Level Up Your Weapons At Arena

• The hardware set of mainboard, graphics card must be brought and hand carried to event in Taiwan and
  must be used there for competition.
• After drawing key components, Warriors have 2.5 hours to 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, one spare set of backup components will be prepared in Arena for Warriors.
• Additionally a second hardware set will be available at the event. This can be used as back-up in case of a
  defect. If two set of components are all broken under modification or overclocking, Warriors lose
  qualification of the competition.

Configuration

Battle Items

Armed And Fight In Arena

• Warriors must use the computer equipment provided 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, DVD/CD-ROM, hard disk.
• CPU Cooler will NOT be provided in Arena, please be sure to bring your own CPU Cooler.
• MSI will not provide any waterproof/insulation material.
• During the 2.5 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.
• Warriors are not allowed to optimize benchmark program in any way, otherwise, there is no any    restriction on software tweaking.

OS/Benchmark/Driver/BIOS/TweakTools

Arena Battle Round 1

• The first competition benchmark will be Super PI 32M.
• The first phase of competition will be 2.5 hours long to allow Warriors to tweak and run benchmark
  program.
• In 2.5 hours 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 result.
• There is unlimited time for updating benchmark results during the round 1.
• After 2.5 hours, 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 be 3DMark Vantage P-Score.
• The second phase of competition will be 3.5 hours long to allow Warriors to tweak and run benchmark
  program.
• Both of the NVIDIA PhysX technology and Mipmap functions should be disabled during the benchmark round.
• In 3.5 hours 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 result.
• There is unlimited time for updating benchmark results during the round 2.
• After 3.5 hours, 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 and Score Calculating

Battle Result

• When the benchmark process comes to an end, Warriors have to ask a judge to come and check the benchmark score. After screenshot is saved, the score will be confirmed and submitted. Each screenshot must include following elements: benchmark result, CPU-Z, GPU-Z and MOA official wallpaper.
• In the end of each benchmark round, MOA judges will collect each team’s screenshots with USB flash disks  and double check the submit scores. The top scores will be validated through internet afterward as well.
• MSI will use exactly the same equipment as Warriors use, without overclocking to generate Super PI 32M, 3DMark Vantage benchmark results as Standard Score. After overclocking Warriors will have Overclocking Score, and we will calculate the Percentage of Performance Growth between these two scores.
• Final score would including the weight 40% of Super PI 32M , 60 % of 3DMark Vantage P-Score of overclocking performance growth score. The highest in the top three Warriors, they will be the top three winners.
• For example. team 1 get 250% performance growth over Standard Score on Super PI 32M and 220% on 3Dmark Vantage.Then final score will be 232% .If the final score are same,We will choose winner by 3DMark Vantage result.
• Any modification or change to the BIOS code of MB & VGA is not allowed in the competition.

Screenshot Example

• The following elements are required to show in screenshots with correct device name and BIOS/Driver version.
  

  

  - Benchmark result
  - CPU-Z V1.55 CPU/Memory/Motherboard tabs
  - GPU-Z V0.4.4
  - Master Overclocking Arena Wallpaper

Additional Notes

1. The Power Specification in Taiwan is 110V/60hz (Type A, B), please bring along your own adapter if necessary.
2. Please be careful while using any of equipment/device (liquid nitrogen, electronic devices), MOA will not be responsible for hardware damage and personnel injury.
3. MOA Judge reserves the right to change Competition Rule in any way at any time without prior notice.
4. Master Overclocking Arena is mainly hosted by Intel, NVIDIA, Kingston, WD, Enermax. The Arena will be decorated with these brand, please do not promote any product of their rival brand.
5. MOA Judge has all the final decisions in every situation.
6. MOA will not favor any contestant or country, neither through information, equipments or help in any way not stated in the battle rules.
7. The most important, please do have fun in Taipei.