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You guys keep on impressing me. We are just shy of 200 members!! Going to do something special for 250 members so keep a look out!

Thanks!

First post has been updated with ALL prizes available. Anyone anywhere in the world can enter and win prizes as long as it is allowed for your country.

Thanks @Mr.Scott! So many of you have helped me when I was fresh, this is just my way of saying thanks!

To add to this, I will be attempting to do something for those with AMD systems at the ready, but don't know if I'll be able to fit them in. It may come at a later date for you guys

Alright well I have come to the conclusion I want to do a competition once a year. A way to give back to the community and support those who have supported me in my career here at HWBOT. For the first competition I am doing, we are going to say farewell to socket 1151. This comp is completely open to any generation of 1151(Z170-Z390). It will be limited to NON EXOTIC COOLING ONLY(air, water, chilled etc). You must also have never used LHe, LN2, Dice, Cascade, or SS before. We are currently looking at 5 stages and letting this run for 30-60 days. GPUPi for CPU v3.2 - 1B w/ Benchmate, limited to 4 cores, no Hyperthreading ( disabling cores is allowed) Cinebench R15 w/ Benchmate per core wPrime 1024M w/ Benchmate, limited to 4 cores, no Hyperthreading ( disabling cores is allowed) SuperPi 32M w/ Benchmate PiFast w/ Benchmate You will be limited to 15C at idle monitored by Benchmate and scores will be divided on a per core basis for the Cinebench stage and limited to 4 cores for GPUPI and Wprime, this to make it even between different core count CPUs on this socket Prizes! Yes, you heard that right. There will be prizes. They will vary from competition to competition, but I want to help those who are new as a way to get into XOC, as I was helped when I started out. 1st Place: Kingpin Cooling TREX LN2 Container(Winner gets color choice) + $100 USD 2nd Place: Kingpin Cooling Inferno Backplate + $50 USD 3rd Place: Kingpin Cooling 30G KPX Paste + $25 USD Random Drawn prizes will consist of different Kingpin Cooling products and more..... Splave has just offered up some cash prizes as well!!!! Added to original post Sunny from OCN has offered up a NVME SSD as a random giveaway! HP SSD EX900 M.2 120gb. Thank you for the awesome prize! ALL PRIZES NOT CLAIMED AFTER TWO WEEKS WILL BE PUT TOWARDS THE NEXT COMPETITION

I don't have the mix and match issue on Intel, only AMD. I do however just use two separate OS for AMD and its no big deal. One for 0.9.3 w/ Geek(only things on OS), and one that has everything else.

depends on what you are benching

Super high mems for geek and r15 like 2048 or so. 3D depends on what you are running. 5gb or so usually works for newer. 3Gb or less for legacy.

Nicely done Champ!

Benchmate is required for AM4 benching on Windows 8/10

you can, I explained how to import 3.4.3b3 into benchmate in the support thread for you

0.9.3 is the correct version. Geekbench can not be included with the Benchmate software anymore. You can still install it into benchmate manually. Once both programs are installed on the OS, open benchmate and navigate to the bottom left of the main screen. Click the + icon and navigate to the geekbench installation. Source the .exe and it'll now be present in benchmate

allowed for fire strike

Seems quite a few of the 3600 scores don’t use BM. Those will need reported unfortunately

https://hwbot.org/news/10034_application_93_rules/ states Benchmate 0.9.3 must be used when benching AMD on Win8 or newer

No benchmate? It is required for Windows 10 AM4 benching of Geekbench

Verification screenshot requirements A verification screenshot is required Benchmark window CPU-Z CPU tab (version 1.91 or newer) CPU-Z Memory tab (version 1.91 or newer) GPU-Z Graphics Card tab Full screenshot required, no clipping Verification link Result must be “Valid” on 3dmark.com

Score is invalid

That’s the hope. Might try her again next weekend

System had been acting funny since installing the fury X. Just quick and dirty install of the drivers and run. said card I think is now dead. Won’t post anymore

So yeah, it looks like each individual platform will need to be tested for sure. z390, Z490, AM4, etc. just as we do for most anything anymore, bench version and OS will be key to a good score.

Platform and OS please. Those make a ton of difference.

Another one......

Droppppping Boooooombs!