XS HWBot Team

[Don_Dan]

Found out my 2600K isn't dead today, pretty stoked to have it back. IMOG @ Overclockers.com was nice enough to test it for me. He said he found 4 pins that looked burned/darkened, but they cleaned up okay...1155 socket burn? I was pushing VCCIO a lot to troubleshoot with Hypers, I think one or two of the pins that usually burn are VCC related.

MIVE still at ASUS RMA Facility, though I find it a little odd because when I look up the RMA status it says it doesn't exist.

Good to hear your 2600k is still alive. And props to IMOG for helping you out!

knocking on 520k

what is even crazier is that 514k was done with vga at stock clocks, so truly a cpu intensive bench.

Great work!

[l0ud_sil3nc3]

you USA guys doing anything for country cup? maybe we can organize something here so we dont overlap on what we plan to run

Sounds good I have some stuff but what an obscure list of crap to bench this year lol

[BeepBeep2]

loud, you just missed the last requirement, your name has to be in the top 20 of this list to compete for your country
http://hwbot.org/league/hardware_masters

EDIT:
Bought some BBSE off ebay tonight, 1333 ECO but it was only $26, couldn't go wrong with that. If it's any better than my RipjawsX I'll sell those.

EDIT:
Hope errybody's ok with linux...
http://hwbot.org/submission/2333653_...00k_26sec_55ms
http://hwbot.org/submission/2333660_...6_5400k_38_sec

[Don_Dan]

EDIT:
Bought some BBSE off ebay tonight, 1333 ECO but it was only $26, couldn't go wrong with that. If it's any better than my RipjawsX I'll sell those.

Are you sure they're BBSE? They might be BABG as well.

EDIT:
Hope errybody's ok with linux...
http://hwbot.org/submission/2333653_...00k_26sec_55ms
http://hwbot.org/submission/2333660_...6_5400k_38_sec

Linux is not allowed, scores deleted. Sorry Sam!

[Splave]

loud, you just missed the last requirement, your name has to be in the top 20 of this list to compete for your country
http://hwbot.org/league/hardware_masters
]

This competition is open to everyone. You can join by simply submitting a score.
were did you read that?

[BeepBeep2]

Are you sure they're BBSE? They might be BABG as well.



Linux is not allowed, scores deleted. Sorry Sam!

That's cool, I'll shrink my partition a bit and install Windows. There is absolutely nothing in the written HWBOT rules stating it is not allowed though.

I've only seen BBSE/PSC for ECO on the i4memory ramlist, but the 1333 kit is only listed with "Powerchip"...
This was the cheapest G.Skill ram on Ebay.com last night...1600 7-8-7 honestly would be okay. We will find out when it gets here.

@Splave,
I wasn't being serious, obviously

[Splave]

^ 10-4

[Don_Dan]

That's cool, I'll shrink my partition a bit and install Windows. There is absolutely nothing in the written HWBOT rules stating it is not allowed though.

I've only seen BBSE/PSC for ECO on the i4memory ramlist, but the 1333 kit is only listed with "Powerchip"...
This was the cheapest G.Skill ram on Ebay.com last night...1600 7-8-7 honestly would be okay. We will find out when it gets here.

I know, it has been discussed at a German forum yesterday, therefore I had that quote available.

The RAMlist is not complete, I try my best but lots of kits are still missing! Ron has been inactive for a while too, so many kits are missing from the list but they're listed in the submission thread. I'm looking forward to your test and I'll add the kit when you have some definite info on what ICs are used.

[trans am]

sorry to be a stranger everyone. I've been playing drums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78Ajm275Mg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-8Qz0VoPY

[BeepBeep2]

Nice stuff man!
Trying 2600K in my MIVE now, crossing fingers...

Doesn't look like ASUS did anything to my board and sent back the same one :/

[Don_Dan]

sorry to be a stranger everyone. I've been playing drums.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L78Ajm275Mg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dm-8Qz0VoPY

You're pretty good at playing the drums, now it's time to practise some overclocking again!

Nice stuff man!
Trying 2600K in my MIVE now, crossing fingers...

Doesn't look like ASUS did anything to my board and sent back the same one :/

Did it work?

[BeepBeep2]

Yep!

I've got really mediocre ram though :/

Freaked out the last 20 minutes. My young brother unplugged the power cord from my PSU while I was running 3D01, I figured "Okay, no issue, I'll just plug back in"

"00"
"00"
*2nd BIOS*
"00"
Mash reset "00"
"00"
...
...
...
"00"
"F**K!!!"

Then 1 minute ago it came back to life. Maybe I should stick to AMD >< I always seem to have the worst luck.

[Don_Dan]

This might help to prevent something like this in the future:

you > < your brother



I'm glad you were able to revive your board.

[BeepBeep2]

Eager to get benching more again. Since trans_am lent me his Tek9 Slim, I can finally get rolling with GPUs and put up some good scores. My goal right now though mainly is to bench 2D with the 2600K and maybe focus on 3DMark06, outside that is a little bit of a waste it seems.

Once I've done that, I'll move to Ivy and not worry about '06 because there will be minimal gain, but overall the other benches should scale with CPU.

I've got to shop around for a decent BD/PD CPU too for the global points...maybe some minor binning is in order.
Hopefully all that transition is done before Christmas, but I've got to get to work.

So much potential, I've got stockpiles of hardware XD Socket A, AM2, AM3 boards and room to grow there, plus 1155 and 3450, 4850, 4890, 5770s, 7540D...7100GS trans_am sent...

Will have 2 weeks soon where I can do nothing but bench.

[Don_Dan]

I doubt the low-end GPUs will gain lots of performance going from SB to IB, if I were you I'd bench them on SB while you're at it. Just focus on a piece for a longer time to avoid condensation issues from changing parts to often. Later on you can bench 48xx and 5770 on IB.

[BeepBeep2]

I don't think I'd gain anything from SB to Ivy on any of my cards for '06, the other benches will probably gain. No reason to do LN2 GPUs though and waste LN2 just for 06...I'd want to run 01/03/05/Aqua/3DV/11 too.

I had a decent session today feeling out the CPU again:
http://hwbot.org/submission/2334803_...in_50sec_125ms
http://hwbot.org/submission/2334804_...00k_6sec_437ms
http://hwbot.org/submission/2334805_...600k_12.77_sec
http://hwbot.org/submission/2334802_...0k_5759.36_mhz
http://hwbot.org/submission/2334812_...64.6_mpt_score

With no 3D driver, I was getting ~13.5 sec Pifast, so I wrote a batch file to start the batch file for hexus_pifast minimized...all the batch file does is run pifast41.exe with the settings in hexus.txt so no foul. Same goes for UCBench, gained a few points when it runs minimized.

wPrime 32M was pretty horrible, 4.5 seconds vs 4.2 competitive on HWBOT, I guess I gotta install Win 7 for that which will be done tomorrow...

[Don_Dan]

Not bad, BeepBeep2!


Please congratulate Aerou for becoming HWBot's official representative for the Czech Republic and Slovakia.

[BeepBeep2]

Missed 5.76 target by 0.4 MHz though.

Congrats to Aerou!

[BeepBeep2]

Noticed something peculiar today, HWBOT bug:
http://hwbot.org/submission/2314040_...70k_5sec_375ms
http://hwbot.org/submission/2324606_...70k_5sec_320ms

zen has global points for two different submissions...not sure if this happens to other people, I don't seem to have this issue.

[Don_Dan]

Nice find...

[ZenEffect]

thats because i double fist the ln2 like an alcoholic.

[BeepBeep2]

Well, finalizing some plans to mine bitcoins for a few months with ASIC hardware.
A friend is becoming an investor and we've got nothing much better to do so I'm going to be downsizing my hardware collection considerably for the next few months.

Looks like I'll be going on a Phenom II benching frenzy before christmas to get HW/global points on that hardware and closing up shop for a while. I forgot my 565 BE is worth some 3x wPrime Global points.

I'm going to keep my GPUs for Ivy projected in February.

Worst case scenario that I can think of, my friend and I break even in 60 days after the mining hardware arrives, $600 is not going to make or break my college fund and there are no part time job hirings in the area. Best case, we pay off the hardware in 10-20 days.

[Don_Dan]

I have no idea what you're talking about, but good luck for that!

[BeepBeep2]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bitcoin#Bitcoin_mining

Benching is a lot of fun but I get poorer every day

[Don_Dan]

Alright, so it's some kind of WCG/F@H for electronical money that you run on dedicated hardware... Right?!

I have a decent amount of cash bound in hardware as well, I try not to think about it though...
Most of it was bought used so resale value is close to what I paid for it anyway.