Well some guys tried to get points for the dual core ranking. So it's probably the most poplular CPU of PCM05 for 2 years.
Amount of submissions with other "popular CPUs"
4690K: 4
4790K: 16
5960X: 2
5820K: 0
5930K: 2
4930K: 10
4960X: 3
4670K: 22
4770K: 37
Now lets take a look at more popular benchmarks like HWBot Prime (which is not the most popular one of these CPUs!)
G3258: 197
4690K: 31
4790K: 169
5960X: 50
5820K: 20
5930K: 23
4930K: 104
4960X: 37
4670K: 116
4770K: 269
XTU is actually really consistent and scales on CPU and MEM power. The big advantage is that Massman has a direct connection to Intel and they constantly update the benchmark. So it might take time but Intel is at least willing to update the benchmark. For PCMark there is no hope for any fixes. No matter what happens.
Exactly this^^^^
This is nothing personal guys. I would apply the same decision to any other benchmark if it reaches this point. What is the point of having a benchmark that can be tweaked by at least 300% and we moderators can't even judge if scores are legit or not? What happens if two guys upload scores and accuse each other to be cheaters? How do we even judge whose score is legit or not? In the end we (HWBot) will get the blame.
Global points are a very important part of HWBot and the main tool to get into Top 20 overall ranking. The result is that the value of global points is very high and we have to be sure that the rewarded points reflect the real "performance" of an overclocker. If we can't be sure that the benchmark results are 100% legit there is no point in rewarding global points.
Not even talking about that there are not even 5 guys per month using this benchmark which is the lowest submission rate on the whole bot.
Yea just bridge. Nothing else is needed. No mods on the mainboard.
The first adapter I tried had a bad connection and the system froze randomly. Still trying to get a proper solution.
So the lazy mod helped vivi to even go to 4500 MHz on cache. Using MSI X99S MPOWER. Good work man!
http://hwbot.org/submission/2657726_vivi_cinebench_r15_core_i7_5960x_2180_cb
BTW if you guys don't want to use epower you can always just hook the mod up to a different voltage. VDIMM is usually pretty good because you can use ~1,25 Volt to boot but raise up to 1,7 Volt which is exactly what you need.