View on HWBot Team Cup 2012????

ObscureParadox

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I kinda like the idea of the Team Cup, and i'm sure quite a lot of you will agree with me, it's a good alternative to the monthly challenges. They seem to be using cheep tech too, old stuff and new, so everybody can get involved, even me
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I think this will help increase the number of points in the old hardware too, this means if your like me and can't afford to buy the latest kit all the time, you can still rack up quite a few hardware and team power points.

What do you guys think though???
 
I can make a decent pcmark05 score with my i7-970 on dice,and if i can get the money for a decent z77 setup,maybe some 03 with gtx285 and gtx460 i have in my posesion right now.Maybe i will buy some older gpu`s i can use for at least some good vantage scores.

But i wont spend money on any old setups yet.
 
I've got a DDR1 ram kit that should be able to easily do around 350Mhz on air, problem is that i've not found a 939CPU that can handle them speeds yet, have got it to 325Mhz, but it didn't look like it was the ram that was unstable, more the memory controller or the CPU. I've already got a lot of old hardware as that's what i originally bought when i had next to no money at all. Got a shed load of Socket A/462 CPU's for £5 and got hold of a NF7 for £3, then went a bought a NFII Ultra B for £10 (Killed That board by accident). Also got stuff for AGP as I've got a 4Core-DualSATA2 . Then I've got an Ultra-D for the 939 socket and a LanParty 250GB for socket 754. So i should be OK for old hardware i think
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If i could get an ASUS U3S6 for my lanparty board then i should be able to get pretty decent PCMark scores too, just need to get another Vertex for RAID then me thinks. Oh and i can get a load of old AGP cards for the "Geforce History Tour" since they have a box full of them, i'm sure there will be a few ATI Rage cards in there too
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Would very much like to get hold of a A75-UD4 board and a 3870K if i could, would love to have a go at benching them, sub zero of course. That of course then means that i'm going to have to get myself an LN2 pot. Seems like i'm gunna need a lot of money to feel my needs
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Shouldn't be too much of a problem though, exams end soon so i can go back to work and earn some cash, also sell around £200 worth of surplus stock i've got in my room. Should give me a healthy budget to spend on hardware.
 
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