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That's why I brought it up. When I was more active in EVE Online, I used to use https://obsproject.com/ live streaming and OBS just got support for that Intel QSV acceleration, which make the graphics part render the upstream, while keeping the P- and E-core alone for gaming. Using this or handbrake to render videos, makes rendering so quick, you want to sit on your outer casing, so your computer doesn't fly away.

Copy! Now that I had some time to think about it, I think, I know why.

Does anyone design the 2025 background-picture yet? One time, I didn't pay attention to that had no idea, that there was a new picture you had to have in the background to compete with others.

Still a very different computer, the graphics card is however the same as my RPL computer with the Z790 board.

It's not like I used a different computer, but I used a very different computer here!

CPU-Cooler is a Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5, rated up to 270 Watts of heat.

CPU-Cooler is a Be Quiet! Dark Rock Pro 5, rated up to 270 Watts of heat.

I uploaded that hwbot file that the HWBOT Aquamark produced.

Here I found very little information. Most achievements are self-explaining, while some out layers are cause for massive confusion. For example, according to the HWBOT statistics, I submitted about 100 results with a Gigabyte motherboard and there is an achievement for making lots of posts with Gigabyte boards. Now my confusion, did I lose the ability to count or did the server count different? If the achievements made sense, I should have gotten the "make 100 submission with a Gigabyte board", which I have already done. However, the achievement still marks me as "in progress". Do I have to make 100 submissions for that or more? It doesn't say, nor does it say, when or how it would award the achievement. It's not important, it just doesn't make sense, that the 100 submission award didn't come by submission 156. Is there something else I still need to do?

Ouuh! That is so weird. And confusing. Benchmate is telling me that the HPET thing is on, when it is not on, and HWBOT X265 needs to cut the performance in half to do its thing. Okay, so a security thing. That makes total sense now. HWBOT X265 drove me nuts for two years, by not being able to make it work and then reading the popup properly with the instruction to turn on the clock on win10/11 and maybe even back to win7.

During my tests for 2024 competition, saw that HPET has to be turned on. At first, I didn't think much of it, until I noticed that almost every program in win11$$ will be negatively affected by this. What is worse, once I turned it on for the benchmark to work finally, I forgot, I had it still on and went nuts, trying to find the culprit slowing my computer down to -50%. My second question is, why HWBOT uses such an ancient early alpha attempt on what will become FFmpeg in the future. The latest FFmpeg (7.1 or newer) has hardware accelerated video encoding for that exact thing, that this benchmark is having us do in extra long and slow on purpose. What purpose does this satisfy? The HW-acceleration is specifically programmed to make use of the on-die and what Intel call UHDxx0 graphics. Most desktop model have such a device on them, unless you buy an -F CPU, meaning -F in the end means no video on the CPU. This accelerator is called QSV for short and means Intel's Quicksync. Quicksync is very common these days, since it allows you to broadcast your encoded content in real-time to platforms like Twitch or the YouTube. So for example that 4K benchmark would be done in a few seconds, with very high frame rates, and it doesn't slow your CPU down. You could render that video in 2-5x real-time and still play Cyberpunk if you like.

Hey everyone, I wanted to ask about 3DMark in general. On the 3DMark website, you can connect your 3DMark account with your HWBOT account, but it doesn't do anything. Wouldn't it be nice, if both HWBOT and 3DMark could recognize your achievement equally by for example, getting the results from each other and adding to one another, so we could have more data for you to look at. What do you think?

Looks like my 6-layer, 4-dimm, Z690 board can only be defeated by magic cpus that can overclock their hard-locked front side buses.

As far as I understood, HWBOT is in the business of honesty and integrity, no? So, how come that a specifically NON-K 12th Gen 12XXX Alder Lake CPU can magically overclock to 5+GHz by itself? As far as the Intel documentation states, my i7-12700 can clock as followes: 4.9GHz with one P-core, 4.8GHz with 2 P-cores, 4.7Ghz with 3 P-cores, 4.6GHz with 4 or 5, 4.5GHz with 6-8 P-core in addition to 3.6GHz with 2x E-core and 3.4GHz with all 4 E-cores at any given time. For a competition, all things should be equal, no? So, how is it, that a specifically NON-K CPU can cheat its way to the top, when Intel says, no overclocking NON-K CPU. Either let everyone overclock, which is not available for expensive motherboards, or the NON-K CPU seems somehow moot.

Okay, that took a little longer than I thought, but at least I got this to work on my 6-layer 4-dimm motherboard from 2021: Turns out, the Aorus Pro can do the same things the Z690 Master can do. And the latest bios is from Early this January. (The beta-bios before that wasn't allowing that same memory kit to go anywhere beyond 7200MT stable. It is still the same Kingston Fury Renegade 7200MT/s kit I am using for this.) I also had to make a slight modification to cool the memory, to allow for stable temperatures in a closed case and to not go hotter than 40° C. The HWInfo screens and other benchmarks will follow. Stay tuned for finding out the maximum possible memory clock that isn't possible on a 6-layer, 4-dimm motherboard and especially not with (only) a Z690 chipset. Or is it?