Hardlimit test bank

[cobito]

Some important changes in the Central.

Now the overclocked validations have a different treatment than the stock frequency validations. That makes the models for which there are no stock frequency results or whose measured frequencies show inadequate test bench conditions* not appear in the statistics. For example, there is the i7-6959X from @Xevipiu that no longer appears in the cover ranking or in the comparisons because there are no stock frequency results. In addition, the datasheet does not show all the information or this is inconsistent.

On the other hand, now the frequency shown in the results (page that appears when validating) is corrected based on the previously sent results. As I said above, the more results there are at stock frequency, the more precise and accurate the frequencies shown will be. In principle, with 3 or 4 validations in any mode, it should be enough to show an adequate frequency.

Regarding the results of overclocked micros, as I also mentioned above, in each datasheet there is a ranking of individual results showing the user, the frequency, the scores and the motherboard model. Example.

*The frequency measurement is done on a single core, so if there are background programs hogging part of the processor and consuming several cores, the measured frequency will not be the "boost" frequency but the one provided at medium load or at full load. If there is a model in which in all results this interference has occurred, this model will not appear in the statistics.

Regarding the problems of these changes: the back-end has become very slow (again). In the next code sweep, optimization will be the priority.

EDITED: The performance problems and some minor bugs on certain pages have been fixed.

[Namiga]

@cobito Buenas.
I'm testing an i7 for my niece. it's set up in English, and I get an error when starting the Bench..
error 0xc0000142. the application cannot start correctly

Could it be a problem because the operating system is in English?

[Namiga]

@namiga Vale... I should have been updating something. A restart and everything is ok

[krampak]

@cobito I'm on a freshly installed Windows 10 (still without the aniversary or creators update), with administrator permissions on a laptop i5-7200U and I get the following error:

[Namiga]

That happened to me @krampak.
It was an update..
I restarted and it worked

[cobito]

@krampak seems to be the same error as @Namiga. I think it was an update issue and after a few reboots it got fixed.

[cobito]

In the coming days I will prepare new rankings (which will not appear on the front page but on a specific rankings page). I would appreciate it if you could tell me which statistics you would find interesting. Initially I thought that a ranking of the best micros for games would be good.

Regarding CPUs for games I am not very sure about the characteristics. My idea is as follows (correct me if I am wrong):

1. I think that today, having more than 2 or 3 cores does not make any difference but if video broadcasting or recording services are used, having 4 cores is recommended.
2. In games, it is important to have power in arithmetic operations. I thought of giving the following weight: 75% for integer and floating point tests and 25% for the test of generic tasks (is the memory test omitted?).

In this case, results with 4 execution threads would start to be well received (they always are, but now they would be more) even from micros that have more than 4 cores since the frequency is not the same in many cases.

What do you think?

[cobito]

@krampak about the results of the 8700k that you sent a while ago, do you have the micro underclocked?

[krampak]

No, it was stock @cobito

[rul3s]

Hello @cobito!!!
First of all, congratulations on this initiative, I just found out now, as soon as I can I'll pass it on to all my PCs.
For now, I wanted to pass it on to the Ryzen 3 1200 and I see that it detects 1 CPU, 1 CORE, 4 Threads, check that out because it seems like there's a bug with core detection on the Ryzen.

Best regards!

[cobito]

Thanks for the report, @rul3s. Initially, the core/thread detection was designed only to select the number of threads to run and it's not something that's been polished too much. It also fails on some LGA775 micros. Until about a month from now, I won't be able to put in the hours that the test bench needs (apart from that bug you mentioned because there are quite a few in the central), but I'll take note.

I'm eagerly waiting for all your validations. This thread is very long so I'll say it again: validations in all modes are welcome.

[Yorus]

I might be missing something, but I can't log in to validate.

[cobito]

@yorus It should be working again now

[Yorus]

Nothing, I can't do it. It's supposed to be the same user and same password as the forum, right? I've tried in Chromium and IE11.

[Fassou]

@yorus Try putting the first letter in uppercase, I remember that at the beginning, depending on how you logged in, the username appeared, so something does influence it

[Yorus]

I have put it in both ways. I can't test it again today, but I'll try it from work tomorrow.

[cobito]

@fassou @yorus Apologies for the dizziness, there have been some changes in the local network where the server is located and I made the mistake of making the validation system dependent on the local IP: that's why it was failing. It's already been fixed.

[Yorus]

Thanks @cobito!, tomorrow I will test several devices.

[Yorus]

I have already tried it and it is perfect, although when validating a result it opened the YouTube page with a video of Rick Astley!

[cobito]

@yorus do you have oc on the micro or the memories?