IanCutress

Advanced Sandbagging - putting the correct screenshot up but manually putting the score in lower than it should be

Sweet. Will we see this setup soon?

@TD: Yeah, they are that bad. These chips are not really four core - just two piledriver modules. Each module has two INT units and one FPU unit. wPrime is a full FP benchmark, so even if the OS sees 'four' cores, it only has two FPU units to do it, so it looks like a dual core.

Ticket ID: 1593 Priority: Low http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMD_Fusion#Trinity.2C_Weatherford_and_Richland_.28all_32.C2.A0nm.29\r\n\r\nA4-5600\r\nA6-5400K\r\nA8-5500 \r\nA8-5600K\r\nA10-5700\r\nA10-5800K (done)\r\n\r\nHD 7480D\r\nHD 7540D\r\nHD 7560D\r\nHD 7660D (done)

Ticket ID: 1590 Priority: Low http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Bulldozer/AMD-A8-Series%20A8-5600K.html

Ticket ID: 1589 Priority: Low http://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4338\r\nhttp://www.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4337

Ticket ID: 1584 Priority: Low As per title. http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/Core_i3/Intel-Core%20i3-3225.html

My birthday too, Vince and I share the same day. Shame we don't share points

Virtu? Or was dual GPU then disabled it for screen shot?

Ticket ID: 1580 Priority: Low http://www.zotacusa.com/zotac-z77-itx-wifi-z77itx-a-e.html\r\n\r\nIt\'s called the Z77-ITX WiFi\r\nthe SKU name is Z77ITX-A-E\r\n\r\nDo we go by SKU designation or name? I assume SKU because there is the following:\r\n\r\nhttp://www.zotacusa.com/products/motherboards?cpu_sockets=46&form_factor=27\r\n\r\nH77ITX-A-E\r\nH77ITX-B-E\r\n\r\nboth called the \'H77-ITX WiFi\' but have different stuff onboard.\r\n\r\nAnyway, please add these three

L224B818 Malay 5Ghz, 2C/2T - Gets into windows but doesn't load explorer at 1.4 V Using P8Z77-V Premium, BIOS 1504 Boots at 2800

Hi Mr. Nooblar... the 4x on the CPU is meant for multiple CPU sockets, not multiple cores. The system knows how many cores are in the chip you are using

Nice one

Nice. Click recalc for points

I hate to point this out, but this sort of attack on the staff is nearly abuse. Surely if the user had read the rules at the beginning of the contest, then there wouldn't be an issue. It's not the staff's fault for not picking up on the failure of an individual to read and follow rules. As a team, you have to combine you efforts to make sure each submission is valid at all times. Even a month before the end of the contest.

The only thing that needs a 'tune' is adjusting global points for low categories. E.g. 40 core PC05, only one score, gets 60pts. As per the suggested item in the bug database which has been there a long while now. http://bugs.hwbot.org/browse/HWBOT-694 Did the UCBench issue ever get sorted? Is it ok for Globals? Tbf PiFast has a worse bug and is still in the rankings.

Ticket ID: 1574 Priority: Low The Gigabyte GA-X79S-UP5, despite the name, actually uses the Server C606 chipset, and not the X79 chipset.\r\n\r\nhttp://www.gigabyte.us/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4287#sp

Surely delta between ambient and idle should be more than 3C. Also, envious that your ambient is low. No such luck in this city.

Idles below 5C, so ambient temps below 5C? dafuq?

Saw this one today...

You seem to have Virtu enabled. Virtu is not allowed.

Ticket ID: 1565 Priority: Low The onboard chip for the Gigabyte server board: http://uk.gigabyte.com/products/product-page.aspx?pid=4157#sp\r\n\r\nDon\'t know if it\'ll do much 3D, but it\'s there. Will get GPU-Z up when it comes in

Learned today I have the same b'day as Vince...

ROG CPU-Z, using a Gigabyte board. Vote now on bug, speed hack or photoshop...

If I set the strap and it works, it works. If I have to go fishing for several hours to find if the next strap up works, where does it end? Do I up another strap, then see if that works too if I loosen a bit here, a bit there? Before you know it, you end up with 70hours of 'work' time gone and you don't get a penny extra if you work on a freelance basis. Prevail as an enthusiast vs. work to feed yourself is always a tough battle. 'Normal enthusiast' is a very obscure term in itself. Readership for me is mostly 'I know how to build a PC, perhaps update a BIOS', but the buck stops there for the majority of people. Sure, the ones that comment on the review are more often than not the more knowledgeable, but as always they could represent the vast minority of the readership. If there is a simple fix that is advertised by the company (or at least distributed), then yes it gets included. I wholeheartedly agree that manufacturers have to be aggressive, and with the popular kits they really do fine tune it in with detail rather than SPD. They are more than welcome to do that. Reality is that the vast majority of regular users do not update the BIOS either, to which I sometimes come to blows with manufacturers when it comes to updating BIOSes. (For ROG/OC/gaming boards then yes, if it arrived with pre-release BIOS, then I update to the latest. If a retail sample arrives, I'll leave the BIOS as is and work with that, based on the readership of the website.) But truth be told, each motherboard manufacturer has preferred memory vendors. Corsair and Kingston work with everyone because they have the majority of channel sales. GSkill is getting there in the enthusiast segment, but it is up to the motherboard manufacturers to prioritise who gets research time.