XS HWBot Team

[Don_Dan]

Im hardly embarrassed bro, sorry if you took offense to something. just the spirit of competition I guess.

It's not your fault.

Tried none of this with LOD adjustments. I wasn't aware they made any significant difference. Could anyone pass any hints on this, and how to run the tests in particular orders? I noticed some are using different LOD setting for each one which just adds to my mild confusion!

Thanks for the info boss! Trust me, I've been working on the other 3dmarks, but they're proving to be right little buggers to catch!

After some bios modding with the memory timings, I've managed to get ram clocks up to 590MHz, which allowed me to beat the top 3dM'03 score by enough, and I've even added amost another 2K points to my '01 score! (catch me if you can )
All this is without the rom strap mod, so I could even get a thousand or so more! I guess making bigger gaps between 1st & 2nd in the category doesn't count for any lot more points does it?
What's more - I've just found out I could plonk an E7500 in my lappy, and probably get a significant increase there too!

I didn't find the time to ask Wizzard yet, sorry.

LOD will make a lot of difference in 01, also in 03, but 05 and 06 are rather CPU bound. Tweaking your running order could be helpful if you were fighting for the top spot, but since you're already 1st I wouldn't spend too much time on finding a good working order. Send me a PM if you're interested in this, I could give you a basic running order and some LOD values to test.
Getting bigger gaps between 1st and 2nd doesn't do anything for points btw.

I sussed out the memory tweaks which finally got me into 1st place with ease on every chart except vantage - just realised it requires vista, so will get around to putting w7 on my lappy in good time. Need to back up stuff first. Only worthy of a ~17 points, but they all count I guess

I'm thinking of upgrading to a 9600m now, just gotta find me a cheap one. If I do, then that'll be another nifty little mission, particularly if I get my hand on this E7500

Congrats on taking all the category's top spots in the meanwhile!
Everything counts of course, we need to catch i4 again. Everytime I thought we passed them and had gotten some points between us and them in the past week, they submit some more results and then they are ahead of us again. I wonder who will be at 12k first...

While I perfectly agree that 4 ghz is totally possible, cooled by megahalem w noctua in push/pull, the fact is that I have many memory instability issues. Can't get the corsair dominator 1600mhz to run at 1600 mhz 8-8-8 24 without having failboots 9 times out of ten! Also, I don't get what you mean by all 3dmarks. I know I should run 3dmark06 too, but I didn't have time to install it and run it. Will definately be done soon, today or tommorow.

I meant you should run 3dmark 05 and 06 as well on your setup, since you didn't post any results of your rig by now.
Post about what problems you're having and some of your settings and I think we should be able to fix you up!

What's up with this new team with members merging from other big teams? Looks like some copy of team pure...

Yesterday they had almost 11k and were called "Overclocking Alliance". Today it's 7k and "Overclockaholics"... I wouldn't bother. We are The Team

I wonder what they were aiming for too, they were a merger of Overclockaholics and NBOC members.

I agree with you: We are The Team!

Finally got an i7 (a new w3540 on the UD7) over 5ghz.... Getting all the scores I can!
Go team XS!

Very nice achievement! What did the trick in the end?

Just lost our PCMark05 2x Gold Cup to a Clarkdale... Have to bench the E8600 and E8700 to get the top again.

I will have a p55 soon to hit those 2d big numbers too.

You're getting addicted, aren't you?!
I'm really looking forward to your results! Keep pushing it!


Yesterday and the day before yesterday many nice scores were posted, which I don't want to let pass unnoticed.
Here's an update for the 25th and 26th: