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I have one comming my way, will hopefully be here next week

LGA chips don't die that easily... so far I have tested 34 i3 2100 (for POST only) and all were good so far, would surprise me if more than 5 are dead

I wanted to buy some more 775 Chips and there were a bunch of sandy/ivy i3s and i5s in the box as well... i guess there could be a worse suprise Here they are: Mostly i3 2100 and 2130, but some 3220 and i5 2400 as well

I have a quick question about locked Sandys, is the BCLK strictly limited by the board, or is there any chance, that the CPU makes a difference as well? Asking because I'm kinda lazy and someone might know that and can save me the time to bin my 120 i3s

I second this, especcially since 478 boards and CPUs are easily obtainable, while the 423 counterparts are not

I actually enjoyed the dual Socket A cb2003 Last year, anderen since wprime is multithreading dualsocket would be Fun

I think the idea behind not limitting might be to ensure, that 2003 is a pure CPU bench? I dont think it'd be too bad using a 980ti, since the relevant factor will most likely still be CPU/RAM, which is still old hardware On that note: are dual socket 370 boards allowed for r2/s3 ? There are plenty availible with none- Intel chipsets...

I'd have a question about r5/s3: are pcie cards allowed? Not that it should make a huge difference, since the CPU should be the bottleneck in 2003 but still interresting to know

Looking for a Z170 mATX or smaller board for my daily driver, prefferably gigabyte or asus. Maximum budget is 100€ incl. shipping to Austria! Trades possible, got M8E, H100, X79-GD65, 16GB Dominator Platinum (DDR3) and more for example

It really suprised me, i only have seen ones with RDRAM before... Plus 423 was a really shortlived platform, personally i'd preffer S478 Willamette for the competition (may be paired with SDRAM only) because the chips and boards are verry common So basically combining your idea with lanbondens...

You mean RDRAM right? Because I'm pretty sure that there weren't any SDRAM Boards for that socket One Thing I'd really like to see is one non Intel/AMD stage, something like CYRIX Socket 5/7 for example... However finding 5 benches that run could be really hard here... The Fastest AGP would go nicely together with a stage that is limited by OS (like the win 98 stage from 2 years ago) imo. This would be great, because i think a wider choice of HW would increase participation more than overly specific stages(like S478 with SDRAM for example)... A good mix would be great, for example have two rounds with verry common HW so that everyone can compete and three with restrictions like TASSOS mentioned (ie. taking away the best boards/mems) for that stages... Hope you can do something with that input

I had HW for every misc Stage, good HW even, then i killed 2 Rampage 4 Extreme(one was half dead allready to be fair...), a GTX 480 and a 5GHz air 3930K in one session... Because of this i kinda lost the motivation to compete in this competiton, surely will be back for the next one though On the sandbagging argument: I personally submit all my scores once I bench them, because I'd probbably forget to submit the scores... plus it takes my internet about 4-5 minutes to upload a 2MB Image However sandbagging never made me less motivated to compete, usually I will try to get the best out of my HW without any competition...

Count me in, it gets really anoying if you want to look up some old chips during competition time

Interested in slot A 800MHz tbird, one Abit TH7-Raid and one Abit NF7

150€ and pickup next week

Mate, that's 2010 not 4020MHz...

You got PM

I never put silicone on any chips? Probably it just reglued itself??? Anyways it has Kryonaut between DIE and IHS

These two CPUs are sold

Somehow this makes me want to test my cheapo chinese HY710 on LN2... most of my SS scores are done with that paste, because I don't feel like wasting Kryonaut... I don't know how much i loose, but these scores don't seem too bad to me: TAGG`s HWBOT Prime score: 4321.32 pps with a Core 2 Duo E8400 TAGG`s Cinebench - R15 score: 782 cb with a Core i5 2500K TAGG`s HWBOT Prime score: 4309.41 pps with a Core 2 Duo E7400 All done on crappy 10 cent/ gramm Thermalpaste

Oh come on Sam, we all know you got a 915 validation lurking around somewhere

They are individual types of memory in the database though and judging by the stage description it should be possible to use them instead of DDR1... In the limitations it doesn't say DDR technology, so it might be good to add that info

Sockets and RAM type would be a interresting mix imo, because that would make stages possible where you can't just get the top board and top CPU... ie. socket 478 comes with SD, DDR and DDR2 RAM, restricting the stage to SD for example would bring a whole diffrent benching environment... Also chipset restrictions would work in the same way... For GPUs the same is true by simply restricting series and RAM type (i'm not sure however if RAM type is even in the database though) you could exclude top of the line GPUs while not restricting the choice too much... 771 was a great idea i think, I'd like more server hardware in these competitions, something like 603 or 1207 would also be great imo, because noone overclocks these normaly and a competition would most likely motivate people to do the craziest mods on these serverboards Hope my rambling made some sense

Is it a rule to use ddr 1-4 for sc stage 1? Because if not RD and FB are actually good replacements for DDR1...

For 45nm quads gigabyte EP45-UD3R and UD3P are better anyway, if you want DDR3 the EP45T-UD3R/P are the best boards