OrSpeeder

Huh... software is buggy, my GPU is 380X, not 285. Oh well

I can't figure WHAT is this challenge, can someone explain?

The particular score there I still had a link to it, and indeed it had points disabled by the submitter. I can't figure what page I went to see that score though (It was a list of highest and lowest scores, the lowest had negative ones too). The "lowest" earned points with negative ghz http://hwbot.org/submission/3082581_solii_xtu_core_i5_6600k_1277_marks The XTU "reference clock" record, that now I know what it is, and know is wrong, got "zero" points, because it didn't win anything, implying that if it had won, it would be scored. http://hwbot.org/submission/2811195_chentinox_xtu_core_i7_5820k_1312_marks Not XTU, some guy won some points by scoring 4.8ghz on "motherboard reference clock" benchmark. http://hwbot.org/submission/3229039_q8djent_reference_clock_z170_deluxe_4801.15_mhz Not XTU, but the SSD benchmark records decided that a single submission in the 7x-RAID-0 "won" in all categories at the same time. http://hwbot.org/benchmark/as_ssd_benchmark/

I am a newbie, so maybe I am completely wrong. But I am seeing lots of non-sense scores all over the place. For example the XTU first place is a guy with 39 thousand gigahertz... but all his other submissions are 4.6ghz. I noticed there is a motherboard benchmark, at first I assumed it was about CPU speed, since the first place is 4.8ghz, but then the explanation says to me look at the RAM speed? Then I look into it, and seemly it is about the base speed the RAM multiplies from... and that is supposed to be from 100 to 200mhz or something. How someone scored 4.8ghz???

I ended on this sort of by accident, I wasn't intending to overclock, just needed to test something on my PC... But while testing, I ended getting the "overclock bug", and saw myself trying to figure how to improve my GPU score on Userbenchmark.com until I was the top1% in my GPU http://www.userbenchmark.com/UserRun/1187006 <<< there. So, I wanted to get started here, but found everything bewildering, specially because many information assumes you already know what it is, for example I saw that "Haswell Tweaking challenge", and I was, ok, maybe I can join that... But then there is no explanation, it is only written it is a tweaking challenge, but for Haswell... WTf is a tweaking challenge? Also when I went to see benchmarking software here, seemly most of them are paid? And what is validation? Do I need a giant monitor to actually submit scores? Example screenshot-based submissions I saw have lots of windows across a huge desktop, but right now my machine is on my testbench, and doesn't have space for a big screen, I am using a backup CRT screen 1024x768...