IanCutress

I think you're getting confused about what MVP does. It doesn't 'skip frames', it negotiates which part of the previous frame can be kept for the next one. So it isn't - 1+0+1+1+0 for 5 frames, it would be 1+0.2+0.6+0.5+0.1

ALL the tweaks! Care to share?

Perhaps Intel will refuse to sponsor an event where he is a participant. Or they'll twist the hosts arm to not include him in whatever contest, on threat of reduced support.

Qft. Edit: Something's wrong with the quoting system, it changed the case on the first letter in all your words.

I thought that was around average for a IVB chip.

What we really need is a way of measuring GPU performance that isn't FPS. That's the underlying reality of what we're dealing with.

Just read the whole thread. Massman has it right this time: is the goal of the benchmark 'to render every frame' or 'to render a scene'. A benchmark is used to emulate a real gaming scenario In gaming, 'rendering a scene' is more important than 'rendering every frame'. Thus the goal of a benchmark is to render a scene Take the concept of Z-Culling in hardware. It discards part of the scene that doesn't need to be rendered because it is behind something else in the scene. MVP seems similar to this, but more in a 'you've already rendered that bit' type of scenario. In the grand scheme of things, I'd say do it. But it only strives to complicate HWBot more. Plus, more excuses to bench everything again. Which is okay if you enjoy it - it'll provide another barrier to people interested doing casual benching at HWBot though ("Ugh, can't compete with my card because I'm not on Z77 or w/e") What we need is a 2D GPU benchmark which MVP will not affect. That way if a rendering tech comes along like this, that benchmark scores will not be worried about.

Spi 1m not 32m

- You plug in a GPU and it whines because you forgot to put in the power connectors

Nice one

Competitive Overclocking is like Drag Racing. In Drag Racing you use unrealistic cars/machines that you'd never use on the road, tweaked to the hilt, to do the quickest 1/4 mile. It's a lesson in power, performance, and skill. Competitive Overclocking is like Drag Racing for computers.

Epic TD, just epic.

:D :thumb:

I was going to say - USB stick failure in 3, 2, 1 ...

http://hwbot.org/benchmark/3dmark11_-_entry/rankings?hardwareTypeId=videocard_1744#start=0#interval=20#cores=3 But you still post your global golds a day or two after me, eh?

Hi Winnah, welcome to the team! Unfortunately this submission doesn't follow the SPi rules Please can you follow the rules at http://hwbot.org/news/879_application_7_rules/ which requires a couple more windows, and all the sub-times have to be visible for SPi. The HWBot section at Overclock.net forums are open if you need help

For the 7970: http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_7970/ Rating 0/100 Submissions: 1003 Take the 6870 X2: http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocard/radeon_hd_6870_x2/ Rating: 46/100 Submissions: 89 I still maintain it's a bug rather than an 'unreliable' number.

Issue with hardware index calculation. The top card worth 100/100 actually scores 0/100. Just check the 7970.

ES making big globals? Time to move to the Pro OC?

Fix: 10pts for a global with 10 or less submissions 20pts for 10-20 subs 30pts for 20-30 subs 40pts for 30-40 50pts for 40-50 60pts for 51+ The joy of that global in obscure hw combo should be the cup rather than the points.

X79/SBE is quad-channel 1600 supported, SB is dual-channel 1333. But you're right, anything above that is up to the manufacturer to support, used in marketing, etc

ASRock tell me the Extreme9 is only rated to 2400 in dual channel. I got 2133 to work in quad with a set of GSkills. Just as I finish writing about the board on the 30 BIOS. Lovely.

Turbo is fixed by selecting 'High Performance' in power options.

Aquamark3 on IGP, limited to DDR2. DDR3 low frequency. AS SSD with Ramdisk. wPrime long, but overall score is time*cpu threads. so 10 secs * 16 threads = score of 160.

No, that's just the nature of competitions. If an event started and ended on a thursday, you may put a score up over the weekend, but if someone beats you, you will (or others will) try and find the time on wednesday or thursday to rebench. Ultimately the person who has only one chance to bench probably wont win - if you only played tennis once a week, you wouldn't expect to win a title on the tour.