nordicjedi

Anyone else having an issue in 1.52 with i7's (920, in particular), so that when overclocking with a utility like E-LEET, the multiplier suddenly drops in CPU-Z only? I have reproduced this error many times using E-LEET and CPU-z, so that any time I raise the QPI in the program, the multiplier suddenly drops to 19x from 20x with turbo on. The E-LEET validation works fine, with the correct speed and multi, but CPU-Z, however will not. What I'd like to know from the hwbot staff is how I can validate any 2D benches requiring a (or two) screenshot of CPU-Z, when it lists the wrong speed of the processor? This error did not occur in version 1.51.

That's actually a great idea vasgto. I have a lappy that had that very issue with one of the scores. I'll have to give it a try.

Yeah, it was bound to happen to someone eventually; too bad it happened to be us. Oh, well, it just means we need to go back out and do some more benching. Thanks Scott, it's nice to see that someone notices us.

Thanks Massman!

I haven't been on HWBot in a while, and when I returned today I noticed that my PCMark05 result was flagged and invalidated for having the wrong validation link. I just noticed this and when I looked, I noticed that I somehow managed to post a Vantage link instead of a PCMark link. Go figure. Anyway, I have updated the submission with the proper PCMark05 Validation url, and included the reason for editing the submission. Please reinstate the score, as everything should be proper now. The compare url: http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=829601

Punx, the only thing that concerns me about that scenario is that if you have one dream system, with one person who is an extremely skilled overclocker, that person could do the initial benches on that machine, then send the entire system to the next guy on the team along with the settings he or she used, then after that person is done posting very similar results, they send it to the next guy along with the settings, and so on and so forth. If we're talking 2 guys, then not a big problem. But what if you've got 50 guys on a team who use this dream system? Start magnifying the number of people on the team and you realize that you'll suddenly occupy a significant block of the results on hwbot, and more or less own all the points. How would hwbot determine that it was "skill" being used and not the same settings as the person before? Similarly, if a bencher is a hardware junkie, he can give out his systems or components and potentially get a few members of his team points and hardware junkie status too. Hell, what if k|ngp|n loaned out everything he had to the rest of the members of XS? You see where I'm going? Ok, but let's talk about only transferring a cpu or graphics cards. Same exact argument as above, only less points are at stake. In a perfect world, they should also consider using shared cpu's as impermissible in 3D benchmarks, as a QX over 4.5ghz will have a huge effect on a score over a dual at the same speed. I see where you're coming from on the recognition part of being a good or great overclocker, but if two people are having similar scores (not identical, but close) from a similar setup, then how will anyone be able to tell that you're the one who overclocked the system by yourself. But since I think you're talking more about someone buying the hardware and then sending it to someone else to bench, well, this, I believe, is permissible SO LONG AS the bench is submitted under the name of the person owning the hardware. This prevents multiple people from claiming points on the same hardware. While the person benching won't get the recognition he or she would like, the points would be counted one way or another. If you must, under this scenario, put in a note saying "this result was achieved by *****."

I submitted this for moderation the other day, but I have not seen anyone check it. This one is a simple case of using Nvidia PhysX drivers in a vantage benchmark. The Orb link confirms that improper drivers were used and the CPU score with a Q6600 at 3.0ghz is impossible unless using PhysX. http://hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=756208 Here is his vantage compare url: http://service.futuremark.com/resultComparison.action?compareResultId=211942

I've seen this question asked around a number of forums, and I couldn't find anything here. Is it within HWBot's rules to use an ATI card as the main card, with an Nvidia card as a dedicated PPU using the Nvidia PPU drivers? If so, under what conditions? This is just a request for a clarification on the hwbot rules. Thanks. EDIT: And as a specific request for a forum member, if a person is using a 200 series Nvidia card and uses a 8 series Nvidia card as a dedicated PPU, is that within hwbot's rules?