Tech Tested

I think (at least for this year) a two week break between competitions was not enough. The argument for moving CC is that it conflicts with the holidays which makes it harder to focus on. Either way, a larger gap between the two competitions I think would make it easier on a lot of people. The suggestion for moving CC to Jan-Feb would basically guarantee a comfortable gap between the comps and not interfere with the holidays.

Very nice!

It is with heavy hearts that we announce the death of FX. Long live 13th Gen. Congrats. One hell of a score!

AMD GPUpi for CPU can we use AM3 CPU's in a AM2/+ board?

I agree that the crossfire stage should be narrowed down to terascale, so 3000-6000 series. I also think it would be fun to do a benchmark for FM2/+ that would use the IGPU as well as the CPU. Something like vantage performance would be fun.

9590 on a 95w board... Simply amazing

if FM2+ is too legacy than I am pretty screwed in participating in CC at all lol

is this where we post about appealing pulled scores?

Terascale 3XXX, 4XXX, 5XXX, 6XXX crossfire vantage performance on AM2+, AM3 CPU's allowed

Nice score!

Insane eff. Very nice.

Very impressive. Well done!

I am curious though, since it is just a GPU test will there really be that big of a bottleneck? Idk, I do intend to test it this weekend tho

So I was getting a bit disenfranchised with TC till I saw the GDDR5 AM3+ platform limitation..... its brilliant....

That is actually true of almost all Phenom II and Athlon II CPU's. Only a few exceptions exclusively support DDR2.

AM2+ CPU's only support DDR2. AM3 CPU's support both DDR2 and DDR3.

I think unigine heaven extreme for the 500 series nvidia GPU stage kinda makes the platform limitations irrelevant. It is extremely GPU bound to the point I dont think the CPU will matter at all.

Very nice. Now I have something to try and beat

what was the reason for banning 478 for DDR1 and AGP stages?

Dang man. Very nice. I think you can use 1.98 still?

Nice!

very nice!

I think a category for every 64bit AMD CPU gen and every Intel CPU gen would be cool. Also, a "bottleneck" category for 3d. Like tri-GPU in firestrike with a single core CPU.

Good luck to participants! Sometimes I wish I wasn't in extreme league...

nice score! A little more bclk and you can probably hit 8g. I usually set my bclk to 291.