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  1. Nice one, K404. There's one more issue - there are members and even teams that get hardware from a shop where one of the members works or his friend does. They bench it and give back. Yes, it's not the case when it's free and you can burn it with no worry, but a team that can take ten GTX480 and ten 5870 and bench them on a top test bed can perform definetely better than the ones that buy stuff from their pocket.

     

    And it's unreal to trace this out ;)

  2. Modification tools described here can be used to force the NVIDIA graphics driver to detect supported chipset «Intel X58», regardless of what the real hardware chipset present in system. After receiving the identification of a "X58" chipset, videocard driver checks for the correct certificate from BIOS to check "compatibility" with SLI tech, which should be located in the system table DSDT, which is a part of ACPI. Initially, the data tables are loaded from the computer's BIOS, but later, if BIOS wasn't changed, used from the regular OS registry entry by Windows.
    I began explaining this but then thought that TiN definetely has written this kind of stuff, so I just added a quote :)
  3. I think he means whether they are allowed at HWBot. And the answer is yes.

     

    The only thing the mod does is override the SLI blocking depending on devID of the chipset :)

  4. But when a manufacturer gives a big advantage to only 1 person and organizes a competition that that 1 person will win no matter what because of that private modification is a BIG FAIL and a discriminating action against the oc community.
    Yep, totally agree. Manufacturer support is like a BFG against others. Maybe even a BFG combined with a quad damage. :D
  5. I've got another idea (if you're tired of them, let me know or I won't stop :D ).

     

    The clue is how many boints you can get with a certain testbed or piece of hardware.

     

    For example, I've got a good platform for socket 939 and want to check, how many boints I can achieve. I select CPU categories and get a list of records and boints for them. A summarize for each category would be nice. Of course, an application selection should be made besides the CPU one.

     

    For example, I've got good hardware for PCMark and can make a good challenge there, but have nothing to do in the rest because of the cooling.

     

    And there should be an overall search without defining the CPU (GPU). I've got a PCMark or CPU-Z testbed and want to look how many boints can I get, what CPUs to look for first and what score must I achieve.

     

    The navigation became more complicated with the tabs (i.e. the default tabs being chosen) so it pushed me on this one.

     

    Another addition to this feature is to make a wider selection. For example, you see a record you are unable to beat this time. So you either skip the entry and the page shows you the next record (the boints are recalculated) or it shows the next 2-4 results (places 3-5 first places) to check a beatable one.

     

    This thing can be used not only as a calculator but as a schedule too :D

  6. Stop showing us a Duron :) we all know that Duron have (and maybe all of them) a free multiplier so changing it is a piece of cake. You can show no validations and videos on them. The Semprons is far more interesting. So I agree about closing the subject until you show us the same thing but with Sempron. Is that clearly written? Not Duron, Athlon, AthlonXP - the Sempron is the subject of interest.

     

    If you manage to show us validation and a video, you can make a photo of the modification to show us noobs some street magic :D

  7. Hello, I would like to suggest some changes in links so it would be better to browse through the site.

     

    Country links like http://hwbot.org/community/country/russian%20federation should lead to either http://hwbot.org/community/country/russian_federation/overclocker or http://hwbot.org/community/country/russian_federation/team

    at least this should be done on the main page - the country block and the page of country rankings http://hwbot.org/rankings/country/

    Because everytime you look the country list then want to see detalized on overclockers or teams of the specific country click the one you chose and see the same list again with the only difference that the country is highlighted.

     

    And the CPU categories. The video is nice - when you click on the category link you go right to 3D that are viewed most frequently. But as for the CPU - you go to the info. It's interesting to look at it one, two and three times. But not each time to want to check the results.

     

    So it would be nice if the link would lead to 2D rankings cause it's the most popular target.

     

    Got more but don't remember atm. Thank you. :)

  8. You didn't unlock anything - your Duron was unlocked at the beginning, the only thing you may have to do was the L1. And that is not an unlocking - you just don't understand how the multi is being set. I've read quite a stack of articles and written my own showing a bunch of myths on this.

     

    P.S. looked the video - yes, it shows an absolutely normal situation on how the unlocked CPU will work. The locked ones won't do this. You say that you can unlock the locked ones and change multi on NF2 - can we see the same video but with Sempron?

     

    Scotty, do you have any ideas how to make the category at least a bit more cheat-proof? You are welcome to PM me. We can afterwards send recommendations to mods ;)

  9. Yep, it's the pre-39th week CPU. I've got some of these. No need to mod - their multi is free and can be easily changed. But some are locked (after 39-th week) and there is no way to change the multi on NF2 (you are free to read some smart articles about why this is so).

     

    The interesting part is that all Semprons have a locked multi so it can't be changed on NF2.

    This is the main but not the only evidence. There are more :)

  10. If we look at the Celeron category, http://hwbot.org/browseHardwareProcessors.do?cpuSubFamilyId=17 and check to view the Super pi 32M resilts, we can see that s478 Celeron 315 has 19 results. But in fact http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/celeron_s478_315?tab=2drankings#/manufacturer.rankings.do?applicationId=7&manufacturer=intel&hardwareTypeId=CPU_931&hardwareType=CPU&tabid=cpubenchmarks it has 18. Some categories differ on 3-5 results from what is seen on category page and 2D rankings.

     

    If we look this: http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/celeron_s478_320?tab=2drankings#/manufacturer.rankings.do?applicationId=9&manufacturer=intel&hardwareTypeId=CPU_932&hardwareType=CPU&tabid=cpubenchmarks

    we can see a more interesting thing - the Celeron category page shows that there should be 25 results in PCMark. And yes, there are 25 listed. But if we compare the 15-20 and 21-25 results - these are the same ones counted twice.

     

    Would be nice if both of these would get fixed. Thank you :)

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