2024 HWBot Team Cup!!

[Sir Beregond]

2 hours ago, neurotix said:

So. For the Kaby Lake i5 Cinebench competition, I bought some G.skill Flare X B-Die for the system. Hard fail. It is 3200 14-14-14 but in my wife's 5900x rig with the same kit it does 3733 and I even OCed it out of ratio to 4266 once.

 

With the Kaby Lake setup (see "mom's rig" in my signature), and some timings I found, it wouldn't do 3800 let alone 4000, which is what I was hoping for. Unfortunately the highest it clocks is 3333MHz 14-14-14-35.

 

The system will do 5GHz but with a Thermalright low profile blow-down cooler, it was hitting 90c+ and said it was throttling running Cinebench, but I didn't actually see the core clocks drop at all in hwinfo64.

 

I'll have to try 5ghz realtime priority and 4.8ghz as well and see which score is better, and then submit the better one.

 

Speaking of which, isn't the competition starting today???

Yep, started today.

 

Honestly more important to just have a submission then to have some super high score sub. Having one vs not having one matters way more.

[neurotix]

1 hour ago, looze said:

Comp has started, first subs in  

 

These newer Flare X sticks are pretty good, so seems like limited by CPU or more likely BIOS auto values. From my experience ASUS Z170/Z270 boards have pretty much non-POST auto values when >DDR4 3600 (at least compared to MSI).

Did you try adjusting VCCIO/VCCSA? The values from the guide you posted are pretty good, SA can go higher for tighter timings (only for benching!).

A starting point to boot something DDR4 >3600 on Sky/Kaby could be:

• ~1.15-1.25V IO and ~1.35-1.45V SA, that should be good for 3733-4000 even with relatively tight timings.
  • Too high IO is worse
  • Higher SA = tighter timings possible
• Manually set tCL to like 16 and tCWL(tWL) to tCL-2.
• Don't forget to loosen tCCD_L to 8 or sometimes need to set tRDWR_xx to the same value as tCL for a safe value to tighten later.

Good luck and happy TC!

 

Yep I did all this but didn't try with SA voltage that high. Tried with 1.23 SA and 1.22 VCCIO. Wouldn't post. I could try it to see if I can get the sticks to run higher, but tbh I got my sub in already and we need someone with an 11th gen i5 ideally to post much better score.

 

Also, Sir B, you are correct. Filling all the categories is what matters.

 

 

[looze]

8 hours ago, neurotix said:

 

Yep I did all this but didn't try with SA voltage that high. Tried with 1.23 SA and 1.22 VCCIO. Wouldn't post. I could try it to see if I can get the sticks to run higher, but tbh I got my sub in already and we need someone with an 11th gen i5 ideally to post much better score.

 

Also, Sir B, you are correct. Filling all the categories is what matters.

 

 

Hmm interesting that none worked.

Anyway yes, filling all required subs matters most.

[firedfly]

Do you want to contribute to this year's Team Cup but don't have much time or hardware?  GOOD NEWS!  You can contribute to this year's dogpile.  We need 200 (yes TWO HUNDRED) submissions for this!

 

As it has been mentioned above, having all subs for a category is better than high subs with some subs missing.  So, sub the Reference Frequency benchmark for every computer you have access to.  If you are able to boost the FSB/BCLK, great!  If it is stock, great!

 

For this bench, all you need is CPU-Z and the official competition background.  If anyone has questions on how to sub for the dogpile, let me know and I can try to add a step-by-step guide.
 

 

Get those subs in!

https://hwbot.org/competition/HWBOT Team CUP 2024 - Miscellaenous/stage/5833_dogpile_reference_frequency_-_no_limits

 

[neurotix]

Will have to do this on all three of my systems and two laptops then.

 

Edit: where's the spreadsheet tracking submissions made? Last year I think it was in the OP. I'm curious to see how many categories we have filled so far. Please post a link to it for me if possible.

Edited July 20 by neurotix

[looze]

GGs to all! We made 8th place, not too bad for a small team like ours!   Thanks all the contributors, was a fun competition!

 

Now it is time for me to move on to a new HWBOT team. Just found out that @Bastiaan_NL took the same step.

Thanks for everything and keep up the good and positive environment here at EHW!

 

All the best and many thanks, looze