Tones Overclock Academy III - Benelux Edition

Tradeshow & OC events by petervandamned @ 2011-08-19

Sunday 14th August 2011. Exactly one year after Tones Overclock Academy I, the Academy goes international.  Place of action, the beautifull pitoresk city of Utrecht. It was just 2 months ago we had Gigabyte launching their X58-OC board at TOA II. For the first edition Asus was our hardware provider. This time, MSI is the guest manufactor for motherboards and videocards. Consistent sponsors are Intel for the CPUs and Corsair for memory and PSU's. Due to the international character we initially had plans for up to 20 teachers and 80 students. Before we were limited to the madshrimps crew for the teaching part. But together with volunteers from Overclock Team holland we had the opportunity to invite a lot more students.




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Master PJ at work and finals

Master PJ Massman was a bit forced by MSI's guy Dennis. Putting pressure on him to "break records". There was even a sabotaged run. Another MSI employee pulled the power cable, accidentally or not ? This persons wanted to remain unknown. So we will just call him Niels from now on.

 

 

 

 

 

  • Model: Core i7 Extreme 990X (Gulftown)
  • Cooling: Liquid Nitrogen 
  • Temperature (°C): -130.0 (load) -130.0 (idle) 25.0 (ambient)
  • Batch: L101Bxxx
  • Speed: 3.470 @ 6.000MHz
  • Model: 3x MSI GeForce GTX 580 (GF110)
  • Cooling: Standard Stock Cooling
  • Product: Lightning
  • Clockspeed: 777/1.002 (stock) @ 925/1.200 MHz
  • Product: Dominator GT
  • Cooling: Standard Stock Cooling
  • Type: 6144MB DDR3 SDRAM
  • Clockspeed: @ 800MHz
  • Timings: CL9-9-9-27

 

3DMark Vantage - Performance ranking

62919 marks  with 3x GTX580 @ 925/1200MHz

On hwbot place 1  by using 3 cards on standard cooling.

 

 

Job well done !!!

 

 

 

 

Time for the prices :

 

By taking a gues on the highscores of the day. As mentioned before the students used 10 x58 systems and 10 Z68 systems. All predicted scores were nicely kept by the charming wife of Manu in a excel sheet on her little netbook.

Not by the highest score of the day, but the one at 16.00 or 4.00 PM.

for the Z68 and x58

 

Lucky number 1 was Ferdinand Aequitis winner of the MSI R6950 Twin Frozr II and Dennis that smile looks much better!

 

 

And the winner's name of the Corsair memory kit was Gregory Broothaerts , sorry bro but we have no further info about you. Well also one lucky guy, in red Jeroen from Corsair.

 

 

At the end of the day a real unexpected finish. Each one that wanted to participate in a lucky raffle, was attributed a nr in the netbook of Manu's misses.

Manu from Tones told us Intel had sponsord a intel system.

 

 

Just by random choice made by the barlady

 

 

Sorry for the outfocussed picture (edit : shaky hands Peter ?)

 

 

 

His name is nedernakker. Winning a nice setup today and a future dad every minute now. Cellhone within reach he didn't even knew if he could stay till the end.

Being one of the teachers and a real master of overclocking. You lucky ...... 

 

 

 

 

What a great day, and this wasn't possible without the help of the teachers and all the fun people from Tones!

 

Did we all had fun, o yeah baby...

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Comment from Dennis.MSI @ 2011/08/19
It wasn't pushing!

Merely positively reinforcing a performance by setting a certain level of expectations.

Which I wouldn't have done if I didn't trust PJ's capabilities
Comment from MSI-Niels @ 2011/08/19
As a certified safety officer (BHV) I did encountered a potential dangerious situation (accidently) Afterwards it was solved directly with an extra extention cable. Perhaps for the better, as everyone was focussing only on the wc attempt.
Comment from leeghoofd @ 2011/08/19
Nice recovery guys


I know what you did last summer
Comment from MSI-Niels @ 2011/08/20
yeah also accidently unplugged a certain someone during a bench session

Just consider it as an extra difficulty level when i am around. Overclocking is becomming so easy on the newer platforms and "LN2 ready" vga cards. At least I (though not always intentionally) keep it a challenge.

I am getting some good idea's now for the MOA 2012 benelux qualifier. instead of trying to make you guys run 100m to an oc genie button, i could just hide all the to be used hardware in the warehouse, as a Military Class II(I) search&bench mission. Not telling that the MSI team hides there too with loaded paintball guns :P
Comment from petervandamned @ 2011/08/21
then the ware house will never looks the same again.
ordering some small pistols too
Comment from jort @ 2011/08/21
hahaha imagine that !
Comment from leeghoofd @ 2011/08/21
I would have an unfair advantage with my l33T military skills...

no need to set scores, just thrash the oposition with fiersome paintball action...
Comment from petervandamned @ 2011/08/22
Vandamned killer skillzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

 

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