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Thanks for the advice, but I am not talking about overclocking using regular BCLK, I am talking about overclocking locked CPUs using BCLK straps. There's a few to choose from but the only viable ones are 125 strap and 167 strap (heard its more or less impossible to use 167). BCLK straps ONLY affect your CPU and RAM, not the PCI-E bus or DMI. It's kind of like ECLK asynchronous for Zen 4/5. The problem is, I have a known good 3970x that does 4900MHz that I tested a 125 strap with. RAM is DDR3, G.skill Sniper 1866. So I tried BCLK strap of 125 on it and changed the memory down to something close to 1866, but it failed to POST. To make it perfectly clear, the E5-2697v2 I am getting has a locked ratio of 27. So normally it'd be 100x27 for 2.7GHz. With BCLK strap, it would be 27x125..3375MHz. Without affecting the Northbridge, PCI, DMI, SATA etc Just need advice as other than direct BCLK overclocking (that will never do 125), this seems like the best way to OC these locked Xeons I'm getting. Thanks for anything.

Hi guys, I have a Rampage IV Formula for benching Sandy Bridge-E and Ivy Bridge-E processors for HWBOT. I was wondering on any advice for voltages or settings to help overclock some ratio locked Xeons I'm getting, the 2690v2 and 2697v2. Just need general info, I will be trying the 125MHz strap first and need to know what voltages I might need to adjust such as: CPU PLL CPU VTT CPU VTT 2 VCCSA VCORE To inform you guys on what I am working with, the 2690v2 is 10 core at 3.0GHz stock and the 2697v2 is 12 core at 2.7GHz stock. Thanks in advance.

Those boots look really nice. Jealous.

On this topic, yeah I had a FX-8350 and switched to a 4790k precisely because the FX-8350, even at 5GHz, was bottlenecking the two R9 290s I had. One card was fine, but with two: Unigine Valley 1080p: FX-8350 @ 5GHZ with two 290s - 95 fps 4790k stock with 290s at same clocks - 110 fps 4790k overclocked to 4.5GHz and memory tuned - 135 fps Pretty huge difference. Not sure why I remember it. Some people will disagree on it, and it might only be synthetics, but I think the FX 100% bottlenecked those two cards.

This is fantastic Flux, good job! Way beyond my skills. However I wanted to mention briefly that back in 2012 I had a FX-8350 @ 5ghz on a Corsair H100i as well as a Sapphire Vapor X 7970. Eventually I also had two R9 290 Tri-X as well. So this is pretty nostalgic for me. I love the team red build. Nice work

This 150%. Comcast is effing terrible.

It'd be good if it were symmetrical. We pay Xfinity $89 for 300 megs down. Thankfully, Metronet is building in our area so we can dump Comcast (which has a monopoly here) and get fiber, no idea if it will be symmetrical or not though.

Whenever you require my assistance with the store and giving you the graphics, or if you need new graphics made, I am just a PM away. Though I suppose you could also ask Jan on Discord and he'd come up with something better

Congratulations to the both of you. Best of luck continuing the site. I was also an interested party. Hope you guys can figure out a way to make the site profitable, even if that means moving to a new forum engine/host and losing features in the process. I'm not speaking for everyone here but if that happens, I think what people really want to have is: 1. Reactions and a rep system 2. Postbits 3. Rig builder. Just something to keep in mind. Also, I dealt with forum engines on the front and back end in the late 00s with Vbulletin and phpbb. If you need any help, I am here. I also know html and css. Additionally, if you require any graphics made I am happy to help. Enterprise wiped out the Etsy store but the Etsy store was just a frontend for products made through printify and printly. If you make a new one, I still have the original graphics used for the folding t shirt as well as the images that went on the mug. @UltraMega used assets I gave him to come up with a mug and coasters, I think he may still have those designs, should you guys eventually want a store again. Finally, Thank you both from the bottom of my heart for saving EHW.

Yep this is pretty much it and I am getting settled in to TPU quite well. Bastiaan, tomekmak and Alex and possibly a few others have found other local benchers to have meets IRL with and have their own team (I think) now. Keep in mind not just about HWBOT and benching but also folding@home- damric has left for good so he won't be around to organize foldathons given he was the folding team lead. I don't know if firedfly will step up and do them instead or not. So that's something else to consider. Don't get me wrong, I will keep posting as long as the site is up and TPU has a Discord but it's small and I don't really know anyone there. I *will* keep using the EHW Discord til the end of time as long as it stays up, as all of my friends from here are there and I love that Discord.

Regardless, we have also lost Bastiaan and tomekmak and a few other serious people from the Netherlands. It would be very hard to make our team as competitive as it was, especially with them gone and damric and I gone.

Don't get me wrong. If EHW stays up, at that point I might consider coming back to the folding and hwbot teams. Case in point though: compare the HWBOT team wall for EHW to the team wall for TechPowerUp!. EHW has like four submissions since November, TechPowerUp has many more than that, but I digress that it's probably because of the competition damric is running over there. Anyways, I would not be opposed to coming back if the site stays up.

The HWBOT team already moved to TPU as well. And Bastiaan was the main bencher/coordinator here which allowed us to get 8th place in the Team Cup last year and 3rd the year before. He took quite a few highly ranked people with him too. I'm basically all in on the TPU folding team and HWBOT team, damric is a co captain of the HWBOT team there and already running a competition. If this site stays up I'll check it occasionally but for certain other people they have made their final posts and are not looking back.

You also need to go to the old Control Panel, Power Options, Change Advanced Power settings, and disable Hiberboot. Then you can also use some powershell or cmd command to disable/delete the hidden Hiberboot.sys file in the root of your Windows partition that might be taking up Gigabytes of space, freeing it up for use. Do take note that I have done a couple of other tutorials showing how to strip down Windows to make it faster, you can see those here: Also, thank you CoolGTX, I am glad you found my dual boot tutorial useful, that is the old school proper way to set up a Dual Boot Windows/Linux system.

What the hell happened to the stats?

I am bigred I agree, this site and community are great and the foldathons were something I looked forward to every month. I brought it up at TPU but it doesn't seem like they are interested in doing it. This site will be sorely missed but thankfully will continue on on Discord, I highly suggest you join if you use it.

V8 client installed. Love that I can see the log for both systems, and especially with my main system in Linux without having to type sudo xed /etc/fahclient/log.txt Will hopefully be able to change teams for the foldathon and then change it back to TPU afterwards.

Will try getting the v8 client on both rigs and change teams back remotely after the foldathon, as suggested. Just been so busy benching lately, and I gotta travel to California for a week on Sunday and meet bridgypoos extended family.

Unfortunately, I have to sit this last one out because of travel, and having joined the Techpowerup folding team. I can change my team number back to EHW, I just won't be here for a week to change it back.

In bigred

Thanks man, making a note of this because of the site probably going down.

Well 1. My normal preferred genre is RPG, both JRPG, WRPG and ARPG. However I have gotten sick of them, so I'm looking for a change of pace. 2. The first PC I had was gifted to me for my birthday by my Uncle Pete (r.i.p.), it was a Pentium 75MHz and I played Doom, Doom 2 and Duke 3D on it but always with god mode on. I am familiar with and have played Blood and a few other retro shooters. 3. I am looking to get better, I don't really do squad based shooters like COD or Battlefield. However, as I mentioned, I like BF4 single player campaign (on easy ofc -_-) I have another one that's kinda old but was popular when it first came out and now has a PC version, and it's called Vanquish. Ultra, mostly I am looking to get entertained in a different way.

Yeah I have the Metro games. Thanks for the warning about the original Stalker. I have Borderlands 1 and 2 for my 360 and two controllers and you can do split screen, but it would probably be better on PC over LAN play. How is BL3? Which is the best one to start with? I did play BL2 up to the point that you got a vehicle of some kind, then got bored and quit. I *love* top down Diablo style games and played through Torchlight 2 and Grim Dawn over LAN with @bridgypoo, doing BL with her might be great but last month we spent a weekend playing UT3 deathmatch and writing down the maps we like before I try to teach her Onslaught mode. I told a white lie, I am actually at least competent at Unreal Tournament and Q3A and love them both. I also have Fallout 4 for PC and Fallout 3 for 360. Anyway, thanks for the advice/recommendations...offer up anything else if you guys think of anything. Thanks.

Hey, can you please help me out? I'm only seeing 50% usage in 3dmark11, only for Graphics test 1, I am getting 330-340fps because of it, where in this submission I made before I reinstalled Windows my fps in GT1 was 570. https://hwbot.org/submission/5690583 This problem is the difference between a 66k score and a 72k+ score. Things I have tried: Safe mode, DDU, reinstall drivers once out of safe mode. Reinstalling 3dmark11. The odd thing here us that in a few cursory tests, my score was basically the same in Fire strike Extreme and a few others, seeing normal scores. It is seemingly only GT1 of 3dmark11. This is driving me nuts because I want to raise my eclk overclock and GPU overclock as well as use some tweaks to try to chase a 75k score, but I can't. Any suggestions and help appreciated. Thanks in advance.

@UltraMega Should I get the original Stalker game? Everyone I have heard of talking about it says it's amazing and they replay it. I'm terrible at FPS games, but I've been playing a little bit of Wolfenstein New Order. I'm still really only at the beginning, but I intend to play that and Old Blood and Wolfenstein II New Collosus. I have Doom as well. May pick up Doom Eternal also but not big on needing a Bethesda account. I'm playing Wolf New Order with god mode enabled because of my suckage I can also remember starting single player campaigns more than once in Battlefield 4, and I thought it was pretty great but stopped playing around the Chinese city tower raid part. Not sure why. I tried Battlefield 3 and at the beginning couldn't figure out the key combo to prone when there was a sniper and I was on a roof. Kept getting shot in the head and gave up Anyway I want to play more FPS and at least get decent at them, then see if I can learn to do dual analog movement and aiming which I'm even more terrible at so I can play some PS4 games I missed out on on my PS5, like Uncharted 4. Game recommendations welcome.