December 29, 201213 yr Could CPU-Z be developed to allow a "black box" MHz recorder? If the CPU speed is changed on the fly, that change is shown. advanced: a realtime graph, like Rivatuner Simple: a record of the highest and lowest CPU MHz during the boot. If the variation is too big, the user could be forced to declare the higher value as their speed, even if it was only for 1/10th of the bench. Just an idea
December 29, 201213 yr I think stuff like HWmonitor/HWinfo/OCCT can also monitor CPU clocks and write them in a log file. If you want to add encryption to those log files so they can't be "edited by hand" - I doubt anyone will bother since frequency cheating is not (yet) a big issue.
December 29, 201213 yr Author True, it's not a problem, but if proper MHz validation can be done, it opens up a lot of new options for competitions. TBH, at the moment, there's no validation. CPU-Z and GPU-Z have zero connection to the MHz the bench was run at. We just trust people to not lower MHz afterwards for efficiency or raise them afterwards for bragging rights.
December 31, 201213 yr You'd have to connect the graphs to the benchmark run, then. There's nothing in what you say that will connect the CPUZ log to the actual benchmark run. Should be possible to let the rig idle for a couple of minutes and then make the screeshot?
January 3, 201313 yr Well, the upcoming 3DMark will probably then be interesting in this regard... Makes more sense to integrate frequency monitoring into the benchmarks. Agree that it would be a good thing especially in 3D where static frequency isn't very realistic in the top rankings of any hardware category.
January 3, 201313 yr Well, the upcoming 3DMark will probably then be interesting in this regard... Very interesting. That's good to know.
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