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Nice scores from all participants. The competition was quite helpful, pushing me to tweak as much as I can and try to compensate for the not-so-good CPUs. However not possible to win over much higher clocks just with efficiency. On the other side it was my first serious touch with PCMark05 and even I was following the tweaks in the thread, I still suck at it . Honestly, it's not my type of bench. And I lost my good HD4890, had to bench with the other one after that (30MHz less on the core and 70MHz/280MHz GDDR5 less on the memory)

Ok, no more LN2 left, that's all from me.

I will, but it's just not a DFI I've tested some Epox boards that need cold to only reach DFI air clocks.

...when you eventually remember to copy them, but get the usb-stick out before the save operation is complete..and then find out half of the screens are corrupted

Nice, would be hard to beat with my AN8.

Yes, it had been commented before and I know that from chew*. Then experienced it myself, as you did If you don't go that cold, it's really fine - dry ice, cascade, ss..but it just freaks out when under -150 (not sure about the exact temperature, but it's somewhere there). I wrote it worng - Thuban IMC doesn't play well with Hypers when really cold. Deneb IMC is fine You learnt it the hard way and you'll know for future, that's the normal way to progress.

Damn it, I'm out as well. I was expecting an ending at midnight (15th to 16th) as most competitions (or I'm wrong?). 12 CET means 13 here and I'm on work . "1 day, 7 hours to go" Should have paid more attention.

Just one question. The competition ends tomorrow at midnight, right? I want to be sure, because I'll be benching till the very last..as always.

Hypers don't play well with Thuban and cold. But they fly with Deneb.

Yeah, me too. I think it's due to lack of uefi crap Seems close or even better than Crosshair III.

Subzero on the chipset helps a lot, but you'd need the right cpu, ram and of course hot cpu. 520+ is not doable on all boards with conventional cooling.

Yes, it's alive. It's an old C3 and runs like a tank . Vcore is around 1.932V load, according to software. Unfortunately no 7GHz for me again. Validated 6690, but I forgot to change cpuz to 1.6, doh... I'm a little disappointed, because MILANS is some milliseconds ahead in the 955 rankings, lol. Too bad I didn't have enough LN2 left. Someone said, you'd need a high-end board. Not sure if a high-end one would give me higher clocks, but this board seems pretty suitable (pricetag 90 euro). The only thing I didn't like is its inability to boot with higher than 1700MHz RAM (not sure why) and I had to go up using software in Windows.

Unfortunately (for me), that's all I can do. All my K10 CPU's are in that range frequency wise. I had high hopes for this old C3, because I've never tested it on subzero before.

I used the hot-air gun almost immediately. Anyway, I'll check it again after some days. Really hope it will work again. I've had leaks 2-3 times without any consequences. It just stops working as expected, but when dried out, it works again. Circled area was in water:

Yes, my fault. But I've been running several times this way...you know, it happens once...

Using THE tweak

I think it's dead now. Had a leak around the chipset and now it doesn't post. Let it stay overnight with removed battery. All voltages are still in tact, but no POST

281 is what it did before, but I'll try to beat it, even though it would be hard.

Don't remember how good is my AN7, might check it. I think it was able to load Windows somewhere between 255 and 260.

It can run SuperPi at 269 - 270 Greatest of all s.A Abit boards I've ever had. Trying to keep it alive as long as possible.

I use kneaded eraser and once bought a board that had nasty vaseline on it. Spent so much time removing it, so the eraser could finally seal on the pcb And...btw, pictures are only visible to members of the oc'ers forum.

Nice, you put Supreme-HF on the cpu

I don't call him cheater in any means. I don't even know if the score is ok or not, it's beyond my knowledge. I just never messed with those settings and didn't know it's not visible if you use non-default set of settings. There are many similar scores with similar clock in the top, so if he's a cheater than all of them are, lol I think fps in subtests are ok for the given clocks, compared to the other guys at the top.

Damn, I've wondered why I'm not able to match some scores, even with higher clocks. 3DMark06 is pretty consistent across different runs, unless you get a bugged run.

What I did wrong? I think you're being a little bit harsh here, there are many noobs at hwbot (including me), not only pro guys. And still, we are living under the same sun... This format with the efficiency thing is not applicable, for the reasons massman wrote. The best approach is like it is currently done. Overclocking is for all things together, but the main thing is pushing everything to its maximum. Cooling separation can't be done as well, people can give a picture of watercooled system, but in fact could have used SS.