hardware canucks HWBot team?

[Eldonko]

Also guys make sure you have the latest benches, older versions are no longer valid. get the latest CPUZ and GPUZ as well.

How do u post pics in your sig, I'm not allowed. :( "Can Upload Images for Signature: No"

[BALISTX]

I think that option has been disabled for normal members. Mods and Admins probably have that option.

[Ugly n Grey]

You can score high and get points just don't expect to knock Hipro down off the top of the charts today. Remember, scoring is based on averages, so anytime you do better than the average OCer you have something to score with. It's just that every guy who hits 4GHz on a C2D thinks it's a wild OC... but it's really not. HWBOT pretty much shows you where things stand. If your score falls well short of what other people are doing with an equivalent cooling method, then you have something to shoot for in improving your rig. Learning to bench and what makes a particular benchmark fly is half the challenge.

Example, I think the top A64 x2 Spi score for a 5000 BE is mid 25s.. Without a tweaked OS, I score low 26s. So how would I fix that? Easy, I load a stripped version of WIN2K and turn off the vast majority of the services just leaving it bootable basically. I crank up the MHz on my chip and allocate the Spi process to the core that I've already determined is least likely to crash at the higher frequency. I run Spi three times in a row capturing my validation each time. I knock 3/4 seconds off my Spi time, take 1st 2nd or 3rd in my weight class and score points. I score without the fastest chip or cooling just because I know how to make the bench sing a little (not like those Japanese teams though).

Using the same process for 3Dmark you might run it 500 times before you know what makes it work best. Just beat the averages and you and the team start to score. It's a sport :)

[SKYMTL]

Originally Posted by enaberif

I'm 700th and didn't get any points.

Its a very big guessing game. I know its all in good fun but hey I'd like some points to and I share the same thoughts as 3.0 ..

Well, the peope with that dry ice would be asking why you should deserve points for a lower score. It IS a huge pain in the butt but I will continue benching from time to time...MY issue is that many benches I want to run (Aquamark, 3DM01 and some others) HATE my Vista x64 OS.

[enaberif]

Originally Posted by SKYMTL

Well, the peope with that dry ice would be asking why you should deserve points for a lower score. It IS a huge pain in the butt but I will continue benching from time to time...MY issue is that many benches I want to run (Aquamark, 3DM01 and some others) HATE my Vista x64 OS.

I'm in the exact same boat.. Running XP 64 and a lot of the bench software simply does not run. I'm also only running on 2gb of ram in a 64bit OS not 4 due to a RMA :(

[vdf22]

I can't get 3DMark05 to run on Vista 32. The rest (2001+) work fine. It's kind of wierd.

[Wankerfx]

Man, I just looked into getting an aluminum GPU pot, and it's going to set me back $110.00

I'm going to go looking around to see if I can get one for $80.00.

[Ugly n Grey]

Look around the sell section on XS for a mousepot, I think there are a few there buried back in time that haven't been sold.

[Wankerfx]

Originally Posted by Ugly n Grey

Look around the sell section on XS for a mousepot, I think there are a few there buried back in time that haven't been sold.

Thanks!

[zlojack]

I joined... I'll need to get these different benching softwares.

[3.0charlie]

I've done all I could today, winning 10.3 pts using my laptop. Managed to snag a few awards too. But forget using my Quads - I don't have the exotic cooling, and the board vmods to raise their FSBs and play with the boys.

[BALISTX]

Personally I think they should have a separate section for extreme cooling.

[zlojack]

What do we have to do to get points?

[Eldonko]

Originally Posted by 3.0charlie

I've done all I could today, winning 10.3 pts using my laptop. Managed to snag a few awards too. But forget using my Quads - I don't have the exotic cooling, and the board vmods to raise their FSBs and play with the boys.

Laptop eh, nice! Maybe Ill dig mine out of the closet, its a P3 haha.

[SKYMTL]

Wow 3.0...you found a niche.

That is the trick if you are not into extreme overclocking. Find yourself a niche like 3.0 did with his laptop's E2300 processor and start belting out those points since there are so few other people benching that type of hardware.