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14m 14.297s | G.Skill Pi 2000C6 @ 1300 8-12-8-26 1T tWCL6 90ns http://hwbot.org/submission/2645764_i.nfrar.ed_superpi___32m_fx_9370_14min_14sec_297ms CPU frequency is ~4998MHz, like in this screenshot: http://i.imgur.com/qCwtv7D.jpg. Just a cpuz glitch at the moment of taking the screenshot. newlife, you did an excellent job! Took me some time to beat your score.

which means Sandy and newer Intels. Of course we can compete in other stages and I will participate anyway.

Why XTU? This leaves AMD users and Intel guys with older platforms out of the lucky draw. It makes more sense giving a chance to people that still don't have current-gen Intel platforms to win a new generation intel mobo.

Sorry, but this is bugged. Just look at Fur, Fluid and Raymarch.

Yes, I have used this method for 7970 Lightning, since I never managed to get the ABX (if you open some of my 7970 submissions you can notice ArtMoney ). So it really works and see no reason it doesn't for other cards if there's no other limitation and the voltage is programmable with software in real time. My advice is try to do it with clocks slider first to get familiar with the process, although it's not hard at all. When you find the correct address to modify, just name it e.g "VGPU" and save it. Next time just load the saved address and only change the value.

Not sure what is the max without mods, I had it modded from some of the previous competitions. I think it was 272 without mods and 284 with mods Maybe I should try older drivers, that might be the problem.

Well, might be it just needs some more caps or to replace the existing ones, but I had that thing on 3 cards. And I remember the same was happening on GT3 when benched 3DM03: http://hwbot.org/submission/2310105_i.nfrar.ed_3dmark03_geforce_3_2134_marks And 40MHz is a really big difference, maybe your card is just that great or I'm missing something. Did you try another card on cold? All I have tried on air usually get into the 270-280 range. Looking at the charts, only poparamiro managed 290 out of it and it's a non-reference design. It even has a power connector. Maybe that's the card to look for.

1.7-1.75, higher was making it worse, but with epower it could handle 1.8+ I think.

Yes, I put boost and normal clocks and voltages to the same level, but it was freaking out with higher voltage, although temps were not high. It was the same on chilled water. And I had to drop the mem clocks to 1500, when the gpus were clocked high.

Yes, out of 5 different models GF3's I have only one that does above 600. Maybe a specific chips to look for, but I don't have enough knowledge about these cards. Speaking about gpus though, mine could run 330-340 nature on LN2, but other tests were limited to 290-ish. Any higher and the screen goes into "color blocks on black screen" mode.

Respect to Greeks and congrats. I actually thought we would come a little closer. I'm disappointed from myself, because I could do better in some (AMD) stages.

Impressive. These cards really need an external power. Mine could do 340, but not in all tests, so I gave up. No time for zombie, because I need to make the "e-power" first

I read that thread and it appears to be invalid based on the explanation from Jarnis, because the workload in that test is different? XA, I can't push them more, because I want to keep the warranty before selling them which means I can't do hardmods. Did only a bios mod, but it f*cks up above 1.3V.

Now when the teamcup is over, I will play too .

What did you do to the poor bios or is cpuz showing weird stuff on this platform when some detections are disabled in the ini file?

No, I found why after some more tests. I'm not sure if it's only a multi-gpu thing, but if you disable system info the CT goes up. Then I remembered it was used by the Greeks inthe country cup 2012 (the stage with trinity and 3 radeons). Since I don't bench 3dmark11 a lot, I didn't notice at first. Spoke with a moderator, so it should be fine, but if rules had changed and this had been discussed before, then I am ok to remove the score. IIRC I had one 8000+ from the first session on air. There's nothing in the rules about disabling system info is explicitly forbidden. That section is marked with red (as the sectin should be visible in the screenshot), but that's the same for e.g. 3dmark06, 03 and scores with disabled system info are fine, although there's no boost in score. I would say it is "so-so" and maybe the rules should be edited to address this issue. The run is not bugged though, in the sense that clocks were not stable and it blackscreened or something like that.

Impressive! Congrats

Why not? Launch date Q3 2013. Only forbidden cpus are Haswell-E.

Finally someone else reached the same freq, lol. Wonder if higher is possible, even 0.1MHz.

Yes, that's the pack you need to download and install .

You need GART drivers, download from Asrock site.

Honestly I don't know if it's bugged or not, but even my old score with lower clock is similar http://hwbot.org/submission/2633360_i.nfrar.ed_3dmark11___performance_2x_radeon_r7_240_8056_marks and all scores I got were in line with these 2. I should have some more screenshots if I didn't delete them. PS: On a second thought it might be really a little bit out of line. It didn't look wrong and finished clean in the end, but not sure if 30MHz on the cores for both cards could get 8pts more in CT. Although it was on a different windows. Don't ask me about tricks though, I don't know what I'm doing Btw, using 1.0.1 version of the bench which gives better physics and CT.

PCI was a big problem for me as well. I tried everything with Zotac 610 PCI. Fed it up externally from a HD4850 up to 1.4V and still didn't help, although it did 1300+ MHz for DX9 Heaven. However, on DX11 I can only see the Benchmarking... text when the bench starts and that's it. Monitor goes into power saving mode. I guess it can't handle the heavy tesselation, maybe the PCI bandwidth is too low for that kind of load? External power helped finish DX9 (it was not completing either before the mod), but not with DX11. I guess it's not a coincidence everyone used that little Radeon. Regarding the 3DMark 2000 it sure is a valid score, since everything was on stock, but there were cases competition scores had been removed for even smaller mistakes. I barely managed to finish it 4 min before the end, then make screenshot, photo, transfer from that rig to the other PC, upload..etc. But I really think we were 5th before that, so it doesn't really matter in that case, unless there are other invalid scores which can make a difference. But I think we need a confirmation from the staff that all results are valid, because even a single invalid score from any team in the top 10 or so would change the final rankings. So we need to know ASAP if it's ok to bench for the remaining week, or need to stop right now.

The SC4 of TeamCup is still crashing for me - null pointer exception. I think it might be because fgi submitted a new score after the cut and suppose it will happen with other subcompetitions as soon as someone else submits there. http://hwbot.org/competition/team_cup_2014_sc4/

When it's full, get a bigger monitor with bigger resolution - problem solved!