neurotix

Yes, I have a ROG board so that's what it's called on ASUS. It will be called something else most likely on every single vendor's boards. They really need to standardize this stuff so it's the same across all boards.

It'll boot slow and take like 2-3 minutes the first time it trains the memory, after that if you have a setting under DRAM Timings called Memory Context Restore enabled, it'll boot in a few seconds. People advise turning that setting off, especially for high (8000+) overclocks, but I leave it on on mine. Hope this helps.

I just got (well, a year ago or so) a Crucial T700 1TB PCI-E 5 NVMe/M.2 drive. I require Linux as my main OS, and only use Windows for benching and gaming. So I gave Linux 200GB and the rest to Win11 (it ended up being 765GB or something). I have Forza Horizon 4 and 5 installed on the thing and only have like 300GB free. These space requirements are concerning. I remember back in Dec. 2014 when it launched I had Dragon Age Inquisition day 1 and it absolutely requires a SSD (SATA at the time) or zoning and loading maps took like 3 minutes. So this really is nothing new.

So thanks to my wonderful fiance, Ai Crystal now has 4x brand new Phanteks light strips and 7x new anidees AI-AUREOLA v2 fans. Meaning I can run solid white that actually looks white. Check it out:

If you read my post all the way, you'll see it was bottlenecking 2x 290s in Unigine Valley (and most other benchmarks and games). A single one did like 60fps, two did 95 fps which is pretty bad scaling. This was remedied by upgrading to a 4790k. More info in the post I made earlier.

I had an FX-8350 gaming and benching stable at 5GHz. It was also lapped. It ended up going to damric, then pio, then back to damric (I think.) Good memories too, the thing was fun to overclock especially with 2400MHz RAM and a HT and CPU/NB OC. Unfortunately, I moved on because it severely bottlenecked two 290s in Crossfire: Valley 1080p FX-8350 5GHZ with two 290s: 95 fps Valley 1080p i7-4770k at stock: 110 fps Valley 1080p i7-4770k at 4.5GHz: 135 fps Yeah they were good chips and fun to OC, but I don't really think they were ahead of their time.

Not all that concerned about voltages because it is heat that fries chips, not volts. I have a really good cooler for my test bench, an EK Nucleus 360mm AIO competitive with custom water. Benching on this platform, the 3970x and 4930k warmed it up a lot and I was using 1.465v to get them both doing 4.9GHz. Regarding BCLK strap, I have set it to 125 and down clocked the memory since you have to, and never once have I got a system to post using it. Regarding the locked Xeons, like the 2697v2 stuck at a 27 ratio, I was able to use 113.5 BCLK + the program "ThrottleStop" to get it's turbo to actually work, I was seeing speeds of up to 3.9GHz in my benchmark suite, and got a few gold cups. So I found a workaround anyway. Also these chips are not for long term use, Kaz. They get benched once then sold. I doubt I'm doing any real long term damage to them. Thanks guys. Consider this thread answered. /img/logo.png neurotix`s 34749 points score: Geekbench3 - Multi Core with aXeon E5 2697 v2 HWBOT.ORG The Xeon E5 2697 v2 @ 3859.1MHzscores getScoreFormatted in the...

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.