The official Rookie Rumble AMD #5 thread.

[randyenergy]

How many submissions per benchmark can be done?

[Massman]

You can make an infinite amount of submissions per benchmark

[randyenergy]

Thanks mate

[JunkDogg]

Ready to rock and roll.

[The_Animator]

Are there any limits on cooling equipment for the rookie competitions? I hope to have a ln2/dice cpu pot by saturday and would love to use it for these two rookie competitions if it's allowed.

[Mr.Scott]

Any use of sub ambient cooling will move you to the Extreme league.

 

Maybe the staff should add the rules for the 2 new leagues to the general rules page.

[Massman]

Mr.Scott is correct. The use of extreme cooling will move you to the Extreme League. The Rookie Rumble is only for the Rookie League overclockers.

[Guest harrynowl]

Looks like it's time to buy another sempron as K10 is a lot better in this competition

[JunkDogg]

Yeah the Semprons really pull their weight in these benches.

[Guest harrynowl]

Well I don't really know how HWBot Prime works as in a previous competition a E8400 at 4.2ghz ish won despite higher clocked haswell chips destroying it elsewhere. But the pct overclock goes to all the chips with low base clock speeds

[Massman]

Maybe we can change the benchmarks to make a Bulldozer or Piledriver more interesting?

[JunkDogg]

Maybe might be a idea MASSMAN. Bulldozer and Piledriver aren't really even worth bothering with unless you want to really go for the % OC, which the 6 cores overclock like all hell and easily get that one. FX-6300 seems to be a winner.

[JunkDogg]

The comp is open but can't submit as all the stages are closed as of July. Just a heads up

[The_Animator]

The comp is open but can't submit as all the stages are closed as of July. Just a heads up

 

I'm currently experiencing the same thing.

[JunkDogg]

It would appear the end date for the comp is set to 23/8/14 but each stage end date is 23/7/14.

[Massman]

Ah, good catch guys. I just fixed the contest .

 

As for the benchmarks, I'm open for anything. Is there any particular benchmark the AMD Bulldozer/Pilldriver guys like? Maybe we can just add a new one for the Rookie Rumbles.

[Guest harrynowl]

I'd like to see one that plays nicely with FX. As currently K10 CPUs are just kicking the ass of all the FX CPUs.

[Guest harrynowl]

Either that or make a K10 rookie rumble or an FX rookie rumble

[JunkDogg]

Cheers Massman.

 

I think one stage that suits bulldozer/piledriver would be the G.O.

 

I will test some benches and see what i think.

 

K10's are awesome at this comp though, but don't write everything off just yet. Ive been playing with the APU's and some of them are pretty awesome. I'll post up my submissions tomorrow.

[Guest harrynowl]

The new Athlon 860K is based on steamroller and should dethrone K10 alas, however it still won't hit 4.5ghz+ often.

[Massman]

Well, there's AMD's own overdrive benchmark we could use. I think Winrar bandwidth should also be good for Bulldozer/Piledriver/Steamroller architecture.

[Guest harrynowl]

I was thinking the WinRAR/7ZIP benchmarks as they're integer heavy. What about some of the AIDA64 benchmarks?

[FRM_AE]

excuse me hwbot master, i have submitted wrong cinebench score, how i can delete it ?

[JunkDogg]

Click on your submission. Up on the top right in the white section there should be a link to remove from submission from competition. Try that.

[Massman]

JunkDogg is correct