Dead Things

Thanks for the input guys - I just redid the Mem freq sub with a higher multi so it would take precedence over the BCLK sub... But it would be good to know if I'm blocked forever from validating a BLCK score with this rig (or not).

I did something dumb. I validated both a BCLK cvf file and Mem freq cvf file from the same rig. Now only the BCLK valid is available since the CPU speed was slightly higher for that one, and I can't figure out how to validate the Mem freq file separately. Anybody know what I can do to get both to show online? Or at least just the Mem freq file? Thanks in advance!

Understood. Thank you, sir.

Those are indeed intense volts for TCCD, but hard to argue with the results!

Sorry - have to ask. Xeon E3 allowed for Stage 1.1?

I upped a WP32 score at 6x124 on MVP3 here: Dead Things`s wPrime - 32m score: 6min 16sec 242ms with a K6-2+ 550MHz in case you want to compare it against Ali V to test the theory.

This is the cooler. Not sure if it has a name. edit - Sorry, you'll have to view post in forums to see uploaded pics.

Thanks - MVP3 was better than Ali V for me in terms of efficiency with Prime. Used 8u91 I believe.

Thanks to Frank for setting up the stages, to Michael for his light-handed moderation throughout, to Gregor for putting up with us, and to all participants for a fun Season 3 of OSIBS. I tried my darnedest and pushed my gear as hard as I could and still came nowhere close to what the HwBox Hellas boys were able to accomplish. Some truly impressive scores along the way from a lot of different teams on a lot of different legacy platforms. Thanks for the good times!

Oh yeah - it was bouncing around all over the place on this ALi V board no matter what it was clocked to. CPU-Z seemed to work just fine on my MVP3 board, though.

So sad that somehow between the last time I used it and this competition, my Parhelia decided to up and die. Other than that, another fun round of OSIBS!

Nice!

What about my Matrox SX-900? Allowed?

Congrats everyone on another fun OSIBS round! Especially Stelaras - what a dominant performance! Good on you, sir! This round was haaaarrrd - Ice Storm and Realbench were beasts. In response to InfraRed... for my part, tried to SLI Ice Storm with 2 x 7900GTX, 2 x 7950GT and 1 x 7950GX2 on an Ultra-D (with SLI mod), SLI-DR and A8N32-SLI. In every case, no matter the drivers used, SLI scores were lower than single card scores. The scaling of the benchmark as a whole remains a mystery to me. My 7900GTX scores just would not increase at all with any GPU core or memory increases. Only my 7950GT scores would go up, and even then, not by much. It seems to be more of a memory benchmark to be honest. And in that department, my TCCDs can't do the 2-2-2's like BH-5 or maybe stronger TCCD kits can do, so yeah... Killed my Ultra-D in the process, but was able to bake my previously-dead SLI-DR back to life. So I guess I came away even-Steven. Think the Ultra-D needs to be recapped, so hopefully it's only mostly dead.

Bonus point for era-appropriate cooler, though!

We have to talk about that puce background colour, though...

With a pimpin' nameplate to boot!

The devil made you do it.

Wow! What a run!

I've thought my Ultra-D was dead a few times, but it keeps bouncing back. It's extremely sensitive to pressure around the CPU socket, so try to alleviate that as much as possible. Maybe try introducing some brief and slight flex to the PCB. I also find sometimes if I just give it a day off, it's good to go again. G'luck!

It appears something goes sideways when copying over the RealBench files to the bench machine. My solution was to copy over the zip file and then extract it locally. Working now.

Sorry for the noob question. What's the cure for "Program files modified or corrupted" error during Realbench run? edit - Mybad, was still in diag mode. All good now. Thx! edit2 - Scratch that, error still occurring...

w00t!

There's a handful still available here if you wanna take a look: Access denied G'luck with your search!

Mine was an HP. edit - Grabbed a pic of the stock cooler too.