Bastiaan_NL

I was just about to check it out, good thing @Avacado is at work so he can do all kinds of stuff for the forums

@server075 grabbed first place in the Novice league. He's been working hard the past few months collecting hardware, improving his overclocking skills and figuring out better cooling solutions for his hardware. We've been on stream together a lot, usually he has to listen to my rants about stuff that isn't working or cards I've blown up, but in the mean time he improved his results over and over again. Congrats Michael, now keep that gold until you move to the Enthusiast league!

That's a pretty cool and original design!

I never liked any of you guys, I just came here to copy @Avacado... Just kidding, you all

Both Jan and I also boosted the server to level 1 before, not sure if that can still be revoked.

Stealing my gold.... Great work though, the 29 threads tweak helped a lot!! Also, thanks for the Eso software. That'll make my life easy (combined with Appbuster and cleaning most garbage from the OS myself) Now most of us don't have a dedicated benchmark system/os (or multiple) so this is not for everyone, but I run my bench system without internet connection anyways and have about everything deleted/turned off. As for my main, let's say that @J7SC_Orion's taskmanager looks clean compared to this one

I've seen those @J7SC_Orion and enjoyed every second of it. Crazy result to finally beat that long standing FX8370 result and finally getting into the 9ghz range. Now those chips are crazy fun anyways, cause we are finally able to bench up to 6.5ghz on water cooling which is something I wouldn't believe if you told me a few months ago.

One of my favorites

My biggest fear is having some crackling fireworks on one of the expensive boards caused by a GPU, I'd hate to do the warranty claim on that one.. Sadly, cause I was hoping it would do some crazy things. And not this kind of crazy

There are always those guys that need to be a bit more crazy, that list proves it Also, are you looking for the new 7900XTX smoke edition? https://youtube.com/clip/Ugkxd0ciMkNOj76-kIcW-iOjz5CE5t513LgV

Nice work with the testing SirB! Make sure to compare the Graphics score and not the total score, as CPU's mess things up a lot (thanks for the free points ) As for shunt modding, I love that you are thinking about it but make sure to give it some time to sink in. Your card will be modded and lose value if you ever decide to sell it, unless someone really wants a modded card. There is risk, imo less than a voltmod but still.... Now on the other hand, a modded card will reel in some nice points if you can keep it cold enough

Nice work @Cerberus, congrats

This is something on the to do list for this year And on a more positive note:

Happy new year!

So you are telling me that all those other GPU's in storage shouldn't be in a system too? I mean, so much hardware not being used.. Such a shame I will not turn around and look at the storage rack behind me.... I don't know what you are rendering with that much power, but I bet it'll be a quick and easy task! What are we comparing here? The clock speed looks like a 2080Ti or something. The one on the right looks pretty clean, way less spikes compared to the left one. Also, what are you feeding that power supply? 12.5/6 volt is something I've never seen on any of my PSU's, and it seems to drop a lot under load

I love that crazy idea, good luck

Happy holidays everyone, thanks for all the fun we had together and to many more!

Looking good E! Thanks for all your work @A Zayed

More like: "I'll pay for the LN2" and I'll bring a pair of 3090's, a few voltmodded GPU's, a Z790 Apex, 13th gen and 12th gen CPU's and memory

Ok, I'll bring the LN2. @Avacado, book a ticket to Vancouver RN! (and everyone else who wants to join

Well, I don't have to go into detail about my opinion on the possibility to purposely bug a benchmark and get crazy scores. As far as the rules go, at this moment it's a mess they are trying to clean up afterwards. I know it's impossible to test every benchmark with all the hardware before putting the rankings online on the bot. So we are the test subjects, and we figure out what is wrong. Sadly that messes up the whole rankings on the bot, maybe it's an idea to put a new gen GPU in beta before actually counting the points towards someones account. So I don't like ECC, but we need something like that to clean up the score board and make it somewhat fair. I'm just watching from the sideline, waiting my turn to turn in a few runs with a 4090. For now I think it's just a waste of time, better use yours to play a game or use it for work instead of trying to beat a score of someone that loves flashing screens and magic beams everywhere I agree that there are other options, and the motivation behind bringing this subject up might not have been actual 'clean' benching but it has been a problem and needs to be solved. Uneven weights are not fair, and the way it hits the latest cards is just crazy. I did not expect to hear this from you A bios like that probably prefers the cold steamy matter, and there are enough pots for sale.... Just saying J, just saying....

The showoffsheet Remind me when I'm on stream tomorrow, will try to take care of it

You never waste time benching I've spent so many hours overclocking, benchmarking and especially looking at other submissions for information.. There is so much to learn from the settings others have used, and then there are people out there who lend you a hand from time to time which is encouraging and saves you a lot of time. So yes, it counts the top 10/15/30 from the submissions I mentioned above. Once you figure out how it works you can do specific benchmarks because you know how the hardware will perform. So a stock GTX470 delidded with a universal waterblock gave me 46 hardware points in 3dmark 2001SE with a highly overclocked 13900k. I knew it would perform somewhere in that range, and that's the only benchmark I did for now. Once I figure out how the voltage controller works I'll add a few pot meters and (probably blow it up) run some benchmarks that put a higher load on the GPU. A year ago I would have ran every GPU benchmark out there, uploaded it all, figured out I had to run specific CPU overclocks for different benchmarks and 'waste' a lot of time doing that. I really enjoyed that learning curve, but sometimes it was frustrating because I had no idea what I was doing wrong. /img/logo.png Bastiaan_NL`s 3DMark2001 SE score: 174217 marks with a GeForce GTX 470 HWBOT.ORG The GeForce GTX 470 @ 901/2026MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the 3DMark2001 SE benchmark. Bastiaan_NLranks #null worldwide and #3 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT. This man knows what he's talking about, older hardware is way more fun and rewarding (literally and figuratively). If you combine the power of a new CPU with an old GPU it'll (usually) crush most of the older runs, pretty easy for harvesting points A 4090 will get you a lot of global points, but be careful when you submit them. I would personally wait until next year, use those points to get on top early and fight your way to the number 1 position

Quick answer for this question: the bot only counts 10 competition submissions, 15 global submissions and 30 hardware submissions for the season. You have 956.9 points for this season which seems correct looking at your stats. As for the career points, the bot counts 30 global submissions and 60 hardware submissions, that's why you have 1639 career points. Take a look at the points tab on your profile and open every tab there for more info.

Sometimes Chris turns off the light in the dungeon but forgets he's on stream. All I see is some shadows, but I'm pretty sure he's moving towards the crawl space. I don't want to know what's happening after that, but the screams are frightening...