Last post from me unless Massman or the other mods have questions.
Dentlord and I didn't bench "together" as it were because we are both capable enough benchers to pour one or no pots during a benchmark by ourselves. The together part was mostly high fives when a good bench result happened.
I work during the day (most days, I am self-employed), so benches were run at different times on different os's with different compnents by different people. I trickled my submissions in as they came, he chose to make his subs all at one time.
We were using Shammy's gpu bios' with the fixed memory speeds.
His card was capable of 1300mem clocks, mine was only capable of 1200. This is why his best 03 and heaven destroyed my runs.
Adversely, my 2600k was better for spi32 which is why my memory and clocks were superior.
The gtx580 01 results which appear almost identical were run early on for both of us. We hadn't flashed our cards to higher memory yet to see if they would run there. Plus everyone knows that with 01, you run high stable gpu clocks and push cpu for best results.
Don't you think that if we were sharing we would be smart enough to compare results and re-run with enough difference in clocks as not to provoke attention?
My highest 01 during these "joint" sessions was with my 275 lightning. Dentlord has not benched my card for points, only for fun.
Unfortunately things look the way they look, but really wasn’t that way at all. Joey and I were just doing our thing over the last month and never really realized how close some of the results appeared.