MSI Xtreme Speeder P55 Online Competition - $7000 Price Money!

Massman · 2nd November 2009, 13:23

The Xtreme Speeder P55 online competition consists of one main competition, divided into three stages with each an extra challenge. Although this sounds extremely complicated in theory, you will see that it is in fact a very straight-forward and certainly most interesting competition. The main competition consists out of three stages which will be discussed in the next paragraph. For each stage you can gather points and whoever gathers the most points in each stage wins the overall competition. Next to the main competition, there will also be prizes awarded for the winner of each stage and in addition a bonus prize for breaking a world record!

* Overall top three prizes
o First Place: USD $2000
o Second Place: USD $1500
o Third Place: USD $1000
o Special Prize for Core i5 Overall Top Score: USD $1000
* Stage winners
o CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $1000
* World record breaker
o CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $500
* Lucky draw
o MSI Big Bang Fuzion mainboard: 1 per week (4 in total)
o MSI Big Bang limited edition book bag: 5 per week (20 in total)

http://hwbot.org/article/news/msi_xt...ne_competition

Massman · 2nd November 2009, 13:23

In co-operation with HWBOT, MSI is hosting a new P55 overclocking competition as of November the 14th. Prizes are to be announced soon as well, but I can guarantee it's pretty sick ... in the good way.

Quote:

MSI launched P55 Xtreme Speed series motherboards for two months now, and countless worldwide top media gave MSI P55 the highest recommendation on performance, stability and quality. Therefore, on behalf of MSI, we invite all overclockers around the world to join the Xtreme Speeder P55 Online Competition and to challenge undiscovered extreme overclocking territory of MSI P55 and Intel Lynnfield CPU.

1. Concept

The Xtreme Speeder P55 online competition consists of one main competition, divided into three stages with each an extra challenge. Although this sounds extremely complicated in theory, you will see that it is in fact a very straight-forward and certainly most interesting competition.

The main competition consists out of three stages which will be discussed in the next paragraph. For each stage you can gather points and whoever gathers the most points in each stage wins the overall competition. Next to the main competition, there will also be prizes awarded for the winner of each stage and in addition a bonus prize for breaking a world record!

The competition period:

Start: 15/11/2009 (15th of November 2009) 12:00:00 CEST
End: 13/12/2009 (13th of December 2009) 12:00:00 CEST

2. Competition details

2.a. Stages

Before we go deeper into the competition, it’s important for you to understand that it is not an absolute necessity to submit a score to each stage of the competition. No submitting doesn’t lead to disqualification, but it does lower your chances of winning one of the big prizes awarded to the overall winners. In other words, it is perfectly possible to focus completely on one stage to win the prize awarded to the stage winner. Underneath a list of the three stages.

CPU-Z: Highest CPU frequency validation
SuperPI 32M
Wprime 32M

2.b. Hardware requirements

As this an MSI P55 competition, we do have a couple of hardware limitations set in place to make sure the playing field is as equal as possible. Underneath a list of the competition-specific limitations.

Processor must be Lynnfield core
Motherboard brand must be MSI
Retail hardware only

2.c. Scoring methodology

So, as you already know from the introduction, the overall winners are appointed using the total amount of points gathered during the three stages. Evidently, the overclocker who gathers the most points wins the competition, but this does not mean that this person has won all three stages. It is even possible to be the overall winner without winning any of the stages!

For each stage, this is the scoring algorythm:

1st = 10 points
2nd = 8 points
3rd = 6 points
4th = 5 points
5th = 4 points
6th = 3 points
7th = 2 points
8th = 1 point

In other words, the maximum amount of points that can be acquired is 30.

3. Prizes

Overall top three prizes
- First Place: USD $2000
- Second Place: USD $1500
- Third Place: USD $1000
- Special Prize for Core i5 Overall Top Score: USD $1000
Stage winners
- CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $1000
World record breaker
- CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $500
Lucky draw
- MSI Big Bang Fuzion mainboard: 1 per week (4 in total)
- MSI Big Bang limited edition book bag: 5 per week (20 in total)

jmke · 2nd November 2009, 13:25

that's a crazy amount of money for an overclocking compo; HWbot ftw!

Massman · 2nd November 2009, 13:26

If you do well: $6500

jmke · 2nd November 2009, 13:33

I think, that this OC compo has the largest price pot I've ever seen.

Massman · 21st November 2009, 18:36

Ranking after 6 days of competition

Massman · 1st December 2009, 09:12

French people are in the lead ...

Massman · 9th December 2009, 09:14

Last call: three more days to go

jmke · 9th December 2009, 09:23

expecting last minute submissions?

Massman · 9th December 2009, 09:57

Yeah, a lot of last-minutes

2nd November 2009, 13:23	#1
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	MSI Xtreme Speeder P55 Online Competition - $7000 Price Money! The Xtreme Speeder P55 online competition consists of one main competition, divided into three stages with each an extra challenge. Although this sounds extremely complicated in theory, you will see that it is in fact a very straight-forward and certainly most interesting competition. The main competition consists out of three stages which will be discussed in the next paragraph. For each stage you can gather points and whoever gathers the most points in each stage wins the overall competition. Next to the main competition, there will also be prizes awarded for the winner of each stage and in addition a bonus prize for breaking a world record! * Overall top three prizes o First Place: USD $2000 o Second Place: USD $1500 o Third Place: USD $1000 o Special Prize for Core i5 Overall Top Score: USD $1000 * Stage winners o CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $1000 * World record breaker o CPU-Z, SuperPI 32M, Wprime 32M: USD $500 * Lucky draw o MSI Big Bang Fuzion mainboard: 1 per week (4 in total) o MSI Big Bang limited edition book bag: 5 per week (20 in total) http://hwbot.org/article/news/msi_xt...ne_competition __________________

2nd November 2009, 13:25	#3
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	that's a crazy amount of money for an overclocking compo; HWbot ftw! __________________

2nd November 2009, 13:26	#4
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	If you do well: $6500 __________________

2nd November 2009, 13:33	#5
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	I think, that this OC compo has the largest price pot I've ever seen. __________________

21st November 2009, 18:36	#6
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	Ranking after 6 days of competition __________________

1st December 2009, 09:12	#7
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	French people are in the lead ... __________________

9th December 2009, 09:14	#8
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	Last call: three more days to go __________________

9th December 2009, 09:23	#9
jmke Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium Posts: 79,021	expecting last minute submissions? __________________

9th December 2009, 09:57	#10
Massman [M] Reviewer Join Date: Nov 2004 Location: Waregem Posts: 6,466	Yeah, a lot of last-minutes __________________

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