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Installed Win7 x64, windows media encoder is not supported, wtf !

gpu does nothing here, I too wonder how the first on K7 series managed to score more than 500 points (10%) over the second place with same clocks, only difference is the X1900GPU and Intel X25SSD.

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Originally Posted by geoffrey (Post 269732)

Scored 4227, I'm roughly 40 points short but can't clock any higher, system is at edge of stability, cpu fails at anything higher than 2.4GHz due to the lack of vcore on this board compared to the A7V8X-X I own.

On a sidenote, did you know about bios mod for your bord?
http://forums.pcper.com/showthread.php?t=352326
Gave it a try, don't panic I used one of my own BIOS chips so there is always a way of going back in case the Flash goes wrong :p The new BIOS is nothing too special though, not the extra cpu volts I was looking for... You can now set chipset voltage up to 1.9V but some people report it doesn't really do anything. I can confirm that, the chipset not clocking higher than ~225MHz has not much to do with chipset voltage. Furthermore you can now also set VDIMM up to 2.9V instead of 2.8V. O well, better than nothing right :) When I return your board I'll swap in the original bios chip again ;)

isn't place 1 on the same mobo using custom bios?

I followed your advice concerning the 8400GS: 15 min @ 230°C did the job.
My wife asking me if it was normal that there were computer parts in the oven.
I gave her my ;-D -face.

To increase my scores i ctrl-alt-del and closed as much processes as possible. This made a difference.

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Originally Posted by Jerre (Post 269736)

I hope you did not forget the "papfles" this time :)
Yeah, I may hope so, virus scanner and all that stuff running in the background. Anyway, formatted the drive as the WinXP install was corrupt as hell :)

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Originally Posted by leeghoofd (Post 269733)

Me and uberlord Massman scored a nice 18.7K yesterday with the 965BE at 6.1Ghz... but we still have issues to get test 3 optimised... no idea how the top 2 got them scores

Hey, I notice the same, comparing with 2.4GHz vs 2.5GHz Barton cpu, in most tests he's only marginally better, in Multithreaded Test 3 he's over 50% faster in virus scanning and in grammar check it's 3000 vs 4400 :??
Pretty neat tweak :)

EDIT: could it have something to do with:

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Q: After running the virus scanning test, is my system clean of viruses?
A: The virus scanning test only scans certain data files included with PCMark04. IT DOES NOT SCAN YOUR SYSTEM FOR VIRUSES! We highly recommend you to purchase a virus scanning software, e.g. from F-Secure, to ensure no viruses are harming your system.

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Grammar Checking is integer computation and primarily stresses the CPU. Link Grammar Parsing Library
version 4.2 is used. The input for this test is a 130 Kilobyte text document. The test is run continuously for 20
seconds. The result is in Kilobytes processed per second.
Note that in the default setup the Grammar Check test is run concurrently with the Virus Scanning test.

Just ran a quick 4335 score at only 2,3GHz :)

You can find the trick in the last link I've posted above, some called it a cheat back then.

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Originally Posted by geoffrey (Post 269738)

Just ran a quick 4335 score at only 2,3GHz :)

You can find the trick in the last link I've posted above, some called it a cheat back then.

that's a couple of points more to take 5th place ;-)

so you can run it alike 3D01 ?

It's in the secure forums ;)

EDIT: 4478 :D
from 6th to 4th spot ;)

Posted a 77** score.
Good enough I hope ? :)

nice :) btw, your K6-2 500 is dead. It gives nothing at 400 Mhz-settings.

I'll have to re-install XP and do a rerun using amongst others the CL2 memory. To bad for the 500 mhz CPU :(