Old school Season 3 preparation thread

[websmile]

After season 1 and 2 of the Old school is best school series were a full success Hwbot plans to make a third season to once again give retro hardware lovers and tweakers the chance to compete at highest level.

 

Because of this we search a competition manager for this task. After Antinomy and Lanbonden did tremendous jobs at designing the structure and stages of season 1 and 2, we now want you to do the job for season 3

 

These are the main tasks for old school is best school season 3

 

- come up with a theme (for artwork)

- come up with competition structure

- come up with competition stages

 

It does not have to be all done by one person alone necessarily. If there is structure people agree on or competition manager determines, prominent old-school participants of first two seasons might plan different competition stages to enter their know how and experience for example.

 

Feedback is welcome, volunteers of course as well - preferably we would want the Old school is best school participants to manage this in a way they enjoy the third season as much as possible

[mr.paco]

How much time is given to get the info together?

[websmile]

I think it will be enough time, the old school 3 will for sure not start before october, maybe later - so you have at least 4-5 weeks to get all you need to organize it

[mr.paco]

OK, Cool...

[mr.paco]

Round-1: s771 (771 to 775 mod allowed)/Quadro G96 core or older Single GPU only

Stage-1: Maxmem Read BandWidth

Stage-2: 3D06

Stage-3: Vantage

 

Round-2 All S939 (Opterons allowed)/GF7 (multi GPU allowed)

Stage-1 Cine bench 11.5 (divided by core count)

Stage-2 Ice Storm

Stage-3 Realbench

 

Round-3 s478/Matrox

Stage-1 Wprime 1024

Stage-2 3D03

Stage-3 PCM04

 

Round-4 s462/GF2

stage-1 CPU Frequency (Percentage of OC)

Stage-2 3D01

Stage-3 Cine Bench 03

 

Round-5 Slot 1/Slot A/s7 //Rage

Stage-1 Slot 1 and Rage 3DMark 99

Stage-2 Slot A SPI 1m

Stage-3 Socket-7 HWBprime

 

Multi-Socket allowed where applicable.

Edited August 29, 2016 by mr.paco

[websmile]

Looks good, you got PM regarding two points, apart from this I am very happy with the build up

[TASOS]

Any other option (becides Matrox) for round 3 ?

[Mr.Scott]

Any other option (becides Matrox) for round 3 ?

Nope. That's the difficulty factor for that round.

[havli]

Looks interesting. Round 1 is the hardest for me... as I don't have a single pci-e quadro

[websmile]

I sent Frank a PM, we need to make a few adjustments like limit age of quadros, there are modern M5000s iirc for 10k we all do not want to see, but he did an awesome job so far

[mr.paco]

I sent Frank a PM, we need to make a few adjustments like limit age of quadros, there are modern M5000s iirc for 10k we all do not want to see, but he did an awesome job so far

 

I will make the needed adjustments shortly.

[Mr.Scott]

Looks interesting. Round 1 is the hardest for me... as I don't have a single pci-e quadro

 

I don't either.

[mr.paco]

Looks good, you got PM regarding two points, apart from this I am very happy with the build up

 

Has been update.

Let me know how it looks now.

[phobosq]

Why don't we make round 4 even more interesting? In stage 1 there is 1, maybe 2 CPU models to be used, let's narrow it to Thunderbird or Palomino core to make it more difficult Cinebench will be dominated by dual Athlon MP (or modded XP), so maybe result can be divided by number of cores? And for 2001... maybe a clock limit of 2500?

[Mr.Scott]

Why don't we make round 4 even more interesting? In stage 1 there is 1, maybe 2 CPU models to be used, let's narrow it to Thunderbird or Palomino core to make it more difficult Cinebench will be dominated by dual Athlon MP (or modded XP), so maybe result can be divided by number of cores? And for 2001... maybe a clock limit of 2500?

Realistically.....you only have 3 choices for stage 1. Find one.

If you divide by core in stage 2 there is no point in a dual socket board.

Stage 3.......I kinda like the clock limit idea. Ask Frank. It's his show.

[phobosq]

Realistically.....you only have 3 choices for stage 1. Find one.

If you divide by core in stage 2 there is no point in a dual socket board.

Stage 3.......I kinda like the clock limit idea. Ask Frank. It's his show.

Can you send me by PM the third one? I suspect it's the same core as two most obvious, but I thought I'd ask.

[Mr.Scott]

Can you send me by PM the third one? I suspect it's the same core as two most obvious, but I thought I'd ask.

Certainly.

[websmile]

Has been update.

Let me know how it looks now.

 

How about limiting the quadros by Core? I would propose G96 or older, it will be easier for me and participants plus you have dx10 for vantage from g80 upwards.

http://hwbot.org/hardware/videocards#key=nvidia_quadro_series

Generally, you did a very good and fast job, I am looking forward to round 3

[mr.paco]

Why don't we make round 4 even more interesting? In stage 1 there is 1, maybe 2 CPU models to be used, let's narrow it to Thunderbird or Palomino core to make it more difficult Cinebench will be dominated by dual Athlon MP (or modded XP), so maybe result can be divided by number of cores? And for 2001... maybe a clock limit of 2500?

I tryed to put it together to allow for as many participants as possible with out having too many limitations or making too easy.

I only submitted my idea, it will have to be up to WebSmiles to change anything he deems necessary.

[websmile]

For me the stages and hardware choice are very good, apart from the simplification at quadros I see no reason to change your concept, Frank. If we make things too complicated, we scare new guys of, and this is why I like your clear choice of benchmarks and hardware.

[mr.paco]

How about limiting the quadros by Core? I would propose G96 or older, it will be easier for me and participants plus you have dx10 for vantage from g80 upwards.

Overclocking, overclocking, and much more! Like overclocking.

Generally, you did a very good and fast job, I am looking forward to round 3

No problem; Will make Quadros G96 or older.

 

I wanted to have it up as soon as I could to be able to get all questions/concerns/complaints out of the way so that once it starts there are no hick-ups/problems . At least that was my thinking

 

I hope its well accepted by everyone.

Thank you for the opportunity...

Edited August 29, 2016 by mr.paco

[Mr.Scott]

Good job Frank. :celebration:

[GRIFF]

Helloy gues. My opinion for next old cup with popular hardware.

 

Round-1 S939/GF7 (multi GPU allowed)

Stage-1 Cine bench 11.5 (divided by core count)

Stage-2 3D11

Stage-3 Realbench

 

Round-2 s478/Matrox

Stage-1 HWBprime

Stage-2 3D06

Stage-3 PCM04

 

Round-3 s462 with sdr sdram/GF2

stage-1 CPU Frequency cpu fsb 133

Stage-2 3D01

Stage-3 Cine Bench 03

 

Round-4 s370/FX5200

stage-1 SPI 1M Celeron 66fsb

Stage-2 Wprime 1024 pentium 100fsb (dual socket alowed)

Stage-3 AM3

 

Round-5 slot1/s7/ Ati Rage

stage-1 slot1 Cpu Frequency (percentage of OC)

Stage-2 S7 Pifast

Stage-3 3D99

[GRIFF]

S771 is not old for my opinion )))

 

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[JunkDogg]

Looks awesome Frank mate.

 

Damn now a 939 board with 4 pice lanes next to each other. Lol.