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I'm really looking forward to this comp. I bought two 5770s already and look forward to learning from all the pros that are going to kick my ass. Last year this event was by far the most fun I had. Reminder to self: Make sure you bench with a 4k monitor so there are no screenshot issues.

Thanks George. Use your imagination Simi. Grats to winner.

This is for you Simi37. Anyways, you may have got my entry removed from Cinebench for some screenshot issue I still don't know what it was but I went ahead and did it again with 9 minutes left. I may not have got my entry in on time but scored even higher. https://hwbot.org/submission/4365314_

Dude, this is an incredible score - well done. Not only do you beat all the Intel chips but no one with an AMD can close the gap to you either. I tried. Top notch, man!

Well guys, I gave it my all but can't solve the the puzzle behind a couple of these benchmarks. Still got lots to learn but by far the best part of this competition was getting my hands dirty with a new platform (AMD) and by the looks of how things are going in CPU land it looks like there will be lots of AMD in my future, too :-)

Who said anything about cheating? Running or not running hwinfo isn't going to change your scores. Leeg is making sure you follow the rules. A runner who has a false start of the line isn't cheating. Too many false starts and they will get disqualified. The fact that you are claiming to never cheat is by far a much more suspicious item of interest than if you ran hwinfo after the benchmark rather than before...

Friends, Has anyone else seen this: https://www.quantacool.com/polarbox-cpu-cooler Please comment - but no pumps? No water? No problem? Polarbox? I watched the video and am having a hard time believing this actually works but I probably didn't pay enough attention in science class. Loved to hear from more knowledgeable members.

Ya, I saw his Facebook page and it seems like the guy just disappeared. I was hoping that someone from our community actually knew him and could let us know whatever happened. Actually, MR - do you know if anyone has released any products like it that were ever available? Marco

Anyone know anything about this guy or whatever happened with his idea?

All true. Which simply says that without even trying most people see a big gain from what is advertised. The only thing I'd say to what you wrote above is that 5.0 on all cores doesn't include leaving the AVX speed the same and probably means it set at -3 or lower - agreed? I mean, if we can't even agree on where to start it becomes a pointless conversation. I'm not here to convince but to converse.

If that was actually true then Intel would advertise the 9900k with a base clock of 4.8. It doesn't. Furthermore, a turbo multiplier as used by the majority of the world outside of overclocking is a temporary boost in speed and not uniform across all cores. In fact, out the box 4.8 is only guaranteed by Intel on 4 of the cores with the other cores either clocking down or up. So what are you talking about?

I keep hearing people say there is very little overclocking headroom in modern CPUs. I honestly can't figure out where this mentality is coming from. I'm running a 9900K at 5.1 ghz all cores on my daily driver. That's a whopping 41% increase from stock. Most people are doing at least 5 ghz on 9900k - still close to 40%. How is that considered "very little headroom?" I think people are using the turbo multiplier as their gauge for measuring... I don't believe this is an accurate way to do it.

I have definitely experienced the 1.6 standby voltage thingy... I wasn't sure what triggered it but since then I've been manually setting all my voltages even if I wasn't actually going to increase them.

For me it's really simple. If it can go faster and perform better - even by just a little bit - I feel compelled to exploit it. As Ozzie said earlier in the thread - (I think it was Ozzie) - overclocking can't die unless overclockers all die. I can tell my 6 year old already has the same gene that got handed to me. Even if everyone else in the world decided they thought overclocking was dumb and never did it again - I still would - which means it is isn't dead. In all honesty though, this whole conversation feels like a philosophy class between those who subscribe to existentialism and those who believe in the ontological argument. Sounds so deep but as soon as the bell rings no one cares. Funny thing just happened - I looked over at my daily driver using a 9900k running with a 51 multiplier (with AVX) and had that warm feeling you get when you know your system is working and playing better than anyone/everyone in a 100 block radius. That good feeling of knowing that you had a "KS" way before there was a KS and knowing that you paid a commodity price for it compared to all the people that flocked over to Silicon Lottery and dropped a crap load of money to get something of equal performance. Overclocking is living! Or so it seems to me.

I've sent the money to your paypal preferred address. Let me know once you've confirmed. Thanks, man!

Please Delete. I allowed myself to get trolled.

Alex, I would like to buy these but have two questions. 1) when you say they were tested using regular water cooling do you mean the CPU was under water or that you had the DIMMs themselves using a memory water cooling block? 2) Will you ship to USA with extra cost covered by me?

ya, that is one of the nicest looking GPU water blocks I've ever seen.

nice man! It always feels good moving to that next level - keep it up!

Mind altering score!!!

nice one man!

Best. News. Ever.

JPM, just in case you didn't notice or in case someone hasn't mentioned it yet you've got the wrong background image for this submission. Just a heads up in case you weren't already aware.

Thanks for saying that, Scotty. It's all true. If I have been part of creating that in any way I apologize right here and right now.

That... That's - I...don't know... what to say it's just... WOW!!!!!!! Incredible!