Blackhole benchmark competition with $900 in prizes.

[Johan45]

There's a young website blackholetec that is hosting an open competition to celebrate it's first year. The bench only takes a few minutes is pretty much cpu based on speed. Some decent prizes to be had so check it out http://www.blackholetec.com/main/article/competition-black-hole-mayhem

 

[Blaylock]

Sounds like fun. I'll give it a shot.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

They've got values listed in Euros, wonder how they'd handle shipping to someone in the US.

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

Alright, let's see what my i5 can do.

 

[Johan45]

They've got values listed in Euros, wonder how they'd handle shipping to someone in the US.

Pretty sure I read the prizes are shipping from the manufacturer.

The more the merrier guys.

 

[Mandrake4565]

I keep getting errors when trying to run it

 

[Johan45]

Try the instructions on this page Manny http://blackholetec.com/main/support

 

[Mandrake4565]

Fixed

 

[Johan45]

Just remember you only get one submission so make it a good one.

 

[Woomack]

Interesting ... any tweaks so far ?

I wasn't able to run this benchmark when I was trying last time ...

 

[Johan45]

I really haven't stumbled across anything yet. Just good fast and tight settings.

Interesting ... any tweaks so far ?

I wasn't able to run this benchmark when I was trying last time ...

See post#7

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

9728 points is all my i5 can muster.

Maybe more if I was able to coax the memory to run at 2000Mhz, but It won't take it. Maybe with CAS 13 but I didn't think it was worth it.
cpu verification linky

Good luck to all of you.



Man, I really wish I had better hardware now

 

[Johan45]

That's a bummer Pharaoh, you gonna let those AMD APUs beat you like that?

 

[Silver_Pharaoh]

That's a bummer Pharaoh, you gonna let those AMD APUs beat you like that?

Gahhh! No! I WONT.

But my i5 is the most powerful CPU in the house
If only I could
post above 108 Mhz BCLK, maybe then I'll hit 10000 but she just won't go above 108.

 

[Woomack]

realtime priority gives weird results, sometimes much worse than expected ... so far I get results like others on 300MHz lower clocked CPU

 

[trekky]

best shot I have is ether is the 12 thread one with my server or the 6 core one with my 1100T
I probly will do the 6 thread one im thinking

 

[Woomack]

I can't get it , any tweak is causing lower score. Priority changes give ~30% lower scores. 2 runs in a row can give +/- 20% difference.

 

[Scout]

Where can we see the benchmarks already submitted to beat ? I don't want to submit and be a point shy lol.

Edit, found this but is it the same as the competition scores ? http://blackholetec.com/main/content/intel-12threads-top-50

 

[Virssagòn]

I can't get it , any tweak is causing lower score. Priority changes give ~30% lower scores. 2 runs in a row can give +/- 20% difference.

That should be the known bug mentioned in the article:

- 8Threaded CPUs sometimes score lower on the 4threaded test, they seem to try running the 4 tasks on 2 threads. 4-core i7s and FX 8-cores encounter this problem. Running it again should fix this problem.

It also looks like the program sets its own priority and with the 4 threaded test it also selects specific cores. I wouldn't mess with priority settings.

 

[Johan45]

In the original link I put up, there's a table at the bottom select your category and then screenshots if you wanna see the bench. Just FYI it gets updated once a day and there's no way to see the entries that haven't been added to the chart.