Massman

No HWBOT friends? I think Christian Ney wants to be your friend.

it's this one.

Oh, right. What about cold scaling?

Oh, nice!

Hard to beat that price/perf I guess.

We know what it does on a high-level. We also know the performance boost it can generate in some benchmarks (between 30 and 400%). I mean. We know it's sort of legitimate and sort of not and we know the effect it has on benchmarks is of that size that it will change A LOT if allowed across the board.

AFAIK all major mainboard vendors have this tech.

I don't really like that, because then people expect us to decide within days. I really like the fact that we now have at least one more month to figure things out. It prevents us from having to rush decisions. Also, it allows more coding time .

Heh, we actually have a thread for that! Moved some posts.

Sampsa looks older than 17

Cool! Lucky draw is fine for me. Kinda avoids having to deal with verifying what cooling method was used

Oh, really?! That's awesome!!

Lucky for I.nfraR.ed February has one extra day this year

Heh. Nothing stops you from giving the prize you might win to a lucky draw .

Not sure which part is the graphics card anymore. Nice work!

That's the understatement of the year. Even in SPI-32M it seems terribly slow.

Sjeez. Bulldozer at 7.1G gives 4.438sec; Thuban at 5.4G gives 4.516sec.

Fixed.

Heh, it's sort of a grey zone. - Does MVP change the benchmark code? No. - Does MVP trick the FPS directly? No. What MVP does change is the underlying assumptions of the benchmark creator. For 3DMark11, one of the underlying assumptions is that the graphics card will render each frame completely, even if it contains data that has already been rendered before. What this technology does is basically having the IGP tell the GPU "are you fucking kidding me" when it's rendering a part of the scene multiple times and tells it to do the work only once. In a way, it's similar to any software tweak that enhances the speed of the benchmark. Remember your PCMark7 tweak to boost the image rendering (set to 640x480)? It's the same principle. Adjusting LOD is the same principle, disabling services is the same principle, disabling tesselation is the same principle, doing a copy-waza is the same principle. The principle being: running the benchmark in a different way than the developer intended. Now, I can hear you say already that "lod really does boost FPS". Well, this thing sort of does too. The issue here is that the FPS counter doesn't care how much of the frame has really been rendered. So, a situation where it would render 100% + 75% + 50% + 25% + 50% of the new frame is being accounted for as 1+1+1+1+1 = 5 frames. The real amount of data rendered, however, is closer to 3 (full) frames. In theory, the software renders exactly the same scenes, but just does it a bit smarter. In a way, this technology kinda shows high highly inefficient the GPU is currently being used. Basically, when you jump up from 60FPS to 250FPS (~ 400%), it means the GPU can render (in theory) the exact same scene using 4x less resources. But, when I say in theory, I mean that's how the Whitepaper explains the concept. As far as I know, there's no technical documentation on how the redundant frames are detected or if a user can fiddle with it so it could for instance skip 'all frames'. As I mentioned before, I see the technical discussion ("could we allow the software") as a different one from the HWBOT discussion ("how does it affect points/ranks"). Having the technology 'approved' does not necessarily mean that we allow it for HWBOT points.

I don't think it's only on GBT: Also, check out the Lucid customer portfolio:

I'm sure there are overclockers younger than that. I assume the youngest, legit overclocking should be around 17y old.

OBR should read whitepapers instead of Anandtech

As far as I can understand from the Lucid website, the licence for the software is hidden in the BIOS code. So, I think the software just checks if the bios licence matches software licence or so. I check MSI CD, but ... empty folder

I think there's only one Virtu MVP software in circulation. Nothing for MSI either

On a serious note, I think Fredyama might be the oldest overclocker. Although I don't really have any idea about his real age ...