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Originally Posted by Massman (Post 157685)

That's the understatement of the year. Even in SPI-32M it seems terribly slow.

BD vs. single threaded apps = lose

I must admit i do like the contests that have prizes for the top scores, but throw in a few random draws. Doesn't matter how far you can push with ambient cooling, once the LN2/Dry Ice/cascade guys get involved, there is no chance. Won't stop me from trying, but who doesn't like to feel like they have a chance at winning something (mousepad? mouse?T-shirt?).

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Originally Posted by Mr.Scott (Post 157689)

BD vs. single threaded apps = lose

Yeah, but even on wPrime isn't much better than Thuban

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Originally Posted by kirbster (Post 157695)

The satisfaction of do something?

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Originally Posted by kirbster (Post 157695)

Heh. Nothing stops you from giving the prize you might win to a lucky draw :).

If I manage to get some of the top 3 places (very very unlikely, imo), I would give my prize to a lucky draw between air/water guys. I don't even have AM3+ motherboard myself, but it doesn't matter :D.
Now, let's see some serious air/water results!

PS: Uh, maybe it should be given to the best air/water guy overall, otherwise I don't encourage pushing hard, but only participating, lol.
So, let it be "the top air/water guy (not in top 3) gets it" :)

Oh, really?! That's awesome!! :D

I give you the responsibility to decide whether it's a lucky draw or the highest ranked air/water overclocker out of the top-3 :p. The latter is better, imo.

All I want to see from the competition is some records broken. Hopefully someone will achive this. It won't be me, I don't have records-capable chips.

Cool! Lucky draw is fine for me. Kinda avoids having to deal with verifying what cooling method was used :p

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Originally Posted by Massman (Post 157685)

That's the understatement of the year. Even in SPI-32M it seems terribly slow.

Yup, Bulldozer is just slow in these benchmarks. Heard good things about it for Battlefield3 which is well threaded, but in these benches it blows. If you look at my past submissions with the FX-8120, they are better scores... My best SP32M on Bulldozer was 10M 53S @ 7.74GHz. I was also using stronger RAM and CPU-NB for BD, but it only beat my best PhenomII SP32M by 2 seconds.

There aren't many people that have a BD chip capable of running the clocks I'm pulling, and its just barely competitive... Thuban is the chip to have in this competition.

I'll be making more submissions yet. The pifast score will be improved without much trouble, and I have to fix the PCMark run since I forgot to use the official background. The SP32M run could be better, but I probably won't mess with it... wPrime32M is as good as I can do.

The PCMark05 and wprime32m scores are the highest 8 core AMD scores submitted to hwbot so far though.