Bastiaan_NL

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...

So I totally forgot to post here that my fellow Dutchie @server075 became Numba Wan in the Rookie League! We had a bit of fun together and now he is hoarding used old hardware on the Dutch marketplace and looking for every bit of extra performance.. On a different note... After switching CPU's many many times it had to come to this eventually I guess. I dropped a CPU in the socket of the Z690 Dark K!ngp!n board. It was sticking to the TG contact frame and for some reason I didn't hold it down. It only dropped about 1cm, but at a slight angle and managed to bent 4 pins and break a piece of plastic which separates the pins. That plastic is somewhere below the pins, and I can't find it but I can see it missing with my magnifying glass. I did a little test after restoring the pins but it didn't work (kept boot looping. I assume the plasting is preventing the pins from bending into place once the CPU is mounted. I'm very sad and pissed, but I guess that's how things go. At least I had a reason to buy something fancy for now... It's not even easy to notice, I was hoping for the best... And now the new, very cool and good working board:

Hey @neurotix, you are doing a great job on the Bot! I'd like to hang out some time, do you have Discord? I've got some idea's to improve specific scores, which could mean a lot of extra points Besides that, I really enjoy seeing all those results pop up in my feed

ElmorLabs HOT300 Heater Large Backplate - ElmorLabs ELMORLABS.COM Note: HOT300-C Heater Controller is sold separately: https://www.elmorlabs.com/product/elmorlabs-hot300-heater-controller/ The new HOT300-B backplate uses more power (typically a bit above... Or an EVC2 on the mem and a nice bump in voltage to get a bit more than 1500mhz

Not funny Chris, not funny at all I mean, if we have to ship something to the Netherlands it might be worth it to add a few but darn it, 1700 pins is a lot in that socket. They are so close to eachother

Thanks for sharing! I think I checked for an update two days ago and it wasn't there, but glad you tested it so I'll wait Hopefully by the time I've got a nice kit of A-die we'll have a new bios version. Also, I had to play around with the 12300 and I couldn't get it to work on the 2.03 sadly. I still have the 1.14 bios saved and it did work on that one. I don't like the fact that BCLK overclocking doesn't work on the newer versions where the memory overclocking should be better, but despite the older bios version I was working with 7020mhz CL28-39-39-28 2T with a chip that doesn't allow a change of SA voltage. I think the CPU could clock higher if I could get it over 130bclk. Maybe one day with some ICE on the core and a bump in voltages all around, but I'm sort of careful with this AVX 12300. /img/logo.png Bastiaan_NL`s SuperPi - 32M score: 4min 36sec 120ms with a Core i3 12300 HWBOT.ORG The Core i3 12300 @ 5720MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the SuperPi - 32M benchmark. Bastiaan_NLranks #null worldwide and #2 in the hardware class. Find out more at HWBOT.

Oh man, that sucks...

I just couldn't get the memory clocks up higher, and I tried enough (lower core clock higher mem etc) but it was just acting up. Probably has lesser quality chips, idk. After that I decided to give it a voltmod, it is working but the boost algorithm is just a pain in the behinds to get it working properly. Under LN2 it might work properly, but with ambient cooling it is just all over the place. My card was for F@H, which it did good enough but it is a single 8 pin design (XC). I just feel like it's a bit behind in quality compared to your FTW3.

Ha, I feel you It takes a lot of time and some figuring out before one understands how that system works. Personally I think that the follwing numbers are the most relevant: 4 - 3 - 6 (but season points) - 1 - 7 4. Season ranking is what one works for with current hardware he owns, sort of shows the activity from that year. 3. Career ranking is a little less relevant, though it's a more long therm picture of what one has done. 6. Season points speaks for itself, the number means more to active users than outsiders though. 1. League is pretty important, if someone is fifth in the extreme league it's a way bigger acomplishment than being first in the enthusiast league. 7. And medals is kinda fun to show off with, though besides global medals it doesn't really matter that much to me.