HWBOT Competitions

Creating new thread for this poll so that people can vote in it: Okay, looks like we're gonna go with HD 5450. For benches I have a couple ideas for ones that should be gpu bound, mainly newer 3dmark. Although to make sure that the contest is not about cpu OC I think we should do like previous comps and set something like a 5 ghz quad core limit (I'd be open to allowing downcoring but for simplicity probably better to say only native quads). For benches I'm thinking that something like Skydiver, Unigine heaven (should be weak enough to not need xtreme), 3dmark 11 performance, or 3dmark06/05 although definitely comment with suggestions. Ideally we'll target the top 3 …

i7 7800X is admitted?

competition points are not getting updated. individual stages i have all points but in total score, my name is not seen and when checked awarded points, have all zeros. should have 190 points. there is also one 4 core sub in gpu pi v 3.3 as well. points awarded to others also not correct(not getting updated).

Is it open to all or just elite?

- No limitations on processor speed. - Both Retail and ES hardware are allowed, however no server hardware, ASrock and no LGA 3467 setups - Single processor sockets only!! - PRO OC round 1 will focus on 2D only, The next round same CPU specs but with GPU limitation and 3D only. Round 3 will be a mix of 2D & 3D Current stages: Cinebench Extreme Superpi 32M Geekbench 4 multicore Memory maximum frequency Start date 15/02/2019 at 12:00 CET -- Closing date 15/04/2019 12:00 Verification screenshot includes: Full res desktop screenie, no clipping allowed!!! The Taskbar remains fully visibl…

there is a problem to upload cb r15 , please fix it.

I have B-E 10 cores 20 threads , I can disabled 2 Cores and participate with 8 Cores ?

Would you like to write a tool and BIOS distribution application here?

Soon it will be time for old school is best school season 4. The competition series had good feedback over last years, so of course we decided to keep it alive and go for another season. This thread is meant organize the five (5) rounds of season 4, our plan is to give the participants the chance to create their own rounds and thereby take in experiences of last years plus the knowledge on old hardware accumulated in community. It might take some work and discussion, but we want each round designed by another bencher, so we start early to have some time to get this done. What do we need and want: 1. 5 rounds of 3 or 4 stages focused on same hardware (socket/cpus/…

This being organised or what? Usually announced start of November.

The online qualifier is open to all HWBOT members and will be hosted on OC-ESPORTS by HWBOT from October 15th to November 17th. The contest will involve the following stages: Contest Stages: Stage 1: SuperPI 32m (GPU any Galax videocard) Stage 2: Memory Frequency (GPU any Galax video card) Stage 3: GPUPI-1B version 3.2 or below Stage 4: 3DMark TimeSpy Extreme, FULL RUN Stage 5: 3DMark TimeSpy, FULL RUN To enter the competition, simply submit your best benchmark scores on the contest page. The twelve contestants with the highest overall points will each win a ticket to the GALAX GOC 2018 Grand Final live event in China ( date to…

Hello OCers! I just want to tell you: Today I added 3 WRs and many 1st places with 56 cores / 112 threads at Dual Intel Xeon 8173M. I have never used 56 cores before! Funny thing - I've lost 70 global points and 30 or more HW points! Adding results makes my points drop? With differentiation of platforms by core amount for HW Points? Last time I added some i9-7980XE results I've lost almost 200 points, later I added i9-7960x and lost 70 points! What the duck is going on with rev. 7 ? How can that be? Also note - I don't get any info about that massive drops at my wall! If adding results outcomes in loss of point than maybe I shall delete WR? Hu…

Can be closed :).

Maybe the extreme version is a bit too harsh for the older 600 series... maybe revert back to the normal Timespy, compo just started Majority wins!!!! Poll closes within 24 hours

Start date will be the 5th of August till the 31st of October. Frederik is adding the stages in the competition pages Hardware list will be available soon, so you can start scamming Ebay and co, we tried to keep it as cheap and accessible as possible. Verification rules will be expanded versus the regular standard offical HWBot rules: CPU-Z tabs for CPU, Mainboard and Memory (+SPD for the memory stage) Verification Screenshots are always full screen, no removal of taskbar, no clipping,... Retail hardware only (also for motherboards) Competition Background must be visible To avoid the drama of last year, picture(s) of the RUNNING OC …

Ca we use ct-479 on s478 on this stage ?

is not the Radeon RX Vega M GH a discrete GPU?

Start date will be the 5th of August till the 31st of October. Verification rules will be expanded versus the regular standard offical HWBot rules: CPU-Z tabs for CPU, Mainboard and Memory (+SPD for the memory stage) Verification Screenshots are always full screen, no removal of taskbar, no clipping,... Retail hardware only (also for motherboards) Competition Background must be visible To avoid the drama of last year, picture(s) of the RUNNING OC setup has to be added with each submission For all 3DMark benchmarks the latest Systeminfo has to be installed (have verification files at hand) Only single core GPUs are allowed!! …

Start date will be the 5th of August till the 31st of October. Verification rules will be expanded versus the regular standard offical HWBot rules: CPU-Z tabs for CPU, Mainboard and Memory (+SPD for the memory stage) Verification Screenshots are always full screen, no removal of taskbar, no clipping,... Retail hardware only (also for motherboards) Competition Background must be visible To avoid the drama of last year, picture(s) of the RUNNING OC setup has to be added with each submission For all 3DMark benchmarks the latest Systeminfo has to be installed (have verification files at hand) Only single core GPUs are allowed!! …

Xeon lga771 processors are allowed but only on lga771 motherboards. quite right?

K seems we have some proposals from different teams regarding the proposal of some card types. So we allow Titan Z and Radeon Pro Duo to compete ? That's the big question...

Start date will be the 5th of August till the 31st of October. Verification rules will be expanded versus the regular standard offical HWBot rules: CPU-Z tabs for CPU, Mainboard and Memory (+SPD for the memory stage) Verification Screenshots are always full screen, no removal of taskbar, no clipping,... Retail hardware only (also for motherboards) Competition Background must be visible To avoid the drama of last year, picture(s) of the RUNNING OC setup has to be added with each submission For all 3DMark benchmarks the latest Systeminfo has to be installed (have verification files at hand) Only single core GPUs are allowed!! …

So Matt did some interesting testing and confirmed the older AMD Llano AGESA is boosting performance in GPUPI versus newer AGESA versions. Question is simple for the ongoing Team Cup competition: 1) We allow these subs (as technically there is nothing wrong or buggy) 2) Not allowing these... I leave it up to the community to decide, since we still have 50 days to rebench and it is a pretty fast benchmark we can change the moderation approach...

can't download HWBOT x265 Benchmark for stage 3 on x79

By popular demand do you agree we allow a single Xeon Socket 771 CPU for stage 7 and 8 Either via S771 to S775 adaptor or on a S771 motherboard. Simply vote yes or no.