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All of the teams took on board the expert advice provided by the KitGuru models who were personally selected by Zardon for their talents. We didn't ask for more details on the selection process!
The first round of the competition tested the memory overclocking skills of the contestants using MaxPi to measure the maximum memory bandwidth. The teams had 30 minutes to achieve the best possible score in this test. The KitGuru models were on hand to note down the scores of the contestants.
There was a maximum of 10 points available in each round (for first place), with 8, 7, 6 and 5 points being awarded to second, third fourth and fifth places respectively.
After the results were recorded and verified, the positions were announced. Team 4 (Ed Parker and Kenny Clapham) came first, achieving a maximum memory bandwidth of 23786 MB/s. Team 5 achieved second place followed by Team 3 in third Team 1 in fourth and Team 2 in firth.
In the second round of the competition, the CPU overclocking ability of the contestants was put to the test. They were given 30 minutes to record the best result in wPrime. Again, the KitGuru ladies were keeping a watchful eye over the contestants.
This time around, Team 3 (Bex and Dan) took the lead with an impressive score of 104.703 in wPrime. Team 2 took second place in this round, followed by Team 5 in third, Team 4 in fourth and Team 1 in fifth.
In the third and final round of the competition, the teams were tasked with achieving the lowest possible time in Super Pi 32M. They were given an hour to complete this round so they would have a chance to get a few runs in.
All of the contestants were waiting nervously while their results were taken down. The results were very close but Team 5 (Sam and Adrian) won this round with an impressive time of 6 minutes and 54 seconds. Team 4 came in second place, followed by Team 3 in third place, Team 1 in fourth place and Team 2 in fifth place.
Everyone knew it was going to be very close so we waited for Paul Watkinson to add up the final scores. The overall points of each team are displayed below:
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1st Place: Team 5 – Sam Denning and Adrian Wheeldon – 25 points
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2nd Place (joint): Team 3 – Ed Parker and Kenny Clapham – 24 points
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2nd Place (joint): Team 4 – Bex Graham and Daniel Rogers – 24 points
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4th Place: Team 2 – Henry Johnston and Alan Goodman – 18 points
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5th Place: Team 1 – Samuel Anderson Burrell – 17 points.
As you can see the results were very close at the top but Sam and Adrian managed to edge their way to victory by a single point. Both of them have earned the right to compete in the final stage of the competition at i45 in Telford. They also won a Asus GTX560 Ti graphics card each for their own systems.
The winning team wouldn’t have got there without Bex who, in competitive spirit, helped them mount their CPU cooler properly so they were able to compete. Despite coming in fifth place, we also feel that Samuel Anderson Burrell deserves a special mention as he is relatively new to overclocking and was forced to compete against the other teams of two alone.
Again, we would like to say a big thank you to Intel, Kingston, BeQuiet, nVidia, Multiplay and Benchtec who made this event possible.
KitGuru says: We look forward to seeing how Sam and Adrian get on at the finals at Multiplay’s i45 in Telford where they will be playing for two 3rd generation Intel systems from Asus. We wish them the best of luck!
Nice system build, shame the winners couldnt keep the system !
Will the next one be held somewhere else, out side the UK? seems unfair we can’t enjoy the event 🙁
Will the next one be held somewhere else, out side the UK? seems unfair we can’t enjoy the event 🙁
those boards are great, im still saving up for one of them. did anyone break the 5ghz barrier? I suppose with air cooling that would be hard.
Props to Bex for showing the guys how to build a PC :p
What’s a heatsink? 🙂
Yes, Dan and I (team 3) managed 5.1ghz stable and Adrin n’ Sam (team 5) I think managed about the same if not just a little higher.
So there’s a lesson for everyone … always read the instruction manual (though fiver says Bex didn’t bother with it anyway!)
If i remember rightly team 5 (Adrian and Sam) achieved a stable 5.15 GHz during the third test 🙂
Henry is right. We were around the 5.15Ghz mark which we we’re pretty happy with.
Thanks to everyone for the fun on the day. However I would like to point out that the heatsink issue was not our fault; they were not designed for the 2011 socket and in order to get them working you had to mount them at 90 degrees to almost every other heat sink design on the planet, meaning they would draw in hot air from the GPU or vent the hot CPU into the back of the GPU. I have included this in my email to Asus, along with other suggested inprovements.
I concur with Daniel. As I posted on the forums if you *DID* read the manual and followed it to a T you’d still have the mounting issue. Rotating the cooler meant the mounting brackets no longer wedged themselves on the CPU bracket but you still had to make sure you had used the washers which the guys forgot to use 😛
why not explain what bios configuration they used or if they used any mb hacks or anything to acquire such performance? what type of raid did they use? i mean, if you are just going to snap pictures and describe what can clearly be seen, don’t write your “article” then. it is a waste of everyone’s time. i came to here to learn something, guess that was too much of an expectation
Its not an ‘article’ on overclocking. It was an event held in England in which people we selected were sent to a secret location to enter an overclocking tournament. If you want to learn how to overclock there are many guides online. This was not a guide or article on how to overclock your system.