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Is price per kit or for five kits total?

If provided card is dead, you can buy your own. Regardless of supervision, you can bin bucketloads of cards on your own and change SN sticker in the end. Things get even easier if you "know" the shop you buy it from.You think people won't at least consider this when $10k (plus cost of binning and computex trip) is on the line?

The format is somewhat interesting, but it will most likely be won by someone with the best resources (even rule 1d allows to bin cards at home), not necessarily the best "talent".

Obviously, the big vendors have been indirectly doing a similar thing for years now (marketing costs covered by sales of specific products) but I, personally, don't like the idea of hwbot becoming yet another company that's going to tax/leech on (whatever you call it) the PC enthusiast community.

This is not a proper Wolfdale 6M that is known for easy 600+, it's a Wolfdale 3M - the core used for Celeron E3xxx, Pentium E5xxx/E6xxx and C2D E7xxx chips. Given that most E7xxx chips struggle to do 550, 577 is already very good. George, what are the batches of your chips?

I don't think that the score split/blocking is worth the effort unless we can somehow guarantee that current/future versions will be consistent.

is this a single or a dual sided version?

1140 is very strong for SS on GPU

nice RAM timing readout

What's the batch of this one?

Impressive for aircooling. What's the batch?

Did epower gain you anything?

Do all XP-M chips come unlocked or you did some mods to get x15 out of a 2004-made Barton?

I reckon this actually is highest socket A freq ever. Congratulations!

What's the batch?

only took you three weeks

Is there any special trick to make the 256Mb card as efficient as 512Mb?

Damn, 13 subs in less than one day. Most hardware categories don't get so much in a lifetime

considering

Are you sure that ASRock software reports the right voltage? Judging by VTT-DDR, the Vmem is around 1.91V rather than reported 1.86.

what could this chip do on air?

nice efficiency for the mem settings

well-timed backup

Doesn't it scale from more vcore?

The problem with Haswell K-chips (especially retails) is that IMC capable of running PSC at 1333+ 8-12-8-28 on air even at Pentium core/cache speeds is ridicilously difficult to find. Another problem with result reliability are the frequency-dependant voltage holes with PSC at 1333 and onwards. For example, you can have a kit capable of doing certain settings at 1.78-1.79 all day long, 1.80-1.84 will fail first loop for no apparent reason, 1.85+ will work fine again. When you're on air binning mems, you're usually not in a hurry so you can figure such things out. But when you're pushing other components and just want stable RAM clocks, this might indeed be a big nuisance. In general, I think that PSC (and may be also some BBSE) are the only ICs running which at high speeds (1333+) with high-clocked i7 is noticeably harder than with low-clocked Pentium. So yes, low-clocked results might be misleading in a way but if you take that into account, you can still make a decent judgement on kit quality rather than shelling out hundreds of dollars/euros on forums/ebay for kits without a single listed result. What comes to the other ICs - from what I've experienced so far on different kinds of Samsung and Hynix, you get a bigger voltage difference going from board to board than from going from Pentium to a 5GHz i7.