Techpowerup! Hwbot Club

[buildzoid]

couldn't you get another soldering iron?
also we dropped a place in the teams league, seems another team wanted to jump into top40.
as of now we are no.40
once the comps over, benching season it will be!

Yeah except now my shopping list is getting kinda silly with how big it's getting:
2 Epower boards << one is not enough to feed what is essentially a pair of GTX 580s
an R9 290(X) << sold my 7970 to a friend to get enough to buy one
1 80W soldering iron << my current one is only 50W which is below what all zombie guides recommend as a minimum and didn't even get close to melting the solder used on the GTX 590
a dremel << for modding purposes
some extra HDDs << everyone I know has an apple laptop and none of them are dead so I don't have a good source of SATA HDDs and I already used up all my partitions on my current HDD
a proper screw driver set << so I can take the VRAM and VRM heatsink off of the GTX 590 (stupid torx screws)
And that's just stuff I really really want or need the full list is a lot longer

As for us being at no. 40. I'll see if my 3960X feels like doing a 5.25Ghz Cinebench run on my clean OS and if I get Unigine to not lag at the start of the benchmark and the 3Dmarks working I'll get some GTX 590 benchmarks up over this weekend but my friend is building his first PC and I'm helping and indoctrinating him to bench for us so I'm kinda short on time.

BTW I ordered a der8auer LN2 pot like a month ago but DHL hands it over to the Czech postal service which is incapable of finding my house and delivering it.
BTW2 I found a nice indepth explanation of how DC>>DC VRMs work for download here for any one interested.

 

[d1nky]

Nice, youre an asset to the team! cant wait to see some benches! although thats a big shopping list, the majority of it will last a lifetime!


im hoping to get a group of active extreme overclockers, which can access LN2/dice and various amounts of hardware.

about 5-7 members submitting subzero. i have an idea of who..

 

[buildzoid]

Nice, youre an asset to the team! cant wait to see some benches! although thats a big shopping list, the majority of it will last a lifetime!
im hoping to get a group of active extreme overclockers, which can access LN2/dice and various amounts of hardware.
about 5-7 members submitting subzero. i have an idea of who..

There's a Linde Gas 30-40 min from my place but I don't have a good source of hardware that I'd be willing to risk beyond cheap AMD cpus(up to the FX-8350/A10s) and even then I can't bin them. I'll see if I can get some kind of sponsor(there's are really nice small e-tailer for more extreme hardware/cooling so I might ask them) or something(reselling everything?) so I don't pay the full prices on hardware but I really doubt it.

 

[buildzoid]

Yo were back at 39th because I benched our school laptop.

BTW my LN2 pot finally came. A Phenom II X4 and an A10 6800k are gonna have really bad days sometime soon

 

[FireKillerGR]

Yo were back at 39th because I benched our school laptop

Posts like this make me smile

 

[Random Murderer]

Yo were back at 39th because I benched our school laptop.

BTW my LN2 pot finally came. A Phenom II X4 and an A10 6800k are gonna have really bad days sometime soon

Bwahaha, I can only imagine how that must've looked to anybody who may have seen you doing that. Thanks, btw.
As far as the pot goes, I DEMAND PICTURES! That and benchies when you get around to it, lol.

 

[buildzoid]

Christmas holiday is in 1.5 weeks so I'll bench then.

 

[d1nky]

i hope a few of us shall be benching over the holidays, this cold weather happens once a year. people get their best scores with a few beers and -5*c ambients lol


maybe we'll do a lil inhouse competition on this thread

 

[buildzoid]

-5C° where do you live because here in winter it can get as low as -20 at night and I have a conveniently located power source and free standing roof(in case of snow). I already added anti freeze to my loop so it should be fine down to around -10C° ambient. Hope to become the king of Cinebench x6 R11.5 on H2O.
Unfortunately my plan to buy an R9 290X has been thwarted by the Xmas season so I'm looking at the 780 Lightning as a card that may change my NO KEPLER GPU policy. If I don't like it I'll just use my retailer's return within 2 months service and get an R9 290X when they are available again.
BTW what cooling are we using if the ambient temperature is well below 0 because I some how doubt that it would still classify as air/water cooling.

 

[d1nky]

LOL to me that sounded like, im buying a crappy kepler gpu benching it to death and returning it

i live in the UK its been pretty mild lately around 5-10*c but im expecting lows of -5*c hopefully.

 

[Random Murderer]

i hope a few of us shall be benching over the holidays, this cold weather happens once a year. people get their best scores with a few beers and -5*c ambients lol


maybe we'll do a lil inhouse competition on this thread

I'm down. The only things I have to do over holiday break, aside from family obligations, is dropping the engine in my track car for a test fit and then pulling it out again , so I should have plenty of time to bench. Here's hoping we get some cold weather over the break, last night it was 16c

BTW what cooling are we using if the ambient temperature is well below 0 because I some how doubt that it would still classify as air/water cooling.

You're still not going sub-ambient, so it still classifies as air or water.

LOL to me that sounded like, im buying a crappy kepler gpu benching it to death and returning it

Ha, I read it the same way!

 

[buildzoid]

LOL to me that sounded like, im buying a crappy kepler gpu benching it to death and returning it

It's not like I'm gonna blow it up (They won't accept it if I do), though to be honest it's not very likely that I'll keep it, since I hate Nvidia's boost algorithm with a passion from the day I tried to OC my friends GTX 670 DCUII.

 

[d1nky]

Hey guys, theres been an update to the prizes.

check the competition thread to know more.

 

[vega22]

might want to update the hwbot page too?

 

[d1nky]

sorted!

WE ARE NOW RANKED 35th IN TEAMS!

when we started this we was around 135th, hopefully some of the new guys shall stay and help us get into top20!

 

[$ingh]

^^ Joined yesterday and i will stay with Techpower Up till end ... Time to submit some scores in Competition ...

 

[adiath]

hi, i'm adiath, newbie overclocker from Indonesia.
I join Technopowerup OC team and also TPU HWBOT competition, i wish i can got some luck and great score. i hope can get some experience and more knowledge by joining this team.

 

[buildzoid]

To of you new guys please fill out your system specs in your profile so that people know what you have when you ask for help.

BTW I found a cool link explaining the differences between RAM ICs and what sticks you can find them in here

 

[d1nky]

^^ Joined yesterday and i will stay with Techpower Up till end ... Time to submit some scores in Competition ...

welcome to the team! its great to see new members! any questions about anything then this is the place to be!

hi, i'm adiath, newbie overclocker from Indonesia.
I join Technopowerup OC team and also TPU HWBOT competition, i wish i can got some luck and great score. i hope can get some experience and more knowledge by joining this team.

I started as a total noob not long ago, theres loads of people here to help transform you from noob to good!

welcome, and don't be afraid to ask questions!

 

[d1nky]

**Up and coming plans** - I'm looking for a group of active benchers that have the resources/time for extreme overclocking. I plan to have around 5 members for a group of extreme overclocking. PM/post if interested!




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[policha]

5min59s563，HAHAHA

 

[policha]

HEY HEY

 

[policha]

3DMARK01，HEYHEY

 

[policha]

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA

 

[buildzoid]

WOW nice scores policha hope you stay with us.

BTW Yesterday I got a pair of 4GB Crucial Ballistix Elite sticks and I must say I'm impressed they do 2000 8-9-8-24 on 1.65V so I decide to see if I can get a Super Pi 1M score below 7.473s at 5Ghz and after about 30 minutes I got annoyed and went to play with Cinbench which I know better than Super Pi. After some time I did not manage to break my current record as I couldn't get above 5.25Ghz before I went to sleep and ended at 15.30 but I found some software optimizations for win7 you can do to get higher Cinebech R11.5 score. First of these is to get to the point where you only have 34 or fewer processes running using less than 1GB of RAM the gain from this depends on how clean your install is. The next thing is to set Cinebench priority to high which gets you about 0.10 points more, and now the crazy one: SET THE AFFINTY OF EVERY PROCESS OTHER THAN CINEBENCH TO THE LAST HYPER THREAD(CORE 11 ON AN INTEL HEXA CORE AND CORE 7 ON AN INTEL QUAD CORE). This will give you about 0.07 points more than just running cinbench normally. All these optimizations will net you about 0.20 points more than just running Cinebench normally you have to run Cinebench 2 times after you apply one of these optimizations to get them to show.