Hello bench team mates
I wanted to see if I could persuade you all to introduce yourselves
[FONT="]"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." [/FONT]
[FONT="]—Bilbo's speech at his birthday party [/FONT]
I don’t know any of you and I thought it was time to change that
Benchmarking is a hobby for me and I have played away in the background just basically enjoying the game
I didn’t really start this looking for competitions or points or even any kind of recognition, there was no recognition then
I read articles in magazines that it could be done and like the fidget that I am I learned how to do it
Building computers in those days came easy to me, my dad was an amateur repairman of anything that broke and I used to follow him around now and again
I’ll never forget the terror of my first pillion ride on the back of a scooter with him going to a job
I can’t remember how old I was but it was younger than twelve, I was praying I’d reach my teens
Lean with the bike
So how do I introduce myself and my hobby to you, if I just start rambling on then we’ll be here forever, and it probably won’t make much sense
So maybe I should format it in some way, how? A questionnaire maybe
To formal, how about an interview
We’ll call “ Interview with a Bencher ”
My name is Eddie Coyle
My Forum Benchteam name is PCTwin
D.O.B. 09/02/1957
My age. 55
I was born in Kirkcaldy, a town and former royal burgh in Fife on the east coast of Scotland
Currently living in Chorley, a market town in Lancashire in the north west of England
My first computing experience
Other than 286 based green screen business PC
The Sinclair ZX81
What an experience that was, nuff said
My first gaming experience was Elite, the original space game, and RAC rally on the BBC B micro
I just couldn’t get enough of it, I’m a big rally fan and I lost days with Elite
My first overclocking experience
The Pentium II 266 Slot1 SECC
I had this custom air cooled and clocked at 333MHz 24/7
I also have to mention the old Athlon T-Bird 1100 Socket A that belonged to my brother
This had a 266MHz bus speed and I did the pencil mod on it and had it running at 1333MHz, loved those days
My favourite motherboard
Unfortunately Abit are no longer with us, but they produced the Abit IP35Pro which held my first extreme CPU, the QX6700
I have tried four different motherboards with this chip and the Pro stood above all the others
It’s now retired to my youngest lad’s system with a Q6600 and a GTX460 and 4GB GEIL Ultra DDRII 800
I don’t know if he’ll get another upgrade before he’s old enough to leave home
My favourite GPU
It’s a 2-way battle for this
The Radeon HD48xx
I just loved messing about in the BIOS of these cards
The most memorable was my Sapphire HD4870 1GB Toxic Vapor-x, which was a monster when I watercooled it, I’m keeping hold of that till I can get a GPU pot
Then there’s my BFG 8800GTS 640, I’m saving that as well although I have had to bake in the oven once to resurrect it
I probably won’t break any records with them but it’ll be so much fun
My favourite CPU
It has to be the QX6700
As mentioned before the Abit IP35Pro was a masterpiece of overclocking, although I didn’t really get on board with the whole U-Guru hardware bit, I just had so much fun overclocking the QX6700 with the following memory
It was a real challenge keeping this cool and so it was also my first watercooled CPU as well
It was round about this time I really started to notice the competition
My favourite memory
4 x 1GB GEIL Ultra DDRII PC6400 800MHz CAS4-4-4
This memory on the aforementioned motherboard overclocked to 1022MHZ with reports from others that it would go even higher
My latest DDR3 kit overclocks just as well but on the day this kit was awesome with the right motherboard
My favourite platform for overclocking
Socket 775 was just so much fun to play with
I still miss the FSB tweaking but SB is growing on me, I am looking forward to IB
AMD or Intel
I will overclock anything that’s overclockable, whether it’s Intel or AMD
I really ain’t fussed
AMD seem to have gone for raw speed at the cost of instructions per second so on pure grunt it has to be Intel, but they all overclock
Nvidia or AMD
Same as above
AMD seem to have the upper hand at the moment but history shows, it’s all swings and roundabouts
How often do I bench
Every piece of new hardware that passes my way gets benched
Usually this hardware doesn’t belong to me, my brothers buy new stuff and bring it to me and say
What can you do with this?
Honestly
They are that crazy
And I have six brothers, unfortunately we’re a bit brassic at the moment, but the twin brother and I have a little project on the go
Do I have a favourite brand/manufacturer
Not really, I have used MSI and Gigabyte motherboards for a lot of my CPU benches
I’m not a big fan of Asus, you pay big prices for a decent motherboard but their support isn’t what it should be, but they are decent boards
What’s my test rig like
At the moment I use a Dimas tech bench table easy for all my water cooled benching but when I dice/subzero I usually use a motherboard box
I really should get something permanent for sub-zero, the Dimas bench table easyhard looks interesting with the clamp in place for a pot
I’m about to change my bench motherboard but at the moment I’m benching graphics cards on the MSI Big Bang Marshall with an i7-2600k
For memory I have 2 kits at the moment, a 4GB pair of dual channel Kingston Lovo DDR3 1600 and a 16GB quad channel G.Skill RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 kit
The RipjawsZ don’t overclock that well on SB but they can be handy for certain benchmarks and I am saving them for another project, I have overclocked them past 2300 on a different chipset
I enjoy the GPU benchmarks for the visuals, but I find it equally enjoyable getting hold of a decent CPU which will do decent wPrime 1024
In that sense I don’t favour one over the other, the challenge nowadays is as much optimising your operating system as it is your hardware
That’s me up to date so what do I look forward to?
As mentioned the twin brother (forum name RabC) and I have a little project on the go
We are playing with a couple of Asus RIVE motherboards and a pair of i7 3960X CPU’s
Unfortunately one of the boards required an RMA and it’s been botched by the supplier who is now trying to get out of it
We still have one on the go but it has made us a little more cautious so it’s taking longer than it should to set it up
A couple of GPU’s in the mix and we’ll be benching soon
I suppose it’s time to wrap this up
Tell me what you think people
Would you like to introduce yourselves as benchteam members, start your own thread
Star in your own interview, do it your own way
I wanted to see if I could persuade you all to introduce yourselves
[FONT="]"I don't know half of you half as well as I should like; and I like less than half of you half as well as you deserve." [/FONT]
[FONT="]—Bilbo's speech at his birthday party [/FONT]
I don’t know any of you and I thought it was time to change that
Benchmarking is a hobby for me and I have played away in the background just basically enjoying the game
I didn’t really start this looking for competitions or points or even any kind of recognition, there was no recognition then
I read articles in magazines that it could be done and like the fidget that I am I learned how to do it
Building computers in those days came easy to me, my dad was an amateur repairman of anything that broke and I used to follow him around now and again
I’ll never forget the terror of my first pillion ride on the back of a scooter with him going to a job
I can’t remember how old I was but it was younger than twelve, I was praying I’d reach my teens
Lean with the bike
So how do I introduce myself and my hobby to you, if I just start rambling on then we’ll be here forever, and it probably won’t make much sense
So maybe I should format it in some way, how? A questionnaire maybe
To formal, how about an interview
We’ll call “ Interview with a Bencher ”
My name is Eddie Coyle
My Forum Benchteam name is PCTwin
D.O.B. 09/02/1957
My age. 55
I was born in Kirkcaldy, a town and former royal burgh in Fife on the east coast of Scotland
Currently living in Chorley, a market town in Lancashire in the north west of England
My first computing experience
Other than 286 based green screen business PC
The Sinclair ZX81
What an experience that was, nuff said
My first gaming experience was Elite, the original space game, and RAC rally on the BBC B micro
I just couldn’t get enough of it, I’m a big rally fan and I lost days with Elite
My first overclocking experience
The Pentium II 266 Slot1 SECC
I had this custom air cooled and clocked at 333MHz 24/7
I also have to mention the old Athlon T-Bird 1100 Socket A that belonged to my brother
This had a 266MHz bus speed and I did the pencil mod on it and had it running at 1333MHz, loved those days
My favourite motherboard
Unfortunately Abit are no longer with us, but they produced the Abit IP35Pro which held my first extreme CPU, the QX6700
I have tried four different motherboards with this chip and the Pro stood above all the others
It’s now retired to my youngest lad’s system with a Q6600 and a GTX460 and 4GB GEIL Ultra DDRII 800
I don’t know if he’ll get another upgrade before he’s old enough to leave home
My favourite GPU
It’s a 2-way battle for this
The Radeon HD48xx
I just loved messing about in the BIOS of these cards
The most memorable was my Sapphire HD4870 1GB Toxic Vapor-x, which was a monster when I watercooled it, I’m keeping hold of that till I can get a GPU pot
Then there’s my BFG 8800GTS 640, I’m saving that as well although I have had to bake in the oven once to resurrect it
I probably won’t break any records with them but it’ll be so much fun
My favourite CPU
It has to be the QX6700
As mentioned before the Abit IP35Pro was a masterpiece of overclocking, although I didn’t really get on board with the whole U-Guru hardware bit, I just had so much fun overclocking the QX6700 with the following memory
It was a real challenge keeping this cool and so it was also my first watercooled CPU as well
It was round about this time I really started to notice the competition
My favourite memory
4 x 1GB GEIL Ultra DDRII PC6400 800MHz CAS4-4-4
This memory on the aforementioned motherboard overclocked to 1022MHZ with reports from others that it would go even higher
My latest DDR3 kit overclocks just as well but on the day this kit was awesome with the right motherboard
My favourite platform for overclocking
Socket 775 was just so much fun to play with
I still miss the FSB tweaking but SB is growing on me, I am looking forward to IB
AMD or Intel
I will overclock anything that’s overclockable, whether it’s Intel or AMD
I really ain’t fussed
AMD seem to have gone for raw speed at the cost of instructions per second so on pure grunt it has to be Intel, but they all overclock
Nvidia or AMD
Same as above
AMD seem to have the upper hand at the moment but history shows, it’s all swings and roundabouts
How often do I bench
Every piece of new hardware that passes my way gets benched
Usually this hardware doesn’t belong to me, my brothers buy new stuff and bring it to me and say
What can you do with this?
Honestly
They are that crazy
And I have six brothers, unfortunately we’re a bit brassic at the moment, but the twin brother and I have a little project on the go
Do I have a favourite brand/manufacturer
Not really, I have used MSI and Gigabyte motherboards for a lot of my CPU benches
I’m not a big fan of Asus, you pay big prices for a decent motherboard but their support isn’t what it should be, but they are decent boards
What’s my test rig like
At the moment I use a Dimas tech bench table easy for all my water cooled benching but when I dice/subzero I usually use a motherboard box
I really should get something permanent for sub-zero, the Dimas bench table easyhard looks interesting with the clamp in place for a pot
I’m about to change my bench motherboard but at the moment I’m benching graphics cards on the MSI Big Bang Marshall with an i7-2600k
For memory I have 2 kits at the moment, a 4GB pair of dual channel Kingston Lovo DDR3 1600 and a 16GB quad channel G.Skill RipjawsZ DDR3 2133 kit
The RipjawsZ don’t overclock that well on SB but they can be handy for certain benchmarks and I am saving them for another project, I have overclocked them past 2300 on a different chipset
I enjoy the GPU benchmarks for the visuals, but I find it equally enjoyable getting hold of a decent CPU which will do decent wPrime 1024
In that sense I don’t favour one over the other, the challenge nowadays is as much optimising your operating system as it is your hardware
That’s me up to date so what do I look forward to?
As mentioned the twin brother (forum name RabC) and I have a little project on the go
We are playing with a couple of Asus RIVE motherboards and a pair of i7 3960X CPU’s
Unfortunately one of the boards required an RMA and it’s been botched by the supplier who is now trying to get out of it
We still have one on the go but it has made us a little more cautious so it’s taking longer than it should to set it up
A couple of GPU’s in the mix and we’ll be benching soon
I suppose it’s time to wrap this up
Tell me what you think people
Would you like to introduce yourselves as benchteam members, start your own thread
Star in your own interview, do it your own way
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