mickulty

dude if it comes to it I'll ship you a 5450

Thanks for doing this, really looking forward to it.

The thing with points is they provide a way for legacy stuff to have some kind of meaning, providing instant context. Without them only the latest top-end stuff will matter because that's all people care about, and that makes XOC a lot more exclusive and hurts the community. HWbot is alive. This would be death.

For new benches to have points added they usually need to be secure, I think the exception is hwbot prime which served the purpose of being cross-platform with mobile. For old benches to have points removed, that's a bit more difficult. Putting aside my usual extreme cynicism and all the obvious cynical reasons for established people to object, a lot of people might feel that it would devalue a lot of overclocking history to make those benchmarks "irrelevant". PCMark05 (which was described as "unmoderatable") faced a lot of resistance when removing points was proposed.

Low leakage chip?

One single thing? Give ycruncher points, it's an interesting benchmark that can run on an extremely wide range of hardware with a validation system and a developer who cares about security. In a broader sense, the problem with insecure benches like aquamark or 3dmark2001se is not that they necessarily are cheated, but that when someone puts a lot of effort into finding legit tweaks and gets monster scores other people will accuse them of bugging the bench or cheating - often without any sense of irony from either group. It doesn't matter if anyone is actually cheating - if everyone knows you *could* cheat that alone is a salt mine. On the other hand if those benches lost points it would REALLY fucking suck because there's not much else you can even run on the kind of ultra cheap old-ass agp cards that are good for getting into competitive OC.

Crikey mate!

Pretesting for a stream this weekend? :P

Holy shit dude, awesome work! Seems like c-die has a LOT of potential for mhz.

Really great to hear that it's still on, thanks.

Nice score! Shame I have to delete it. Try again on an OS that doesn't have the clock bug.

This definitely belongs here - @buildzoid taking advice from twitch chat on how to save a CPU-Z validation

Hi, The download link for GPUPI 3.3 goes to the 3.2 page. Please can it be updated to the correct page; https://www.overclockers.at/news/gpupi-3-is-now-official

I noticed NVMe isn't an option for storage configuration, please could this be added? It'd also be good to have USB as an option, as I've had team members who found that on platforms that need PCIe raised for high bclk OCs an OS installed on a USB stick (eg with Hasleo WinToUSB) was far more tolerant than IDE mode SATA. It'd be good to be able to show that that's been done on scores.

correct memory frequency is 2032 as shown in the cpu-z validation

best benchmark tbh

Heh, look at that little alien. Just chilling.

nicely done lol

Use pure Ethanol as an interface fluid, rename to C2H5OH vs LN2 :P Really good to see you on cold(er), hopefully the results will shut a few people up. How did the venom behave? Everyone I've talked to said it's no good for dice because it leaks interface fluid.

Amusingly it's the same category on hwbot but yeah the 7700K's bigger cache is a fairly big advantage. Maybe we'll get lucky and he'll have a 7350K.

Hopefully we'll find out soon. Yos has a 7700K that did 1900mhz+ IGP in 3Dmark03 so it should be no problem at all for him to smoke all the scores made on 7350K last year. I do believe him that it's more about memory than IGP core, but the proof is in the benching.

Fixed. @Tech Wizard - HWBOT uses physical clock exactly as reported by CPU-Z, NOT effective clock. I also had to remove your x265 scores (CPU-Z windows need to be in the screenshot saved with the data file, not separate), and edit the cpu frequency (score is the exact amount shown by CPU-Z, not rounded up). The others all look fine, some really nice work with the 3930K.

Maybe, idk. Probably could have if I had all my memory channels lol, this was my first time with subzero ram.

Looks like the weather has screwed us over, no LN2 coming and the travel situation for prospective attendees isn't great either. Waiting on "official" word from Jumper but looks like the full event will almost certainly have to be called off. I can host a few people round mine for people who have already booked time off, hotels etc and can still get to Lancaster easily and safely.