mickulty

Ok, thanks for the clarification.

Yeah but Intel do enough to help the OC scene that it's worth it

It's nice to know that even the best overclockers sometimes accidentally submit with the wrong hardware

Doesn't that still cover part of the image? I'd be very glad if something like that was acceptable, as my usual monitor is 1280x1024!

As someone who didn't really follow the cinebench stuff - or any other past drama... *popcorn* (I certainly agree with the principles that modifying benchmark files and modifying windows clock are both equally obviously cheating, and that "respected" users shouldn't be given any more tolerance than anyone else - but wouldn't wish to comment on how those principles may or may not apply nor on who to)

Hopefully x265 can stay with a new version, it's nice to have a benchmark that feels fairly "real world". R.I.P. HWBot Prime

In theory it should be ok if you include proof (ie cpu-z mainboard tab in the verification screenshot) that you're using a mobo without bclk tuning, although I have heard of ryzen results on 8/10 being removed anyway.

Yeah lol, trouble is I actually don't have a DDR3 AMD board that's good at both BCLK and CPU - the 78LMT used here is really limited on CPU voltage and my 990FX-UD7 shits itself past 250mhz. Almost tempted to try it on DDR2 with the foxconn A79-S but I have a list of stuff to bench as long as my arm.

The APU thing was an E-350. It did actually clock higher from pouring LN2 onto the heatsink, and the system stayed alive despite getting ln2 all over the board and water all over the place so I guess gigabyte weren't kidding about the 'ultra durable' label Didn't save any scores as it was just messing around.

Hey man - windows 8 and 10 actually aren't allowed for pifast as there's a bug in the OS that makes it possible to cheat by tricking the timekeeping. Could you rerun on 7 or XP? Otherwise this score will get removed when the competition closes and people's verifications are checked. You might also be able to get a better score with the tweaks suggested on the /r/overclocking wiki: https://www.reddit.com/r/overclocking/wiki/hwbot/2d#wiki_pifast

Nice, will still be a very nice score once you correct the hardware as well

Damn good way to start out in extreme, gg

Tuning batch and reduction sizes took me about 10 minutes and saved about 3.5 seconds, if anyone is wondering. I for one struggle to think of any better use of time.

Competing based on skill level is pointless, because then rather than being #1 out of people registered for less than x months which is at least an achievement of sorts, you get to be #1 out of a group that just so happens to be your level and below. Honestly the current system works quite well. The only issues I see are that in competitions with cooling or frequency restrictions and expensive prizes for the high places you get people trying to cheat (not surprising really - only benchmarks with built-in temperature detection and clock monitoring are likely to help with that, or just benchmarks that report intermediate progress so you can see when someone's middle GPUPI loops are magically faster...) and that you end up with globals and modern 3D skewed heavily in favour of money over skill. Of course, I suspect any attempt to remedy the latter would be met with a lot of resistance from the people who can afford 7900Xs and titans...

Sorry mate, gonna have to remove this - windows 8 and 10 are only allowed for hwbot prime when using skylake or kaby lake because of a bug in the OS. Hopefully you can rerun on windows 7. It's also worth moving the file save dialog box so it doesn't cover the score when the screenshot is taken.

Hey man - really appreciate you submitting for the competition but unfortunately because of a bug in windows 8 and 10 you need to use windows 7 for geekbench - see https://hwbotnews.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/windows8-81-10.png I'm gonna have to remove this but if you rerun, a quick tip - the 64-bit version scores higher. To run 64-bit without having to buy geekbench you can go into the program files folder for it and swap the names of the two .exe files - then the 32-bit option will actually run the 64-bit code and give you the higher score.

dammit guys stop beating my scores

Curses, foiled. That gold cup was fun for the few hours I had it...

Haven't stripped the OS at all so surprised how high this given it's virtually stock (1600C9 XMP applied and +100mhz CPU). It's possible this board has super aggressive multicore turbo and it was actually running ~3.9GHz, but looks like using the latest JRE 9 beta must have really helped as well as quad channel ram despite the conservative settings. Scored 4.85 on a rerun so fairly sure it's not bugged.

dank af

After accidentally getting a PB from a lucky run, I felt inspired...

gg

Why would someone ask when there wasn't anything that would introduce doubt? I don't see the forum full of people checking if P45 boards and E8xxx series C2Ds are ok for LGA775 pifast. Please can you just add something to the competition page to reflect the actual rules? Since FB-DIMMs are server hardware and I assume no-one mind if someone handicaps themselves with SDR, a simple "no RDRAM" would be perfect and then there would be no chance of anyone else making the same mistake. I totally understand and support the decision to make it a DDR1-4 stage so that it's not a "who can find an RDRAM board" competition, I just really want to see it communicated properly before someone else buys hardware they can't actually use. Please?

Are you seriously making the argument that it's unreasonable to expect reading the competition rules and the the page for each stage to give you a complete idea of what's allowed?

"everything"