how cool i like the stages! good luck everyone!

but please make this clear "Use 2 processor core(s) in total.", what does it mean? only core i3 allowed? or may i use 6700K and disable rest of the cores/threads? thanks!

Furthermore...if i3...is the 6320 allowed with ht? Or just an i3 without ht?

Seems like everyone is confused with the rules if it's for Pentium/i3 cpus (Dual Core cpus) or all cpus are allowed, just total amount of enabled cores has to be 2 in total

"Use 2 processor core(s) in total."

From what I understand 6700K or other i5 are allowed if we disable cores?

I asked lewis this the other day. It's 2 core proc, not 2 core enabled total.

Glad I wasn't the only one questioning this!

Okay... So someone change the rules ^^ and have fun guys

If it were 2c enabled I would. I'm out!

Pizza or sushi?

both please gunni

Seems like everyone is confused with the rules if it's for Pentium/i3 cpus (Dual Core cpus) or all cpus are allowed, just total amount of enabled cores has to be 2 in total

 

"Use 2 processor core(s) in total."

 

From what I understand 6700K or other i5 are allowed if we disable cores?

Has this ever been allowed in any HWBOT competition?

Added to the rules for additional clarification :celebration:

Don't know, never taken part in one....

Thanks for clarification.

Has this ever been allowed in any HWBOT competition?

 

Added to the rules for additional clarification :celebration:

Only once, HOT qualifiers last year allowed us to use 6700k with HT off to meet the 4 core restriction. Or that could be different I don't know anymore and it's to late to back down :D:D

Döner

There is no limit for graphics cards or graphics cores used, on cpu this is different, dual core cpu only

Seems a very strange decision since aquamark scales with at least 2 gpus.

Cheap cpus and ultra expensive gpu-setup...

Seems a very strange decision since aquamark scales with at least 2 gpus.

Cheap cpus and ultra expensive gpu-setup...

Thanks for the feedback!

After considering this, we all agreed that it would be best to limit to single GPU. The limitation has been added to the competition too.

Are all ES forbidden for the competition or just Skylake ES? I have some G3258 ES can I use there for the contest?

never any ES in comp's doubt it is gen specific

i doubt too but i prefer asking because i've a quitte good G3258 ES

for Stage 2-3 are allowed only reference vga or even custom as Strix, Matrix etc.?

only ASUS cards right? Nothing EVGA, MSi, GIGABYTE etc?

All Asus models and AMD or NV reference cards, no cards of other boardpartners. This is quite generous rule including reference cards, but I think everyone understands that Asus makes this competition and other brands are not allowed

 

Edit so to specify this, amd and NV branded cards are OK, all Asus branded cards as well, but no cards from other boardpartners like HIS, EVGA or whatever

thanks :celebration:

is this competition only for extreme or anybody can participate in it? i can see that one enthusiast and one novice have already submitted.

is this competition only for extreme or anybody can participate in it? i can see that one enthusiast and one novice have already submitted.

only for extreme and elite members...

Rules for stage 2 and 3:

â–»Use any ASUS, Nvidia (reference) or AMD (reference) graphics card. No limitation in amount of GPUs.

â–»Use 1 videocard core(s) in total.

No idea what it means:

- multiple cards allowed? Strange, especially when Massman touched this few posts above mentioning "single GPU"

- dual-GPU cards allowed but one core disabled? - that might be my paranoia or overinterpretation, feel free to mock me

Please clarify.

Any reason why my Aquamark3 file will not pars? I have ran the bench several time with different files sill no go. Am I doing something wrong. Thanks for the input

You have to disable system information

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I did read that in the forums. Ill give it a try. Thanks for the help

Is an EVGA gtx 980 Ti ok for both the 3dmark 2001 and the Aquamrk3 bench - Not sure I understand the rules read ASUS VGA or reference NVidia or AMD - thanks

Essentially needs to show ASUS/AMD/Nvidia in GPU-Z vendor tab. Might want to check out BIOSes with different vendor ID if you have a reference PCB or that Maxwell BIOS editor available

OK thank you

I guess ill be setting up my ASUS Strix 980 tonight

Ah my subs got removed because no mainboard tab.

Not to worry I was going to run them again.

And I have to show a SPD tab.

It was a nice touch to use i3 in the comp, but the recent retails are impossibly bad. Me and some others have tried to bin a decent one and they are all crap on LN2! Even the good air clockers!

Anyone had "unable to parse datafile" in AM3 with i3? I suspect that running 4 dimms is the case here, I noticed that AM3 wrapper shows "16 GB <OUT OF SPEC> DIMM".

Funny, because with 2 dimms it showed "Unknown Unknown" properly.

I take it that workaround is system info disabled but anyway it would be pity if I had to use backup that's more than 50k worse

Turn off sys info helps with that error. Sorry.

How do the prizes work anyway? Top three elite and top three extreme or only top three overall?

Thanks, I'll rebench with SS as I ran out of LN2, will be an improvement anyway

I have a question concerning the case of equality like lashu1919 and me, Bullshooter and junior..... What is the rule? who take the highest place?

Hi Mylth ， I want to know it，too

Thanks! Can you update the ranking manually? New points don't count for the total.