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Haha, good point, Genie! I'm doing the same every year. "No, I can't. I have to bench and represent my country in the overclocking equivalent of the Football World Cup".

And dual channel. Then wait more than 5 years to submit it.

Not for the first stage, only for next stages. Wallpaper for next stage is revealed when the previous one opens for submission.

Wow, very good card!

Thanks for the great mems as well. You've always treated me well and all the sticks I've bought from you do what is advertised. Given the specifics such as IMC, board, etc.

Lol, Radeon HD 4850 GDDR3 rank: 1313th out of 595

Nice score, buddy. Wrong driver, though.

... when you can open a store for keychains from dead parts

Yes, I know about those Qimonda, but I've also had cards with scaling Qimonda's, so I had some hope

My Sapphire HD 3870 "Extreme" are both good, but this 3850 I got dirt cheap and thought it wouldn't hurt if I try. Oh boy, was I wrong... It's useless without PLL-mod bios, limited to ~860MHz on the core. Mems does not scale with voltage, ofcourse.

Stock bios has the pll bug and I can't find another working bios The card is Asus HD3850 512MB non-ref. Bioses from ref cards give me message to connect power cable and other 3 newer asus bioses don't work correctly. I assume all VER010.068.000.002.027052 has the pll bug, while it is fixed in the 010.076.000.001.027551 versions, but none of them is for my card.

Ok, looks bad on stock - 800/1130. Will see if it scales.

Does not need vmem mod? I see chips on mine are Qimonda.

Excellent Just got one Asus myself, will try it soon.

Access is denied for the XTU background on the stage page: http://hwbot.org/competition/gbt_targetoc/stage/1766_xtu:_159_marks/ Link leads to http://news.hwbot.org/Competitions/1008_GigabyteTargetOc/target_paticipants_1920x1080_1.jpg

Not sure if it's locked, more like on "auto". 990FX-UD3 rev3 has tWCL control, I think. Last time I tried, it was way more inefficient though. I could try it tomorrow. tWCL doesn't seem to have a big impact anyway.

Just what I expected. The power of Gigabyte 970A-UD3. It lacks tWCL in bios (board sets it at 8) and can't run 1T at 2600, but still faster. It is almost as fast as Crosshair III Formula with K10 and it seems not bad with K15 too. Also a very very tricky board. Shaved one second off.

I could do the same mem clocks on air. Cold is required for higher mem and cpu-nb frequency. CH5 is not very efficient though.

Bullant, ram was on air, yes. Not a problem for the PIs, they should be good for at least 2666 tight on Intel. I put the cpu on SS to clock the CPU-NB higher, because 2900 on air was not enough. The problem on AMD is that at high frequency it starts to drop a channel or if I manage to boot in dual channel it's not stable. To be honest, I haven't played much 32M on Vishera, so can't tell much details. Not sure if board or cpu related. I have no Samsungs to try though and BBSE was a no go. Also tried Hypers for 2400 8-8-8-24 tWCL6, but didn't manage a full run. From all the mems I have, Pi's were the best. It was painfully slow before Stilt's BDC and I really preferred 32M on K10. Now when it's a little faster and there's some activity ion the thread, it is time to play . Wish I see you both here, but I know it is too sloooow for you...waiting 15min every time BTW, there's one of my runs with ram on LN2 http://hwbot.org/submission/2426500 but not sure this was the optimum. I didn't like that board, it had some serious problems with bios..at least for me. Apart from that, we had some other runs with ram on LN2, but on a different board 1444 7-11-7 seems more like it... http://hwbot.org/submission/2463549_i.nfrar.ed_aquamark_radeon_hd_7970_363212_marks or 1330 6-10-6, but he already sold that cpu http://hwbot.org/submission/2465491_more_aquamark_radeon_hd_7970_314300_marks As far as I remember 1400 6-10-6 was also possible with the first cpu, but don't remember subtimings. Definitely going to try with that board again, although for that kind of frequencies CR=2T is required.

Nice! Not sure if I can handle 4 pots myself...except the case when most of them go full-pot

Yeah, it was very hard..took me 1 sec to figure it out.

No, the wallpaper is exactly for XTU. <- Ah, yes..got what you mean. You can find the XTU wallpaper on the XTU stage page. Wallpaper for next stage will be "revealed" after that 2 XTU hours submission window, or during that time. Wallpaper for 3rd stage will be revealed during submission time for 2nd stage and so on...you get the idea. At least that's what I understood. Not that I don't have all wallpapers already To staff: Better change them (guess I'm not the only one that figured it out) and restrict access to new files, otherwise the whole idea is lost.

Other reports I saw were using 7x0G chipset too, not sure if possible on 790FX and my Sempron doesn't even unlock to try.

Yes, as in other rankings, the first person to submit wins if there are 2 or more submissions with the same score. I find it a little bit annoying, but that's how the rules are and we play by the rules. Rules are defined by those who give the money

My goal was 2666, but not gonna happen. Board is loosing 2nd channel or very unstable at over 2600. Maybe it's the IMC, or it needs 2T, dunno. Also tried BBSE - no go. I may try again on a Gigabyte board without UEFI.