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Looking for someone in the US with one of the intel 8 core mobile chips who can run ycruncher 1b for the hwbot country cup. Currently with the way the competition is set up the alternative to a bga1440 cpu would be an lga 2011 cpu and I think we all know who wins in a bench that heavily uses avx2, 8 core coffeelake or 6 core ivybridge. Anyways if anyone is in the US and would like to contribute to your countries success in this comp it's a lot of fun every year and I highly recommend checking it out. Even if you're not in the US I highly recommend checking out the comp and supporting your team, it's tons of fun. Questions comment below or PM

I've not had a good experience using any of those features on Mac, plus their version of explorer is complete garbage and the way you browse files is not very useful or easy. And so many little things missing from their OS like the ability to refresh a finder window, etc It's just not a very polished OS even if the graphics are subjectively "pretty"

Not sure what people are on about, I've used MacOS and it's utter shit as well as getting features behind windows, like snap. Just not very usable or responsive compared to my win10 machines.

Unity is a good one to start, or also UE4 can be pretty straightforward with tutorials. I know when I was messing around with game design in HS UE4 was nice because I didn't actually know any code languages and the visual "coding" of blueprints is pretty straightforward if you can at least get the logic behind code. As for what's easy to learn, I'd say figure out what kind of games you want to make in general then figure out how to make those. Most types of single player experiences are gonna be easy enough to learn how to make a proof of concept although it will take a lot of time to make them look really polished. Either engine Unity or UE4 are good to start on and have lots of free assets out there, as well as some paid ones so you don't even have to know how to model to get started.

I mean I would generally assume that age restrictions in discord for example have to do with liability and how the laws work, although you'd expect it to be 18 in that case.

He was on some form of maximus vi, however he had all kinds of random issues like it failing to post every other reboot. Not sure how much is his board and how much is cpu. His board was a bit rough when he got it from ebay. And the cpu further flattened out the pins. Plus I wonder how well a z87 board with a pre-broadwell bios supports the l4 cache. Basically as long as you don't use a gigabyte board these cpus should work to some degree out of the box. Based on his experience I can't recomend it as a daily chip however I've yet to test it on a proper z97 board. Need to convince him to send it to me for testing? As for the IGP all intel HD graphics pre-lake chips can be overclocked. They've always had fully unlocked multiplier on z series boards until lga 1151 where the IGP is also locked on locked chips. (no bclk past 102.99 on locked skylake igp either as disabling the IME takes avx and igp with it). My friend managed this on water https://hwbot.org/submission/3978281_

I have a friend who has been messing with this chip recently, at least on his board it was semi unlocked. He had multiplier control up to 44x, however it also supported bclk straps (locked chips aren't supposed to have that) so he was able to set the 125 bclk strap and run 38x multiplier to get his chip to 4.8 on water for benching. Also got some "strong" igpu scores on it as it has a gpu just a bit slower than what the 5775c has as well as l4 cache. The difference is haswell clocks significantly better than broadwell cpus side and probably gpu side as well.

I know someone who tested the 4980hq, very interesting chip although the level of support on the board he used is very minimal. Was glitchy and generally unstable half the time. Trying to get him to send it to me so I can test it on a z97 board with a broadwell bios as I suspect the l4 may have something to do with it. Would be nice to have multiplier control of the l4 unlike on his z87 board.

You'd be surprised, even a 7980xe on ln2 only draws about 1kw. It's gpus that can really draw a lot, although slightly less now. 780ti and 980ti both could draw up to like 1200w on ln2, 1080ti is closer to 1kw, Still need a seperate PSU for each GPU as well as the cpu for benching 3d

Some of them already have, Steponz and Shadyreaper did a livestream over the weekend where they got a score in cinebench r15 at over 6.9 ghz on a 9900k. Crazy retail chip on ln2, faster than even ES binned by intel run on liquid helium. Definitely should expect some more monster scores from team USA and the aussies. Although the aussies will likely sandbag and sub at the last minute like usual. Would be nice to see them not win for the 6th year in a row,

I estimate around 7 units of fast from this build

I think most people are on ambient only cooling, definitely can say that if you ever get the opportunity to try out subzero cooling that it's a lot of fun. Any contribution to your county will help them and the competition is designed so that you subbing a score can never hurt, only help your country. Plus with some stages requiring 8 subs sometimes just having full subs can allow you to be quite competitive versus other smaller countries.

That means that your country needs 8 different submissions from 8 different people on 8 different pieces of hardware matching up to the requirements for that stage. For example for the x265 stage you need 8 different cpu models using 8 different sockets from 8 different people. Obviously it's allowed to have less than 8 total subs, however the ranking is as an average of 8 scores so having less than 8 scores will lower your country's ranking for a stage a lot. Luckily it's set up so that your country will never be punished by you submitting a score, so always worth subbing. The worst case is that your country has full submissions for a stage and all of them are better than yours so yours doesn't count towards the ranking.

Is anyone benching for their country this year for HWBot's Country Cup 2018? http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/hwbot_country_cup_2018

I hate to necro, but does anyone know if this has been done for other gens as well? For example mobile sandy bridge on z77?