Massman

Bulldozer FX-8150 is an 8-core. Disabling cores is not allowed in the normal rankings so also not allowed in the Country Cup.

Same rules count as in the normal rankings. - X4 955 = quad core - 2500K = quad core - 2600K = quad core

Stage VI requires you to run 1 score with a 1, 2, 4, 6 and 8xCPU (cores). How you accomplish this is upto you. You can: - run an eight-core server CPU - unlock a dual core to quad core - run a dual quad core setup - ... (ps: 8xCPU does not mean you need to run a setup with 8 CPUs)

More mainstream? I was worried at first that I made it too extreme ...

AMD 3D11 stage is full-out. That's why only one person per country needs to set a score and has 40 days for it

The ranking will update automatically. So, if you post 1000p score the first day and a 20k score the last day, the 20k score will count.

Not men. Man ...

Massman, Pt1t, Gamer, Leeghoofd, Teemto, Chiller, Cornerjack, ...

This is the reason why I've been trying to figure out if Bulldozer is somewhat competitive in 3DMark11. Turns out a Thuban will suffice ... :-P //edit: http://www.overclex.net/news/hwbot-lance-une-competition-pr-pays/ http://www.erodov.com/forums/hwbot-cup-2011-a/47044.html http://forum.zwame.pt/showthread.php?t=685090&p=8314841#post8314841 http://www.teamhardwarevzla.com/foros/viewtopic.php?p=75294 http://www.criminalcafe.com/showthread.php?5330-HWBot-Country-Cup-2011-T%F3pico-de-discuss%E3o& http://www.ocfreaks.com/forums/showthread.php?t=247 http://www.ocaholic.ch/forum/index.php?page=Thread&threadID=3853 http://forum.overbr.com.br/showthread.php?t=44567 http://ocforum.pl/64-extreme-overclocking/hwbot-country-cup-2011-a-38787/ http://forum.lab501.ro/showthread.php?t=5746 http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/overclocking-tweaking-benchmarking/48176-hwbot-country-cup-2011-kicks-off-november-19th.html http://www.benchtec.co.uk/forums/threads/8880-HWBOT-Country-Cup-2011-Kicks-off-November-19th! http://www.madshrimps.be/vbulletin/f22/get-ready-hwbot-country-cup-2011-kicks-off-november-19th-81500/ http://www.below0.co.za/index.php/item/drweez/time-to-shine-south-africa-the-hwbot-country-cup-2011-kicks-off-on-november19th.html http://forum.overclock3d.net/index.php?/topic/39181-get-ready-for-hwbot-country-cup-2011-kicks-off-november-19th/ http://klan-oc.fr/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=142 http://forum.pcproject.com.br/hwbot-country-cup-2011-topico-de-discussao/14670 http://www.thelab.gr/eidiseis/get-ready-hwbot-country-cup-2011-kicks-101642.html

Haha .

No enthusiast in his right mind would opt for the Intel board. This kind of issues have been in their boards for years now and it seems it's never getting fixed.

Really ...

Great! I'll go over the scores and pass on information to MSI

Two new top scores for AMD platform, I think. 7G was rather unstable ... need to try again.

The ratio "strangeness" is not a worry. It's probably due to software and/or NB clocking.

Running 3-way, GT1 goes down 10%. The decrease in GT4 is slightly larger, but that is what we expect from a more GPU-bound subtest. // edit: played with affinity. - C0 = 24.6 FPS - C1 = 24.7 FPS - C0+C1 = 42.01 FPS - C0+C2 = 51.14 FPS - C0+C1+C2 = 60 FPS - C0+C2+C4 = 67.39 FPS - C0+C1+C2+C3 = 71.2 FPS - C0+C2+C4+C6 = 75.21 FPS - C0+C1+C2+C3+C4+C5 = 80.44 FPS - C0+C1+C2+C3+C4+C5+C6+C7 = 82.81 FPS // edit2: Looking at this this score makes me even more confused [hwbot=2195471]submission[/hwbot] GT2, GT3, GT4 are on par with Bulldozer and Thuban. For some reason GT1 is the only subtest that is getting major performance hits. Also, GT1 isn't supposed to scale with frequency it seems. Stelaras has better GT1 with 1GHz less CPU power and 50MHz more GPU speed. [hwbot=2187323]submission[/hwbot]

NB does make a difference, but not 15FPS. Jumping from 2000NB to 2500NB gave me +~3FPS in GT4.

400MHz. DDR2-800.

Lol! I test Bulldozer for the same reason I play with IGP or like to play with the Athlon XP once in a while. I'm not interested in breaking world records or getting top scores, I'm just interested in seeing how the platform behaves and how you can maximize the results. It doesn't make sense that GT1 slacking 15-20FPS is only due to a lack of CPU power. For one, all three other GTs are perfectly on par with Thuban. For two, increasing the clock frequency of the CPU doesn't really make GT1 scale; the scaling is identical to the other tests.

Nice catch, Dino! GT1 seems to be the most problematic game test for Bulldozer. The three others are roughly on par with Thuban. Given the Bulldozer architecture, I'd say the PT score is fine too for a 4 module chip. Combined isn't too big of an issue. // Edit: If GT1 would be so low due to the it's CPU-intensive nature, increasing the clock frequency of the CPU should yield in great scaling of GT1. Or at least greater scaling than the three other game tests. GT1 4500 MHz = 86.28 FPS GT1 4625 MHz = 87.74 FPS GT1 4750 MHz = 87.85 FPS (on F5 bios, 4750 = 89.61 FPS) I don't understand why GT2 is getting worse when increasing the CPU frequency, though ... // edit2: Also, GT1/GT3 ratio of my scores compared to Dino's is very strange: vs

F5 BIOS is roughly 200p faster in 3DMark11. I gives a boost in the graphics score of the benchmark. Last score for today. System prepped for LN2 run tomorrow. 7G, here I coooooooome !!

Before I go LN2 on the CPU, I need to return to the F5 bios to check some performance issues. I'm getting consistently 100p lower in Heaven DX11 on F6/G2 BIOS than I got with F5. I did reinstall the operating system (did that with F5 too), so maybe it's a software issue.

Ran my first 3DMark11 with this setup and the score turned out better than anticipated. Maybe we had some performance issues at LITS2011 before ...

GIGABYTE has received the information and are preparing a press release about the competition . The winners of the competition are pretty easy to identify, though.

There's no wall. There's crazy scaling !!