TerraRaptor

Does anyone check what are those registers that preface each ROMSIP table in romsip files? They seem to be a bit different between different versions and may have some potential in it (i.e. define the hardwall in fsb - as individual romsips seem to affect performance/stability at given multi but if we run into the same wall with any multi then it should be something else and I expect it can be one of the reasons for that).

is it bug? Why Nik's result is doubled under this user?

One score per user or I can submit multiple results for i.e. s775 stage with different cpus?

Great!

Good frequencies, what were the voltages for nb/dram? Any skew adjustments?

Very nice!

+10% to the second place, like it:)

Would be quite a challenge to find PCI card that runs 06:) GF6200?

Nice score!

Do achievements work?

I had only one sempron and two asus boards, crosshair v and m2n32. Sempron goes high bclk easily with ddr2 but I had issues with board itself (had no separate voltage for vnb etc) and wasn't lucky with 14.5 multi (14 worked much better - seems motherboard was not setting timings properly with any .5 multi). With ddr3 it is essential to get a good board (asus seems not to be favourite here), good mem and flash proper spd into ram (i.e. I had no boot issue with gtx2 spd even at stock, the best for my setup was custom made spd based on gskill 1866c9 bbse). Sempron has reasonably high fsb wall imho (>420 bclk @air with ddr2 in my tests) and overclocking is limited by something related to ram/nb. I haven't yet paid enough time to it. For ddr3 it may also be a good idea to distinguish boot frequency and stable frequency in windows - you can get 10% in frequency by overclocking further in windows.

Thanks Albrecht. And many thanks to other moderators (active and retired).

There could be another problem with your approach - bios will try to set it two times (first time - as it is being set, second time - with your new setting) and if these bits are "set once" it will freeze the system upon post/reboot once bios attempts to re-set it. So, basically, you need to find out how stock bios is setting these bits and probably skip this "automatic" procedure and then set it manually.

Great score

Just curious, what these new items can be?

Well, nf4 itself shouldn't affect dimm slots as imc is built in cpu. I would probably start with cpu socket first (either new replacement or reballing).

BTW, found a message to @Antinomy as we were discussing my experience with A7V880:

Here is PT880 (shouldn't be way different to KT880): http://bitsavers.org/components/viaTechnologies/VIA_PT880_Pro_North_Bridge_Data_Sheet_Sep2005.pdf

Looks like you have issues with dual channel.

I think that is common issue for older hardware.

Another >100% overclock from you, nice chip there:)

@I.nfraR.ed As you were looking bios design guide, here is quite interesting one for amd 762 which also gives some better insight on romsips (or SIP ROM :)). http://www.datasheetcatalog.com/datasheets_pdf/A/M/D/-/AMD-762.shtml Looks that EB/ED thing relates to slew rate and is actually 3-bit entry. So my previous research on replacement values with 0/F is a bit wrong due to varying lenght of some entries.

Strong cpu. What temperature it was?

Well, I have better performance in pifast and wprime with pifast being sensitive to the same things pifast does as well. Please note that bwanasoft uses win7/vista for this super-efficient result - nonsense actually. I beleive that my efficiency in superpi is usually VERY strong and I'm nowhere close. Even with custom romsips I'm behind him. Just for those who are new enough to know why I claim banning all his results (just review the names in that post questioning his results) - I hope that 10 year after, when all the "friends" of bwanasoft are now away from hwbot, action will be taken.

May this result be reviewed by the mods (taking into account the background of bwanasoft)? I can't beat this result with almost the same clocks and much better timings (he has single channel 3-4-4 here and I have dual channel 2-2-2) - the result is obviously bugged/photoshop. Prpbably all the results of bwanasoft should finally be removed from hwbot.