View Full Version : Advanced Overclocking Championship (AOCC) 2008
El<(')>Maxi
07-24-08, 01:23 PM
International Overclocking Experts Assemble at Hong Kong Dragon Centre
The international electronics event, Advanced Overclocking Championship 2008 (AOCC 2008), will be held on the 28th and 29th of July, 2008 (Monday and Tuesday), at the G/F Exhibition Area, Dragon Centre, West Kowloon, Hong Kong. This prestigious event will herald only one international winner, and the competition this year looks fierce! - Read More (http://www.aocc2008.com/index.php)
Prizes
1st: US $5,000
2nd: US $3,000
3rd: US $2,000
4th: US $1,000
5th: US $500
Gautam will be participating in this event teamed up with FUGGER (from XS). bazx a former OCF team member will also be making the trip to HK. Good luck guys!
sno.lcn
07-24-08, 01:26 PM
Can't wait to see Gautam and Charles kick some ass. Bazx too since he's still a teammate in my eyes :beer:
Best of luck to Gautam and Fugger...go team USA...:soda:
EDIT: Good luck to Bazx and the UK too
Dak9767
07-24-08, 03:50 PM
Good Luck guys...kick some serious arse!!!
I know I said it once, but good luck Gautam and Fugger :)
EDIT: bazx is going too...good luck!! Shipping any cascades there for it? :D
G, did you get your tickets and everything squared away or what? Seems seriously last minute :eek:
HousERaT
07-24-08, 07:16 PM
Good luck guys. I'm sure there will be some serious competition there.
Tip of the day.
F1 Pots work best when all 4 hold downs are in use :p:D
Best of luck to both Teams USA and UK
thanks for that guys
well we have just booked into the hotel and i must say Asus have done us proud
the hotel and flights went like clockwork big thanks to Ian
the temps here are 34c if you leave the hotel:D so its real hot
we got all the cooling and hardware thro customs ok so we are good to go
here are some shots of the view form our hotel room
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/P1000282.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/P1000284.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/P1000285.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/P1000289.jpg
paul sacha unpacking
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/P1000290.jpg
just going to get some rest man what a long flight
then i want to check out the computer shops hehe
i also need a G- Clamp to fix my F1 to the 280 gtx lol
i could not get a gpu pot in time
Brolloks
07-24-08, 11:57 PM
Good luck guys, we will certainly be cheering and watching for any prelim results :)
Godfather1138
07-25-08, 12:37 AM
Good luck guys. Sounds like you guys will be living it up for a few days. Have fun and kick some a$$
El<(')>Maxi
07-25-08, 12:39 AM
HK looks amazing, the hotel, views, everything. How are you going to use the F1 on a card bazx, contact with the side of the container?
HK looks amazing, the hotel, views, everything. How are you going to use the F1 on a card bazx, contact with the side of the container?
yes side if it will clear the ram chips:bday:
yes side if it will clear the ram chips:bday:
LOL :clap:
El<(')>Maxi
07-25-08, 03:28 AM
Damn I hope it works lol, you could have used one of my Tek's :beer:
You carried all your stuff on the plane baz? I was/am really worried about travelling with a metal tube, soldering iron, VRs, wires, etc. Security didn't give you a hard time getting on the plane (or what is in checked luggage)?
Is Gautam on his way or there already? I noticed no replies from him here, so I assume he's AFK :)
You guys get a full day with play with h/w before benching actually begins, right? Can't wait to here how your setups clock :thup:
tonadoocing
07-25-08, 01:32 PM
i wish yall best of luck my Girls dad is from japan i want to go when they go this winter
i just finished a small one my friend hosted me and him ended up being the gran champions but you had to be under 21 since he is 18 and i am 15 (16 next week :santa: ) i got 4.217 ghz on my x2 i have now it was air cooled using an air compressor lol no pics i thought i had everything might get some from him he got 4.315 ghz on the 6000 x2
Looks like a lot of fun, best of luck G/baz!!!!!
Best of luck, Guys. Bring home the GOLD
sno.lcn
07-25-08, 04:51 PM
i wish yall best of luck my Girls dad is from japan i want to go when they go this winter
i just finished a small one my friend hosted me and him ended up being the gran champions but you had to be under 21 since he is 18 and i am 15 (16 next week :santa: ) i got 4.217 ghz on my x2 i have now it was air cooled using an air compressor lol no pics i thought i had everything might get some from him he got 4.315 ghz on the 6000 x2
I would need verification like screenshots or valitadion to believe that. The world record for an X2 6000 is just over 4.1ghz, and cold. And Hong Kong is in China, not Japan :beer:
thideras
07-25-08, 04:51 PM
Good luck guys, kick some ass! :D
have not seen Gautam or Fugger yet so they may still be in flight
here is the event info
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/media_information.jpg
its 3.15am here and we have just finished all the vmods/insulation
we have all day tomorrow for testing until 530pm when we have to return the hdds for reformatting
then Monday it all begins
You carried all your stuff on the plane baz? I was/am really worried about travelling with a metal tube, soldering iron, VRs, wires, etc. Security didn't give you a hard time getting on the plane (or what is in checked luggage)?
Is Gautam on his way or there already? I noticed no replies from him here, so I assume he's AFK :)
You guys get a full day with play with h/w before benching actually begins, right? Can't wait to here how your setups clock :thup:
we put all the sharp things wire, vrs, pots ect in the hold in the suit case
just took my meters,air cooler in hand luggage
full day to play:)
Nice :) Too bad Gautam and Fugger missed the setup time, but I guess all day tomorrow is more than enough time to set up and feel the systems out. Thanks for the updates. Get some sleep and keep us posted as you can :thup:
Day 1 finished about 30 minutes ago...I sure wish these contests would post results much more quickly...I hate the suspense. I checked the AOCC web site and vr-zone, nothing yet posted from day1 :(
Hardass
07-28-08, 07:00 AM
Good luck to all.:thup:
1st Place - China
2nd Place - Sweden
3rd Place - Portugal
saw this info posted at XS.....I haven't been able to verify it yet. original poster was a guy named Silence.
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/showpost.php?p=3171814&postcount=235
El<(')>Maxi
07-28-08, 12:59 PM
1. China $5000
2. Sweden $3000
3. Portugal $2000
4. Singapore $1000
5. Finland $500
6. USA -
http://plaza.fi/s/f/editor/images/aoc2008_10.jpg
Not bad imo :)
sno.lcn
07-28-08, 01:07 PM
Team RAMROD 6th out of 20, not bad :)
Nice job by all. I am REALLY surprised Japan isn't even in the top 15 :eek: I wonder if there are any bonus points if RAMROD breaks any WRs tomorrow? :D
El<(')>Maxi
07-28-08, 02:17 PM
I am REALLY surprised Japan isn't in the top 15 :eek:
Particularly in 8M, they must have had some serious problems. In 3D's without NewBeetle there it's not that much of a surprise. I'm not even sure who these Chinese overclockers are. It will be interesting to see the individual results and get the full story from Gautam.
Agreed...I wonder how their point system was setup too?
It must be a bit distracting benching in the middle of a mall LOL.
Nicely done ...6th place is very respectable considering the field of contestants. Can't wait to hear the whole story.
Today will be a blast for those guys I'm sure.....don't stop till you hit a WR! :)
Artkobe
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/member.php?u=47353
Susie
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/member.php?u=39458
7th Picture http://209.85.171.104/translate_c?hl=en&sl=zh-TW&u=http://www.speedtime.cn/discuz/redirect.php%3Ftid%3D1902%26goto%3Dlastpost&prev=/search%3Fq%3DArtkobe%26start%3D10%26hl%3Den%26sa%3 DN&usg=ALkJrhgPUbWRrrZHnvqJknNgcdCLUtrYSg#lastpost
As my team mates would know, I've done alot of work with a QX/P5Q3 and 8M
All the others are what I thought we would see, But the Chinese score of 1:43.078 is very fast for that setup :thup:
And not to take anything away from them, as they have done an outstanding job. But they must have had the pick of the cpu's on offer.
I guess Team RAMROD failed miserably in Vantage LOL. I would've bombed that one too and I am SO sweating that it will be used in the Gigabyte finals :beer:
1:43 is pretty stout, I guess they just got lucky on the proc. It's pretty clear they were benching 3D01 and Vantage at higher clocks than anyone too (duh). Congrats to them.
I wonder what bios Asus had on the boards.
The Chinese must have been pushing 5.8Ghz.
And again not taking anything away from anyone, luck plays a part in these events (picking a good cpu)
I wish we could see screenshots, I'd really like to know what fsb and clocks they were using.
El<(')>Maxi
07-28-08, 05:12 PM
It is luck of the draw, only thing is I thought they could use their own CPU's. Susie? Am I seeing this right, they were all pwnd by a female? :D
It is luck of the draw, only thing is I thought they could use their own CPU's. Susie? Am I seeing this right, they were all pwnd by a female? :D
All I can say, it's a good thing I don't have Mod Powers!
"Senior Benchmark Addict" "pwnd by a girl"
Just playing with ya G :p:beer::D
Edit: @ Maxi
The way I read the rules, on day one (The Championship event) you had to use there hardware, inco chip.
Day two (WR day) you could use your own chip and there 3 X GTX280's etc etc
well guys what can i say it was a great day we have lots of images which i will post a little later
we ran 3 benchmarks today 8m,01,vantage
after 3 hours fighting cold on a c1 qx9770 we swapped out our cpu for a c0
which was fine with cold bug but only 3d stable@ 5400
the 280 gtx was really strong 1.4v 1100 core which cheered us up quite a bit
so after a bumpy start we managed 8th overall in 3d01 100590
next up was vantage which we were both looking forward to only to find after a reboot the card was now dead
so our one good result dropped us in 15th on the day
we have now been issued with a new gtx which we have to get vmod tonight
ready for tomorrows event which will be allot of fun as its a free day so we can bench what ever we want
Thanks for the update baz....looking forward to pics. Good luck tomorrow!
El<(')>Maxi
07-29-08, 01:05 AM
Thanks for the update baz!
Roger that.
Damn sounds like you had your hands on a good 280 Barrie. So easy to kill cards if they're not protected.
lotsa pics here....
http://www.vr-zone.com/articles/Advanced_Overclocking_Championship_08_Field_Report _Day_1/5956.html
El<(')>Maxi
07-29-08, 01:56 AM
What were G & FUGGER doing with that AC unit? Cooling hardware or themselves :D
Wow, Gautam and Fugger were in 4th place after the second bench (I'm guessing) :thup:
El<(')>Maxi
07-29-08, 02:53 AM
Maybe they blew up their card like bazx & sascha :D
Voodoo Rufus
07-29-08, 10:29 PM
A little late, but I'm sure you put forth your best efforts. Congratulations.
some pics will fill in the names later
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000339.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000348.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000344.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000350.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000367.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000368.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000377.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000380.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000386.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000388.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000413.jpg
http://www.benchtec.co.uk/images/baz/HK/hkweb/P1000441.jpg
Particularly in 8M, they must have had some serious problems. In 3D's without NewBeetle there it's not that much of a surprise. I'm not even sure who these Chinese overclockers are. It will be interesting to see the individual results and get the full story from Gautam.
The fact that TJ placed so poorly in Pi pretty much sums the contest up. :p Their result however was ridiculously fast clock for clock, even faster than the one that Charles and I put up at 500x11 3:5 6-5-5-15.
We were doing pretty well (given that our chip was miserable) until mid way through '01 when another team took our thermos accidentally, and the container rose to -85 and crashed. The mobo got completely screwed after that, and we needed to rush and get a new one going for Vantage and had very little time left. Charles was almost always the calm one, but he had had nothing to eat and started panicking hardcore, and I wasn't in good shape either. I stupidly attempted to run a Vantage at 491x11 which is where the rig was stable for 01, and it made it through everything besides the CPU test, which makes sense as Vantage is much harder than anything except perhaps 06. And then we ran out of time.
It's the same old, same old. These contests are fun, but they have to make it a little more fair in the future. The Chinese team had a chip that could do 5800+, and Singapore was around that area too. Portugal 5700, Sweden 5600. (elmor and crotale did a wonderful job as expected) The rest of the teams were stuck with 5400 tops for 3D, including ourselves, so to be frank there really was no fighting chance.
P.S. we tried a second chip, and it was even worse. A cold boot bug at -26. :eek: (No, I am not making this up)
And about the Japanese, as I posted on XS, these guys are the real deal. Watching them bench in person is absolutely shocking, they are so far ahead of the rest of us in experience that it's just crazy.
I don't think it even took them 10 minutes to be running at over 6200MHz on the second day when they were using their own chip. :eek: I could not believe my eyes.
Welcome back Gautam. You put forth a great effort man!
Way to go representing us over there. Just being invited to such an event is very impressive and your knowledge never ceases to amaze me.
:)
Matt
Nice job Gautam. Sucks to hear about the board, but still managing a 6/20 finish is pretty good given that and the better procs out there...congrats.
So, did any WRs fall? 6.2GHz is pretty dang high, that was a quad or dually??
No, not quite. duck and CAL930 got what would be a second place PiFast, I believe, and the Nordic crew came very close to topping Vince in Vantage performance, but fell 300 pts short.
The Japanese were using a retail E8500 for the 6.2-6.3...
That's just stupid benchable FSB and clocks for an 8500 :eek: A good reason everyone shouldn't be allowed to bring their own h/w to use during competition :D
Looks like a lot of fun, even if it was inside a mall LOL. I think the LN2 drinking trick is better than HiCookie's Kung Fu hand haha :clap:
Brolloks
07-30-08, 03:11 PM
Congrats on your performance Mr G, good to see OCF go to far places to represent us:clap:
El<(')>Maxi
07-30-08, 03:14 PM
Thanks for the pics bazx, it looks like the F1 worked for your card :D
Those Japanese guys crack me up, especially Duck. CAL kinda looked like he might need a ride to the hospital though after mouthing the nitro, they should leave that trick to the russians ;)
You guys did well considering Gautam, what was your impression overall compared to LA?
It felt the same in almost every way. They need to put a speed cap, it detracts from a contest's credibility when TJ is getting owned in SuperPi. :p
Gigabyte was a lot more hospitable though. Asus didn't like Charles and I going through 3 or 4 boards (we thought we had BIOS problems) and they made everyone remove all of their mods and insulation at the end of the contest, so that they could sell the boards. (No joke)
Brolloks
07-30-08, 04:18 PM
It felt the same in almost every way. They need to put a speed cap, it detracts from a contest's credibility when TJ is getting owned in SuperPi. :p
Gigabyte was a lot more hospitable though. Asus didn't like Charles and I going through 3 or 4 boards (we thought we had BIOS problems) and they made everyone remove all of their mods and insulation at the end of the contest, so that they could sell the boards. (No joke)
Did you guys not get to take any of the hardware with you then, no freebies or samples of new stuff to take home?? That sucks:-/
Nothing. :( Gigabyte even let losers like myself take boards home.
Brolloks
07-30-08, 04:33 PM
Nothing. :( Gigabyte even let losers like myself take boards home.
Hey, not blowing smoke at you but getting invited to such a prestigious global event is unreal to the most of us mortals:drool:
I meant loser in the literal sense, as in, not a winner.
And Ross, I was thinking of trying to take 03 out, but we were ultimately too tired to do any benching. It was way more fun watching CAL and duck and running and getting them LN2 when they needed it. :p
I know how you felt, I didn't bench the second day at all...I was totally out of it and just got worse as the day went on :(
I think it kinda blows that they didn't let you keep something, but it's totally whack that they had you de-mod/clean the boards for resale. Remind me never to RMA or buy any refurb ASUS boards ever again :eek: Sheesh.
Godfather1138
07-30-08, 05:58 PM
but it's totally whack that they had you de-mod/clean the boards for resale. Remind me never to RMA or buy any refurb ASUS boards ever again Sheesh.
That pretty much supports my current dislike of asus.
Thanks for the great pics and updates.
And about the Japanese, as I posted on XS, these guys are the real deal. Watching them bench in person is absolutely shocking, they are so far ahead of the rest of us in experience that it's just crazy.
I don't think it even took them 10 minutes to be running at over 6200MHz on the second day when they were using their own chip. :eek: I could not believe my eyes.
not only that but duck and cal are just two of the coolest guys you could meet
it was an honer to meet you gautam along with fugger
great event:)
ojdr2001
08-03-08, 06:50 AM
The Chinese team had a chip that could do 5800+, and Singapore was around that area too. Portugal 5700, Sweden 5600. (elmor and crotale did a wonderful job as expected) The rest of the teams were stuck with 5400 tops for 3D, including ourselves, so to be frank there really was no fighting chance.
P.S. we tried a second chip, and it was even worse. A cold boot bug at -26. :eek: (No, I am not making this up)
Hi guys
It was a really nice event and it was a pleasure to meet such nice people and excellent overclockers.
Just to clarify that Team Portugal benched between 5500 and 5600. Not 5700 :(
We have a screenshot of 5750 but only suicide
Cheers
:welcome: to OCF...
You guys (Team Portugal) did very well congrats!!! Hope to see you guys around here more...:beer:
Hi guys
It was a really nice event and it was a pleasure to meet such nice people and excellent overclockers.
Just to clarify that Team Portugal benched between 5500 and 5600. Not 5700 :(
We have a screenshot of 5750 but only suicide
Cheers
Hi guys
It was a really nice event and it was a pleasure to meet such nice people and excellent overclockers.
Just to clarify that Team Portugal benched between 5500 and 5600. Not 5700 :(
We have a screenshot of 5750 but only suicide
Cheers
Great job and welcome to OCF! Still not a bad speed, 5750 for suicide was quite nice.
NightRaven
08-15-08, 04:57 AM
It's the same old, same old. These contests are fun, but they have to make it a little more fair in the future. The Chinese team had a chip that could do 5800+, and Singapore was around that area too. Portugal 5700, Sweden 5600. (elmor and crotale did a wonderful job as expected) The rest of the teams were stuck with 5400 tops for 3D, including ourselves, so to be frank there really was no fighting chance.
hey there guys :)
it was about 5400 for Singapore Gaut.. i dont know what gave u the idea we were doing that fast. vantage 5.2 max for us.
Howdy there NightRaven....:welcome: to OCF. Your Singapore team did a great job. Hope to see more of you guys dropping by from time to time. :beer:
hey there guys :)
it was about 5400 for Singapore Gaut.. i dont know what gave u the idea we were doing that fast. vantage 5.2 max for us.
That's what everyone was saying on "our" side of the place! The rumor went something like Singapore and China had insane chips, and there were whispers of Indonesia having one just as good. :S If there's anyone to blame it's probably Josh. :p That post is gonna be the end of me, if it weren't quoted twice I'd just delete it. :p
NightRaven
08-15-08, 02:46 PM
That's what everyone was saying on "our" side of the place! The rumor went something like Singapore and China had insane chips, and there were whispers of Indonesia having one just as good. :S If there's anyone to blame it's probably Josh. :p That post is gonna be the end of me, if it weren't quoted twice I'd just delete it. :p
haha hey no worries Gaut! haha guess Josh caught us during our suicide run also. which was about 5558 or so. never did hit 5.6 or 5.7 for that reason :)
if Singapore had such an insane chip then i would have defended the aocc07 title heavily already :) was with T_M in Aussie last year after all :)
Glad you found our little corner of the net anyways, please drop by more often. :cool:
You're gonna have to deal with the two guys that kicked mine and Charles' butts this time around in Taipei. ;)
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