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Thats very much along the lines of what I was thinking. If its 5 stages it fits pretty good with the five 3dmarks thats runs on this old hardware. So limit the hardware to stuff released before that date, would also be fun to see if I can dig out some early worldrecord presented by some overclocker back at launch just for show and to try and beat 3DMark99 MAX March 8, 1999 (October 26, 1998 for the none MAX version) 3DMark2000 December 6, 1999 3DMark2001 SE February 12, 2002 (March 13, 2001 for the regular 2001 version) 3DMark03 February 11, 2003 3DMark05 September 29, 2004 Then for the second stage some 2dmark/frequency/memory test on a suitable platform from that era, this would also be a great time to revissit those sockets that seen no love in the past competitions like Socket A, socket 423 and Socket 754

always open for insipration but couldnt find anything about this Nvidia forever contest, mind telling more about it? EDIT: Think I found what you refered to, the team cup 2012

Cool, that sounds good, I can help out with coming up with new fun stages that havent been used in recent competitions based on old dreams about hardware I wanted back when I started out with building my own computers back in the days. Already got some ideas to build it on

Are you locked out from participating if you organize it? Does it include more work then coming up with the stages, seting the rules for them and moderation of the submissions?

I agree to some points and disagree with others. Like I really liked how specific it was, but I do agree with the point about one platform (Socket or depending on first stage even motherboard) for the whole stage would be great as old CPUs and GPUs are cheap and easy to buy but good old motherboards are a pain to find. As an example of a future season, stage one could be gpupi on a socket 370 celeron, and the other part could be 3dmark01 with socket 370, free to choise CPU and a geforce4 MX gpu. Then stage two could be socket 754 memory test and a gpu test and so on.

Well, a second or third place is not a win but still a good place to finish in. And yea Im still a tad grumpy that my GF killed my 700h run (at batch 14) when I was away

yea, really looking forward to see what kind of Hardware will be used this time

You are a hero! made that change and it was no problem whatsoever to open 10 windows of CPUz in a row!

I Think saint is on the right way here, a good way to lower the cost barrier is to use a card from a few generations back that sold in huge amounts so its very easy to get on the second hand market but at the same time fits and runs well with a modern system. Some examples of suitable cards just from my head 6850/6870 (is starting to get cheap nowdays) 5770 5450 (advantage that its sold as new aswell) 4850/4870/4890 Gtx 560ti gtx 460 gtx 260 gts 250 Could even go back to the 8800 cards thats availible in big quantitys for a very low price here atleast.

yea always let the first one load up completly first and normaly even check so both cpu and memory tab show up correctly before opening second window but still took like 50 tries to get a second with no errors on this last submission.

Im sure Im not the only one that got huge problems when it comes to the final part with the screenshoot, and this problem is always due to the same programe CPUz. First window always opens up nice but to get a second window is a pain in the ***, to not mention those times when you need a third for the motherboard aswell! How about some Mutex Locked for half an hour before it magicaly works? I got the same problem on both my socket 754 system and 775 system, both with winxp and win7 x64. So whats the secret to open multiple seasons of this program for those screenshoots?!

Agreed, low score is one thing, but dont do it in a benchmark that slowsdown from it!

ohh the feeling when you to get home from a 5 days vacation to hear that the PSU sudenly fel in the floor so she had to turn it of and end that gpupi run that had been runing for 700h already.. guess its a huge coincidens that she was cleaning and moving things to my desk at the same time

I have no personal contact with GENiEBEN but found a post in the bugreport thread where he offered his help with the unsuported cards which should be all geforce2, geforce3 and the Geforce4 MX cards. I would totaly understand if you where frustrated if this was an competition submission but now its just 0.1 HW points for a service everyone actualy can use. So go ahead and beat me as a 12place shouldnt be much problem to beat

Really hope that problem with rounds not showing up fixes itself when the run finishes so its valid, couse that run is slow!

My 2 cents on this situation. Its one thing when its a random submission that gives a few HW points and maybe a Cup. But when it comes to competitions and world records it should be done according to the rules. If your motherboard doesnt work with CPU-z or your GPU doesnt work with the wrapper just use a card that does work if its for a competition like everyone else. I meen I also got alot of those unsuported Nvidia cards and Im sure many others do aswell, and they are easy to get really low scores with in Aquamark, but part of the challenge is to choise the best hardware for the job and if the card isnt suported its clearly not the best choise. tldr: I dont care if you get those score posted for some HW points, I even think you should get help with that part as the submitted scores for these old cards are just a mess, but they dont belong in a competition.

775 celeron worked for sure with the last version, havent tested with 2.2 as Im doing the run on another socket atm.

Grattis till ett nytt toppressultat, dags att kyla det på riktigt

Question about the longest 1B run. Do you have to have uniform speed on the run for it to be alowed or would it be ok to remove some load after lets say 15 batches to speed it up in the end if it takes to long? how exact does the run need to be, would a run with an old motherboard without HPET that got a slight rounding error be valid? Aka a run where the batch times looks like the following example, yes I know its not valid or even complete like the screenshoot is now but wonder on the principle of the times.

Same motherboard as before when I had the time out of sync problem so no HPET to fix it. Now a few rounds later am I sure that its not just second that rounds but it rounds to 5 sec intervalls even. Doubt it affects very many motherboards but might be interesting to see for you anyways. And more important for now, would a submission with times looking as the above picture be accepted in the slowrun for the teamcup? But runing 1B instead and with CPUz open showing mem and cpu ofc.

As a question to that bold part, would it be possible to add a setting for how many batches would be dispayed during a run if it doesnt affect the calculation anyways? I guess it doesnt mater that much on new hardware but would be sweat for those older CPUs where the runs take like an hour+ EDIT: And I think there is some rounding error, atleast in the smaller tests (running 32m to test how different settings affect the speed) couse all batches end with a time like XX.999s

Reporting that it actually solved the problem with time going out of sync, well done

Only one of my 5 8800gts got samsung memorys and its a Gigabyte card, the other cards are split as 2 with Hynix and 2 with Quimonda.

I spent some more time experimenting after I repaired the OS. Lower fsb then standard makes the reported time to be to fast like previous mentioned. I tested overclocking and then the reported time is slower then it should be just like expected. I also tested to not be lazy and change fsb in bios as Ive only used SetFSB due to not being able to underclock in bios. The good thing for overclocking atleast is that higher fsb in bios doesn create the time drift and everything works like it should when doing it the real way. I also tested a fast run of superpi, and it wasnt effected by the time drift when using SetFSB. Thanks for the response and help and hope its fixed in next version

Think 12.1 was the driver you get when you search for drivers to a X800 card.