Country Cup Stages design thread at Discord (click link)

Here at HWBOT we try our best to deliver a fair and enjoyable playing field for all those who participate in the rankings and competition. To be able to provide this kind of service we have tried to design some submission and general rules to help remove any doubts about whether something is allowed or not. Based on continued experience these rules will be updated, expanded and completed as time goes by. Please check back for any updates.

 

• The HWBOT Country Cup 2025 allows only:

• Single CPU socket retail motherboards and single GPU retail Videocard submissions (unless specifically stated otherwise). 

• No Laptop or other mobile devices, desktop NON SERVER hardware only (unless specified)

• Standard HWBOT HW rules apply: 
  

  • No ES hardware (unless specifically mentioned)

  • No Server or Workstation or Mobile hardware (unless specifically mentioned): E.G. no Threadrippers, Xeon, ... , or EPYC CPUS

  • Single CPU sockets (unless specifically mentioned)

  • No Core Disabling allowed to simulate lower core Processor/GPU Core counts

  • Add a picture of your OC setup

 

Please ensure that the verification screenshot includes the competition background, on top of the standard HWBOT rules, a CPU-Z Motherboard tab is required

Plz check out the Standard and specific Country Cup 2025 Rules laid down per stage before submitting.

If in doubt contact a moderator !

Official Country Cup 2025 Wallpaper:

 

AMD CPU

Stage 1: 3Dmark11 Physics - 3 scores required, Division per CPU socket (FM1,FM2+, AM4 & AM5) - AMD APUs only - Dedicated GPUs allowed.

Stage 2: Y-Cruncher Pi-2.5B - 3 scores required, Division per CPU Core Count ( 6x, 8x, 16x Cores) - No 9800X3D or 9950X3D.

Stage 3: CPU Frequency - 3 scores required, Division per CPU socket (FM2, AM3 & AM4) - 0.5% variance allowed

Stage 4: wPrime 1024 - 4 scores required, Division per CPU socket

Stage 5: Reference frequency (non AM5) - CPU socket - 5% variance allowed

INTEL CPU

Stage 1: Y-Cruncher Pi-1B - 3 scores required, Division per CPU socket (LGA2011, LGA2011-3 & LGA2066) & Core Count (6x, 8x, & 10x Cores)

Stage 2: 7-ZIP - 4 scores required, Division per CPU Socket - 2x CPU cores only

Stage 3: Geekbench 3 Multi Core - 3 scores required, Division per CPU socket - 10x CPU Cores

Stage 4: PiFast - 3 scores required, Division per CPU socket

Stage 5: Memory Frequency - 3 scores required, Division per DDR3-4-5 - 1% variance allowed

AMD GPU

Stage 1: 3Dmark 11 Extreme - 3 scores required, Division per GPU (Radeon R9 Fury, Radeon R9 Fury X, Radeon RX Vega 56, Radeon RX Vega 64)

Stage 2: GPUPI 32B - 3 scores required, Division per GPU (GDDR5) - 2x GPU cores (single or Crossfire)

Stage 3: 3DMark 03 - 3 scores required, Division per GPU Core (Raven Ridge, Pitcairn, Hawaii core)

Stage 4: 3DMark Time Spy (GPU) - 3 scores required, Division per GPU

NO PRO or PRO DUO CARDS ALLOWED

nVIDIA GPU

Stage 1: Unigine Heaven Xtreme - 3 scores required, Division per GPU (GeForce GTX 970, GeForce GTX 960, GeForce GTX 950)

Stage 2: 3Dmark Port Royal - 3 scores required, Division per GPU family (xx60 cards from GeForce 2000 Series, GeForce 3000 series, GeForce 4000 Series) Non Super & Non Ti versions only

Stage 3: 3DMark Cloud Gate (GPU) SLi- 3 SLi scores required, NO GPU core amount restriction, Division per GPU (GeForce 1000 Series)

Stage 4: 3DMark Sky Diver - 3 scores required, Division per GPU Family

NO TITAN CARDS ALLOWED

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On 10/21/2025 at 8:16 PM, Leeghoofd said:

INTEL CPU

Stage 2: 7-ZIP - 4 scores required, Division per CPU Socket - 2x CPU cores only

I assume the 1151 and 1151 v2 are allowed as 2 different sockets just like in the database?
Thanks @Leeghoofd in advance for your time that you put into it again.

On 10/25/2025 at 10:50 AM, skulstation said:

I assume the 1151 and 1151 v2 are allowed as 2 different sockets just like in the database?
Thanks @Leeghoofd in advance for your time that you put into it again.

What 2c CPU would you run with 1151v2?

1 hour ago, bruts said:

What 2c CPU would you run with 1151v2?

like a celeron g49xx , pentium gold g54xx / g5500 / g56xx
you never know if someone wants to try that 😅

On 10/21/2025 at 8:16 PM, Leeghoofd said:

INTEL CPU

Stage 3: Geekbench 3 Multi Core - 3 scores required, Division per CPU socket - 10x CPU Cores

i wonder how the 1851 10c CPU (u5 225) perform here. SA is locked i guess? But even with locked SA.. I'm curious in what could be achieved with them.

Maybe i will spend the 144 euro for one and figure out.. 🙃

Edited October 30Oct 30 by bruts

It does not have any core disabling allowed or not allowed, should add that to clarify things. Or say 2-4-6-8-10 cpu core cpus only.. ect

47 minutes ago, Luger said:

It does not have any core disabling allowed or not allowed, should add that to clarify things. Or say 2-4-6-8-10 cpu core cpus only.. ect

As far as I remember and know,

disabling was never allowed in competitions.

Only activating cores/cache in old Athlon days was permitted.

Edited October 31Oct 31 by skulstation

For new benchers or even old since I have seen some in recent comps not do the "standard rules or even follow the rules for that matter" its best to be more specific. Just have no core disabling to clarify things.

Official Country Cup 2025 Wallpaper:

Change name of Country CUP for select cup my friends must win.

This is not Country Cup.

4 hours ago, Dziarson said:

Change name of Country CUP for select cup my friends must win.

This is not Country Cup.

Sponsored selected country to be overboosted for the win 😅

11 hours ago, Dziarson said:

Change name of Country CUP for select cup my friends must win.

This is not Country Cup.

Care to elaborate? I tend to disagree…

I like True Crime!

After the minor server/website outage this morning, some scores from the competition have disappeared.

Can these be added again?

4 hours ago, skulstation said:

After the minor server/website outage this morning, some scores from the competition have disappeared.

Can these be added again?

nope you have to re-add them David

ok will re-add

Plz check thé confiruration of Country Cup 2025- nVIDIA GPU - 3DMark - Port Royal.

Ther is xx90 model in a xx60 stage.

@Leeghoofd Was the Raven Ridge meant to be the GPU chosen in the AMD third stage? Just checking it wasn't meant to be Tahiti or something for 290X - 280X - 7870 etc.

Hi,

May I have more info about this rule:
No Server or Workstation or Mobile hardware (unless specifically mentioned): E.G. no Threadrippers, Xeon, ... , or EPYC CPUS

Does that also include mini PC like Strix Halo mini PC? Or the rule actually means
Only use socketed non-server/workstation hardware

?

On 11/5/2025 at 5:46 AM, LSlowmotion said:

Hi,

May I have more info about this rule:
No Server or Workstation or Mobile hardware (unless specifically mentioned): E.G. no Threadrippers, Xeon, ... , or EPYC CPUS

Does that also include mini PC like Strix Halo mini PC? Or the rule actually means
Only use socketed non-server/workstation hardware

?

Correct, Strix Halo would fall under the mobile hardware category.