Bilko

The entire point of this thread is for people to suggest hardware that could be viable for a comp Seems to have taken a detour somewhere though....

All excellent points mate but it just adds to the problem with this thread, there's plenty of "Here's why you shouldn't do that" posts and very very few actual hardware/bench suggestions. I was just suggesting something a little bit outside the norm but obviously it's not to peoples liking ?

Just to add a little more clarification to this Step 1: 3000G is available on every continent so far as I'm aware Step 2: It's got a $50 USD MSRP so I think it's covered under the "cheap" part of Cheapaz Chips Step 3: Hardmods, not so much but there's plenty of efficiency to work out Step 4: 32M, 3DMark11 Physics and 06 are definitely tweakable as is x265 to an extent If people have some other suggestions for hardware/benches then by all means throw them up, that's what the thread is for guys

Try not to take it personally mate, everyone makes mistakes Best thing you can do is learn from it and move forward, I have complete faith you can do better

I won't derail this thread but your scores were reported as invalid and upon checking them they were indeed invalid according to the rules for that benchmark. Feel free to open a new thread or PM me about it if you'd like, more than happy to talk you through the rules for each bench Grats to @ObscureParadox for the gold and looking forward to the rerun with the CPU-Z version visible

GPUPI runs on all GCN based iGPUs starting from Spectre onwards

I like the idea of the 3000G, It's a cheap unlocked part with an iGPU so you can have both 2D and 3D stages for it, it'll also run on a cheap B350 board. Also removes the possibility of using a higher end CPU to gain a couple extra points overall with a low end dGPU. SuperPI (32M of course), X265 4k, 3DMark06 and Sky Diver/GPUPI 1B would be my votes. For a tiebreaker stage Mem freq would be fun to see or 3DMark11 Physics is something else that could work.

I don't recall a stage that required 2nd gen to be used but would be nice for Tonga and Antigua to get some love.

1st gen GCN has had a fair bit of love in the past, why not 2nd or 3rd gen this time around? Something like Unigine Heaven would be good to see imo

Nicely done mate, very impressive

I just used memory I knew was easy enough to work with, I've no doubt there's more in it :)

Congrats mate, knew you could do it!

Thanks mate, this was a random Ebay chip, 0906FPMW is the batch

Nice work @cnzdrn!!

Don't know if that's possible but this would be good for those that don't care about that ranking

The newer CPU-Z requirement makes the most sense to me and it's something most people already do. Sad to see this happen but I guess there will always be people looking to do what they can to gain internet points.

Nice one mate, might have a go at this one myself :D

This CPU was released after this years Country Cup competition had started therefore it's not eligible to be used in any of the stages.

Released after comp started, not eligible sorry.

Need to include a validation link.

Need to include a validation link.

Need to include a validation link.

Nice one mate :)

I'm sure you will

Yeah it's not well documented, every time I fire it up I learn something new. Good to see the different configs people are using