The Official ROG OC SHOWDOWN 2016 - FORMULA SERIES ROUND 1 DISCUSSION

[KaRtA]

About time for one of these again. Lucky I still have my board around.

 

Questions,

Temperature rules, is the 30deg rule for Load or Idle temp? Can you please clarify. If it's a Idle, my current ambient is quite low (around 10°c), so need to be certain.

 

Ram - I have a set of Zadak 3200C16 ram. Will this be allowed for use? Far from anything special.

 

I look forward to some of these new rules. It will certainly keep the momentum going. Well done to the organizers.

[websmile]

Morning

The temperature rule refers to minimum values, hwmonitor needs to be opened before the run starts. We have no problems with the Zadak memory, so you can start to bench

[KaRtA]

30 degree minimum is good, will suit everyone that way and stop these stupid binned chips. Good work on the rules.

[websmile]

A heads up before benching, there seem to be a few things missing at the rules, so I make a preliminary announcement here:

1. For XTU, minimum temperature is 60 degrees Celsius or higher - this refers to the maximum load temp at result because you do not need a screenshot

2. Server hardware not allowed - means no xeons or opterons for obvious reasons

3. Stage 2, GPUPI, will most likely get a core limit which refers to "cores enabled" because there is no core division possible. it will most likely be "maximum 6 Threads enabled"

Edited August 26, 2016 by websmile
correction

[Nik]

Hi, which x265? 1080 or 4K?

 

Good rules !

 

Greez

[websmile]

1080, this is hard enough

[stivut]

Official background download is missing.

[websmile]

No, it is at rules section under the paragraph submissions.

[kristjan.krusic]

For GPUPI - CPU you need a OpenCL driver:

For Intel: https://software.intel.com/en-us/articles/opencl-drivers#core_xeon

For AMD: Already installed via Catalyst driver or use the official SDK: http://developer.amd.com/tools-and-sdks/opencl-zone/amd-accelerated-parallel-processing-app-sdk/

[kristjan.krusic]

Also note: GPUPi only screenshots primary display! HWBOT 265x Benchmark captures all your displays.

[stivut]

@websmile: You need to fix per core ranking on XTU!

[stivut]

The fix must be applied for HWBot x265 too. The scores are not devided.

[websmile]

The fix must be applied for HWBot x265 too. The scores are not devided.

 

I see, thx, will be fixed

[stivut]

@kristjan.krusik: Delete GPUPi submission! You used 12 threads instead of six!!!

[kristjan.krusic]

@stivut I removed it. Didn't see that 6 thread limit when I submitted but that's OK

[stivut]

I think we will see a lot of this broken rule in the future.

[kristjan.krusic]

We need a addition box that will ask for a CPU-Z validation link and then uses that to detect the thread count... That would be a good alternative for normal overclocking for new users and older system that don't support XTU.

[Burst]

How do I make it where I am only using 6 threads instead of 8 on GPUPi for cpu?

[websmile]

Check your BIOS, cpu section, you have the option to disable hyperthreading and also to disable cores. If you use 6700K, let HT on and disable one core so that you have three active cores + Hyperthtreading= 6 threads.

You can also check manual of your board or threads about your board for further information

[stivut]

Can you remove GPUPi submission for Burst00 and LucikMucik, please?

[stivut]

Like I said...6 thread limitation it's a problem for many!

[adiath]

I think for xtu, it will be more fair if score divided by threads not physical cores. i7 6700k & i5 6600K score will be divide by 4, but we know that i7 have 4 more threads than i5

[I_AssassinArka_I]

Does the Temp Have to be above 30 every time ? Mine coming sometimes like 21-28 In Idle ..

[websmile]

I accept idle low limit of 20 like on Realbench comp as well

[I_AssassinArka_I]

OKay ... I forgot to include hwmonitor today on the gpupi run :'p ....... Will Rebench in a while ...........