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Redid the powermods today. Got some flux to and learned about that It helps alot. Also used 1,5 mm2 solid copper wire instead of just solderblob. 1,5 mm2 is probably overkill but now it's properly done at least. After proper mods, 6% power at load on air:

Well done!

They are close enough on air that I would say try them all It's a guessing game as to which scales the best. Are you coming to sheffield? Someone said you couldn't make it?

Thanks for the replies, I will redo all three power mods tomorrow. Will try with wire instead of solder blob. Maybe it sticks better.

Did the mods today. The cold throttling is a very small resistor and hard to desolder (for me at least). I suggest just use a good pair of tweezers to pull it off. Anyway, what should the power consumption in GPU-Z read after shorting the power limit resistors? Mine reads about 20% idle at 1500MHz in "3D always mode". Around 62% at load. Seems high to me. I've had problems before getting the solder to stick on the power limit resistors. They are slippery Just wondering if I need to resolder...

I know it's just a test but this is not how I recall the discussion went. Shouldn't there be a bonus for the top scores in addition to the %-score? I think top 10 should get a bonus for placing in the top ten. With some kind of slope like there is today. Otherwise it will just turn into scatterbenching and there is not enough incitament to push for the really high scores. Or push just ahead of one of your competitors... Ranking is still very important. Particularly in competitions. What other sport is based on how much you are beaten by the winner? It's all about position.

Depends on how many nr1 there is...

Wow! Amazing CPU you found there! Congratz!

Very good cpu you found! Great score!

Great run, but your 3Dmark-settings don't show on screenshot. Had a sub removed from another comp because of this...so just a heads up!

Turn off sys info helps with that error. Sorry. How do the prizes work anyway? Top three elite and top three extreme or only top three overall?

Ok, nice! But what changes are you working on? There have been a lot of ideas in this thread.

Couldn't post in the other thread... When does stage 2 open? A time when it opens would be good as the submission window is rather small. Also the ranking (points) from stage 1 seems wrong.

I'd say you need to look at asic but also how they clock on air, and then hope it scales on cold. I've had four galax ln2 and two did 1900mhz core on ln2, they had asic 66 and 73 and clocked to around 1500 mhz on stock cooler. One did 1800-something with asic 65 and clocked to 1470 on stock. The best did 2000mhz with asic 74 and 1500mhz on stock. So it's hard to tell...asic can tell you a little bit but i think air oc tells more. As for asus platinum I got two. One asic 79,x that does 1550 on stock. And one asic 66 that did 1500mhz. Of course i kept the asic 79 Looking forward to test it on ln2! By the way both had samsung mems.

Wow, great cpu at that volt. Waiting for the real result

Thanks all! Yes, it is a nice chip

The secret is to keep above -180C. Or sand the die, but I haven't done that as I'm afraid it might have side effects

Yes but on pcb says 4G 3200. Should say 8G 3600. This indicates heatspreaders have been swapped with other ram module. Or maybe just fault in production.

Nice mem-speed on 4 sticks!

Nice hw-points!

I'll take it. Have been looking for a 3870x2

Hi I have been unlucky so far with binning B-die. Best I've gotten can do no more than 1866MHz c12 in SPI 32M with wazza. They can do XTU 2000 c12 however... Let me know if you have some decent rejects to sell me Edit: I have one good stick (2000 c12 32M with wazza), so also interested even if you only have one stick.

Can't access bios even. But will try more later, probably much later...

Thanks for info. Adapter didn't make a difference on Galax...