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I like the new features that i've picked up on I like the continental bit Need to add America though

Now that the chips are retail (well...soon to be) they are open to anyone with the money and come with warranty... more people will be able and or comfortable to jump on the hexcore bandwagon. ES binning I suspect is slower than retail binning IMHO

LOL theres gonna be more scores going up in this category soon Nice work Karl! I hope you dont play backup games :p

W7 bugged score. No FPS breakdown. Complete rubbish. How can someone break a WR by over 60% and not think "somethings not quite right here?"

Happy birthday for tomorrow, poornicep3rson

X58A UD3R? :D Is the single CPU power plug not holding the clocking back? Asus, MSI and eVGA are touting dual CPU plugs.... I was a bit worried about power distribution a 15K in parallel will give 7.6K... is that too low? Would be a more elegant solution than messing with 50K or 100K trimmers 16.6-16.7K is the perfect value

Excellent! Separate GDDR + FET cooling plate so changing to watercooling is as easy as could be Could probably leave those plates on for subzero too Tentative: Shame about the price- I cant see this being cheap

Theres a lot of things I wont find in my local shop Should these E87 be available to buy? Is the "availability" we're seeing now with Intels blessing?

Im really surprised by Intel. They've been sitting on these chips for over a year before releasing them. Im also surprised there were NO result leaks in all that time.

Its been really fun to watch this the last few days

Your best is your best, no number of backups from any number of people can change that. The maximum score you can get from your gear doesnt change. Someone can either beat your best, or they cant. The person at No.1 doesnt change As an aside.... if I post a score in a category where mtech isn't competing, its my best score. I do see what you mean 12... maybe in a few categories with mtech present, I may play a gameup game to play him at his own game. Its a game I dont like though

No bad, Mr Pawley

Why play crappy backup games? If you have a score, just submit it!

Thats no problem Thanks Fred.

When forum scanning was stopped, I asked (maybe others too) if HWB would keep the 1st post of each benchmark thread updated so that a team could see their inner-team leaderboard for each bench. This hasn't been happening. Is this an oversight... generally? Just a problem for Benchtec? or was it a mis-interpretation and HWB were going to pull/ have pulled all per-forum leaderboard updates?

What if the default option for cooling was blank and HAS to be changed. Some guys (lazy or by accident) forget to change the cooling type from stock air

Well.. we all know the effect of the CPU depends on how much GPU power there is With a 9800GTX class, adding 4K to the CPU score adds 100 points to the final score

A fresh driver install sometimes helps yea. 169.21 is the best driver set for benching the 7-series

Hey Always nice to see some nV 7 series Drivers should be ok with it, but iv noticed over the last couple years a BIG split in the 7900GT PCBs... they typically either stop at 550MHz, or go for miles. You might have lucked out Is the card volt-modded?

I've thought about this from time to time too... have a leaderboard for only certain tests in a benchmark.... like 3DV GPU tests... 3DM06 CPU test, 3DM01 Nature etc.... maybe just for a laugh to start with

Sorry Miftah... your score isnt valid

Is v1.55 still the only allowed version?

Bro.... do you have an FM link for this score? Your SM3 score is very high... and over 11% higher than your SM2 score. Im wondering if theres a tweak I dont know about

If a piece of hardware is never released to retail (Dreadnought 790I springs to mind) but is tested by overclockers..... how about make a category that is set to no points, no silverware, no global ranking allowed? Still get the database and information, but no reward.

If HWB decide to continue supporting this bench, how will results be divided up? S462 S478 S939 S-AM2 (DDR2) S-AM2 (DDR3) S775 (DDR2) S775 (DDR3) I3 I5 I7 ?