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    ASUS ROG X299 RAMPAGE VI APEX Motherboard

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    Posted · Edited by gavbon

    Hey all, currently selling my RAMPAGE VI APEX as it's only sitting in a daily driver and it seems pointless having such an amazing OC board stuck inside a case.

     

    It's been running at virtually stock it's life, never been abused, never seen sub-zero and never been insulated.

     

    EY7HoPq.jpg

     

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    I'm taking it out and boxing it up today, also have a 7900X so if interested in a bundle deal, just PM me

     

    Looking for £300+ shipping

    [FS] GTX 580 Matrix, GTX 780 Lightning, Various Other GPUs

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    Posted

    Hey all

     

    Having a little clear-out of hardware I need, perks of being paid quarterly, but having to pay rent monthly!

     

    Prices don't include postage, happy to ship anywhere worldwide, but I won't responsible for customs charges if any get applied by customs. All items are 100% working and fully tested before boxing up.

     

    1. MSI GTX 780 Lightning 3GB

     

    https://imgur.com/oLFcvn6

     

    https://imgur.com/1mP4svU

     

    Bought to use under sub-zero, has been made ready for this (not insulated), but didn't get round to getting it cold due to the lack of a GPU pot. Awesome card and worth lots of HW points.

     

    2. ASUS GTX 580 MATRIX 1.5GB

     

    https://imgur.com/LQY5GsN

     

    https://imgur.com/jzvhX7O

     

    Awesome GTX 580 and one of the best models for overclocking. Same situation as above, works 100%, just hasn't been tested under cold!

     

     

    3. ZOTAC GTX 260 896MB

    4. Sapphire HD 3870 TOXIC 512MB

    5. Sapphire HD 4870 512MB

    6. ASUS HD 6950 Direct CUII 1GB

     

    https://imgur.com/mDVAQ8y

     

    https://imgur.com/4l8ausG

     

    Items 3 to 6 were purchased with the intention of benching them in legacy benchmarks, but have only so far tested them to make sure they are working, then put back in the box. All cards are 100% working.

     

    If someone buys them all as a bundle, I will throw in a pair of 8800GTS cards and a 9800GT :)

     

     

    Prices:

     

    1. £120 + postage

    2. £80 + postage

    3. £30 + postage

    4. £25 + postage

    5. £25 + postage

    6. £45 + postage

     

    Bundle deal for 3-6 = £105 + postage

     

    Bundle deal for ALL the graphics cards = £270 + postage including 2 x 8800GTS & 9800GT included for free

    $@39@ is cheating X265 and HWBot Prime

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    Has it been decided that it 100% is a cheat? I have no idea how to use a java console to pause any benchmark so I can't test it. But there is proof that using pause button does not "trick the benchmark to make it think it ran faster", so I would say that at least using pause button is not a cheat. Not any more than slow mode is for xtu.

     

    However I do find it unlikely that he has some other kind of super tweak to get that kind of efficiency with that OS and no overkill mode. But has he tried to explain it to mods or maybe even confessed?

     

    You thought the Cinebench image manipulation was a "tweak"

     

    Give over Rauf :D, it's 100% a cheat

    $@39@ is cheating X265 and HWBot Prime

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    Posted

    Either way we cant have people continue to break the rules no matter what happened in the past. Someone got caught and needs to suffer the consequences if true. If we want to move forward we just have to handle it this way from now on and try and forget past mistakes. And thank Splave for catching it. but I was definitely frustrated by cinebench also, mainly because I didnt get to use it, haha.

     

    I do agree with you

     

    Issue is, how many times can you draw a line in something and move forward before anything actually gets sorted?....until the next time :P

    $@39@ is cheating X265 and HWBot Prime

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    Posted

    My 2p

     

    While I agree with Websmile on the issue of the Cinebench scandal being different to this current one, there is no dispute that $@39@ flouted the rules and essentially cheated - Absolutely no disputing that.

     

    But I still feel deep inside of me that, because it's been found so quickly (the exploit) and he seems to be a lone wolf at current, it's easier to ban him than 15+ top benchers who manipulated benchmark files in Cinebench for an advantage.

     

    What pains me so much - It's not that the render image was changed in the first place, but by how much to get such little gains to make it look like strong efficiency which some actually called it "tweaking". Christian Ney proved that by editing enough, it could prove massive yields, but if this was ALLOWED, why wouldn't the culprits do that instead of only doing it enough so it was hardly noticable?

     

    That IMO is just as bad, if not worse than $@39@ - The sooner people stop pretending this, the better we can ALL move on from all of this crap.

     

    P.S - I say this with the utmost respect, but there has been cases where big names have been let off from any consequences from breaking rules (through apparent ignorance) because of who they are. I would put money on if $@39@ was to have done the same thing on Cinebench and was the first, he would have also been banned for it.

     

    Oh and I don't have Elite envy, I have access to ES samples of latest chips myself (I should technically be elite), but I honestly believe in an open playing field and you can't have a level playing field when cheaters (however hard it is to side sweep the issue) remain on HWBot, but others get openly banned because it's much easier in one instance to do so

    WTB ASRock Z170M OCF

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    Posted · Edited by gavbon

    As the title suggests, I'm looking a ASRock Z170M OCF (Pref not destroyed, must be 100% fully working, insulated doesn't bother me!)

     

    Shipping to UK please :)

     

    Kind Regards

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