knopflerbruce

Maybe there are review samples around, but they don't have to be engineering samples. It's not like retail cards are only made the night before they're supposed to be available for sale. Just saying:) I don't think receiving a review sample is the same as company support either, a review sample can't be modded and messed around with - it has to be passed on in good working condition.

So you can run a quad socket rig with 4 dual cores for the 2x stage? Lol.

EVBot shouldn't be a part of the discussion, i've seen them on the EVGA site, with a pricetag of $100 bucks (or what it was). Xpander... well, what do you get? 4-way support? You can get 4-way support by using non-ASUS boards. It's not a feature unique to the xpander. Untouchable could be different, but I didn't know other people than Ilya and Vince used those, and they're in the pro league AFAIK. Plus, Ilya designed the thing - he should be allowed to use it. It's "his" product.

OK; so no disaster then?

Should be OK if you ask me, as long as it's a verified bug and as much of the GPUZ details are displayed using other tools.

Maybe you should add CPU model info to the first post, could be interesting to know if 3930k actually overclocks worse than 3960x for example.

A different (and better approach) could be to award the lowest scores, too - like if you have 11 teams competing you could give 10-8-6-5-4-3-4-5-6-8-10 points for a stage. Fighting for the 5th score is quite silly, you cant really aim for it while benching - you got no real target, you can't push the system in any direction and have a better chance of winning.

The threads aren't marked as read after I've actually read them. That's why I don't like this system. OK, I can double click, but it shouldn't be necessary. It just means more work for me.

Is it possible to have both options? I kinda don't like it this way, before it was very easy to find new posts - now I have to look closely at all the dates - not to mention remember when I logged in the last time. I don't know why the "new post" stuff won't go away after I read the threads, that SHOULD happen in both cases, no? The way it is now the whole feature is completely useless:p

Not the best news, but IMO we have no choice but to remove the scores done with the wrong dividers.

That shouldn't really matter, it's just marketing "BS":D

I'm thinking there will be a retail 8c/16t locked xeon. How the hell could you afford this:D

+1, bought a pair of those a couple of days ago

If the score is normal for the setup I'd say it's OK - nothing REALLY vital missing, clocks and GPU details are visible. Depends if we allow mistakes or not, but we have the "common sense" policy, so... As long as it happens just once and not several times.

Huge congrats to Poland:celebration: But why was the last stage rewarded with 25 points and the others just 10 or 15? Makes little sense to me... Should've been 15. Would've sucked if a country got a bad score in just that one and lost the top spot because of that alone, even though that team perhaps owned the rest.

Would be interesting to compare with Thuban and/or Deneb as well.

I can test fx74, but at 2.6ghz? Also got a pair of fx70's here, they're 2.6 stock I think. Apart from that wprime is just as useless as superpi for performance measurements:D Are both fx8150 tests done at 2.6GHz, btw?

I used the CPU/GPU filter a few times in the past, it saves alot of clicking if it's the 2 boint scores you're after.

maybe we should collect some info and post it somewhere - just stuff that makes the benchmark run without issues:D

Erm, it could be the windows version, win 8 is a beta product after all.

That's why I'll never have a cat - the damn bastards' favorite area is between you and the monitor:D Always!

So basically it's just an IGP upgrade. Unless it does 5.5 on air, no reason to upgrade for a 24/7 user:D I wonder if it's got the same walls as SB/SB-E.

So, how does this compare to sandy bridge for example?

So, how much faster than SB is this chip then? I see only lego pics in the link as well, with one exception - Fritz chess.

Nice! Thanks!