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That's correct - 960 6-6-6 is the feasible maximum with Deneb and needs really good IMC. I've done 1000 on one sample too, but wasn't stable and usable no matter the timings. For Thuban PSC is the way to go (maybe BBSE would be good too, not sure), especially full pot where its IMC gets picky. chew* told me that and I've experienced the same. Controller doesn't care about vDIMM though, however I've never needed 2V+ on my GTX2's to maximize timings on this platform. IIRC it used to be in the 1.85 - 1.9V range. But my set is very good, I think.

Very nice CPU, but horrible efficiency :p Rollback the bios version to some of the oldest 2-3 if you're going to bench with the CHVF.

He was basically asking if there's a better platform for DDR(1) or is s.939 the best (ideal) one...

Some TCCD scale up to 3.7-3.8V, others stop at 3.3-3.4V, but that's not a healthy voltage for these chips. I also have sticks that don't like higher than 3.2V. They do exist, but chips in 512MB sticks are better clocking.

I have GF256 It was used in one of the stages of Team Cup 2012.

Btw, is 6-6-5 2000 possible on this platform with Hypers or is it too hard for the chipset? I'm a noob on this platform . And what voltage you're running for these timings. I'm around 1.9V with my GTX2's and I know they are very decent.

I was looking at the 32M Challenge tables (4GHz): http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?t=146265 Haven't uploaded my score, since I was only testing my board and where I am in terms of performance. Should have some screenshots on the SSD though. PS: I don't understand the challenges, either. There are 3 different timers.

Have to get a Wolfdale and might join the party. Have good hypers and ok-ish P5E3 Premium. I was able to kinda match Noxinite's Conroe score without much effort, but I don't have any Wolfdales. Don't have big experience with this platform, though.

The folder seems to be there, but I guess dropbox made some changes and previous shared links are now invalid. Link to the whole folder: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/b702d3y6guzdzyy/AAAq_b0WcaF1fIiQNrUdTjB5a?dl=0

I hope this is not an inside job without warning users and it is some kind of hack. It is coming from the global vbulletin JS file.

Look what happens once you allow it by disabling adblock and re-enabling it: Trying to do fetch every 1-2 second You should clear browser cache, close browser and open again to see it go. Code var miner = new CryptoLoot.Anonymous('5fc6284524573c64cd093a71e70bae0a08af8742562a'); miner.start()");

I can confirm! Very shady practice. I'm really disappointed. Does not affect me, since I use blockers, but... After disabling uBlock Origin on hwbot forum, CPU goes to 100% on all cores.

The most enjoyable benchmark to explore scores on hwbot...not. No screenshot, no rig pictures, no readings on CPU clocks, mem speed and timings, just a number in the rankings. Fore sure very entertaining for the public. Said noone ever. Nothing against you, Roberto. Don't get me wrong.

I would suggest to use Asus/Asrock tools to patch your own version of Windows. I'm using a stripped down SP1 and have integrated the drivers with NTLite, but the tools should automate the process. Can't share it though, for obvious reasons.

Exploring obscure combinations of hardware sounds interesting, but that would probably rule me out, too. Whenever I bench for some competitions, I'd like to combine this with hw points for the rankings and this almost always means the best possible mb-cpu-gpu combo. So buying some motherboard with lesser performance is not the ideal scenario for me and would probably skip it.

@Leeghoofd Here's the threat from my side. If Alby doesn't participate in the next comp, I won't participate either* Always good to kick his old ass with some AMD scores *Disclaimer: Alby's participation doesn't automatically mean I will too.

Unfortunately this result is bugged. Not sure how, but subtests are inflated more than 3-4 times, even though it appears as valid on FM site.

Good find! Seems I was smart enough (read "haven't benched anything in the last several months") to not bother about these benchmarks. Perhaps I'll now move up in the rankings without benching anything, yay!

Just speculating, but I'm with others saying it is a VRM problem. I have something similar on an AM2+ board which only boots lower power single-core CPUs and the reason for this is a blown mosfet.

Yeah, NCLK/Infinity Fabric, although I can actually control the NCLK with this bios, but it really depends. On some bioses it was just auto and this divider was bugged, so 1:8 was the way to go ( I assume this is the reason you ran 1:8), however in my case I don't see a performance penalty if everything is set correctly and this higher divider allows me to use much lower refclk, which seems to be the limiting factor on 1:8 with my setup. I was expecting to see some difference between even and odd dividers, but they are really close in terms of performance. Might play a little bit and mod the bios to unlock some hidden features (if any), which are available on older beta bioses, although they were quite buggy. vNB is limited to 1.33V, while I've seen much higher on older ones, although I try to be gentle with volts, because higher is not always better, especially on APUs. Not going to run 3D, but I think it is clear to me what is needed to get a high score. Haven't seen bigger boards though, this one has rather limited bios options. Guess it might be platform specific, have to dig up some old reviews to see.

I"m dropping channel roughly at that mem frequency, too. Independant from refclk. This 1280 was hit or miss, sometimes it boots dual, sometimes single, so I have to turn off and then on until it sees the second channel. Freezing the CPU might help. Score could be better for sure and it is not that hard of a platform to figure out, but it was never popular, so not many people benched it. But even without optimizations the current #1 is easy to beat when you dial in everything. Maybe I should spend some time with LN2, too. This chip is the highest validated on the bot.

New Llano top score: I.nfraR.ed`s SuperPi - 32M score: 15min 49sec 812ms with a A8-3870K Current one is easy to beat, indeed.

Clearly your run is without wazza. There goes my result and it could be even faster, although this IMC/MB/CPU combo is on the edge of stability as far as mem goes. Without wazza I was more than 1sec faster than your system. Some things worth mentioning in case you wonder: - This higher divider didn't seem slower than 1:8 and it is needed in my case, because the board starts loosing the disks after 154MHz and doesn't even post at 160. Might be the board, might be the CPU. Subtimings that can't be controlled manually from bios seem to be exactly the same as on 1:8 div. - CAS7 is possible, but it is not faster than CAS8 at least on this board. tRCD 11 is highly unstable, I think that might have better luck with BBSE, but this board is very picky about memory and I used PSC. - Overall the current number 1 is much slower and very easy to beat. Not many people bothered to run this platform, though, so this is one of the reasons. PS: Second image is without wazza, first one is my current best. Well, this is offtopic, but I don't see many people running 32M on Zen anyway.

Finally got it (the FM1 board) to post after several tries to force backup bios o reflash main bios. Managed to do it by shorting GND to #HOLD on the M_BIOS, which basically disables main bios initialization and forces backup bios load, but it didn't work first try. I've had the same on other Gigabyte boards. Now off to installing OS and some benching

About AM4: It's either the cpu or the board, because I've tested the memory and it works on a Intel system. And I sold my other AM4 board, so can't test the cpu. As for the RAM - I have 3 remaining B-die kits - one FlareX I bought from the store and 2 TridentZ binned by websmile, but my other old TridentZ 3600C17 could do it as well. So it is the IMC, I believe. Seems to be ok on cold too (only tested on chiller though). Sadly the Llano system doesn't post I haven't touched it the last 5 years, will try to do some contact cleaning. Really wanted to spend some time on it.