October 1, 20168 yr Crew Link to wallpaper is dead could anyone quickly upload it so I can grab it? Thanks in advance!
October 1, 20168 yr Administrators https://hwbotnews.s3.amazonaws.com/Competitions/1744_HwcWildcard2016/HWS16-wildcard-Wallpaper.png works - anyone else having this problem? edit - for backup http://abload.de/img/hws16-wildcard-wallpayiurw.png Edited October 1, 20168 yr by websmile
October 1, 20168 yr IMO power boards won't do anything on the RX 460. The VRMs on the only 2 460s I would try to use both look plenty powerful. So you won't have power issues. As for power quality you could try put more caps on the VRM but the NCP should be driving each phase at 440Khz already and most recent AMD cards really didn't benefit from any of my attempts to add capacitors to the Vcore VRMs. What I would focus on is getting memory voltage, AUX, and .95V modded. Also if the memory doesn't scale with volts I would try tighter memory timings. Most AMD GPU BIOSs these days contain several sets of memory timings so it should be a case of just copying some lower clock timings into the higher clock timing slot. No I'm not joining but I do want to mess with an RX 460. So I'll help where I can.
October 1, 20168 yr Author Can we use other vga than rx460 for physics stage? It makes it much simpler to bench if we don't have to unmount and reflash bios etc for vga to run them aircooled...
October 1, 20168 yr Administrators We discussed this when rules were made, we want the 460 even if it might be a bit inconvenient because we want same conditions for all and no vga/driver battle at different level. I am sure you can understand why, even though we are sorry for the inconvenience P.S. This was a unanimous decision to keep the playing field even and also have better comparability of results
October 5, 20168 yr Author Just wanted to say that I think the idea that you have to register for the competition is a very good idea and would like that in all competitions. I have no problem with sandbagging, but when you don't even know who you're up against it's just too sneeky. There is constantly like 10 guys posting in the last hours who have posted nothing before...
October 5, 20168 yr Crew Sandbagging has become part of our beloved hobby... Nevertheless I agree at least submit a placeholderscore...
October 5, 20168 yr Crew I thought the competitors get announced on the 10th? So you have 7 days of knowing who's in the competition before it ends
October 5, 20168 yr Author I thought the competitors get announced on the 10th? So you have 7 days of knowing who's in the competition before it ends Yes, and I would like all competitions to be like this!
October 6, 20168 yr Just wanted to say that I think the idea that you have to register for the competition is a very good idea and would like that in all competitions. I have no problem with sandbagging, but when you don't even know who you're up against it's just too sneeky. There is constantly like 10 guys posting in the last hours who have posted nothing before... Agree,a much less probability to have a stroke while refreshing final rankings in a competition.
October 9, 20168 yr Author Ok, there are no official rules for 3D11 Physics. I see that some people in the low clock challenge have modified the settings, like modify resolution, ambient occlusion, etc. is that allowed? Changing things doesn't seem to affect score as it's all CPU calculations anyway...
October 9, 20168 yr Administrators Sigh, the 3dm11 rules apply for the competition and also for 3dm11 physics, I really wonder why people always change things after their own gusto. It is part of 3dm11 and it should be clear you don´t change settings.
October 10, 20168 yr Author Sigh, the 3dm11 rules apply for the competition and also for 3dm11 physics, I really wonder why people always change things after their own gusto. It is part of 3dm11 and it should be clear you don´t change settings. Ok, how about running windowed mode? It can help to set bclk on the fly for boards that don't have oc keys or oc panel support. It doesn't really affect settings...
October 10, 20168 yr Administrators When resolution/benchmark settings are OK at fm link and shown result, I cannot check this anyway and afaik this has no influence on results. This is what I care about, the things I can check, so if you can provide a valid result with running this, it should be ok
October 10, 20168 yr Author When resolution/benchmark settings are OK at fm link and shown result, I cannot check this anyway and afaik this has no influence on results. This is what I care about, the things I can check, so if you can provide a valid result with running this, it should be ok You can see it under settings in validation link. Windowed mode... But maybe you can change exe-properties in windows to run it in window. Don't know if that is possible... Sorry for bugging you, but i just want to make sure.
October 10, 20168 yr Administrators Then it makes no sense to use window mode, I would have to block the result for being non default benchmark settings. Try hotkey for oc tools, this often works with profiles
October 10, 20168 yr Crew I'm still failing to see why people change these settings if they have absolutely no influence on performance
October 10, 20168 yr Finally saw the contestant list - a LOT scarier than what I thought it would be hahah Oh well, good luck everyone
October 10, 20168 yr Boy this is gonna be interesting to watch Good luck to all involved,time is short on my side sadly this time of the year
October 10, 20168 yr Administrators Small reminder, use the stated benchmark version and sysinfo, especially for stage 2 GPUPI for GPU 2,3x because I saw a lot of older versions lately at competition entries. This is not accpted anymore and upload of file will fail most likely anyway with older version
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