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There's been a good idea floating around - of a competition aimed on old school hardware. And I need opinions on what tests and hardware should be used. I invite everyone interested to make a suggestion. I'll stack them up and send to Massman to organize the competition. A good name for a competition would be nice to come up to as well. My thought is as follows: "Old school is best school" competition. Stage is 3 months (old means rare means time to find the required hardware). Hardware starting from socket 5/7 and up to 478/939. VGA - up to GF 5/ATI 9xxx. Some multiprocessor action (I'm thinking of Pentium 2-3 and socket A). Only older benchmarks - good old Super pi, Pifast, wPrime. No new tests like Cinebench, HWBot Prime. No "strange" (bugged) tests like 3DMark 2000/PCMark 2004. So feel free to post and prepare your oldies

fixed core to Deschutes.

fixed chipset and combined with another category.

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Nice to see familiar faces. I'm in Would be nice to have 2-3 months for each competition - we're talking about not only old but rare hardware and it might take some time for a good preparation. But we could start a new one before the first ends giving not only time but a choice and/or more action. I think this can be done.

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Great news! Any plans on making this annual? I'd start saving for tickets.

Excellent idea! Karl loved old school hardware and has known a lot. Year of losses.

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Gigioracing, what are the vendors for them? "CDC MTC" - model? And "Ati SB400" - motherboard model too? Asus P4G8X works fine for me, what's the problem?

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LMFAO

gigioracing, added: http://hwbot.org/hardware/motherboard/0a90/ http://hwbot.org/hardware/motherboard/915p-a/

Stermy57, http://hwbot.org/hardware/motherboard/184a/

That's only motherboards. CPUs, memory, videocards and others are in the other room Oh, and there are two boards in each box in average. Some have three, a few have one.

The 3450 with DDR3 are in fact 3470 DDR3. Will try to fix this.

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When you definitely need a place to store your motherboards:

Use Throttlestop to set up your power levels and forget about the problem

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