Lucky_n00b

It was done live on GOC 2018 with random hardware we're given to. I would guess the other Elite guys with better motherboard suited for high-frequencies like XI Gene and better binned Mem + Better IMC we can expect way higher scores soon

Maybe it's just me, but I don't think those 'league' matter much when I'm benching :p It will always be my target to try catching up with those 'Gods', even though sometimes its frustrating not being able to match them no matter how much I tried, but it just means I can get better, little by little (I have been trying to turn my OC hobbies to a job position at some vendor, no success after 10 years but I haven't stopped trying yet lol )

A0 is the same, old one with even spacing for the RAM ICs, A2 was the one known as 'RGB' pcb with used in many TridentZ RGBs as you said.

Hey, I don't really have preference and expertise on how to divide leagues, just wanted to add some more point about the 'Elite / sponsored' status. I do get some samples sometime, so I moved my account to elite because I consider myself slightly more fortunate than others who tried hard with their fully-hard-earned hardwares. (Honestly speaking I personally don't think I deserve the elite status if we were talking about knowledge and skills alone, I'm no top-10-world-ranked bencher material, just an average motherboard and RAM reviewer who got lucky in competitions a lot, and like to know more about things + share if it was useful) How much samples? I got around 1 motherboard per gen, usually for testing before a certain platform's launch date. Most of these motherboard also not always a 'retail pack', because those were prepped for extreme benching, sometime even these were an ES board with a couple workaround here and there so can't really sell it. RAM also around 1 kit per gen/platform (or if there wasn't anything new, then around 2 kits per year). GPU not so much - one or two per 3-4 year maybe, I don't bench 3D much anyway as my main job is CPU/MB/RAM coverage. If the motherboard don't come with CPU then I need to buy retail CPU for it, (if provided it's most likely ES, random quality, sometimes good, sometimes average), and GPU if I need to buy to bench 3D. Most of the time I still buy CPU/MB/RAM on my own though, as most big competitions need to buy retail hardwares for it, and bin CPU if needed (for gskill ocwc this year I binned 8x 8600K) As far as expenses go, these 'free' samples did help (not exactly 'free; though as I need to work providing feedback and workaround, sometimes providing testing documentation if necessary to the MB vendors), but not as much to make profit with it edit: Forgot to vote, I'm OK with 3: 1) Elite/Pro/Sponsored 2) All Others not limited by cooling (as we cannot be completely certain/validate cooling method) 3) Rookie (with time constraint - not sure how long though, should be 6 month or 1 year maybe?)

This is your A0 Sticks, correct? I'm still tuning things for A2 as of now, will probably bench again this weekend.

Strong!

Weird, not sure why points are back again, I'm pretty sure I remember to disable it

OMG that is POWERFUL, Good job!!

I can confirm Master Websmile's trick works, I also found this to be really strange that we have to turn on XMP. Tried the EXACT same setting with all manual subtiming but it won't work unless XMP is enabled. And yeah it seems at the moment Z170 MOCF is the best board for running A2 PCB DIMM with 4000+ CL12 everything else tightened up (Compared to this, my X APEX barely managed 3866 tights, will try with more boards)

THIS.IS.MADNESS

See you in the Final mate!! :D

**speechless**

LEGEND!

Whoaaaaaaaaaa

Welcome Back Master Rauf :D

Daaaamn scary score indeed. Keep pushing it man :D

Ah I see, No, I haven't got any LN2 result yet. I'm planning a couple session in a few weeks, but only have 1 GPU pot that has a compatible mount for Turing GPU, so maybe single card only

No, this is on stock aircoolers

AWESOME!!

WOW!

WHOA

The latest Beta BIOS seems OK now for win7. Clean-install is still a pain in the a** though, but now I got an OS Image it should be easier now.

I haven't seen really detailed overclocking-oriented test like that for a long time now, AWESOME job man!

TR 2990WX only support NUMA config, in "2xDual-channel" so I believe it's detected as Dual-channel in CPUz

Not sure if this will help thing along, but will doing a video verification work? (at least showing that no BCLK change is made in the OS or by a button while the benchmark is running)