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Back in the day when I started doing this (late 90s - early 00s), stationaty PCs were pretty much the centre of home entertainment so IT-oriented people faced the choice to either let things stay the laggy way they were or to start doing something about it. As overclocking used to be less mainstream than it is now, it gave significant bragging rights raising overclockers' self-esteem and propelling them to push it to the extreme. I feel that these days people are less forced to make such choices due to variety of electronic devices they have access to. Even though sales of PCs might have increased over the last decade, these days almost everyone has a laptop and a smartphone to distract their attention, hence a lot less damn about PCs and overclocking is given. As for the old crowd that is floating around - you can't expect people to do the same thing forever. At some point in time everyone will eventually realise that there are more interesting things to do in life than sitting in front of your computer.

get some better mems and OS, you're losing 7-8 seconds on this run.

512K of L2 cache is less than 1M of SuperPi, you need to do CW.

this score would have been funny if you had a "I won't end this session until I hit 200K 03"-sort of goal

what's the fastest connection from any sort of any major nearby airport?

all-nighters allowed?

You could just buy Ryanair tickets and bench elsewhere

It should go to X3-445 with 4 cores enabled.

Just got a complaint from a friend (who doesn't speak English) that you can't submit P4-505 into '2004 stage even though wiki says that it was released in December that year.

CN must have had a short heart attack

good job on the mem!

B2 were actually better on FSB than L2. L2 at 640 is very lucky

1300MHz+ tRP 10, nice 4Gb sticks!

I can afford it, but at $1500-2000 I would rather keep the money and remain:

how high can you run 32M with this IMC?

Is it something like GT430?

You're doing it all wrong, guys. If you want something to happen with Massman in charge, you have to ask for the opposite.

If he does, it's a good time for everyone to put some FBDIMM for sale on ebay

he's Swiss, he can afford it

I'm with Knut on this one. So far all the dual GPU modifications have gone into separate categories and this should be no exception.

nice memory readout by CPU-Z

CineBench seems a decent alternative for a CPU benchmark provided that is has or can be made to have a simple verification mechanism. At least it's rather popular outside the benching community so it should bring more people in.

In my opinion, the whole purpose of hardware points is that you can repeatedly earn them, whether it's 5 benchmarks on 10 cpus or 10 benchmarks on 5 cpus, so I don't mind having more, or even 'way too many' benchmarks with hardware points as there is already 'way too many' hardware you can earn them with. As for globals, I agree with Kenny. We can't keep '3D' tests that only scale with CPU frequency forever.

1575MHz is damn impressive ... if it passed 32M

How many Cedarmills have you tried so far? (total)