K404 Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 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 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TaPaKaH Posted December 29, 2012 Share Posted December 29, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
K404 Posted December 29, 2012 Author Share Posted December 29, 2012 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knopflerbruce Posted December 31, 2012 Share Posted December 31, 2012 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? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FM_Jarnis Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Well, the upcoming 3DMark will probably then be interesting in this regard... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
I.M.O.G. Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 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. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TASOS Posted January 3, 2013 Share Posted January 3, 2013 Well, the upcoming 3DMark will probably then be interesting in this regard... Very interesting. That's good to know. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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