have good efficiency in Windows
10, you’re likely to have even better
efficiency under Windows 7 - not
always, but usually.
Without further delay though
these were the results of the
session, on the first day.
Cinebench 11.5 – 49.13 FPS
Cinebench R15 - 4338
GeekBench 3 – 78513
GPUPI 1B – 1min15, 593 s
HWBOT Prime – 9527.06
HWBOT x265 1080P – 76.39 FPS
wPrime 32M – 2.637 sec
wPrime 1024M – 33,439 sec
As you can see, those are all
either global first place positions
or world records. Actually that WR
status only applies to GPUPI, but the
others are definitely x16 core Global
first place position. So far this
was going well, and moving on to
18 The OverClocker Issue 42 | 2017
Windows 7 would ideally make these
scores a little harder to match.
As always, things are never
that simple when it comes to
overclocking. There’s no such thing
as a sure thing.
FINAL BENCHING WITH
WINDOWS 7
Moving to Windows 7 as stated
earlier was supposed to instantly
result in better scores; however,
that was not exactly what
happened. In fact, during the pre-
testing the motherboard which
had been overclocked constantly
for tens of hours prior had given
up. Either it was the motherboard,
CPU or both. Eventually it meant
that they needed to be swopped out
while the board dried.
As luck would have it, a previously
verified Windows 7 installation
was failing to reach the desktop.
Solving this took a great amount of
time, but once again it is possible to
deal with this via the various BIOS
options on the Zenith Extreme. They
are not obvious options and this is
made especially difficult because
Windows 7 will not throw up any
of these errors or BSOD when the
system is operating under normal
(i.e. none LN2) conditions.
Sorting out Windows 7 literally
took the vast majority of the day and
at this point, it wasn’t clear if any
useful scores would be possible,
especially given the HWBOT rules
concerning Windows 10.
Fortunately on the last day I had for
this, there was a breakthrough and
even though there were still plenty
of challenges, Windows 7 started
to behave and the 1950X could once
again resume its record runs, but
under a fully sanctioned OS and
these were the results of the day.