Quick summary of where we stand in the cup... Our biggest gains can be made in the memory clock and IGP stages so we should focus hard on those. PCMark05 will be a crap shoot, and we should end up in pretty good shape in geforce.
sub-competition 1 geforce tour
We're 3rd now, and I think we have a shot at 1st or 2nd here - lots of time left for this one.
Turn'n'Burn is coming over in a couple weeks. He's bringing a couple 680's I believe, and one of our targets will be 1st in the 600 series:
http://hwbot.org/competition/team_cup_2012_sc1/stage/615_geforce_600_series/
Janus should be here too while TnB is, so we may go after another submission in the 500 series as well on his 580.
I'm also still planning a return to the 8 series, I've got 4th now, but I have beat the current 1st place score before by a couple thousand - that card needs revived though.
sub-competition 2 Core2 UCBench
We finished 5th here - we did the best we could, but got out clocked and out tweaked. Top 5 is good though.
sub-competition 3 memory clock
This is just starting, but it will be decided by the old and obscure DIMMs. Old stuff isn't our strong suit, so we're in for a challenge here and will really have to look around/recruit forum members for help I think.
sub-competition 4 AMD Family
We finished 9th here, got beat up a bit but were only 8 points out of finishing in the top 5 - it was a really close competition overall and some really strong AMD scores were posted by all teams.
sub-competition 5 IGP Platform
Only 12 days left here, and we're getting romped on in 12th place currently... If we can improve here, that would be huge to how we finish in the overall rankings. What is really killing us is that we have no Intel GMA submissions, no Intel GMA HD submissions, and no nvidia submissions... We are only competing in 2 out of the 5 stages currently, and we need to be in all 5 to finish respectably.
Do we just not have the hardware for this?
sub-competition 6 PCMark
This one starts in August, and who knows how it will end up with the amount of tweaks there are for PCM05 - just depends who actually competes. I'll be submitting in 2x and 3x with the 555BE, and in 4x with the 3770K, both on revo3 x2 480GB for storage - they won't be great scores, but they'll be alright. I don't have a single core or hex anymore, and there are likely several around here who can beat me in any of these stages if they have raid0 sata3 ssds.