How are you guy doing

I having trouble with the new xtu

is not working on i7 4820k

The problem is once I click on benchmark it won't work but if use

The older version work fine but is not support it on hwbot

Hi Overnight,

 

Which version are you using specifically? Any version after v5.1.2 should work for HWBOT submission.

issues here as well - new (latest) version says "check if there is another perf tool running" ... but there ain't one...

 

Sounds like someone at Intel needs to actually try this thing before it's released

That's exactly what was happening to me

This same message came up for me last night. I unistalled and reinstalled and it is gone.

Same for me.

You should try work on normal mode, without any disabled services.

Sounds like someone at Intel needs to actually try this thing before it's released

 

Just to follow up on this.

 

The newest version of XTU always officially supports three generations prior to the current platform. So for XTU 6.0+ this includes: Skylake, Haswell(-e), and Ivy Bridge(-E). This does not necessarily mean it won't work on older platforms, like Sandy Bridge, it means there is no validation in place.

 

We've been looking at the problem and it appears some users are able to run the benchmark with Sandy Bridge and Ivy Bridge-E. Others can't. Still looking for the problem ...

Will HWBot continue accepting older versions for older chipsets? Looks like we could have an issue here where scores are untouchable because older versions score better and/or newer versions won't even run.

Older versions scoring better is something that shouldn't be a problem. Nothing of the XTU updates impacts the benchmark code; it's mostly adding support for overclocking new platforms.

 

Currently XTU versions from v5.1.2 are supported. Older versions are no longer supported because of security updates. Actually, Genieben found some issues that Intel fixed

So, as of now, all hardware that can run XTU can still receive verification? What about when Intel stops supporting older sockets? Will SS be good enough at that point, similar to old FM benchmarks?

As of now, all hardware that is able to run XTU (Sandy Bridge and up) should be able to get the correct verification. There's been internal testing with Sandy Bridge which is able to run the benchmark. That doesn't mean some people aren't experiencing problems. That's what we're trying to look into.

 

I'm not entirely sure what the course of action may be in the future. It's possible that a newer version of XTU could feature a benchmark 2.0, in which case it would just be a new benchmark application. I don't anticipate hardware support being dropped at the moment.

On a sidenote: if anyone has issues with the XTU benchmark, can you also check that HPET is enabled in the BIOS?