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I've just read this thread from start to finish. It's great to see the turnaround from distain to admiration through the pages of posts. 1Day I think you have more admirers than haters.

You have also made me aware of the sport of benching which sounds really fascinating, although it also does seem rather expensive!

So thanks for taking the time to post and to win over your audience IMHO.

If you ever have time it would be great if you could post a project log for one of your benchmark test rigs. I am sure there would be a great deal of interest.
 
OP's house right now:

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Congratulations, nonetheless.
 
mikeyholt said:
OP's house right now:

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Congratulations, nonetheless.
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You are wrong that is my house every weekend. :D We are on first name terms with all the Fire Services guys in Sussex. :eek:


Waza - I am not going to be breaking the 6GHz barrier with my CPU anytime soon. But I have broken the 6GHz barrier with other CPU's;) I wish I had a CPU that could get 6GHz.


@ John thank you for first taking the time to read the whole thread and for responding so positively. I shall certainly think about how to construct a work log of a benching session. It is a very good idea indeed.
 
1Day - Just a quick thank you for (a) this thread and (b) opening so many minds. Since being inspired by reading this thread and taking part in the 5Ghz club bench I have bought a 2600K got it up to 5.1 before my H50 went kapput. Since then the inspiration has kept flowing - all the way to me setting up a ghetto WC system based on a pond pump that has got me to 5.35 at 67c max. I have now got one beady eye on the air con unit that is in the garage collecting dust.

Don't know why everyone keep saying this is an expensive hobby ??? - Nonetheless
well done and thanks again. You are truly inspirational and it is credit to you that you have handled all of the negativity in this thread with such class.

I Suspect many on this forum would love to get to seriously high clocks you have reached but, regardless of cooling - they simply do not have either the courage or imagination. I Know this has been said so many times but IMHO, many who have replied to this thread need to check the name of the forum. Volts it what many of us do for the thrill.....either that or we are seriously in love with boot messages LOL !!!
 
BurntOutMutha said:
Don't know why everyone keep saying this is an expensive hobby ??? -
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I guess it depends upon how deep your pockets are, but buying 5 CPUs is not for everyone, not to mention extreme cooling options such as LN2.

Of course you can always have a go with the existing kit you have and that's great, but to take things to the level that 1Day goes to does IMHO require a decent sized budget and a willingness to do what it takes to find the golden CPU to get that exta 100 MHz.
 
BurntOutMutha said:
Considerably more than an extra 100Mhz, check the leaderboard !!!
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Yeah you are right, looking at Post 85 you could be gaining a whole 1 GHz or more if you get a golden CPU. I guess if you are used to flogging your unwanted kit and had enough cash you could buy batches of CPUs and sell on the, er, brass? ones and keep the golden one....
 
Thanks guys.

Quick thing about cost of benching. If you do it for fun and you do it ambient, water cooled or air then it is not so expensive. You do not need to spend heaps to have fun. If you want to compete for top 50 global then you will need to spend. You will need LN2 to bench graphic cards or not be competitive. You need to have multiple systems to compete in each of the different benchmarks. Some suite SB and others suite 990X. The SB is cheapish to source but the 990X is most certainly not.

So it is all relative to where you want to be. I got lucky and found a good CPU after only a few processors had been binned. Some of my friends had to buy over 50 CPU's before they found one good enough to be competitive. And then promptly killed the CPU trying for too much. The process was started all over again. It is all up to the individual.

The most common form of benching is benching old hardware. That is where most people who love the sport earn their spurs. A handful of celeron CPU's will cost £20 and a motherboard about the same. Like all sports it is the participating that is fun not being the best or competing for the top spot that is the point.

But certainly to be the top costs money and lots of it.
 
1Day said:
Some of my friends had to buy over 50 CPU's before they found one good enough to be competitive. And then promptly killed the CPU trying for too much.
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Ouch!

I can certainly relate to what you say and thinking about it I can see parallels in other hobbies, especially relating to sports that are played professionally. e.g. golf - striving for the extra yardage, spin, flight, feel, technique... All potentially available for $$$
 
JohnTedd said:
Ouch!

I can certainly relate to what you say and thinking about it I can see parallels in other hobbies, especially relating to sports that are played professionally. e.g. golf - striving for the extra yardage, spin, flight, feel, technique... All potentially available for $$$
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Yes that is exactly the same thing. You can pick up set of clubs for next to nothing on Ebay and have heaps of fun on the local council course. BUT take the sport seriously and it is a bottomless pit :D:D
 
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