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☠️ 4GB DEATHMATCH: AMBIENT EDITION ☠️ Beat the 980 Challenge - No 980 Allowed I’m launching a 60-day community overclocking competition through OC Arena discord built around old GPUs, budget hardware, ambient cooling, and pure tuning skill. No LN2. No chillers. No Dice. No Phase Change Coolers. No extreme cooling whatsoever! No dual-GPU bullshit. No RTX-wallet flexing. No GTX 980. Just 4GB VRAM or less , one GPU, ambient cooling, and 9 benchmarks to see who can squeeze the most out of their silicon. GPU limit: 4GB VRAM or less CPU limit: 4 cores / 8 threads / 6.0GHz - core disabling is allowed System RAM cap: 16GB - max mem is allowed Windows 10 / 11 x64 Air, AIO, custom water, natural ambient cold allowed - minimum operating temp of 10c Driver tweaks, LOD, tessellation and secret sauce encouraged Multiple GPUs can be tested - only your best score per benchmark counts No prizes. Just bragging rights, knowledge, jank and love of the game. Benchmarks include: Unigine Tropics Unigine Valley Unigine Sanctuary Resident Evil 6 Devil May Cry 4 Street Fighter IV Wiggly Boy GPU-PI Final Fantasy XIV: Shadowbringers Titles include: 🥷 - Unigine Ninja ☠️ - Capcom Killer 🎪 - Silicon Sideshow 🏆 - The Big Weinner 🔧 - Jank Master 🐷 - Prettiest Pig You don’t need to run all 9 just to participate either. Run what you can, chase individual leaderboards, share tweaks, learn some shit and have fun. This is meant to be accessible to beginners, old-hardware hoarders, budget benchers and experienced

looks like 1440p monitors will be needed for benching now lmao

Thermetery Cup 2026 GPU Modification Challenge Hello Participants! Welcome to the GTX 1060 competition. Official Discord Link: https://discord.com/channels/662303512948113439/1524855034515296426 Please read the Official Rules below: TLDR: Build the most powerful GP106 GTX 1060 you can make. GP104, GDDR5X, and secret/NDA hardware are not allowed. For each score you produce, please include: ● one HWBOT standard benchmark score screenshot. ● one picture of the GPU core + PCB, ● one picture of the VRAM, ● one picture of your setup if you participate in the ambient only stage. Stages: Superposition 1080p Extreme (LOD allowed) 3DMark Port Royal RT Must be a VALID 3DMark Submission. The only exception is "GPU Unknown" due to unlocking, BGA swap, etc. GPU Pi 3.2 32B Time: Submission opens: August 29th, 2026 00:00 HKT / GMT+8 Submission closes: October 4th, 2026 23:59 HKT / GMT+8 Late submissions are not accepted under any circumstances. General: Standard HWBOT competition rules apply unless otherwise stated. Must use the official competition desktop background linked in the attachment or at https://thermetery.com/2026/07/11/thermetery-cup-2026-gpu-modification-challenge/ No cooling limits for the subambient stage. For the ambient stage, you may not use any cooling methods that would land you into the Apprentice/Extreme/Elite league. No OS limits. Server/workstation/prosumer/sponsored CPU, motherboard, and memory are allowed. Addendum July 11th: ES/QS hardware are still not allowed (a

This is great, good moderating meets with clockers pushing hardware even more than before !

Multiple quick-look Shorts for various brands are shared on my YouTube channel. You can click into the channel playlist to understand the rich new product dynamics all at once: Thinking back to 2004 when windwithme entered Computex to view the exhibition for the first time, I didn't expect time to fly so fast, and quickly we have moved forward another year. In contrast to a few years ago when the exhibition venue was still centered around gaming, stepping into the venue this year, what caught my eyes were far more server brands and the appearance of more server racks than in previous years, presenting a completely different exhibition scenery. The exhibition this year is positioned as AI Together, which will undoubtedly showcase more brand-new products closely related to the AI industry. topic of AI has become hotter and hotter in recent years. Most brands continue to work hard to connect their new products with AI in terms of both hardware and software. Before the exhibition, many brands had already held new product launch events first. In addition, there were many technical activities such as KEYNOTEs and forums. Because the times sometimes overlapped and I couldn't cooperate, I only participated in part of the activities. First, we come to MSI, which enters its 40th anniversary this year. Over the years, it has also been dedicated to the laptop market. In addition to its rich product lines, its market visibility is getting higher and higher. It showcases the latest 2026 In

Hello, As someone who tried to get some good scores with the first generation of 5600X's it surprised me that AMD came out with exactly the same CPU on a better production process and that those CPU's were just beating the older scores like crazy, and that HWBOT didn't use the opportunity to differentiate between stepping 0 and 2 CPU's from the moment stepping 2 CPU's started to come in. HWBOT could have made all scores before a certain date stepping 0 scores. All the scores after that would have had to be categorized by stepping. Now that the damage is done, can HWBOT undo it, and create 2 separate 5600X's so that the playing field is level again? I know this would be a huge undertaking but it might be able to do this semi automatically by some software that can read the CPU-z tab in the screenshots. Thanks for reading this comment. Thanks for the effort in advance, and for providing this platform!

HWBOT Team Cup 2026 Standard HWBOT HW rules apply: No ES hardware (unless specifically mentioned) No Server or Workstation or Mobile hardware (unless specifically mentioned) Single CPU sockets (unless specifically mentioned) Single GPU/Core (unless specifically mentioned) Software Limitations: CPU-Z versions from 2.15 or newer, on older problematic platforms older CPU-Z versions are allowed CPU-Z tabs for CPU, Memory and Motherboard are required BenchMate 13.5 or newer GPU-Z version from 2.65 or newer for 3D submissions UL Benchmarks Systeminfo 5.90+ mandatory Mandatory usage of the Official Team Cup 2026 wallpaper (click here) Add a picture of your OC setup Stage 1: AMD CPU Stage 2: Intel CPU Stage 3: AMD GPU Stage 4: nVIDIA GPU Stage 5: Miscellaneous Official wallpaper Dedicated Discord thread: Click here

I asume only all desktop hardawe?

Cheapaz Chips 2026 Round 1 - May 18th until June 21st 2026 Hardware: nVidia GeForce GTX 960 General rules/info: Only make submissions with a nVidia GeForce GTX 960 videocard Use 1 videocard core in total Processor speed is limited to 5005 MHz. 6 cores, 12 threads maximum. Disabling cores is allowed No ES or mobile or Server Hardware allowed All hardware mods allowed, as long as the core remains a GM206-300 and it's still identified as a GTX 960 in each benchmark and GPU-Z No cooling restrictions Benchmark verification screenshot must contain: Windows taskbar, desktop wallpaper, benchmark window and score, CPU-Z (CPU, memory and mainboard tab), GPU-Z (GPU tab) Use UL systeminfo version, benchmark version and CPU-Z/GPU-Z versions as per standard benchmark rules Please attach a picture of your running overclocking rig Moderation may request video proof for submitted scores Use the official competition wallpaper as desktop background Stage 1 (3DMark Time Spy (GPU)) limitations: Only make submissions with a nVidia GeForce GTX 960 videocard Valid UL benchmarks verification link is required (system timer error not allowed), HW monitoring must be enabled Other standard benchmark rules apply Use the official Cheapaz Chips 2026 Round 1 - GTX 960 wallpaper Bugged runs (benchmark rendering black/white) are invalid. Video proof may be requested by moderation Stage 2 (3DMark Fire Strike (GPU)) limitations: Only make submissions with a nVidia GeForce GTX 960 videocard UL benchmarks verifica

ich bin ein wenig eingerostet und versuche das board zu verstehen. 😀 3DMark.com I scored 37 823 in Time Spy AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 x 1, 65536 MB, 64-bit Windows 11}

I like overclocking; I have a 9950X + X870E Taichi Lite + AIO420. I wanted to compare, but I don't know where to post... I have several benchtops, CB23 49265, CPU-Z 19207, and others... can anyone guide me?