they disappeared . It ' s not a trend I want to continue ! Honestly though , Asus has not let me down for many years .
What is your favourite platform and which is your least favourite ?
Socket 939 was my favourite , Socket 478 my least favourite .
Would you ever consider benching a modernized 3DMark 2001SE like benchmark in this day and age , one using DX12 etc ?
One where you have to go through the headache of figuring out the subtest run order , which LOD to use for each , and the dozens of tweaks required to get a score that isn ' t at the very bottom of the leader board ?
The challenge is certainly fun , but these days I ' m not sure I ' d have the time to learn it well enough .
What are your thoughts on competitive benchmarks that use existing game engines or ones based entirely on a game that is out on the market ?
Would such a benchmark in your opinion be a viable way forward and perhaps away from the traditional purely synthetic ones ? If it required , the purchase of a game to run the benchmark I ' m against it already . Too many games come out each year , meaning it ' s another list of expenses on top of all the other existing expenses . Getting extra performance out of games is why most people began overclocking to begin with , but it would be for games they already own or intent to buy . If Call of Duty ( as an example ) were one of the benchmarks and purchasing the game was required I ' d never be able to run the benchmark . If the benchmark is free , then I can see it working .
What is your single greatest or most memorable overclocking event and / or achievement ?
There are two . The first was July 2008 when I used an Athlon64 FX-55 with the same stepping / revision / date as the world record FX-57s and hit 3916MHz ( still 4th on HWBOT ), and the second was in October 2008 when I hit 4144MHz on an Athlon X2 6000 + taking the overall AM2 frequency record ( it ' s down to 3rd place now ). I can ' t choose between
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