I also didn't mean to be offending in any way mate... I was just showing your rig as an exemple. Your overclock is no easy feat and deserve every praise no matter the GFlops output... But for people down below like me, optimizing every bit alongside with Core freq. can net great results without any costly cooling setup... And while you totally have a place in any VIP OC club on the planet, we, less fortunate/lucky people, can still find a way in too...
And about this club, my initial thought was that frequency alone, no matter how high, tends to be irrelevant... Slap a 2600K on any P67 board, take the MP up even at stock Vcore, you can hit 4.5GHz very easily. Nothing shiny here, one can admit. But, making sure you're running your memory at the tightest timing, your CPU at, say, +20-25% OC, maintain temps at a good level not only on Vcore, in a word, take the time to tweak every single aspect of your OC, now that deserves praise and recognition... And that recognition should be awarded based on each person's setup, settings applied, and results measured...
 
Just my 2 cents.

Don't get me wrong, man... you don't need to prove/confirm anything... Your vantage score speaks for you. :p

haazhel

Don't get me wrong, man... you don't need to prove/confirm anything... Your vantage score speaks for you. :p

 
 
Don't worry bout it were good and I understand your reasoning. I mean even at 91G/flops thats really not that impressive considering your hitting 81@ 4.2ghz vs 91 @ 5.2. I want to think at some point in time the computing power must drop. I'm sure theres a equation where the gflops are expontially related to the inverse proportion of the l3 cache devided by the derivative of the ram ratio, but I'm not going to figure it out.  

kram36

KMoore4318


Keep in mind the lower you set the bar, the more work there will be for you, because the more people that will meet it, as more people pick up 980, or 990 CPU's the more of a cake walk meeting the goal will become, and the more people you will have e-mailing or PMing you asking why you have not updated the post, I'm not trying to talk you out of anything, just making sure you know what your gitting into. 

I would set specific days for stats updates. Like in the evenings on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday. There would be no need for anyone to pm for a status update. As for the Ghz goal... if 4.4Ghz is what you guys want, then that will be it. I will have to say 4.4Ghz does put more of an elite status to the goal.

As I said earlier today, a  4.2Ghz requirement is fine with me for the x58 chipset---just my 2 cents-----4.4Ghz does add more a challenge, but is a very reasonable standard.
Weekly updates on " on Sunday, Tuesday and Thursday" sounds like a very good idea.

kram36

I was under the impression this was for the X58 chipset only?

 
I stand corrected-----the X58 chipset only.
 
I just edited my  post above.

I'm going to contact a few members from here that I know are good with signature badges and see what they can come up with.

Yeah we are going to go with 4.2Ghz. Maybe you could hit that goal? It's going to be harder for the guys with i7 920 chips, but to be honest all three of the i7 950's I've had did 4.2Ghz folding 24/7. One took a little more voltage, but they all did it. LinX is probably a little tougher then folding though.

Good commentary ElessaRLS
 
To forum members: Are you having trouble running the updated LinX at 20x 25000 problems with 6G of ram?
Tip no. 1:Try restarting Linx until the Physical memory available "bar" shows 4788.
Tip no. 2: Start LinX at 20x 4535 of available memory and 24350 problem size (for example).Run it for 10 to 30 seconds. Stop LinX and the available "bar" will show 4788. Set problem size to 25000 and start LinX. If this does not work, repeat the process for tip no. 2.

Nice Wall'o'text :)
 
On the serious side, that's why i proposed entry in the 4+Ghz i7 Stability Club depending on results submitted for review... Depending on the efforts, optimizations, proven stability and higher performance, on a one by one basis, access should be granted. I realize this require a lot of work to review each case, but it's more fair for everyone, and as such could still be the 4+Ghz i7 Stability Club and keep the already legendary banner.

Holy **** someone had a few to many tokes last night cough cough rexrzer........just kidding...No I see his point and see it's validity, but I'm like some that would be a lot of work to seperate like that. I agree seperate the 920s and 980s or the quad cores and six cores, but trying to seperate water, air, chiller may get into a bit more work. And with trying to score #'s for total G/Flops, theyres no true scoring system about it. So I believe that going a little far. IMO only. I think keep it close to the original and have a quad core and a six core section. As yeah I agree to seperate chips there are going to be very few if any 920,930,40 and maybe even 50's capable of passing linx at 5ghz.

Unfortunately it IS going to be a lot of work for whomever takes over this so-called
"job" of running any sort of "4+Ghz Core i7 Stability Club" thread, and I mean that
in the most generous and positive way possible. Whomever decides that this deal is
going to be "My Baby" should full well know before they get into doing it that it is most
definitely going to be a labor of large proportions, that it will need to be done on time
with some sort of scheduling for updates, so that people's efforts are rewarded in an 
appropriate time frame, so that there's not a months'-long backlog of new qualifiers and
qualified members waiting to be added to the "list", such as it will be, in whatever new 
form/format it turns out to be.
 
With that in mind, @ KMoore and anyone else contemplating being a contributor or guide or
mentor to this new and renewed effort to recognize the high achievers here at the EVGA.com
X58 Forum, it needs to be duly noted that without a full and complete commitment to do this
"job" of keeping such a Forum thread intact, up to date and current, weeded out of all fraud and
bogus (there will be those who will indeed "fake" their qualification run, it goes without saying)
attempts at putting down a "fake" or "fabricated" qualifier run, complete with fake statistics and
utility read-outs...in short, the person who works on this new Forum thread to the best of their ability
had best be someone who is genuinely interested in keeping such a thread 100% accurate and
valid (in the extreme sense of those words), someone with a bit of a detective in their repertoire,
a little bit of computer-savvy and knowledgeable, and certainly somebody with an acumen for the good old
all-American standard ethic of hard work, toil, and hardly any reward for the effort to boot!
 
Yessir, the person who takes over such a thread had best be part magician, statistics expert, closet
organizer, arrangement maker, and top all that off with this thought: he'd best also be a bit of an expert
at reading human nature and good intentions vs those which are not so good, albeit part psychologist and
head-shrinker too! This "job" is not going to be much fun most likely after awhile, so the commander-in-chief
of such a Forum thread needs to be self-motivated and self-serving also, somebody who knows that their
hard work will mostly go unnoticed and will not get any special rewards for being there 24/7, waiting and ready
to go after the "job" on a reasonable schedule and time frame so that people don't get disappointed and all
blown out because their particular qualification run didn't get posted, lost, misplaced, forgotten, mis-directed or
filed in the wrong part of the thread, God knows we wouldn't want that to start happening now would we?
 
Overall the many-faceted person who does this job should be able to keep track of things in a very, very special
manner so that the members of the Forum get their special badges of merit or signature moniker, whatever the
reward happens to be, even if it's the same old familiar banner-caption proclaiming the member to be a member of the "4+Ghz Core i7 Stability Club", and get those special banners to the right people, not the wrong people, every single time, without fail! Hopefully such a person won't burn out like a fallen leaf in winter after a month or two of the serious toil of taking care of this new thread, and that they will somehow actually enjoy doing the drudgery and toil and hard-core organizing of statistics and data and people's Forum screen names, and maybe they will even have a sense of humor and be an artisan or sorts over the whole situation because man alive, they are sure going to need that sense of humor and artisan-ship since this particular "job" will demand a lot of their "spare time and free time", it will take them down the roads of late-night sleep deprivation and afternoon exhaustion, and their efforts will largely go without any reward whatsoever, save for having the personal satisfaction of doing such a "job" so well that nobody has any reason to beetch, complain, hyper-criticize, or otherwise voice displeasure about anything at all, really.
 
If there is any doubt about the new list-manager's necessary  qualifications and specially needed talents just ask and I'll give you the short-form list rather than this dissertation about the whole thing in long-hand form, rest assured, because I've done such a "job" before myself, so I think that I have a handle on the things that such a person will need to be both successful and accomplished at a task like this, day in and day out, time and time again, working week after week for no pay, no personal gain, and certainly no compensation whatsoever. Doing this "job" will be benevolence itself, it will be like doing everything constantly, time after time again, for no reward or special treat, it's a "gratis" situation all in one, and God forbid if there should ever be a typographical error or incorrect decimal point placed errantly in someone's dossier, because there will be Hell to pay! 
 
This may be partly written in jest for the benefit of all who aspire to the position of "List Manager" or shall we call such a "job" something else, maybe "Thread Master", or maybe something like "Statistics King"? Well, why not? We may as well embellish the poor soul with some immortal treasure of a name so that they at least feel fantastic about having the job and won't complain about it no matter what happens. I mean what harm could come from such a gesture, and surely a great title like "Original Prankster" has its own built-in reward, perhaps? I dunno, fill in the blanks yourselves and maybe we'll come up with something to treasure, something unique and meaningful that will generate its own meritorious trophy system, who knows what a great name can conjure up...and maybe, just maybe it will help us get the absolute right person for this "job"!
 
rexrzer77 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

If you guys want me to do this deal, it has to be 4.2Ghz minimum. I'm almost under the impression that 4.2Ghz is setting the bar too low. The words ELITE needs to mean something. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry with a pc should be handed this tittle.
 
I personally would rather see the bar set at 4.4Ghz.
 
Also the old banner will not be used. Like I said I've contacted a few members here to design a banner for this Club. I have heard back from two people. I may also look into having a customizable  banner that will have the members name in it so people just can't add the banner to their signature without people knowing they did indeed earn it.
 
It's going to take a little bit to get this all together.

kram36

If you guys want me to do this deal, it has to be 4.2Ghz minimum. I'm almost under the impression that 4.2Ghz is setting the bar too low. The words ELITE needs to mean something. Not every Tom, Dick and Harry with a pc should be handed this tittle.

I personally would rather see the bar set at 4.4Ghz.

Also the old banner will not be used. Like I said I've contacted a few members here to design a banner for this Club. I have heard back from two people. I may also look into having a customizable  banner that will have the members name in it so people just can't add the banner to their signature without people knowing they did indeed earn it.

It's going to take a little bit to get this all together.

Since you are going to create the new thread and update it three days a week,I think it is your call. 4.2Ghz for the x58 chipset. 4.4Ghz for the  x58 chipset.
 
I think putting the forum member's name in the new banner is a good idea.
And yes, setting up the new thread is going to take  some time and effort.
Thank you for doing the work.

 
Here is a thought on the bar, make it 50% OC so your not , incresing the bar on the 920's , but also making the limit fair, and same for all.
A 920 2.66*1.50= 4.0
A 930 2.80 *1.50=4.2
A 950 3.02*1.50= 4.53
A 970 3.2*1.50=4.8
A 980 3.33*1.50= 4.99
A 990 3.46*1.50 = 5.19
 
( of corse you can modify the percent up( or down ) , if you wish to adjust the # of particapants )  

4.99 on air? LOL I would say "NONE"?