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5GHz CPU-NB is about the maximum for 32M with "reasonable" volts and IIRC it does not scale much past that.

I managed to save it on the third attempt. First one froze while opening cpuz, second one restarted while opening cpuz. I have some old LN2 profiles saved, so had to only adjust clocks. Could run 940 6-6-6-18, but there was no suitable combination with cpu and nb clocks, so I had to use yours . And yes, Hypers are tricky with Thuban on cold, while on Deneb you can bench tight without a problem (on most chips). Disabling cores on Thuban could gain you about 200-300MHz on the NB with same volts, but Deneb is faster clock per clock.

Seems that I still remember how to overclock AMD

PSC are better on Thuban. Much more stable. Disabling 4 cores also helps with CPU-NB clocks.

Why do you need LN2 on the chipset?

I use one Bulgarian tool, called WinSetupFromUSB: http://www.winsetupfromusb.com/files/ You can try to force it as HDD with the included tools. I've only used it with flash drives though.

It's no guarantee I can finish it. One of my boards (the good one) is buggy on cold, the other one did not do 140MHz FSB last time I tried. Will mod it and see if it can go higher, but might have to settle at 780MHz again, like the previous time. Although that 780MHz was pretty stable in the long 32M run, so I guess if the board allows me, I can probably complete benchmarks at 810, why not at the maximum of 840... Btw, what is the theoretical maximum of the boards with VIA chipset?

In my testing (at least on the Aladdin board), there was no gain in enabling external cache for pifast. Higher Mem/FSB frequency helped more. I was actually booting at 810MHz, but the board got wet. I will try to improve my score soon. It posted at the maximum of 840, too

Yes, it shows "random" time every time I open a stage (more specifically the time of the previously opened stage). Didn't even manage to bench pifast and aquamark on the k6. I don't have the scores, it was not a sandbag here too.

Great one, congrats!

So, it seems I missed the deadline. Better fix the site for next competition.

Very nice! I don't give up, though

There's another problem on oc-esports. Take the TeamCup for example: http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/team_cup_2015_sc1/2213/intel_cpu-z_lowest_clock When you first open the page and try switching the stages tabs, the counter does not change, but stays the same as on previous stage. When it loads that tab, click on previous one and then back on the next - time displays correctly now. This way you can miss the deadline for some of the stages if you don't pay attention. If you open a stage from the general Overview page, then time is correct.

It gets unstable at 2.9V (random bsod or can't load windows), but 2.8 is fine I don't remember voltage when I benched it on LN2. Probably the same or lower. Will try to somehow mount the chiller, 700 should be possible. Mine seems hungry for voltage. Strunkenbold ran his 550+ at 660 on air with just 2.4V.

Ram timings: as tight as possible, 2-2-2. About the black box: this is my second bench PSU with volt-modded 3.3V line. The box is just a display to monitor voltage.

My Am486DX4-120 runs at 160MHz@5V, too. That's not a problem. I'm actually wondering how far can these be pushed. I think 200 is doable on good mobo with more FSB settings than my Zida.

No need for accusations in cheating. Sure, the run is bugged, but you know what... it happened to me several times on various cards (much newer and powerful than this). It is most probably a stability problem. At a certain point in the benchmark the system fails and the points for subtests get inflated a lot. I can imagine on that slow system you can't really tell if the benchmark froze or still running normally. Don't have such system, but I bet it is pushing it very hard. As it is said: you're innocent by default, until proven guilty.

2.8V. Need cold for more, but I was mainly testing performance. Still not as good as Strunkenbold's subs. Board can do 140FSB stable, but without external cache. With external cache enabled it goes to 125 (or maybe 130, have to check again). However, this has to show that there's something wrong with kotori-san system. As I said, his score should be much better at 700MHz as it is now.

Nice! And I can't even install Windows

Ok, maybe you found something I still haven't figured out, but honestly doubt I would be able to shave off 5 sec. From the warmup..I don't know, maybe I did not have the system at that time. I only have 32M from 2014 TC. But..looking at your 1M subs, it seems possible to impove by 6 seconds, so clearly there's something I need to find

Not only binning. I would change the TIM before every bench - between core and IHS and between IHS and pot.

I can't beat that, but finally understood why I'm slower than you. You have newer revision of that CPU and it seems faster.

I would pay about 5$ for this I voted lowest option, but judging from the price per gramm for other top pastes, I think that price is a bit too optimistic.

Yeah, I have many models missing. Basically all MP's, most of the Mobile Duron/Athlon 4. Trying to get them all, but it seems they are getting rare and more expensive now. I remember 2 years back, there were many more s.A chips on ebay.

Yes, my bad: http://www.cpu-world.com/CPUs/K7/AMD-Athlon%20XP%202100%2B%20-%20AXDA2100DUT3C.html Everything else in my first post should be correct though. Maybe ask around your team about MP 1700+? You guys have better knowledge and experience. I don't have a single MP in my collection