bigblock990

Great job George!

Thats perfectly fine with me. Just make sure all the benches chosen will be heavily gpu bound. Therefore NOT including 03/05/06 ect. Do you have a better way to enforce a cpu freq limit?

@mickulty It wasn't me who made the agp suggestion

https://hwbot.org/submission/4234077_bigblock990_winrar_pentium_4_3.0ghz_(prescott)_746_kbs I dabble each year for TC, this thing even has agp gpu although I don't even know what it is LOL Saved the setup from the recycle bin courtesy of @mllrkllr88

AGP and s478 compo? Isn't that what OSiBS is all about ha ha

Could do any of 03/05/06 with benchmate and cpu freq limited. Keep everyone honest I'm guessing @Leeghoofd will have another poll selecting benchies after this one closes so a gpu is decided upon.

Go Go!

Close and move please

First dibs to buy #2 from the binning efforts ha ha

SOLD, can be closed and moved. Thanks

Price drop - $100 shipped to US48

Thanks everyone! @FireKillerGR will need to retry for 7g, maxed out 6987mhz last night

Nice score, thanks for giving me the motivation to rebench

I didn't consider that, but it is 100% correct. Prizes increase participation.

Cheapaz S1 gt710: 30+ participants Cheapaz S2 gt1030: 30+ participants Cheapaz S3 hd5450: 17 participants Kinda interesting, I'm sure there are many factors you could attribute to this. Seems price isn't a factor though as $10 hd5450 much less participation than previous "expensive" gt1030 How is price/availability look for gtx 750 ti worldwide? That is also small maxwell core, but maybe better availability?

People asked for suggestions, so I made my suggestion. I stated US in my post, so thought that showed what market I checked. To be specific I just went on ebay and looked at the sold listings for gtx 950. Doing the same for ebay uk shows several 950 sold for 40-50gbp. Checking amazon uk 3000G is 44gbp, so unsure why you bring up the issue of price? I wasn't sure about price/availability in other markets that is why I asked when I made the suggestion.

Sounds great

I suggest GTX 950. Looks like avg used price $40-60 in US. How is availability for the rest of the world?? Benches: gpupi 1b, heaven xtreme, 3dmark firestrike extreme gpu score lod allowed. Open to suggestions for additional stages if people want more than three. I think Feb 1st start a bit too soon? Maybe Feb 15th run for 30-60 days depending on how many stages.

I simply stated my opinion, just because you disagree doesn't mean I'm being disingenuous. Someone isn't going win the 3000G compo on water with a single cpu. Both compos will require binning and ln2 gear to win. It doesn't matter what hardware you choose, ln2 and binning will always happen. The difference is that a cheap vga WON'T require a top end mobo and cpu to be competitive whereas a 3000G WILL. And to address the hardware swap point, my opinion is that no one will "cannibalize" their gaming rig irregardless of cpu or vga compo. So for me it comes down to the broadest audience of people with bench rigs. Cheap vga can be competitive on numerous platforms, and 3000G won't be. Also I have nothing against doing a 3000G competition, and if there is one I might even join the fun. Just call it something other than cheapass chips

Great job!! Only 6.9 on cpu, is your cloud storage big enough for all the sand?

I haven't competed in cheapass compos yet, so take my opinion with a grain of salt..... I pretty much agree with @zeropluszero it should be a cheap vga and gpu bound benches. The point of this comp should be getting people to learn how to hard mod, and how to tweak for best efficiency Sure ryzen 3000G sounds cheap at $50 price point. However its only cheap if you already have a compatible mobo and ram. If you need to purchase a $100-150 mobo and a $200 kit of bdie to run it then its no longer cheap. Also the argument that 3000G is a good choice because it will attract new people that have modern hardware doesn't make sense to me. Assuming that this target audience would be current gamers, I highly doubt these people are going to remove the 3600x (or whatever) from their gaming rig to run some benches on a 3000G. Meanwhile a cheap vga with gpu bound benches could be easily ran on almost any platform. AMD or Intel, including several older gens without much/any performance hit. This would appeal to a much broader amount of people IMO.

Yes I'd like to see a no limit mem freq stage for each gen. Maybe see some records broken like @Noxinite taking down DDR2 in TC17

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Nice one!

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