The Battle Rules of the Mater Overclocking Arena are simple and straight forward. Warriors are allowed to use a variety of computer hardware modifications, adjustments and exceptional skills to achieve the highest CPU and 3D performance.
We will use exactly the same equipments as Warriors use to generate Standard Performance Score of the benchmark. The exceptional skill and knowledge of each Warrior will be the key to surpass scores of ours and other Warriors.
The Warrior with the highest margin above Standard Performance Score will be the Champion.
Key Components of Arena
Warriors will draw following key components in Arena.
Item
Description
CPU
Intel Core 2 Duo E8600
Motherboard
MSI P45D3 Platinum
RAM
OCZ DDR3 PC3-16000 Platinum Edition
Graphics Card
MSI N9800GTX Plus MOA Special Edition
Following accessories will be prepared in Arena to complete a computer.
Item
Description
Monitor
CHIMEI 22GH 22” LCD
Hard Disk
WD VelociRaptor 300GB
Keyboard
Genius Keyboard
Mouse
MSI Gaming Mouse
Power Supply
Enermax MODU82+ 625W SLI
If any product is malfunction before any modification or tweaking, please inform MOA Judge as quickly as possible.
Level Up Your Weapons At Arena
After drawing key components, Warriors have3 hoursto assembly and do all the modification and adjustment.
MOA allows Warriors to do all of the hardware modification, thermal enhancement, soldering, circuit modifications, replace parts on these four components; There is no limitation on hardware modification, however all key products must be provided by the MOA, Warriors buying the same type of products is not allowed.
If modification failed,onespare set of backup components will be prepared in Arena for Warriors.
If two set of components are all broken under modification or overclocking, Warriors lose qualification of the competition.
Armed And Fight In Arena
Warriors must use the computer equipment provide by MOA, but Warriors bringing their own overclocking gears (Cooler, Copper Container... etc) and electronic equipment (Multimeter, Thermometer) is allowed.
Warriors cannot use any computer products not provided by MSI, such as USB flash drives, CD-ROM, hard disk.
CPU Cooler will NOT be provided in Arena, please be sure to bring your own CPU Cooler.
Only a limited amount of waterproof/insulation materials (such as sponges, tape, Vaseline…etc) will be provided, but please bring along your own.
During the 3 hours period of assembly and modification, liquid nitrogen is allowed to use. And Warriors are free to try all the benchmark program, but submitting results is only allowed after Battle Round begins.
Pre-Installed Utilities and Benchmark
The Hard disk will be pre-installed with operating system and the following Benchmark/Overclocking/Tweaking utilities, Warriors is not allowed to install any other software.
Item
Description
OOperation System
Windows XP Professional SP3
Motherboard BIOS
MOA Special Version BIOS
VGA Driver
NVIDIA Forceware 178.24
Benchmark
SuperPI MOD 1.5 1M
3DMark01 SE Build 330
Tweaking Utilities
MSI DualCoreCenter CPU-Z GPU-Z ATI Tools Rivatuner Memset SetFSB
Warriors are not allowed to optimize benchmark program in any way, otherwise, there is no any restriction on software tweaking.
Arena Battle Round 1
The first competition benchmark will beSuperPI MOD 1.5 1M.
The first phase of competition will be50minutes long to allow Warriors to tweak and run benchmark program.
In50minutes period, Warriors can update the benchmark results any time, after Judge approved the result, result will be updated to the scoreboard, which is the team's official results.
There is unlimited time for updating benchmark results before end of time.
After50 minutes, the benchmark results cannot be updated anymore, we will use last update of the result to be your final score
The Judge has the right to ask Warriors re-run benchmark to verify results.
Arena Battle Round 2
The second competition benchmark will be3DMark01 SE Build 330 (default setting).
The second phase of competition will be50minutes long to allow Warriors to tweak and run benchmark program.
In50minutes period, Warriors can update the benchmark results any time, after Judge approved the result, result will be updated to the scoreboard, which is the team's official results.
There is unlimited time for updating benchmark results before end of time.
After50 minutes, the benchmark results cannot be updated anymore, we will use last update of the result to be your final score.
The Judge has the right to ask Warriors re-run benchmark to verify results.
Battle Result
When Warriors are ready to call Judge and submit benchmark result, they need to capture screen first. Screenshot have to includes benchmark result, CPU-Z, GPU-Z and MOA Official Wallpaper, and save it on Desktop. Judges report score based on the captured screen file.
MSI will use exactly the same equipment as Warriors use, without overclocking to generate SuperPI 1M and 3DMark 01 SE Build 330 benchmark results as Standard Score.After overclocking Warriors will have Overclocking Score, and we will calculate the Percentage of Performance Growth between these two score.
Final Score is the average of two Percentage of Overclocking Performance Growth Score, Warriors with top three score will be the top three winners.
For example, team 1 get 150% performance growth over Standard Score on SuperPI and 120% on 3DMark01, then Final Score will be 135%.
If the final score are same, we will choose winner by 3DMark05 1.30 result.
Screenshot Example
The following elements are required to show in screenshots.
- Benchmark result
- CPU-Z CPU/Memory/Motherboard tabs
- GPU-Z
- Master Overclocking Arena Wallpaper (we will have good looking wallpaper in Arena
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Additional Notes
The Power Specification in Taiwan is 110V/15A (3pin Type B), please bring along your own adapter if necessary.
Master Overclocking Arena is mainly hosted by MSI, Intel, OCZ, NVIDIA, Enermax, WD, Chimei and Genius. The Arena will be decorated with these brand, please do not promote any product of their rival brand.
Please be careful while using any of equipment/device (liquid nitrogen, electronic devices), MOA will not be responsible for hardware damage and personnel injury.
MOA Judge have all the final decisions in every situation.
MOA Judge reserves the right to change Competition Rule in any way at any time without prior notice.
MOA will not favor any contestant or country, neither through information, equipments or help in any way not stated in the battle rules
