The official Rookie Rumble Cup AMD Edition thread.

[buzzbuzzbuzz]

Martin, Why'd you have to go and beat my HWBot Prime score?

[Waza88]

Hmm. So is the max OC(frequency) score valid with disabled cores? There are few 8350 subs that have cores disabled.

8350 Will clock really high even with air cooling if cores are disabled.

And why is there someone with LN2 cooling :D Competition just got real.

E: And tell me how that is possible? http://hwbot.org/submission/2539925

Edited April 30, 2014 by Waza88

[federicoz45]

Of course Waza, not only liquid nitrogen, even Moisey with "air miracles". The site accepts it for the comp??

[I.nfraR.ed]

Moisey's Cinebench score is obviously not possible at 4.8GHz, let alone on air.

[TrueFakts]

Down coring isn't a thing in this competition? If we are going on a per-core basis for cinebench, and prime, why do I need all 8 enabled? I disabled 6 on my 8350 (to curb vdroop with my board) and run it scoring 1729 points per core. I submitted it here, but it didn't count it as a dually. Check my submission history for the screenshot

[buzzbuzzbuzz]

Truefakts- I'm fighting the Vdroop demon too. I think when I get home today I am going to try connecting my Aux power input that's meant to boost board power when running crossfire to see if I can stabilize it a bit more.

[Waza88]

How about using Load Line Calibration?

[Martin White]

@ BUZZBUZZBUZZ : I think my ITX RIG is top. P/P with Seidon V.

[buzzbuzzbuzz]

@ WAZA88 I had LLC set to full. Problem is ASRocks shoddy cooling on the VRMs. Undersized heatsink and ineffective thermal tape. Even with 2x 120mm fans and a high-pressure 80mm fan cooling it it can't sustain more than 1.44V under load for more than a few seconds. I'm picking up a better Gigabyte board this evening.

 

@Martin White New motherboard is being installed tonight, I just may catch back up to you!

[buzzbuzzbuzz]

ln2 is allowed in this competition???

[Massman]

Of course Waza, not only liquid nitrogen, even Moisey with "air miracles". The site accepts it for the comp??

 

There's no explicit ban for liquid nitrogen. Would you want to see it banned? I think it's pretty cool to see a rookie use LN2.

 

Down coring isn't a thing in this competition? If we are going on a per-core basis for cinebench, and prime, why do I need all 8 enabled? I disabled 6 on my 8350 (to curb vdroop with my board) and run it scoring 1729 points per core. I submitted it here, but it didn't count it as a dually. Check my submission history for the screenshot

 

Our HWBOT engine does not support "down-coring". It can only support unlocking of cores. So a dual core unlocked to tri-core will be recognised as tri-core, but a quad-core "down-cored" to dual-core will still be consider a dual core. It's a technical thing.

 

So for your eight-core, the score you achieve will always be considered as run with eight cores.

[Waza88]

So for your eight-core, the score you achieve will always be considered as run with eight cores.

 

So while the engine doesn't support it in tests you can disable cores to reach higher max oc with CPU-Z validation?

[Massman]

Yes, no problem!

 

CPU-Z is a single threaded benchmark application. So the amount of cores is not being taken into account.

[TrueFakts]

Our HWBOT engine does not support "down-coring". It can only support unlocking of cores. So a dual core unlocked to tri-core will be recognised as tri-core, but a quad-core "down-cored" to dual-core will still be consider a dual core. It's a technical thing.

 

Ah man, I left home this morning and can't bench anymore. I guess my hail mary of running it as a dually won't work. Well...it was fun.

 

Note to self: $60 motherboards aren't great for competition overclocking

[buzzbuzzbuzz]

I'll be firing up the $50 motherboard if I can't get an adequate replacement today. My Gigabyte that I got yesterday had a bad bios...