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Hey, I just joined.

OCM and i were talking over at OCN around the time of SB launch, and he suggested i check out this site. Finally got arround to it.

So yea.

I like overclocking.

I have a F1 gemini, and no GPU pots at the moment. My favorite thing to bench in Phenom II because of how epicly they scale in the cold. Intel is fun too.

Stuff that i currently own that i am benching:
-i7 860+P55-gd80
-Phenom 955+TA890FXE (i also did a few runs on the athlon)

My best OC is 5.578GHz on an i5 650 using dry ice. link

My favorite benchmarks are 01 and superpi. Wprime is fun too.

My HWbot is in my sig. Not very good yet, but i am working on it.

My everyday rig consists of:
-Athlon II 240 (planning on getting a 955)
-2GB OCZ ddr2
-Foxconn destroyer
-GTX 590 (still in the mail) currently a 6870
-TX750 psu



And i live in california. That's about it.

:welcome:

also you need to install xp for 2D and especially 01 ;)

Ya gotta start somewhere. We all had low boints at one time. Welcome to the forums.

Is XP really that much better for SPi?

I know for wprime it is, but it seems about the same for spi on w7.

yea, i am still new at this, still learning a lot of stuff. (just did my first run in December)

Welcome to the forum
Some nice results considering you've only been at it for couple of months
Loads of knowledge here, anything you want to know, ask and I bet atleast 1 person will have the answer straight away :)

YES.
BTW, welcome to OCA. Great bunch here. You'll be in good hands.:)

:welcome: to the dark side 99 :)

xp for spi 4 sure homie :good:

I'll have to try that then some time...

In the summer i will probably get to bench more. Right now with school and everything, i am pretty busy.

Welcome buddy! :good:

:welcome:
love your profile pix btw BT4 FTW!

Hey reflex, nice to finally see you chime in! Welcome to our domain. :thumbsup:

yes but also in 01 its a must your score should be alot higher i get 90k+ with 5.4ghz on my stock clock 9800gt

lol, i didn't even know where it came from. Some guy on OCN told me to wear it one day, so i did, and it kinda stuck.

yep. Finally got arroud to it.

heellllooo :)

:welcome: mate very nice oc i5 650 :)

Also install winxp for better benches :)

Yea, i think for the my first time ever doing subzero, i did pretty good on that one.

Sold the chip though, so i won't get a chance to try again....

that sux man this is why i don't ever sale any of my stuff ever lol

i needed money for more better stuff :p

Future HWmaster FTW!

lets hope so :thumbsup:

really tho.. i have a lotta of hardware but just DON'T have the time to bench it, and now i just quite my job i should have more time for schooling and benching and for my ladies too i am EXCITED!!

WPrime is definitely not better on XP. ;) Welcome aboard.

All my wprime/spi runs are on xp. :)

xp here too

Yes wprime gives me better results on xp than 7x64 but i havent test it on vista yet

Well, I get several minutes faster times in (edited)1024m and up to ~ a minute faster in (edited)32m using Tiny7x32....at least on socket 939.

Never tested with a more modern socket. I just ran it in 7 on my 920 too.

EDIT: now I will have to go home and run some WPrime on the 920 with xp and 7..............it seems kinda strange/illogical that more modern hardware would give better results using an older OS when older hardware gives better results using a newer OS.

I tested it on the 920 with everything set to defaults and OS in normal mode. TinyXPx32 wins by quite a bit over Tiny7x32on this platform. Avg of ~.4 sec in 32m, and ~8 sec in 1024m.

Must be an anomoly of the socket 939 architecture. Sure am glad I figured that out. ;)

Of course it couldn't be that you're doing something wrong.:D
XP is faster on the 939's also.

I beg to differ. :D See below examples.
And check out the other 6 golds I have in wprime if you need more proof.:taunt:

EDIT: Believe me I ran them all in XP first and was 4-5 seconds slower.

http://hwbot.org/rankings/benchmark/...TypeId=CPU_711

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/...=cpubenchmarks

http://hwbot.org/rankings/benchmark/...TypeId=CPU_712

http://hwbot.org/hardware/processor/...=cpubenchmarks

xp is still faster :D :taunt:

It is on my 920, but it isn't on any of the 17 socket 939 chips I've benched.
I was in anywhere from like 5th to 9th place in those benches until I switched to Tiny7 and took the golds by an average of A LOT.:D

Noice!

gold cups are fun stuff.

I had one...for about a month.


(of course i was the only submission in that catergory, but it is the effort that counts right?)

indeed gold cups are fun, i was hunting for them for a month lol.

Now when my girl has work, then i'm going to hunt for global points ;)

You must choose your battles carefully. :deadhorse:
Actually I just got lucky and was already into socket 939 pretty heavily when I started benching. Not too many people becnhing 939s these days so I may keep some gold medals awhile. :cool3:

Hahahaha........right. You would think that's how it should work. The hardware masters seem to go in cycles on what platform they will bench. 939 is coming soon. They're working 462's right now.

Good thing I'm keeping my cpus, and already have plans to pour LN2 on each of them for good measure. :)

I say best of luck to the hardware masters or whoever tries to beat my scores. ;)

welcome