Thank Fasttrack, I'll have to try that at some point.
So far this morning I've been playing with CPU-z clock frequency and validation. I just yolo'd the Skylake-X for frequency after failing again to get OpenCL running on it. At 1.5v it was just stable enough to get a 5.2 GHz-ish submission in, but I hated that due to the bus clock of 99.x MHz the resulting clock was slightly lower than implied by multiplier. After thinking for 0.02s I decided to increase the bus slightly to 100.3 in bios, ending up with 5214 MHz. That'll do nicely. Also found the XOC option which helps a lot, as without it, it was crashing under the test load. The 7800X doesn't seem a popular model, presumably as those with deeper pockets go for more cores. Once it goes through I'll be 3rd for the CPU. Good enough without going sub ambient.
By observation, the validation site only keeps the best result for a system, so if you later get a better score, that means the link at hwbot will show a discrepancy. I know you'll have to submit a new result anyway, but does that mean you need to find/delete any old submission as the validation link wont be valid for that score any more? Or do the old ones not matter any more once you have a better one to replace it?
Anyone remember the old days when mobo manufacturers set their bus clocks to around 100.5 to 101.0 MHz to try and get that fractional foot up against competitors in a mobo group test? I note it seems to have gone the other way now, both the X370 and X299 systems run about 99.8 MHz stock.
Also when I submitted the personal result, it told me it was also eligible for the ROG OC Showdown Team Edition 2 so I linked the result to that. Thinking afterwards... should I have done that? I still don't get how the team stuff works. Is it possible to link an existing submission to a contest at a later time than the original personal submission? Or unlink a submission?
