How to Become a Benching Team Member

[dejo]

Hokie, I have done that successfully, but dont usually

 

[EarthDog]

Do you guys switch between chipsets with pre-existing benching OSes?

I dont like to but have succesfully. Just like with any PC, you can get away with it... In your case, I wouldnt. And I hate to say that to you too...

 

[hokiealumnus]

Oh, I don't; I always fresh install. Since I have two SSDs, I just clone one system over to a regular HDD and do a fresh-from-USB-key install to SSD. Takes 30min, max. I was just curious if others did. Wouldn't that have a negative score impact, or is that just unproven supposition from what people have told me over the years?

 

[EarthDog]

I have never personally tested it. The issue is with the HAL and the drivers and any garbage that may be leftover. I suppose in theory it could affect the benches but Im just not certain.

 

[hokiealumnus]

XP can actually save you from that issue by doing a sysprep before taking it down from one system to the other. I never got Win7 to successfully sysprep, though I only tried once just after its release. Never tried Vista.

 

[SilverJeep]

Well, 10 separate scores submitted. 0.7 points. Just about the bottom of every list so the only place I have to go is up

 

[MattNo5ss]

Good way to look at it

Be sure to PM Brolloks with your profile.

 

[SilverJeep]

I figure it's not too bad for a bunch of mismatched out dated hardware. Even still, it has some room left for improvement, I'll have to see what I can do tomorrow.

 

[Bobnova]

I've moved my benching OS between a few mobos, it worked well enough.
These days I usually reinstall (maybe because i keep killing the installs....)

My benching XP bluescreens on install if i use AHCI, i have to set it to IDE.

I killed my last one trying to insane memory clocks for maxxmem. Got a decent run(1493), massaged timings a little to shoot for 1500, and then murdered the os. Oh well.

 

[nzaneb]

how much pci3 to kill it, or was it ram speed timings

Definitely ram. I was switching between low and tight, to high bandwidth... and accidentally left my tight timings in place. Surprisingly enough it made it into windows and half way through a bench before I noticed, lol. It was pretty much FUBAR after the subsequent BSOD

 

[thobel]

I just started posting up on hwbot today and after posting 10 scores I only ended up with 3.70 points. I'm a little confused to get to 20 points what am I supposed to do rerun and post again?

http://hwbot.org/community/user/thobel?tab=profile

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Thobel, I noticed something quite odd about your Wprime runs.

You forgot to click the advanced settings button and change the number of threads from 1 to 6.

That'll get you a few more boints.

 

[thobel]

Thobel, I noticed something quite odd about your Wprime runs.

You forgot to click the advanced settings button and change the number of threads from 1 to 6.

That'll get you a few more boints.

opps fixed thanks

Any pointers you can give on more points? Do I bench every pc in the house? Do I rerun the benches with different settings?

 

[ChanceCoats123]

Oh definitely. If you can get those last mhz out of your gpu's or your cpu's, by all means, rerun the benchmarks and submit again. If you look on my hwbot page, I've got 4-5 submissions for just about all of my hardware because I go back and tweak to get a better score.

 

[thobel]

Oh definitely. If you can get those last mhz out of your gpu's or your cpu's, by all means, rerun the benchmarks and submit again. If you look on my hwbot page, I've got 4-5 submissions for just about all of my hardware because I go back and tweak to get a better score.

So is that how people get so many points running the same benches alot? Do you get points for each submission? or only one thats higher then the last one?

 

[Bobnova]

12 threads for a 980x, that'll shorten the run time rather dramatically.

Most of us on the team have benched multiple sets of hardware, that's where the mass boints come from.

There are two types, "Global" boints, which you get for being one of the fastest people to run a given benchmark, and "Hardware" boints, which you get for being one of the fastest people to run a given benchmark on a given piece of hardware.

 

[Badbonji]

I need just over 4 points to stay in the team, will be benching my main rig on the 6th-ish D:

 

[thobel]

12 threads for a 980x, that'll shorten the run time rather dramatically.

Most of us on the team have benched multiple sets of hardware, that's where the mass boints come from.

There are two types, "Global" boints, which you get for being one of the fastest people to run a given benchmark, and "Hardware" boints, which you get for being one of the fastest people to run a given benchmark on a given piece of hardware.

thanks again reram with 12 threads giant improvment

 

[thobel]

It was late and I was tired but I swear I lost like 10 points overnight.. How do I see how/why i lost points?

 

[m0r7if3r]

If you get a result pulled that'll do it...