I used to have a couple of "exotic" ASRocks back in the s478 days - one P4Dual-915GL (which ended up in a fireball a couple days after purchase) and one P4 Combo (brand new board DOA)
http://uat.hwbot.org/team/team_ocx ("Members tab")
cups count is totally wrong, I don't even have 851 submissions
and, what does "TPP" and "UP" actually mean?
Currently, CPUz is more about patience and dedication (of finding a correct batch/PCB on ebay) than about skill (but so are other benchmarks when you figure them out) ... money affects nothing ... if you get $10k, go on ebay and buy everything that's listed, chances are you won't hit 8GHz
with another (24/7) fan setup and GPU at 730MHz/1.51V the temperature didn't exceed 51C under ATiTool (FurMark didn't exist back then)
while benching with deltas at similar GPU speeds / voltage, temps were around 37C under load with 26-28C ambient
The new team ranks are all about the amount of dedicated people who are ready to search for and grind the popular old stuff, not just a bunch of peeps benching whatever they are comfortable with.
Makes the competition more interesting for teams which are ready to step up, but way less interesting for those that aren't.
EDIT: Nice to see the globals for CPU-Z back on the current testserver. Not that I care much about globals - it's just that breaking raw MHz barriers is what was and is causing the most attention in 2D benchmarks.
+1 to get the CPUz globals back.
if you take the liberty of comparing 7GHz on a Gulftown to 7GHz on a Cedarmill, then also compare 10s 1M on a Gulftown and 10s 1M on a CedarMill - each type of CPU has its own partypiece
judging by the SNs at a local distributor warehouse, the "newest" batch of Gigabyte 1155 boards currently available is 1114, which is late March.So, if the X58A-OC has same factory->retail speed then it'll be available in June, perhaps ?