mickulty

You're a better man than many.

Nice! Liking the alcohol and cigarettes in the rig picture, lol

I've disabled points on this for obvious reasons. Please post to http://forum.hwbot.org/forumdisplay.php?f=109 - if you still have the data file for the developer to look at you should delete this submission ASAP.

Wow, nice! Think you'll be able to hit 8G validation for the ROG comp?

I'd say "I tried" but I didn't. With the focus or the OC.

Only the 7 game tests. The other tests don't actually affect your score. You don't have to run them all at once, for example once you have a score you can rerun just Nature for basically as long as you can be arsed with in the hopes of getting a better score out of it and a higher overall score as a result. That's what's going on with scores like scannick`s 3DMark2001 SE score: 156998 marks with a Radeon HD 4870 where you can see only 1 game test is selected.

https://imgur.com/a/iQ7oX A lucky find in an full system off ebay that's frankly far too rare for me to murder it with my appalling soldering skills. Tested with 3DMark03. Didn't spend ages finding the exact max stable clocks but 500/500 passed fine while neither core nor mem could run 550. £35 cash collected from Lancaster (within walking distance of the train station) £40 paypal posted to UK (Royal Mail 2nd class signed for) £47 paypal posted to Europe (Royal Mail international Tracked+Signed) - includes non-EU contries in the Royal mail Europe zone, see International World Zones for Delivery | Royal Mail Group Ltd

I do wonder if that's the reason people are so enthusiastic to wipe points from it. I too would be very happy to see a lot of XTU points go away but I have to be honest with myself and say it's not because I think there are people out there benefiting from faked scores. I just hate having to deal with 8/10 when most other stuff is 7 or XP.

Check out the XTU score: wickpote`s XTU score: 1830 marks with a Core i7 7700K It detects 92C. That's consistent with using crazy high voltages on watercooling. If it makes you feel any better his chip won't live all that long.

In my defence I've only submitted 2 or 3 results that took over 7h. I'm no stingeryar...

Yes, this is the highest socket 462 FSB score. Here's a link to the results from the hwbot search function: Overclocking, overclocking, and much more! Like overclocking.

Nice work slinky's mom.

*popcorn*

Honestly it was really good. All the older hardware was reasonably common and therefore no trouble to get hold of, it had something for everyone, and IMO stages like AM2 + HD 3000 3DMark03 were really well balanced. It really shows that a lot of thought went into it, I think it worked out really well as a result and I want to say that I really appreciate that.

I have about 20-30 PCs worth of hardware and I'm only eligible for 3 stages and only have any chance of being even vaguely competitive in one (although a dry ice frequency run on an fx-8120 using an M5A97 isn't something I'm that optimistic about). Can always enter scores that aren't competitive anyway just for a laugh.

I'd have thought a 7700K being given 1.6V would clock better than 5.35 if it was on cold...

Lol nio... I thought you refuse to push the 6950X anyway as it's in your daily system?

Noticed a score using hwinfo64 instead of hwmonitor, is that allowed? Don't want the guy to be disappointed in a few weeks time... Yeah lol I remember back when I was starting out I screwed up a whole bunch of scores like that, had to rebench ~10 different things.

I'd be interested to hear some opinions on this? I totally agree in my experience but being associated with reddit kinda helps with recruiting...

That would be completely insane but very fun!

I did, you just didn't listen

I think maybe some people need to take some time to calm down and reflect rather than writing essays refuting personal attacks that haven't been made. No-one is trying to take the victory away from madshrimps and all the discussion of preventing sandbagging is in reference to future competitions, for this competition it was both clearly allowed and expected by anyone with any sense. The reason I asked for opinions from madshrimps is because I hope any discussion can be about how to make competitions better for *everyone*, not everyone except madshrimps. Regarding all the time spent and rare hardware destroyed - I could talk about all the time, effort and money that /r/overclocking put in but it would be pointless because I know every team in the top ten and probably a good portion of those outside it has put a lot in. Some damn good scores have been posted by a lot of people. The best team won and, now that a couple of things have been cleared up where it was needed, no-one can deny that they did so fair and square. Are the rankings now finalised? After a few weeks of pinned posts about the competition on the subreddit it'd be good to have one telling people how we did.

That could be really good for a serious competition but I worry it could hurt participation a bit a bit for more (theoretically) casual comps, whereas both this year and last years formats were really good for participation (though I dread to think what another dogpile stage would do to the servers these days... between server load and moderation load I can see why that was dropped). The thing with sandbagging is you can't really *ban* it because then you end up with us last-minute benchers being accused of it. What you can do is mess with it. Alza's prize for the mid-comp leader was a really good way of making it less worthwhile, and while the idea of requiring the latest CPU-Z and GPU-Z at time of submission (which yos stole off me lol) wouldn't totally prevent sandbagging it would add a lot of risk to it. I'd be very interested to hear from some of the madshrimps guys, who I'm sure would rather not sit on scores but felt they had to in order to be competitive - what would have helped?

@Leeghoofd FWIW from my perspective - as one of the people otherwise "complaining" - there's nothing wrong with you competing. I'd just like it if you guys uploaded screenshots that weren't so awful, or even better just didn't sandbag so it wasn't even an issue. It's more fun for everyone when people don't sandbag, I really don't think it gives a competitive advantage, and that way the scores could have been caught in websmile's early sweep. As far as consistency my issue was that when two different teams made scores with crap screenshots halfway through the competition, and one submitted right away while the other held onto it on the last day, it seems the former was more likely to be removed for similar issues as there's a natural inclination to think "well it's fine, he can rebench" rather than "well I don't want to screw him out of a score, it's a silly error and the score still seems legit". In general this is reasonable, but I just feel that people who have chosen to sit on scores for months shouldn't benefit from that courtesy. The scores I pointed out are gone, so as far as I'm concerned it's fine. I'm happy firstly because consistency has been applied, and secondly because it looks like it won't really affect ranking which is good because that would be a shit way to win. I'd hate to benefit from something like that (tbh... there are other scores with screenshot gore as well but I don't wanna push the matter for that reason). Regarding cinebench... a lot of benchmarks come with an inconvenience. Time spy requires Dx12. XTU requires a recent Intel processor. Heaven requires an audio device. GPUPI on GPU requires FP64 support. Cinebench 11.5/15 requires 1680x1050 or better resolution. It's annoying but it's for a good reason and not enough reason to lose an otherwise nice benchmark. Hopefully when madshrimps kick our ass again next year they can bring bigger monitors to the bench meet Hopefully the guys from XO Italy will calm down when it sinks in that third is a damn good place to end up. Getting knocked down by sandbagged scores obviously leaves a bit of a bitter taste in people's mouths, from /r/overclocking's perspective we're actually quite happy now the dust has settled as we were expecting to drop more places than we did.

It's alright... one of the bad scores I highlighted is already gone now so they are being looked at and action is being taken, it's gonna take the moderation staff time to go through everything. I'm sure websmile is doing his best, with how the site is right now patience is definitely required. (btw if there are any bad subs left from /r/overclocking I hope no-one hesitates to either report them or let me know so I can delete them myself and save mods the effort - I wouldn't want to be a hypocrite here! I know yos screwed up his GTX 285 3dmark2001SE screenshot, and I didn't catch it, because we were both tired from last-minute benching/"procrastibagging" - that one is already gone now and rightly so)