock the better you score.

I dont judge anyone but it would be better if we know what we were doing wrong.

GPU mem clocks aid the score apparently, lowering cache too... thx to Splave for revealing their tweaks

damn, i think that gpu doesnt affect anything... and my gpu got extra good ram

Lowering cache ? Guys, iam unnable to get case same as core ratio on 270 g9, still got 200mhz lower than i set in bios and if i try set 50/52 it doesnt boot, is there any cure with this mb ?

you set it from bios or from windows? I thnik giga boots with 200 mhz lower cache. Try set it from gtl

E.g if you boot 5gcore /5g uncore it boots 5g/4.8.

Z270N seems to lock cache to be 200MHz less than core. I have cache set to 50x but get 4800 cache with 5G core and 4600 cache with 4.8G core.

The benchmark is really inconsistent. My 6663 run was pure luck if I fire up the system on the mem settings I used for the 6663 run it scores ~6.5K but sometimes it randomly jumps above 6.6K.

Yes set in bios, but i try set it in XTU, but doing nothing. Didnt try GTL, its possible there ?

How do we make sure that people dont run 5.2ghz for geek bench?

Plausibility check - this is why we have the link on top, you can see a lot at sub tests that scales from cpu frequency mostly

why can i not enter whit this sub ?

skulstation`s Geekbench3 - Multi Core score: 7826 points with a Pentium G3258

if all is ok plys add it to the stage 2.

thx

Geekbench is not able to provide a single link adress, and hwbot has problem to configure links accepted therefore, we have same again at gskill, so I asked for a fix. Should be done tomorrow I hope...

Thx for info.

If the problem is fixt whil this submission automatic added tot the stage or do i need to re sub it?

Ther is a chanse thad i have no internet acces for some days afther tonight ( provider whil do some updates and othther thins )

I will take a look and add it

Seems we can submit at two pages from the Geekbench developpers... sigh

Are there any operating system restrictions in this comp regarding geek bench running a 4790K as HWBot seem to stipulate one prior to Windows 8 while Sky and Caby Lake can use Window 8, 10.

Are there any operating system restrictions in this comp regarding geek bench running a 4790K as HWBot seem to stipulate one prior to Windows 8 while Sky and Caby Lake can use Window 8, 10.

Sure, benchmark rules apply, for pre skylake systems the windows real time clock bug is the problem, so you will have to use 7 on haswell for example

changed my gtx 760 gpu to a 1070 turbo and gained a big nothing in cpu tests. so how is that ? ( apart from Im stuck at 59 RTL maybe thats capping my eff )

Guys, how properly set RTL on GTB mbs? IT ignores everything i want from IT, still Getting loose 59/60 (asr timing configurator)

Guys, how properly set RTL on GTB mbs? IT ignores everything i want from IT, still Getting loose 59/60 (asr timing configurator)

I have best RTLs when using 3733 divider, 12-12-12-28 gives me 49-51, tWCL 10 and tCKE 6 set, you can tweak IO RTL to 6

I have best RTLs when using 3733 divider, 12-12-12-28 gives me 49-51, tWCL 10 and tCKE 6 set, you can tweak IO RTL to 6

Thanks, but i have a problem set anything, i cant write 50/51 7/7 ets, but after boot into win, it stuck 659/61 etc.. This make me mad.

Thats Giga Big bugs

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Maybe thats why they call it March Madness

Maybe thats why they call it March Madness

Add me on messenger mate, talk ya through (I hope)

If someone runs e.g 5030 and in the screenshot "retuns" to 5000 how is it possible to know if he cheats?

I believe we will see a lot of crazy scores.

Thats a Big Problem

Lucky run

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Leeghofd told it on previous page, check CPU results.

If someone runs e.g 5030 and in the screenshot "retuns" to 5000 how is it possible to know if he cheats?

I believe we will see a lot of crazy scores.

You can see easily. I have tested it. The first and or second test will be great. And the mem score will be crap

Dont worry the mods will find it.

Can always ask for a video. Should be easy to reproduce. There is good runs but no lucky runs like hwbp.

I checked top 25 preliminarily, result is not final because we need to conform the ban of one user for cheating - thanks for your patience

will share some things at the end if anyone interested

Your cpu suxx, I offer you 5 dollars shipped at 1,45v 5g

so how do you get Geek Bench 3 to save a validation file? because every time I pressed save or export nothing happened.

Hmm, weird, you click on file at the result tab and have option save/save as there, works for me every time. Don´t use file option at launch app, no idea what went wrong at your try to save. If this doesn´t work for you, maybe something is wrong with install or OS

Did you buy a license? Maybe saving scores offline is a paid users only feature?

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Yeah I bought a license. And I did do the File >> Save thing and the app just does nothing when I press save. I guess it might be my win 10 install but everything else works fine. 3Dmark has no problem saving files.

too much OS hacking mate

Use the "save as" at result tab shown, the launch app cannot save file. If you did and still doesn´t work I agree with Alby, new install of program first, then maybe you have to try another OS or reinstall 10. Some slyake insstalled OS I had did not work for all programs properly for me on Kaby, maybe this is a problem

Stage 2 result is final now, keep pushing for x265

Show me your backups

Moderation done, the result is final for me. It was a very good competition, and I handled the rules in favour of benchers especially on some rig pictures

can we draw the rig pictures next time

thanks for your hard work and congrats guys good comp

Congrats to all. Thx gigabyte for this competition.

I did have a lot of fun and a bit stres.

Hope to meet you all in the next round.

Thx Gigabyte for the compo. Congratz to all. To be honest had some short nites due to this compo. Great stuff by everybody. OCing is not dead!!

Nice x265 Old tymer

lucky draw winners ?

lucky draw winners ?

Me :3 - no announcement yet, no idea when it will be drawn, first we need to confirm winners

no idea? sounds awful

Contact gigabyte and ask them - I am sure a multi million dollar business will jump at your command^^

I thought you pick the lucky draw winners.But I can ask them

Saves me time and trouble, lucky draw for prizes is better in hands of vendor who sponsors this than at staff when guys related to hwbot might participate. This is also the reason I cannot particpate at competitions like these, I assume you can guess why^^

OMG I just asked and it turns out I won alllll the lucky draws as well

What a coincindence, we both won the lucky draw - and I did not even submit