The official newlife's XTU global challenge - Jun 22, 2013 until Jul 22, 2013 thread.

[newlife]

No Hyper Threading and high ram clocks is the key

[richba5tard]

Go True Monkey!

[newlife]

True Monkeys score is beatable, I got pretty but haven't had the time to beat it.

 

And someone from OCAU better beat it.

[t8y]

Appears to me that the key is fooling XTU into thinking you have a slower CPU......

[newlife]

Or just trying to trick XTU into thinking that you got a higher score then you did

[Massman]

Huh?

 

Can you guys elaborate on this?

[newlife]

If you set clocks in windows using anything other then xtu it reports what you booreted with, not what your really running

[DOM.]

In other words this benchmark is a joke lmao

 

You boot at 5 but oc in Windows benchmark doesn't detect the change in speed like cpu-z

[Massman]

Yes, we are aware of that.

 

XTU reads out the BIOS settings on order to create a profile with all settings. Most of the mainboard vendors are using "illegal" (= not officially supported) ways to alter things like ratios and voltage levels. That's why some of the changes are not being picked up real-time. It's by design it works like this.

 

Our recommendation is to not use other applications if you're using XTU to do your initial overclocking testing on air or want to test profiles from the database. If you're just hunting for records, you can use other apps no problem.

[newlife]

thanks for that massman, maybe screenshots should be required for XTU

 

And congrats to true monkey for winning and holding the lead for such a long time

[True Monkey]

Thanks for gratulation

 

A got score in XTU is a little bit tricky because my best Tweak are not working unter sub zero.

5,1 Ghz water...1085 P

5,4 Ghz Dice ....1123 P

[t8y]

wd truemonkey

i was about 5 points off, but you were ~90mhz lower (assuming XTU reading correctly of course).

be keen to see what those tweaks of yours were

 

also glad the totally unrealistic 4.4ghz i5 score was taken down - that thing was scoring well into haswell territory..

massman, do you have any indication as to what was going on there?

[Massman]

No idea, we've asked Alex92 for more information but he doesn't want to tell how he's bugging the application it seems .

[t8y]

well thats a shame, would be nice if some good might came from it, especially if you plan on using XTU for more comps (like this months).

 

but when the results are that far out of whack i guess its easy enough to spot