Lucky_n00b

Ah yes that last one was 5001, I've got 154k with 4996 I guess

Yeah, it's overclocked a bit by BCLK, can't get it even a single BCLK more

Thanks guys - it was last minute team effort with BlueFiber and IvanCupa, still beaten up after GSkill yesterday hahah

Interesting point. While some GBT board do have a bit more 'quirks' than some others, but the point of overclocking was pushing whatever you got to its maximum edge of stability no matter what the conditions, wasn't it? If you wanted to be competitive, then finding workarounds are a given, since it is us that pushed these hardware beyond stock.

Phew. My Lord, the difficuly of these competitions was getting more BRUTAL than ever each year. Waiting for the validation then..

Dear God. The word INSANE is not enough to describe this madness..

For those who are using MSI Z370I Gaming Pro Carbon AC and need the BIOS(+flash tool) and Command Center lite, I've uploaded it in here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1KTV1WGu-mhallDt4mc6uzCg_tlmoS3No/view?usp=sharing

Keep pushing it!

Your patience is on a whole another level Dad :D

Oh this get along with IGP testing for GSkill OCWC then. Will see what my 8600K can do

Very tight finish - congrats! :D

Ah yeah I missed that one, thanks for the reminder, will rebench :D

Killing it man, awesome!

Yeah on Multithreaded benches that has little memory bandwidth/latency scaling, Thread per thread clock per clock Ryzen has OK performance - but CFL can reach 5Ghz on air, Ryzen need LN2.

Hi, for competition like this I bought the CPU and the MB on local shops. It's not that much expensive motherboard(B350) and a sub 200-usd CPU, surely I believe there's a lot of people that have much more resources than us. We also don't complain that until today we don't have Z370N Wifi (and still waiting to get one), and I'm still waiting to get a good 8700K because I don't have shops that offers pre-binned models like you have in German Hope that clears it up

Hi, for competition like this I bought the CPU and the MB on local shops. It's not that much expensive motherboard(B350) and a sub 200-usd CPU, surely I believe there's a lot of people that have much more resources than us. We also don't complain that until today we don't have Z370N Wifi (and still waiting to get one), and I'm still waiting to get a good 8700K because I don't have shops that offers pre-binned models like you have in German Hope that clears it up

Interesting, so there's possible XP support/workaround on this platform then. Thanks for pointing that out

Btw, just curious, since the last time I've benched 32M was with a KBL 7700K/Z270, is there any retail Z370 motherboard that has an XP Support (e.g XP ACPI workaround found in certain BIOS for SKL/KBL board) or is it the same XP workaround as previous SKL/KBL ?

Good Luck all

Maybe the major concern here was benching the IGP hard has a potential to kill more chips than benching CPU-only? (Not sure if this still happened on CFL, also this is a pro-class competition, so dying chips was normal risk us overclockers have to take). I don't mind IGP benches, did one time back in 2016 with 6700Ks. Would've been fine for me if the rules was unchanged, but I also open to discussions and concerns regarding the benchmark/rule and whether it was necessary to be changed in the end. Waiting for decision then

Seriously strong result man - keep pushing it!

Looking at things, we already have: 1) Mandatory Full-out DDR4 Mhz 2) Full-out CPU Multicore (Geekbench 3) 3) Full out CPU Single-Core (32M) If full-out IGP wasn't desirable, I agree that limited-clock CPU stage on a bench that relies heavily on memory could be a substitute, as long as we have a reliable monitoring system that's not really complicated (needing a video would be slightly too much), Futuremark Sysinfo worked for Galax GOC limited clock I guess? So that's left us with 3DMark11 Physics, Time Spy Physics, or Time Spy Extreme Physics. (Fire Strike Physics doesn't really scale much with mem IMHO). If I have to suggest anything, I'd do Time Spy / Time Spy Extreme Physics since it was less used compared to 3D11 Physics.

Yeah got the email, thanks a lot man So who's the lucky guys who get the mobo for lucky draw?

Thanks man, 8700K damaged so had no other choice than use 7800X, was lucky it went well :D

I don't think there's another 8700K system that could beat that score. Awesome score mate!