PCMark 05 World Record Set

CPU: QX9650 @ 5355MHz : 465x11.5 @ 2.02v @ -84C
MB: Gigabyte EP45T-Extreme F3I BIOS
RAM: Corsair 2x1GB PC3-14400 C7 Dominators @ 2.16vdimm
GFX: EVGA GTX 280
PSU: PCP&C 1kW

Gautam came down to Atlanta for a weekend of benching with our sole goal being PCMark 05. I had another 180L dewar delivered just so we wouldn't run out and we had a stack of hardware for backups. Ironically the one thing we could have used a backup for, the CPU, we only had a bad and a worse one available. That being said, here's the results after only our 2nd serious run :up:

PCMark2005 28,000 PCMarks for Global Publishable World Record
HWBot Link
Validation Link

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3228/...edf14f86_b.jpg


Note:
Ram was really running the 2:3 divider even though CPU-Z says 3:5. PL was set to 6 and sub-timings weren't really tweaked.
The QX9650 was a piece of garbage. It was coldbugging around -87C at idle and CBB even warmer. Gautam almost gave up on the chip, wanted to go to Fry's and buy another CPU, I would say he owes me $999 now..

Thanks to all those involved in making this happen including but not limited to g h z and sno.lcn for the i-rams, Gigabyte for the EP45T-Extremes, Corsair for the memory, and AirGas for the killer price for LN2

Pictures of the Rigs
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Cats are lucky, right? This one was slacking :down:

Awesome!

nice one

i thought youngpro went past 28K mark already but maybe i'm wrong
[edit]he was not able to submit his tripple iRAM 28.4K run to futuremark
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...light=youngpro

so you managed to get results with 3xiRAMs
damn :)

Yeah PCM is kinda ridiculous like that. We specifically went for valid publishable runs. Chris is hell bent on knocking out some runs with 7 I-RAMs etc, maybe we'll try that sometime lol.

Thanks Chris for all the hospitality, and congrats on your anniversary Mike, we'll meet next time. ;)

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Yeah PCM is kinda ridiculous like that. We specifically went for valid publishable runs. Chris is hell bent on knocking out some runs with 7 I-RAMs etc, maybe we'll try that sometime lol.

Thanks Chris for all the hospitality, and congrats on your anniversary Mike, we'll meet next time. ;)

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lol good luck doing 4xiRAMs let alone more :D

i was wondering why Mike didn't show up :D

amazing flat 28k! :clap:
your cat is sweet :)

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Lookin' good man.

dang guys way to go - another gold for USA??? ;)

Wonderful runs guys!! great work with such a bad cpu!

Nice PCMark pwnage guys :clap:

Someone ;) tell Intel to get a little more consistency in their cpu's :D

Very nice guys, well done :up:

Awesome job guys, I wish my weekend was as productive, I can't wait to see the 7 I-Ram Runs, I hope it stays a record long enough for you to break your own.

jimmyz - it would be very hard to get a valid score with 7 i rams... its hard to do sometimes with just 3. You get a result but the ORB wont accept it. would be cool just to know what the score would be though...

Sincere congratulations to mr. Gomeler & mr. Gautam! :up:

:clap: so you basicaly run 2 pcs and jump the sata cables from the runing pc #1's irams to the benching pcs controller and go from there?

if so thats very cool always wondered how you guys managed to fit 3 irams on a benching setup

Hmmmm...this is something I want to try...

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lol good luck doing 4xiRAMs let alone more :D

i was wondering why Mike didn't show up :D

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We already got 4 i-Rams working(:D) and I suspect we can get 5 to scale but past that might be a bit hard. Also running out of SATA ports on the EP45T-Extreme :cool:

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:clap: so you basicaly run 2 pcs and jump the sata cables from the runing pc #1's irams to the benching pcs controller and go from there?

if so thats very cool always wondered how you guys managed to fit 3 irams on a benching setup

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Yup! We had 3 i-rams in 1 EP45T-Extreme that was sitting at stock speeds just to power the i-rams up and then the main rig had just the OS drive attached to it.

Great work guys :clap:

Very Nice, Great Work !! :up:

To bad your so far away, I would have loved to bring the SSD Raid over and plugged it into that :rofl:

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Very Nice, Great Work !! :up:

To bad your so far away, I would have loved to bring the SSD Raid over and plugged it into that :rofl:

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I was thinking about your array while we were benching, no joke :ROTF:

Good results guys, Congrats!!

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I was thinking about your array while we were benching, no joke :ROTF:

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PCMark is something I really like also. My Raid will very soon be 9 SSD's as I want to totally cap this ARC-1231ML.

It's very exciting to me to see what you did on those tests. Think of what this HDD score could have added to your results.

For a Raid 5 run with 8x SSD's I hit 37k HDD score with 3DMark Vantage
For a Raid 0 run which I have to resetup I was hitting close to 70k

In WinXp Ihave seen numbers close to 90k by DVnation on 3DMark 05

nice raid setup buckeye! holy :banana::banana::banana::banana:! :)

Very nice runs guys! I wish I could have been there or hosted here but, it was my 10th wedding anniversary and thank you for the anniversary wishes also! It's like we say every time we bench; mebbe next time.....lol.

nice score and nice benchmark , congrats , try to get some sleep even the cut was tired from benching :rofl::rofl::rofl::D:D

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:clap: so you basicaly run 2 pcs and jump the sata cables from the runing pc #1's irams to the benching pcs controller and go from there?

if so thats very cool always wondered how you guys managed to fit 3 irams on a benching setup

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you can buy those raiser PCI cards on ebay as well but this is a better solution as you are using the power on another machine

exactly what is irams?

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exactly what is irams?

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This should about cover that question.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312

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This should about cover that question.
http://techreport.com/articles.x/9312

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That's an old model btw. The new one takes DDR2, and Doesn't use a PCI slot.

Gom, congrats on the score :clap: It seems that PCM is becoming a lost art and takes almost as much effort as any of the top 3D scores do.

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That's an old model btw. The new one takes DDR2, and Doesn't use a PCI slot.

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Do you have a link to the new one, I didn't know that it had been released :confused: I do remember them talking about it a long time ago, but I thought it was dropped.

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That's an old model btw. The new one takes DDR2, and Doesn't use a PCI slot.

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Linkage? I was never told there was a DDR2 i-RAM and none of my Gigabyte contacts knew of one :confused:

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Gom, congrats on the score :clap: It seems that PCM is becoming a lost art and takes almost as much effort as any of the top 3D scores do.

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Thanks and thanks to everyone else that commented :up:

Great result. This really is one of my favourite Benchies.

How many DDR sticks did you use on each i-Ram and which size? Is there lesser performance with just one stick on each i-Ram?

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Great result. This really is one of my favourite Benchies.

How many DDR sticks did you use on each i-Ram and which size? Is there lesser performance with just one stick on each i-Ram?

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We had 2 sticks in each i-ram. I will actually be testing 1, 2, 3, and 4 sticks per i-ram to see if there is any improvement. Will know more next week.

ddr2 iRAM does not exist and never will ;)

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ddr2 iRAM does not exist and never will ;)

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Youngpro had DDR2 i-rams, no?

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Youngpro had DDR2 i-rams, no?

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No, they never made them in DDR2.

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We had 2 sticks in each i-ram. I will actually be testing 1, 2, 3, and 4 sticks per i-ram to see if there is any improvement. Will know more next week.

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Which size? 512MB? Did you only run the Benchmark on the clean i-Ram raid partition or did you use a fresh imaged OS on the Raid and ran it on that? A lot of questions but im curious about that as i never used an i-Ram Raid for that Benchie :D

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Which size? 512MB? Did you only run the Benchmark on the clean i-Ram raid partition or did you use a fresh imaged OS on the Raid and ran it on that? A lot of questions but im curious about that as i never used an i-Ram Raid for that Benchie :D

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Believe it was a 512mb and 1gb stick per i-ram. Benchmark on the i-rams, HDD for the OS. Next up I'm eliminating the HDD if I run out of SATA ports :cool:

So what is next? 5 i-Rams?

maybe ;)

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CAT, n. A soft, indestructible automaton provided by nature to be kicked when things go wrong in the domestic circle.

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Beware, these devices can be more frustrating than they are worth. Their level of wariness and dexterity increases proportionately as your individual level of consternation, frustration, anger, etc increases resulting in less than desired results.

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Beware, these devices can be more frustrating than they are worth. Their level of wariness and dexterity increases proportionately as your individual level of consternation, frustration, anger, etc increases resulting in less than desired results.

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Agreed but they are so useful to kick when you do achieve less than desired results :up:

Great work Gom! Looks awesome

Just a little bump to this, I'll be revisiting this test by myself in the next week with a brand new QX9650 :up: I was simply testing i-ram scaling and got a bit carried away.

E8600 @ 600x100
GA-EP45T-Extreme
Corsair 1800C7 Dominators
Diamond HD 4870 @ 790/1100
5x Gigabyte i-ram
1x Seagate 7200.10

25384 PCMarks
HWBot Link
Orb Link

System Image Bottom Right PC is main rig with 1 i-ram, top right has 2 i-rams, bottom left has 2 i-rams.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/...37f53865_b.jpg

Hard-drive throughput Test. 1.2 GB/s anyone?
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3060/...bdb25280_o.jpg

Score with corrupt Upload
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Aiming for 30k+ on Tuesday... :rofl:

gomeler what are your HD scores on those runs, for some reason I cannot find them.

The actual PCMark submission for HWBot/ORB was pathetic due to the multi-threaded test hammering the CPU so badly that the virus scan plummeted. I pulled a 211mb/s XP Startup, 222mb/s general usage, and 258mb/s Virus Scan. The Virus Scan is so terribly low due to the Multithreaded Test 3 having more threads than I have available cores and therefore trashing performance. 250mb/s in the MT3 test versus 1200mb/s when it's run solo.. can't wait till I have my QX9650.

Ah ok so thats how it does it. I was just able to run PCMark05 tonight as I setup up my Raid for benching with Vista 32, PCMark would not run on 64.

I was looking for a score like PCMark Vantage shows.

Just fyi. I reset the SSD Raid to Raid 0, started installing Vista Ultimate 32 and was on the desktop in ~8 minutes. :rofl:

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Ah ok so thats how it does it. I was just able to run PCMark05 tonight as I setup up my Raid for benching with Vista 32, PCMark would not run on 64.

I was looking for a score like PCMark Vantage shows.

Just fyi. I reset the SSD Raid to Raid 0, started installing Vista Ultimate 32 and was on the desktop in ~8 minutes. :rofl:

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You know what's even faster? Transferring an XP image from one partition on the i-rams to another partition :D Only have 5 gigs of storage though, used XP for initial testing.

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You know what's even faster? Transferring an XP image from one partition on the i-rams to another partition :D Only have 5 gigs of storage though, used XP for initial testing.

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hehe yeah I bet that is fast :D

sweet runs - awesome job guys! Thanks for sharing!

Sweet work, will look forward to see your qx9650 action

Keep pushing it

so how high are your backups? :D

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so how high are your backups? :D

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I can think of one for sure way to find out :D

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I can think of one for sure way to find out :D

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I've been tweaking off and on the last week.. I'm having trouble getting the virus scan to stay stable at 1200mb/s to give you a hint..:cool:

And are they valid scores as far as ORB submission?

Course, my goal is 30k ORB valid :up: Just need to order another 180L dewar, my last one apparently blew off about 60 liters of LN2 in a week :shakes:

V.Nice Results esp the HDD Scan .. Vista 64 may help you a wee bit as PCM05 does run in this OS ;)

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I've been tweaking off and on the last week.. I'm having trouble getting the virus scan to stay stable at 1200mb/s to give you a hint..:cool:

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so what are you doing to "slow it down"

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I've been tweaking off and on the last week.. I'm having trouble getting the virus scan to stay stable at 1200mb/s to give you a hint..:cool:

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1,200mb/s :clap: I love it !!!

Great work there !!

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Course, my goal is 30k ORB valid :up: Just need to order another 180L dewar, my last one apparently blew off about 60 liters of LN2 in a week :shakes:

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You rented that 180L right? I would request a refund sounds like that thing has lost some vacuum? 60L loss in a week is alot

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Course, my goal is 30k ORB valid :up: Just need to order another 180L dewar, my last one apparently blew off about 60 liters of LN2 in a week :shakes:

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The guy at Airgas told me a tank will typically lose about 5% per week. Sounds like you have a bad tank or valve for sure.

PCM05 : 28101 PCMarks
http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=784935
http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=13

Silly Italians tried to take the PCM05 record away from the USA. Couldn't be having any of that so I assembled a new PCM05 rig and took it back.
CPU: QX9650 @ 444x12.5 @ 1.84v @ -107C
MB: Gigabyte X48T-DQ6(my EP45T-Extreme was "dead")
DDR: Corsair 1800C7 @ 1777MHz 7-6-5-15-2T PL7 @ 2.1v
GPU: EVGA GTX 280 @ 730/1200
iram: 5 of them, ICH9R bottlenecks at ~700mb/s on virus scan though, can get same result with 3 :(

A few notes:
my transparent windows test is bugged, i'm 4,000 windows/s lower than 2nd place
graphics memory test was bugged, 1000 fps lower than 2nd place

Now working on one last run with a P45 board, not fooling around with ICH9R again :shakes:

Congrats, good to have it back in the hands of USA :D

PCMark can ve very annoying. Sometimes it doesn't want to work or you have lower results with better GPU at example :D Great result, congratz ;)

man i cant even run pc mark it gives me an error at startup saying visual settings need to be set to "adjust for best apperance" and classic style must not be selected, whatever that crap means.

WTG Chris!

So do what this communicate says :) This problem is simple to solve, much worse is issue with video encoding :)

@ [XC] gomeler:

a. I don't see any smile like this :) when you say "you silly Italians"..... Is it offensive or what?.....
You call them silly because they took the PCMark WR from you?....DO YOU OWN the PCMark WR and we don't know it?..... :mad:

b. What IF a GREEK guy take it back from you tomorrow?..... You'll come out and call him silly too?..... :mad:

c. Beware because IF a Greek guy takes it down TOMORROW, then ANOTHER US guy who "chases" this Greek guy on his benches :D AND VISA-VERSA :D , will take it back and so on and then you will be THIRD.......FOR EVER....... :p:

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@ [XC] gomeler:

a. I don't see any smile like this :) when you say "you silly Italians"..... Is it offensive or what?.....
You call them silly because they took the PCMark WR from you?....DO YOU OWN the PCMark WR and we don't know it?..... :mad:

b. What IF a GREEK guy take it back from you tomorrow?..... You'll come out and call him silly too?..... :mad:

c. Beware because IF a Greek guy takes it down TOMORROW, then ANOTHER US guy who "chases" this Greek guy on his benches :D AND VISA-VERSA :D , will take it back and so on and then you will be THIRD.......FOR EVER....... :p:

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no word to say man
:shakes::shakes:


waiting for his answer ..... ...........

I don't think Gomeler meant any harm by using the word silly

I really dont think he meant it in a bad way. Just take te record back from him and call him a Silly American :D

Yes but ANYONE of us MUST consider that THIS is an INTERNATIONAL forum and we don't speek English that well and it's not our first language.....So I think that a smile like this :) after the word "silly" whould be more appropriate to avoid making users unhappy..... No?.... :)

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no word to say man
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waiting for his answer ..... ...........

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@ [XC] gomeler:

a. I don't see any smile like this :) when you say "you silly Italians"..... Is it offensive or what?.....
You call them silly because they took the PCMark WR from you?....DO YOU OWN the PCMark WR and we don't know it?..... :mad:

b. What IF a GREEK guy take it back from you tomorrow?..... You'll come out and call him silly too?..... :mad:

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jeez.. talk about taking a joke the wrong way. I didn't use a :) as I felt it was quite implied that it was a playful jest at the Italians wrenching away the PCM05 record with a measly 51 points. I tried to match your 51 points over Gautam and myself but could only get 50 points or 53 points. Guess I need to be a bit more politically correct and not assume jokes will be understood :shrug:

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c. Beware because IF a Greek guy takes it down TOMORROW, then ANOTHER US guy who "chases" this Greek guy on his benches :D AND VISA-VERSA :D , will take it back and so on and then you will be THIRD.......FOR EVER....... [/B]:p:

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I'd love to see more people bench PCM05, I've got other things sitting in the wings. Confident you can keep me at 3rd place forever? :cool: Vince's score at 5800MHz was impressive as I feared those additional 300MHz on that CPU would be deal breakers. I'm sure with Core i7 you two can duke it out until I can afford a Core i7 965 :up:

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WTG Chris!

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Thanks! Waited till you dropped to 4th so I wouldn't be the ultimate cause of it :D

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man i cant even run pc mark it gives me an error at startup saying visual settings need to be set to "adjust for best apperance" and classic style must not be selected, whatever that crap means.

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Right click on my computer, go to advanced settings, click on performance settings, set to best appearance. Then in Vista right click on desk top -> personalize -> theme -> aero

Make sure Aero is enabled to get the speedup for 2D Windows test, it'll increase your score dramatically :up:

Get 'em Hipro! No one calls your friends silly! (edit for :) )

Lol Really nice benches gomeler well done sir!

Actually I think HIPRO makes a good suggestion about the smilie face. The same thing happened recently with Dinos22, a misunderstanding of a simple joke due to the language barrier. I think since this benchmarking is so competitive some people assume an insult instead of a joke.

But, great work on the bench for sure! I realize you bottlenecked your MCH but, I wonder how these would do in the place of the I-RAMs? http://www.fusionio.com/PressDetails.aspx?id=46

Fusion IO would communicate straight through the PCIe bus as a RAID device so it wouldn't be an issue with ICH9R. ICH10R will be used next though and it's good to ~1200MB/s :up:

Chris, do you have screen shots or a link?

Compare URL here - http://service.futuremark.com/result...eResultType=13
I didn't take a screeshot as this wasn't my "final" run but decided to post it to slightly one-up 1st place :)

ROFL at everyone getting their knickers in a twist over a "silly" comment :p:

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Actually I think HIPRO makes a good suggestion about the smilie face. The same thing happened recently with Dinos22, a misunderstanding of a simple joke due to the language barrier. I think since this benchmarking is so competitive some people assume an insult instead of a joke.

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yeah seems that there is one person still not getting it >> cough cough M.Beier :rolleyes:

i know Chris in person. he's definitely not an :banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::banana::b anana: like someone here is implying. Nice guy. Young sure, but take it easy on him. He's not like italians are painting him to be please. Old George never gets upset when i mess with him :D:D:D:D ....hey george what happened to that threat of smoke in my face :rofl::D

if Chris said that about us Aussies I would take no offense because i know he doesnt mean it literally....in fact the word he used (silly) is hardly a world you'd see someone use to offend another person...there are plenty of world in english language with clearer connotations

imagine someone slaps you on the face and you tell him he's silly hahahahahahah...

btw Chris stick a :p: in there so there is no confusion hehehehe (well maybe M.Beier will still interpret it differently hahahahah)

Next time I'll insert the following into it " :) :D :p: :rofl: :ROTF: " and maybe the joke will come out clearly :D

Insulating up my HD4870 right now, more LN2 on Monday :cool:

Awesome!!!!

Great job!

lol a bad or worse one :D

exellent score !
would love to see waht you do with a great one :rofl:

Silly World Record mans.... :D :p:

Take this for ...... START..... :D :p:

http://www.hipro-tech.com/images/hip..._1050_1300.png


COMPARE PCMark2005 URL...


NOT Bad for start I think!.... :)


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outch!!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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outch!!!!

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

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Yeap..... I know.....it's for laughing THAT LOW score BUT I have the excuse that I run it very quickly due to no more LN2 and I didn't push neither the CPU nor the VGA.... Sorry.... :( :p:

eeeek.... 29k from start !!! :eek:

looking forward to next round with 30k+ :up:

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Yeap..... I know.....it's for laughing THAT LOW score BUT I have the excuse that I run it very quickly due to no more LN2 and I didn't push neither the CPU nor the VGA.... Sorry.... :( :p:

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i was kinda laughing how you just absolutely smashed everyone else

i love when you just waltz in and just murder everyone like that
no pun intended :D

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i was kinda laughing how you just absolutely smashed everyone else

i love when you just waltz in and just murder everyone like that
no pun intended :D

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I know man.....I was just "teasing you" a bit.... :D :p:

Great scores Gomeler ! :up:
Hipro, that was outstanding mate ! :eek: 29k ! 30k coming ... :up: hipro & dinos111 :buddies: :toast:

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I know man.....I was just "teasing you" a bit.... :D :p:

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you got me :D


asswipe :D

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Great scores Gomeler ! :up:
Hipro, that was outstanding mate ! :eek: 29k ! 30k coming ... :up: hipro & dinos111 :buddies: :toast:

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dinos111 is that old school greek PCMARK bencher
you confusing me and him :D

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you got me :D


asswipe :D

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:D

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dinos111 is that old school greek PCMARK bencher

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Yes that's him.... :)

Thanks George..... :)

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dinos111 is that old school greek PCMARK bencher
you confusing me and him :D

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:D Yeah, dinos111 is really ass-kicking bencher in PCMark's ;)

Man, that is just SILLY FAST!:up:

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Man, that is just SILLY FAST!:up:

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Thanks M8.... :)

I see, that every record can be beaten :D Gratz :)

oops ))) WR


Congrats !!!

Nice job Hipro :up: Getting my 180L dewar filled up next week so I'll once again push for 30k :cool:

fast reply, big record :D

nice ;)

PC Mark '05 war just started :lsfight: :rofl:

first battle is end, waiting for gomeler's reply I hop it will be 30+ :D

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Nice job Hipro :up: Getting my 180L dewar filled up next week so I'll once again push for 30k :cool:

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yeah just go LN2 on the card mate
that silly Greek friend of ours has no chance :p::p::p::p::rofl:

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yeah just go LN2 on the card mate
that silly Greek friend of ours has no chance :p::p::p::p::rofl:

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I don't have a pot for the GPU but I do have a cascade. Meant for a 65nm quad, I think it'll handle RV770 just fine :D