Massman

The following people will be contacted for the prizes(*). Check mail soon! Romania 1 - Matose 2 - Micutzu 3 - Monstru Russia 1 - Smoke 2 - Slamms Bulgaria 1 - I.nfraR.ed (*) - based on the weight their results determined the outcome of the competition. - each stage we give 10-8-6-... points to the members of the country based on ranking within country - prize for: top-3 winner, top-2 runner up and best of 2nd runner up country

It's not the multiplier that is causing this, but the actual CPU frequency. It's quite possible you'll be able to boot at 98.2x56 (given your board can do it) and fail to boot at 101.8x55. The debug leds on ASUS boards show 'AE', which is the part where the board checks what it should boot from. Interestingly, when you disable all boot options except for the HDD and unplug the HDD, the system will go straight to the BIOS. The PXE-E01 points towards a LAN BOOT problem (at least according to google), but I guess it's more wise to assume it's just a PCI ROM read error failing when trying to boot from something. Before the launch of Sandy Bridge everyone was pointing to the DMI/SATA giving problems due to overclocking, but given these particular issues I'm not so sure it's either of those two as it's clearly not the BCLK OC causing this. Perhaps the CPU itself, although the behavior is a-typical to anything we've seen before: a given CPU could run full stable (Wprime and SuperPI) at 5000MHz and fail to boot at, eg, 5010MHz. There's no instability scaling whatsoever. Perhaps it's a part of the System Agent integrated on the CPU die? Or the Intel Management Engine integrated on the P67 chipset? Or a combination? No idea really.

If you want to compare two results, you always need a common foundation. In this case it's the Windows operating system. In theory we could add a feature that allows you to choose what operating system you were running (so linux can be compared to linux), but the request for that is very low and it's not as simple as just adding a selection field. So, to sum up: no linux-based submissions allowed.

Can't download? PCE-E01 error is due to CPU instability. Other mainboards will just show blank screen. It's right before showing the HDD boot partitions.

Yes. Oh yes!

Big thumbs up to Bulgaria as well! Definitly the surprise of this competition ... can't wait to see what will happen next year

Excellent!

Guys ... The previous AMD HTT WR was 564MHz. Now ... Romania forms an average ... of 565MHz HTT. 'Epic' is humbled by that.

Holy shit!

This is EPIC!

Go! Go! Go!

Romania has it in their own hands ... they just need to beat the Russians to win

Sadly enough, it's sometimes necessary to highlight the capabilities of a competitor's product in order to get them working on a specific issue .

The URL is cut off, I can't see what mainboard you're using.

- P67A-GD65 (1.8b7): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187'>http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187 - P67A-GD55 (1.8b7): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/E7681IMS.187

Yeah. Its less apparent, but it's also there. Check the second set of results in the opening post.

This thread was supposed to point out the humor in all those "I need ES for WR"-claims in the past .

Had that idea as well, but I don't know how an EFI bios could affect 01 performance

Yeap. Pt1t just confirmed the same thing: GBT rocks for 01; all the others are slacking hard. IIRC, he had 109-111k with ASUS M4E (HD5870) and 116K with UD7

Added: - P67 Extreme6 (1.33A): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/P67EX61.33A - P67 Professional (1.10G): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/P67PE1.10G

Added: - TP67XE (F121): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/P67AF121.BST - TP67XE (F118): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/P67AF118.BST - P67 Professional (1.50): http://91.121.148.119/downloads/BIOS/P67PE1.50

I don't know what's going on. I was expecting a couple of people to realize, again, that ES gives much more world records than retail ... but there are no complaints whatsoever? What's going on?

I re-ran a lot. Lot. Lot. . CH is quite consistent here; as Jaan says ~ 10FPS variation mostly. Sometimes, you can get a good run that is like 20FPS higher, but definitly not 50 like in this case. CH gives the most clear indication of lower performance, but it can be seen in all subtests. Nature is here ~ 20-40FPS lower (<1%) and DH is also slacking +/_ the same. Overall, the difference is like 4-6k points.

Wow, your amd has a 1:5 mem divider? :-O