Old School is Best School Round 2

Old School is Best School is a team competition series for the overclockers who enjoy tuning ancient hardware. The series includes five rounds with each two stages. Each round lasts two months, so you have plenty of time to track down all hardware.

In the second round of the Old School is Best School competition series, we compete in Reference Clock and 3DMark01. In the first stage, Reference Clock, the hardware is limited to Slot 1 processors. In the second stage, 3DMark01, the hardware is limited to GeForce 6 or Radeon X800 graphics cards and Pentium 3 processors. For both stages a system picture is required. For stage 1 you need a verification link, for stage 2 a screenshot. Good luck!

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Stages

Ranking

Rank Participant Reference Clock 3DMark01
PTS
1 25 pts 15 pts 40 pts
2 18 pts 18 pts 36 pts
3 9 pts 25 pts 34 pts
4 15 pts 14 pts 29 pts
5 16 pts 12 pts 28 pts
6 14 pts 9 pts 23 pts
7 12 pts 10 pts 22 pts
8 10 pts 11 pts 21 pts
9 11 pts 6 pts 17 pts
10 16 pts 16 pts
11 13 pts 13 pts
12 13 pts 13 pts
13 8 pts 8 pts
14 7 pts 7 pts

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First Position

40 pts Warp9-systems

Discussions

April 4, 2015 at 2:34:51 PM UTC

Is Slot 1 to Socket 370 adapter ok?

May 3, 2015 at 2:01:11 PM UTC

I think Stage 1 is limited to Slot 1 processors, making the adapter illegal since you would be using a Socket 370 processor. Stage 2 you could use it, only limited to Pentium 3 processors.

 

My question is about Stage 2 though, are only x800 graphics cards allowed or all x8xx cards allowed (x850, etc)?

May 3, 2015 at 2:07:48 PM UTC

I think Stage 1 is limited to Slot 1 processors, making the adapter illegal since you would be using a Socket 370 processor.

 

Since stage 1 is reference clock, I don't think it matters if you use a slocket, since it's mostly about the board.

May 4, 2015 at 8:15:24 AM UTC

I can't submit in stage1 with my board.

Add "Zida BXi-98" please.

May 5, 2015 at 7:47:28 AM UTC

Can we use Pentium 3 Tualatin or only Coppermine limitation?

May 5, 2015 at 9:56:35 AM UTC

I can't submit in stage1 with my board.

Add "Zida BXi-98" please.

 

Do you have a CPU-Z validation link please?

May 5, 2015 at 1:08:50 PM UTC

Do you have a CPU-Z validation link please?

 

Yes, sir :)

 

http://valid.canardpc.com/gl5h71

May 5, 2015 at 2:57:30 PM UTC

Added:

http://hwbot.org/hardware/motherboard/bxi-atx/

 

Is it written BXi-ATX or BXi-98 on the motherboard PCB?

May 6, 2015 at 5:39:56 AM UTC

BXi98-ATX is the full name written on the mainboard.

May 8, 2015 at 8:26:40 AM UTC

3 questions and no answers:

 

1. Can we use Slot1 to Socket 370 adapter?

2. Can we use Pentium 3-S or Celeron (Tualatin)?

3. What about X800 series GPU?

May 8, 2015 at 11:23:13 AM UTC

This will have to be discussed, you get an update later - on question 3, X800 is not X850, otherwise there would be x8xx. Anyway, we will give headsup soon

May 8, 2015 at 11:26:43 AM UTC

BXi98-ATX is the full name written on the mainboard.

 

Fixed

May 11, 2015 at 7:17:26 AM UTC

3 questions and no answers:

 

1. Can we use Slot1 to Socket 370 adapter?

2. Can we use Pentium 3-S or Celeron (Tualatin)?

3. What about X800 series GPU?

 

1, 2. The limitation is to Slot1 processors (not motherboards). The list of applicable CPUs is here.

3. X800 series graphics cards include all the cards in this list.

May 11, 2015 at 5:14:56 PM UTC

1, 2. The limitation is to Slot1 processors (not motherboards). The list of applicable CPUs is here.

3. X800 series graphics cards include all the cards in this list.1,

It is clear, you must remove fgi`s result with adpter. So what about Tualatin?

May 11, 2015 at 5:21:37 PM UTC

Or you want to say the pentium 3 processors for 3DMark01 is slot 1 limited too?

May 12, 2015 at 5:39:29 AM UTC

As far as I can see round 2 allows any s370 cpus including tualatin ones. Please clarify on this as I need to decide if I should by VGA or not - I don't want to spend money for slot1 so if round 2 is limited to slot1 cpus I don't need X800 as well.

May 12, 2015 at 3:25:19 PM UTC

1, 2. The limitation is to Slot1 processors (not motherboards). The list of applicable CPUs is here.

3. X800 series graphics cards include all the cards in this list.

 

I agree on nr1,2 as that seems logic, but are you sure about nr3 looking at what websmile posted earlier?

 

This will have to be discussed, you get an update later - on question 3, X800 is not X850, otherwise there would be x8xx. Anyway, we will give headsup soon

May 13, 2015 at 9:15:51 AM UTC

CN is head of moderation Team, when he confirms X800 series includes X8xx/X850 cards, rely on this :) - I was cautious at my first answer to avoid people buying x850 and then be disappointed if it would have been not useful for this stage

May 14, 2015 at 2:23:00 AM UTC

So what about stage 2 - any P3 processors or only slot1 as CN says?

May 14, 2015 at 6:47:54 AM UTC

So what about stage 2 - any P3 processors or only slot1 as CN says?

 

Only in stage 1 it says the restriction is slot 1. So in stage 2 you should be able to use both slot and socket based P3s

May 14, 2015 at 6:55:40 AM UTC

That sounds nice. Hope someone will break 15K in 01.

May 14, 2015 at 5:46:33 PM UTC

Only in stage 1 it says the restriction is slot 1. So in stage 2 you should be able to use both slot and socket based P3s

I'm not so sure. I would like to hear confirmation from Christian Ney...

May 15, 2015 at 6:39:09 PM UTC

Christian, say something!

June 2, 2015 at 4:59:17 PM UTC

In my opinion Radeon x800 and x850 are the same graphics family

So they will be ok!

June 2, 2015 at 5:31:13 PM UTC

I do agree. Besides that won't make difference at all as scaling was linear for me with CPU and gpu had a very small impact (except some classic tweaks).

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