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    The official Old School is Best School Season 4 Round 2 thread

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    44 minutes ago, Strunkenbold said:

    If I got an exotic GPU with more shaders than the regular category,  I just submit.

    Well, rules were unclear about this one. And not sure whether there was a statement about such buffed up cards. There's much fun in finding exotic hardware and even knowing of its existence, completely different case than

    46 minutes ago, Strunkenbold said:

    Pentium mmx shows some more MHz than bios post

    which is a total cheat. I do agree on all the rest you've said.

    Submit score page - bug report and feature request

    in HWBOT Development: bugs, features and suggestions

    Posted · Edited by Antinomy

    Yesterday I've got caught a glitch from the submit page. It's quite an old one but annoying nevertheless. I think we should work hard pushing the hardware, not fighting with submission engine.

    Bug report:

    1) Images selected for attachment are removed if you get a error message, both "verification screenshot" field and "pictures of your system" (except ones being prepopulated from previous submissions) . Adding the fact you have to scroll way down to re-check this, it's a nasty one.

    2) internal exception errors are seen, "Property score threw exception; nested exception is java.lang.NullPointerException". And there are two of them, above and below the input field.

    Feature requests:

    1) On CPU-Z result page we have two "CPU frequency" input fields. Can we grey-out the second one and dupe from the other as long as one of them gets filled? It'll be the best solution. Or at least make one input field. It's kinda counter-productive having to input the same thing twice.

    2) We have a motherboard database, why don't we fill up motherboard vendor and chipset if you select a certain model? If it's not in the database, O.K. let them fill all three fields. But if it's in, you can prepopulate the other two from model name.

    3) Last but not least - could we nail the "I've read the rules and agree to them till the next time they change". I understand why this thing got light when rules have changed. But this doesn't happen often. We could nail it once per benchmark and reset when benchmark rules or general rules have been change. It is annoying.

     

    TIA

    The official Old School is Best School Season 4 Round 1 thread

    in HWBOT Competitions

    Posted · Edited by Antinomy

    On 19.03.2018 at 8:30 PM, Strunkenbold said:

    Thanks testing this also on Ali. 

    Just from reading different sources in the net it indicates that 3,5 is Max and only applies to early samples. I can not give a technical explaination but I do think it depends on the internal wiring of some pins of the CPU, thus setting a multi of 4 and up doesn't do any difference because it would need another pin which the MMX completely ignores. In the end it's just another proof that those CPUs cannot get fully unlocked and every result with high multi was CPU-Z bugged.

    A bit late but nevertheless. P55 core (classic Pentium MMX) has two multiplier pins BF 1:0. Two pins give us 4 combinations and they are 2x, 2.5x, 3x, 3.5x - 133MHz (not presented in desktop CPUs), 166MHz, 200MHz and 233MHz. So anything over 3.5x on P55 is software rubbish (Pentium Pro has the same problem, BTW and maybe Klamath). But the CPU frequency should be O.K.

    As for unlocked - Intel started fighting with overclocking and cut down higher multis on latter P55 and some P54C. I suppose it has been done by cutting (or not wiring) the package (plastic or ceramic) to the core. Early samples didn't have this making all multi available.

     

    There is a number of things CPU-Z can be better (showing onboard cache like it did on old versions but stopped) we might want a thread for that. There's been only but maybe a separate for old hardware would be nice, sometimes it's hard to find a work-around working single as it requires different hardware...

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    OSiBS season 4 design thread

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    Socket 423 (sdram only - no adapters allowed)

    But why? SDRAM wasn't too popular on s423. I think I have 2 or 3 DDR boards but none based on i845 SDRAM. :D

     

     

    My thoughts:

    3DMark 2001 SE socket 370. Or maybe even socket 370/socket A (Athlon non XP, i.e. before Palomino). Nice overall system performance.

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