Bobnova

What happened to the frontpage ranking? Everybody is on there twice! Related to the above post: I was under the impression that only this first round would use old scores. Is that correct, or will it be allowed to use/re-use old scores in future cup rounds as well? I don't have a strong opinion on the matter, I'm just curious.

The fact that Extreme can be run on a lower res monitor makes it a solid choice IMO. That was the major issue (in my mind) with Vantage Xtreme (or whatever it was) and such. I'm for FS Extreme getting points.

It might be a Athlon II 915! or Phenom II 915! Or whatever the hell it is we're talking about. Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't I just lay my hands on a TWKR, set the multi to 13, and submit it as a 915 and have exactly the same amount of verification that the current 915s have? Am I missing something, or is it really that easy to "have" a 915?

Some of the really early Athlon II stuff was locked down Deneb. Really really early. I don't remember if that included X2s though. I know it did X3 and X4.

Stock EVGA SSC bios, it was just a good card

SB/IB the L3 runs at core speed, doesn't it? It could be anywhere!

The 3820 has gear ratios despite being a non-K, so some of 'em might. Almost certainly not the low end stuff though.

SCP/OCP/UVP won't care at all unless the elements are sized woefully wrong. SCP is typically just a function of OCP. If the element has enough resistance that the PSU isn't being asked for more than it can give (look at those wires, it isn't), the PSU won't care at all. OCP is over-current protection. Again, unless the element asks for more amps than the PSU can manage, it'll be fine. Given the wires, it'll be fine on anything. UVP is under voltage protection, you don't generally get to that point unless OCP fails or the PSU fails. Sometimes UVP is used for SCP. In any event, PSUs don't care in the slightest what kind of load is used, only how large the load is. Those heaters are far from a large load.

Voltmod and Big Fan time?

Nice scores! What were the GPU clocks? GPUz seems to be having issues.

Removing it'll be a good trick, but it's doable. At that point you can swap a new one in (also a decent trick), and it'll either work great or explode promptly.

Drugs.

Hey so when exactly is the team recruiting deadline? Pro Cup page says 3 days, looking at the calendar it looks more like 4-5 days till the end of the month.

No points. Frontpage shows highest points in the last 24h.

Ahh, well that would explain why I can't find controls.

If I recall correctly it was shown in the demo screenshot on the individual benchmark rules pages as optional, but listed as mandatory for all benchmarks on the main rules page. Something like that, anyway. Not a big deal IMO, I have no problem calling it part of the january first rules update. It was certainly clarified then and made consistent over all the pages. I was under the impression that it was optional as well, and I have memories of being pointed towards the overall rules page when I mentioned that. It's also possible that my poor abused brain has its wiring crossed up. The way I figure it we're all racers, and the rulebook was a rather chaotic set of main rules, benchmark rules that contradicted them, forum rulings and rules, and so on, plus a fairly large team of very very busy moderators. We're bound to run into sometimes trouble with that setup It's much much better now. Obviously things pop up every now and then that I take offense with (pc05's very existence, at this point ), but it's much much rarer. Anyway, really not a big deal to me.

How do I change the flag / etc. on my new team? I can't find a control page for it. Our (my, so far...) goal: Not last!

I had some team members get harassed (and scores removed) due to no mem tab about halfway through last year. The rules update on that one was silent as far as I could tell.

Very nice! Impressive to say the least!

Thanks for this! Not that I have a Titan, but I appreciate the knowledge being put out into the wild

This. Unlike electrolytic and polymer caps where the - pin is marked, tantalums mark the + pin.

You can almost certainly run without that one capacitor. You'll have a tiny bit more ripple, but odds are it won't make a noticeable difference.

If a result looks too good to be true, it probably is.

It's in the pot Glorious looking pot, that.

Don't forget that you'll need a frequency score, so AMD. Now that Titans are here you'd need Titan and 7970 and GTX580. Plus of course a stack of CPUs. The number of pro league people that seem to believe themselves gods who can order things to happen is amazing. Also depressing. Past glories do not make a person ruler of the now. If Jim Clark came back from the grave do you think F1 would do exactly what he says? Hell no. Really, the people are the top of the standings are the last people who should decide the rules. When that happens the rules almost always end up built specifically to suit those at the top. What nobody seems to be willing to reply to, from anybody, is that the Pro League was not spreading OCing. It's job is (was) to spread OCing. Hence, it was a failure. For my part I find the 7970/titan+supersuperbinned3770k scores equally impressive and depressing.