Massman

Harshal!! Long time!

Yes, totally legit!

All about raw cpu power, for Wprime. Cinebench should not be the same, since it is partially memory/imc bound. Afaik IVB-E is slightly more efficient than SB-E clock per clock too.

As I said on the TPU forums as reply to that Avexir review, I would much rather read an advertorial (= paid content) with additional informative and factual information than a review of which I feel the author is lying to me. If you seriously tell me up front, your goal is to highlight the positive aspects of a certain product, list all features and provide additional background, and I will gladly read the story. But then don't give a score or award. Have you guys seen AnandTech's Ivy Bridge-E review? Probably the most well-balanced review on the web. No big statements, no awards, no rediculous scores. Just plain and simple, "it's not a big step forward" and "if you have money and need cores, buy it".

It seems that more and more reviewers are starting to speak up about the non-sense of awards. Check out this . While I don't particularly share his view on the board (I haven't tested it, but it can't be this bad), the bit (starts around 21:20s) where he explains how much shit giving a Bronze award is very interesting.

Dunno about that estimate. I bet it takes quite some time weeks to find those DDR3-3000 1.65V ICs. It's a time-intensive task. I think everyone finds those outrageous prices funny, but honestly that is not the problem. Companies can charge whatever they want for a product. If you don't like the price, don't buy it. The main problem is that so-so much media post super positive reviews about these kits. They completely ignore the benchmark figures they post in the review, and then give the kit a 95% or something. These "journalists" choose to ignore their own metrics, and tell their readership things are great. While in fact, it is not so great. I have no problems companies charging so much. But review media are supposed to call bunnyextraction on this. They are not - it's all 95%+. The underlying issue is the lack of innovation on the side of X86 computing. I don't want to write an essay in this thread, but you can sense the desperation of the industry from MFR hypes like this. Apart from the introduction of dual core and then later the SSD, we haven't seen much improvement in this industry. Only smaller steps. But every single company is trying their best to make their products look like it's the next iPhone or something. I guess I'm kicking in an open door when I say Microsoft and Intel are to blame for this. Windows XP is 13 years old, and has a market share of 33% for Windows. Only Windows 7 does better with 45%. Ivy Bridge-E 4960X is about 35% faster than Gulftown. That is at stock! Gulftown 980X was released in March 2010, when the next product cycle comes it will be well over 4 years old. The first extreme Nehalem part 965X was released in November 2008. It is merely 30% slower (at stock) in one of the older x264 benchmarks than the 4770K released last June. That's about six years difference! Anyway, not for today. That same lack of innovation and creativity is the same driver of our overclocking hobby, fyi. At least in terms of the amount of funds there are available for events and stuff.

I don't know why, but this made me laugh today http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=9SIA0ST0TP9337

Cool! It would be nice to see a full guide after the competition is over. ARM needs open source :D

Fixed! Very nice score - latest JDK ?

Woops - yeah - fixed!

Thanks for the heads up! Removed the "benchmark".

Try running Windows Update when you have XTU v4.2.0.8 installed. I had some issues before and that resolved it.

Using v4.2.0.8 ?

I had that problem before - Windows 7? Try having Windows run some updates.

Global Points (UGP) 1st using 8 CPU - 11.0 Points Hardware Points (UHP) 1st using Xeon E5 2687W V2 - 2.0 Points Global Team Power Points (GTPP) 1st in team using 8 CPU - 50.4 Points Hardware Team Power Points (HTPP) 1st in team using Xeon E5 2687W V2 - 5.2 Points Seems fine here?

I'd love to see Intel push the top high-end desktop more - bring on the Skulltrail!

Everything 2800 and higher should be MFR.

Done!

Yeah, of course. Everyone is hoarding stock, waiting for the moment the market gets the price at the highest point.

WR!

New Easytune6 (still uploading, done in a minute or five) - GIGABYTE Easytune vB13.0703.1: Easytune6_B13.0830.1.exe

Updated some bioses - ASRock Z87 OC Formula --- 1.80: download - Asus Z87-Deluxe --- 1405: download - Asus Z87-Deluxe/Dual --- 1405: download - GIGABYTE Z87X-UD3H --- F8e download - GIGABYTE Z87X-UD5 TH --- F3b download --- F3a download --- F2 download - GIGABYTE Z87X-OC --- X04 download - Asus Z87i-Deluxe --- 0701: download

Damn - we need Ivy Bridge-E Skulltrail!

Oh look at who ruined XTU for desktop users . All jokes aside, 2128 points is not impossible for a very good IVB-E I think. Looks like a great challenge!

Great to hear it went solid!