Old School is Best School Season 3 Round 2 Discussion

[fr4m3_hunt3r]

How I can fix it? It's TOLEDO ! Now I can't participate in competition. Always same problems with this f... reakin validation files/uploads.

[fr4m3_hunt3r]

http://hwbot.org/submission/3450019_

[fr4m3_hunt3r]

Sorry, I'm drunk. It was easy.... :F

[pipes]

I have problem with gpuz and 7900 gtx, when i open gpuz my vga make artifact and i do restart.

Can I post with a different vga program?

[pipes]

edit

Edited February 9, 2017 by pipes

[lanbonden]

I have problem with gpuz and 7900 gtx, when i open gpuz my vga make artifact and i do restart.

Can I post with a different vga program?

 

Try with a different version of GPUz, 1.16 worked for me this time, but I have had problems with old nvidia GPUs before and 0.82 is the last version that "always" works even on old cards with all drivers I have tested.

[pipes]

In the third round (RealBench) of the competition no video card is not specified, but a point of speaking to use two video cards as well, the bench is not only important for performance of the cpu level?

[pipes]

Try with a different version of GPUz, 1.16 worked for me this time, but I have had problems with old nvidia GPUs before and 0.82 is the last version that "always" works even on old cards with all drivers I have tested.

 

thanks man, 0.82 work fine

[TASOS]

What am i doing wrong here ?

 

or is it a database problem ?

 

My result doesnt show up in the competition rankings

 

and in hardware rankings it shows as a 2X cpu.

 

I submitted twice

TASOS`s Cinebench - R11.5 score: 0.82 points with a Opteron 154 (San Diego, s939)

 

TASOS`s Cinebench - R11.5 score: 0.82 points with a Opteron 154 (San Diego, s939)

[websmile]

You are doing nothing wrong, it is a database issue which is still not fixed. I cannot edit it, and tbh I am tired of this - will try to get this fixed again

[pipes]

What am i doing wrong here ?

 

or is it a database problem ?

 

My result doesnt show up in the competition rankings

 

and in hardware rankings it shows as a 2X cpu.

 

I submitted twice

TASOS`s Cinebench - R11.5 score: 0.82 points with a Opteron 154 (San Diego, s939)

 

TASOS`s Cinebench - R11.5 score: 0.82 points with a Opteron 154 (San Diego, s939)

 

What's model cpu cooling use?

[lanbonden]

What's model cpu cooling use?

 

Looks like a Zalman cnps7000c

[TASOS]

What's model cpu cooling use?

 

Looks like a Zalman cnps7000c

 

It's a Zalman CNPS7700-CU

 

It's much bigger than the 7000 series.

Zalman CNPS7700: The New Giant of Coolers

 

... and it'a a pain in the @$$ , if you are using the orange mem slot's and wanna swap ram modules

[Dead Things]

Bonus point for era-appropriate cooler, though!

[Remarc]

i try this beta real bench (win7)...save upload file (name file.rbr) when i load it i have error Invalid data file: Unable to parse the datafile...ok i try again to save this file,but menu save upload file not active...what to do now?

[websmile]

You need to bench with internet connection, save file does not work - you are doing nothing wrong, it is a flaw in the benchmark. Submit directly after benchmark works

[pipes]

perfect, realbench need opencl...wow!!

[lanbonden]

Thanks for a fun competition with some of my favorite hardware!

ohh, and great show from @Stelaras in the end, picking up 75 points!

 

ps, can we please never have realbench (and 3dmark ice storm) for retro hardware again

[pipes]

beautiful rip software real-bench Cattura_zpsnvcni7vx.jpg Photo by filippo_fabbri1 | Photobucket

[Stelaras]

It was a pleasure to bench with s939 ! I haven't benched ANYTHING AT ALL since last year's old school , but zafiropo persuaded me to try and have some fun !

 

There are some very nice & efficient runs there ! Congratulations to all the participants ! I just love to see some respected members & friends of mine still being active and doing fine .

 

Regarding realbench , I also agree it was a bit hard for this platform .

 

@lanbonden , I don't care at all about the points at all ! I just participated in order to bench with my friend zafiropo . It's an honest truth .

So , your runs were more efficient than mine because you had tighter timings . I realized about 2 hours ago . Today I couldn't bench with the 183 divider for some reason , so I tried the lower 166 . After the first run I asked myself ... "Can they also run 1T ?" . At 255+ Mhz they couldn't , but at 233 it was OK .

[macsbeach98]

Michael I am wondering why you removed my Realbench submission when in the Limitations on the competition page there is no mention of what card you have to use.

On the Ice Storm page it specifies that a 7000 series Nvidea GPU has to be used.

 

I dont see why I cant use a Radeon card for Realbench it doesnt specify a GPU

Taken from the Limitations.

 

LIMITATIONS

 

Only use processors using socket 939.

Please attach a picture of your overclocking rig.

Must use official competition background: download

Opteron CPUs allowed

Multi-GPU allowed

 

It was a fun Stage anyway Congratulations to the Winners and all that participated.

Edited February 15, 2017 by macsbeach98

[websmile]

Realbench is influenced by vga used, other than cinebench for example, so there was no choice. Maybe we should have stated Geforce 7 as well there, but it says

"In Round 2 of the Old School is Best School contest overclockers are invited to bench on the fondly remembered AMD Socket 939 platform. These CPUs can be coupled with classic GeForce 7 series graphics cards from Nvidia (multi-GPU configurations allowed)."

on same page which should make it clear. Sorry if this caused inconvenience

[macsbeach98]

I understand Michael and yes it greatly boosts openCL but no card was mentioned in the limitations but was mentioned for Ice Storm.

So I am sure you can understand my confusion and why I used it I wasnt trying to cheat I just go by the rules on the page.

[websmile]

It was a misunderstanding, I am sure about this, maybe we overrated realbenchs popularity, the benchmark is new to lots of people it seems. It is a mixed bench like pcmark for example, which is why we also ask for GPUZ at verification screenshot because not only cpu but also vga influence final score

[phobosq]

Great competition, I love that platform and next time I have to start benching before 3 days to deadline I burnt a DFI Ultra-D and ripped off a pin from FX-60 trying to clean burnmarks, but it still works

Realbench is OK, but can't it be a bit shorter? 10 mins for encoding test is test for patience. Ice Storm - no idea, I wasted 4 hours trying to get SLI from 7900 GTX working and then I ran it with single GPU on default and moved on.

Couple of excellent results, stellar performance by Stelaras, well done!

I'd love to rebench this with proper preparation, so maybe we do similar round next year?