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Wait, so are you saying that for the purpose of stage 1 a kabylake i7 counts as a different subfamily as a skylake i7? Or do you mean that you need a score from any i7, any i5, any i3, etc. ?

At least you're halfway there

Inb4 700 mhz fsb on a rex with good hypers.

Hey man, you submitted your cpu clock as motherboard reference clock, may want to take this down and resub as a cpu frequency. Unless you're waiting to see if it gets taken down, in which case I can assure you it will.

Hi, as country cup starts tomorrow I'd like to make sure that I know what each stage is and what is allowed before I buy any new hw. For stage 1 it 8 different intel cpu subfamilies. Does this mean i9, i7, i5, etc or is this generations like kabylake, skylake, haswell, ivy bridge, etc.? Then for stage 4 it needs 4 seperate gcn1 model gpus. So for example r9 280x, r9 280, 7970, and 7950 is good and we don't need seperate actual chips (tahiti xt, tahiti pro, tahiti le)? Also going along with that question is HD 8000 series allowed and are firepros allowed? Neither are server hw, and technically did retail although you could not buy hd 8000 outside of a prebuilt pc and firepro is enterprise workstation class even if it's not server hw. For stage 5 I assume vega is allowed. (not sure why it shouldn't be, just thought I'd make sure) The only other thing is on each of the actual stage pages they don't have any details about the stage except to list the end date, which is in December. However on the rules page everything is listed as ending in November. As well as the overview page still claiming the last stage is multi-gpu when it is not. (Copy paste FTW!) Kinda a long post with lots of questions, but I figured may as well get all this clarified early, especially if the end dates in the rules are the correct ones.

CFR may be decent for a frequency run, but since there's also such a thing as mfr it's not nearly as useful anymore.

I see you used the cpuz tweak for wprime

Thanks for the thread, I was able to run xtu on my i5 3470 using the windows update.

Not interested, but to clarify I'm pretty sure that's MFR if anyone is wondering on the IC. I have a similar kit of trident x and from how it clock plus what it's rated for should be 4gbit MFR. I bought it before I understood about things like psc, but it's still decent, especially if you need some ram density or want to go for high clocks but don't expect to tighten the timings at all, even at lower clocks. Because they're 8gb sticks at least it's dual rank.

Hi, I'm trying to OC my 7700k and while it can do 5.8 ghz just fine on my phase change for legacy benchmarks anything with avx will cause it to power throttle to 3.8 ghz. I've made sure I have no avx offset and disabled everything that should limit it's power draw in bios however it keep throttling once any avx load is put on it. Doesn't matter if it's XTU, whycruncher, or CS:GO it will throttle down to 3.8 ghz rendering all core OC pointless for those benches. I'm on a maximus ix apex and I just cannot figure out what's going on. Can someone help me find what setting or jumper I'm stupidly missing that's causing it to throttle down? I'm on phase change so it's definitely not temperature.

1. Laptop cooling, especially on OEM laptops is barely enough. Undervolting lowers temps so it actually boosts higher. 2. In XTU on 4900mq just max the 4 core ratio then raise bclk if you can. After that mem OC if XTU has the option. On desktop it depends on platform. 3. OC cache as far as possible, you can try adding voltage but if you're thermally limited, which you are, then it may hurt more than help so you may have to try taking voltage. 4. That's because cpu is drawing too much power for it's rated tdp, if you have the option raise max amperage and that may help.

Newegg has the Bristol Ridge APUs if that's what you're looking for.

Were you able to get it to actually run at the 40x for XTU? I have the same board and it will run 40x multiplier, but during the XTU bench it locks to 38x.

If this is for rog comp you might want to fix your screenshot.

I'm ready, looks like it'll be a lot of fun!

Those look like pretty good stages, personally I don't mind restricting to specific chips for each round as xeons and opterons are fairly cheap for me. Although I don't know how it is outside of US, hopefully it wouldn't be too hard to get specific cpus. Also it may help participation if the socket count is more of a limit than a requirement. For example if I have a kickass x58 board but no sr-2, I can still try to beat people with 12c/24t on sr-2's and hope I can clock 6c/12t high enough to make up for it. Also, are ES allowed? For a lot of these platforms that would be nice, especially on g34 with the unlocked opterons, although for example on lga 2011-3 I can understand banning it as there are ES 24c cpus that can be found, albeit rarely, so they'll crush for like cb15 vs the slightly more common retail max core count of 22c.

The ones from china are usually reliable for me, you just have to wait a while. Not sure if you have to pay customs from china in france though, US we don't.

The Xeon is hard to find, but you can find the Celeron for ~15 Euros on fleabay if you're willing to try there. I've had good luck with the same seller on US ebay.

But it goes by cpu socket not motherboard socket, correct? So I can't slap an 8350 into a Crosshair IV then an 8370 into a Crosshair V and call that 2 different subs right?

That's partially why I was thinking doing a single socket per stage, cause a lot of people will see all the hw you need to do every bench for a stage and won't even bother even if they have an sr2. So doing a stage based around lga 1366 2p, or g34 4p for example would be much better.

That really good. I assume this is on ln2, any idea how it would do on phase change? My current 7700k does 5.8 with 5.5 cache 1.6v on a ld pc-2 so at about -40c

Yeah, I'd prefer the chance to really learn a socket instead of the hecticness of team comp where some platforms I had to learn in like an hour just to get them benched. But I'll be interested for whatever the comp ends up being.

I think it depends, I like the idea of doing stages by socket count, but I also kinda would prefer doing by socket and socket type if only because about the time I was looking at a quad socket g34 board and es opterons I realized that I'm 19 and even if I live at home I should probably reduce my OC budget a little. So it'd be nice to just have a stage where I could go to town on my sr-2 or on quad fx for a weekend or two with a few benches, especially if I end up finding a second phase for a really good price. But also it make sense to just do by socket count, cause otherwise it'd be a full stage for 1p 1366, a full stage for 2p 1366 etc. Anyways, whatever the comp ends up being I'll compete in the benches I have hw for, and if I can only hope to win that bench for that stage then so be it!

I'd be down for that, right now whatever stages there are I'm planning on benching s771, fx, and lga 1366 up to 2p for all of them. CPUs are relatively cheap but boards can be $$$.

I think it might be a good idea to decide on the name so it can be incorporated into the design. Anyone have any ideas for a name?