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Oh my... This is awesome. Congratulations!!! Most of my SDRAMs crap out at 140MHz or something... Gotta look for some better pieces, lol. Just please tell me, TerraRaptor, that you did not run this poor 512MB stick at 4V or something like that... lol And if you are CPU-limited, then I did not want to know, how far that stick can be pushed then, because this is getting into DDR ram clocks area...!

Punk Sods - not to worry, there will be more competitions, where you can show the Skylake out And IMHO it is fair that this competition is not all about "pay to win." Sometimes you need patience to win See? Half the test is done and 526h passed

I.nfraR.ed - but there is plenty of tools, could you tell me witch one it is...? I find there only bold claims about the BootIt working, but it does not... I found myself two ways, ATM, that attempted to flip the removable / fixed bit on my SanDisk CF cards. I have own a oldie SanDisk 5V and 0.5GBy big CF card (SDCFH-512) too. The second tested card was the SanDIsk Extreme PRO 32G (SDCFXPS-032G) CF card. 1 - there is a program called BootIt v1.07, that offer the flipping between the removable and fixed devices: http://www.getusb.info/flip-your-bit-usb-utility-to-make-local-drive/ It does promise that it will work (despite showing my 32G CF card as 18G) and it even claim to work: ...but the device stays as removable. Both my CF cards cannot be changed. It should work good on USB drives... but it does not work on both mentioned CF cards. 2 - there is program called atcfwchg.com: http://www.ehow.com/how_7811193_set-cf-card-fixed-mode.html Again it claim to flip the removable bit to fixed on CF card, connected thru PATA to CF card adapter into a PATA interface. The usage is shell and it is simple: atcfwchg /P /F That should set the CF card, that reside on the primary IDE channel to fixed mode. In reality it output this error: So changing the "most important bit" on any CF card is not possible for these SanDisk cards, witch make them virtually useless for any PC usage, as for example, two partitions are not possible on removable device under Windows, while it is not a problem on fixed device... There are also "solutions", like a diskmod-0.0.2.2, witch is basically a driver that trick Windows into treating all devices as fixed. Yet that is not going to help me to be able to install Windows on the CD card, therefore I cannot attest on it's functionality of quirks or bad things that happen, when you use it. I saw video of this driver working well on Win 8.1, but since the change is not permament ON THE DEVICE and it is just a Win patch, then it does not interest me one bit. So far, I'm clueless. Hopefully the information I gather will help someone... On SanDisk forum this message I posted disappeared very quickly (under 20 min)... so, beware, users. SanDisk does not sell CF cards, but compatible CF cards with the exception that the most important change you are forbidden to do it and they will even actively seek and eradicate all informations regarding the topic...

BUMP! Image of ATI Rage 128 PRO disappeared! PLS fix!

Well, the missing piece of the info (the parenthesis) that trigger the possibility to choice the Ballistix (classic) temporary subtype was all that is need. So sometimes is better to talk more, not less. Thanks!

False, I still cannot select the memory I have: There is no "classic" available anywhere to choose from... but perhaps you could tell me, how to do? It is taking pretty long already and that is IMHO the most ridiculous bug - and also the most lame one, as precise HW infos is necessary for many and many reasons and not being able to submit the scores I made is IMHO the worsest thing that happen to HWbot... ... So, could not there be some actual SOLUTION that let me post the scores made with this hardware or not?

Most definitively I will thank them! Batch 3 and 195h time sounds rather incredible That should be a pretty long run, if it actually finished. Longest run I ever made yet is my Aquamark for score 2: http://hwbot.org/submission/2980283_ 3 days short to one month )))

Okay, that sounds about reasonable... so I tried and the good news are, that SanDisk Extreme PRO 32G CF card works well with 3.3V settings! There are the result, enabling Smart a 32bit mode transfer did nothing, PATA133 is supported, but it is not going to get higher. Sadly. Still, I think that this is a reasonable speed improvement: However, now to bad news. The CF card is completely useless, unless someone tell me how to change the removable bit to fixed. Period. You cannot use the CF card for anything w/o that. Two examples: I use Mini Tool Partition Wizard Pro to setup the drive on boot CD - it let me allign the partitions - when creating second partition (one 4G FAT32 for OS, rest for DATA and NTFS = usable settings for waza), it tells me, that I cannot use that partition under Win, as Win recognize only ONE partition on removable device. I was like... that it is, I'm screwed. So for lolz, I started the install. It want well even at 83MHz FSB with the ATI Rage XL card (IDE HDD refused to work under such conditions, it worked only when S3 Trio64 is used at that clock), but then I get to the drive partitioning and problems arise. D partition is invisible (unpartioned space, lol) and there is no way to create a new partition there, because on removable drive, only one partition is supprted. So OK, I try installing and using only the 4G partition... but no! It cannot install, because this partition is NOT compatible with WinXP. So basicaly, w/o the change from removable to fixed, any usage of any CF card as HDD replacement is doomed. ... I'm quite mad at SanDisk - they should rename themselves as ScamDisk, because they are selling not CF cards, but CF compatible *) cards, with the *) exception for the possibility to change removable to fixed bit. I believe, that there is open possibility to lawsuit against SanDisk and any other CF card producing company, that produces products, that does not meet the CF card specifications. Because this is false advertising and misleading labeling of product. This is not a CF card, period. ... WinSetupToUSB you say? I would gladly give it a try, but... as I looked on their page, there is nothing about changing the removable to fixed bit at all. They just use USB as install drive for Win, witch is entierly different thing. If they have a way to INSTALL Win on removable USB drive, then that could be helpfull. This does not looks like anything that could help me in my dire situation

Well, since SanDisk is not going to reply, I tried with the default 5V setting the DeLock adapter I mentioned earlier with very old, 0.5G CF card SanDisk SDCFH. It does support PIO 4, but no DMA and the speed is very slow: Tested on ASRock 775Dual-VSTA (P4, 3.8GHz WinXP, alligned). Also works (or more precisely, get detected) on the target Asus TXP4-X, so so far, so good. Except the speed, lol. Now the question is - what voltage to use for the SanDisk Extreme PRO 32G CF card and how to change the removable bit to fixed, so there will be the caching in Windows possible.

xxbassplayerxx - That is a good point. I did not mean to increase the barrier or use any "secret volt mods", I just mean that it would be fun to let people discover volt mods, that are not known/publushed yet for such low-end cards, where are voltmods usually not even done for the simple reason that these cards are not worth the hassles That is what I mean... but perhaps the idea or preprared voltmods guide is better? I still will do things MY way and then we see ...so, if this is about lowering the bar to entry, then n LN2/Phase/water cooling is also good rule, yep?

Well, it also show SanDisk incompetence. They did not support what is defined in CF card standard (!) and they still not answered the question about voltage: Lame. Asking DeLock about the voltage, as adapters are already there

I will try it... enlarging the box seems as easy solution to fix... I will report back.

BUMP!

I would not go for cards, where volt mods are known. The unknown is better... let people show, what they can do

Heheh, iddle cores? Nice. Still, good work! At least you did not have (aparently) the refresh bug that is clearing my informations from the screen... We see how far I will got it

Can't be, the GFX cards have to be current low-end ones. GT210/220 are IMHO logical candidates.

946h? Is not that too fast? You have in Batch 9 only 363h. I got 452h on Batch 9: 4 cores Atom it too fast, mate You should tried to disable some of them...

Nice score, mate But you are getting to get owned :-D

Another way could be a UPS... if it does react fast to prevent power drop and error in calculation... But luckily my power is steady and I only have the refresh bugses. The produced file was (hopefully will be again) valid and that is what counts.

Recycling jokes are't new, true. Still... we haven't had this one on HWbot forum yet watching games time waste

websmile - Yea, the verification problem is awfull. Back in the day, CPU-Z worked pretty nicely and I can verify 10.7MHz, altrough it did not detected the FSB: http://valid.x86.fr/9b88hu However todays the CPU-Z fail miserably to detect CPU clock and report false FSB clock 50MHz: At least it from THAT did not produce "valid" result. However it can produce crazy "valid" results none the less. For example this one: http://valid.x86.fr/b0zd5t 384MB of ram, consisting of 128 + 512MB sticks, detected as 128 + 256MB it report as 640MB of ram. Is not that funny? Definitively CPU-Z shoud allow some moderation in form that user can change the wrongly detected infos under some human supervision, of course... Because I have "valid" result with 640MB ram on i430TX, that is bound to support only 256MB of ram :nana: :nana: :nana: And no validation of 10.7MHz. Oh, well. At least ATI Rage XL give a nice image at this superslow clock

Using the optimized WindowsXP for overclocking (SuperPi) cause that I'm running my S3 Trio64 card in VGA mode, 640x480 16colors. That suxx. And I cannot find a driver for Windows XP and S3 Trio64. No matter how hard I try. Only for WinNT, where the drivers are good, giving the needed 1024x768. Yes, there is the files: s3legacy.dll s3legacy.sys ...in WinXP install. However just copy them alone into the system32 and system32/drivers for the sys file did not do anything. I need the inf file for them and I can find only a inf file for S3Trio3D in Windows XP install, but not for the legacy S3Trio64 card. That suxx I would also like to have better driver, that one, that can allow me 1024x768 in 256colors, as on WinNT... So, anyone having any ideas?

xxbassplayerxx - I did not have one... GT720/740 does not look like low-end to me, more like mainstream. There is much that can be improved on my GTX 730 Ti, tough

50Nerds of Grey punishment

Much better now, thanks!