Well first your run has to warrant points. There are two main categories; hardware (whatever you are running) and global. The hardware points can be very tough. If I remember right, you have to be in the top 25 for that piece of hardware to get the points. For example, you would need to have a score that was within the top 25 of all scores in 3Dmark06 with gtx280 Tri-SLI, or top 25 of all QX9770's in super pi, pi fast, wprime etc.

The global points start coming a little faster. If you rank I think in the top 1000 or 500 (can't remember right now) you begin to get points. The only time you get points for beating an old score is if that old score already was warranted points. You only get points for your highest score for a particular set of hardware on a particular bench.

That kinda somes it up but you can go here to get the official explanation... http://hwbot.org/hwbot.post.do?postId=38

I hope I didn't make that too confusing :rofl One thing to remember about your setup Jeffro is that your hardware was the most popular for xtreme benchers for some time and has been benched to death. That means that it's gonna take a great score for alot of the benches to get hardware points. With your setup, global points should still be obtainable. One thing that will speed up the points process before you build your bench rig is definitely upping the OC on the CPU and video cards. Even if you don't have a copy of XP right now, you could still install a copy of vista on a spare HDD for benching. This protects you from losing data on your day to day hard drive due to a failed overclock. That's what I do anyways. I game on my bench rig daily, but have an extra HDD that I use to bench.

That makes sence...Now I really can't wait to have my new bench rig LOL. So I would be wasting my time benching at stock speeds instead of just OC'ing it from the get go...but I can start with one GPU/HD and get points for that and then get more when another card/HD (Raid) is added right?

If I had another SATA drive lying around I would do that (Note to self...get another HD) and run XP for benching also. But as far as OC'ing the CPU on this rig... I think i've gone as far as I can go just about without some help from someone that knows more about the bios settings and what they do. LOL... Same on the GPU's, I mean i've got it all up there a little bit but most of that was just playing around and it's really all greek to me right now. I am having alot of fun though!:D

And dammit.... I forgot to go get a headset today for Vent.

Ok, the only bench that raid is really going to help you is PCmark. Other than that you just wanna run a single hdd. When you are using onboard raid it's uber easy to screw up the OS when overclocking. Just stick to one HDD.

If you go look at my hwbot profile, you'll see that I have some stock runs in there. It's not always about getting points. hwbot is also a great place to see your improvements in the benching. You will most likely not get points running a stock system but I see you'ver already got a couple with a mild overclock anyway.

If something seems greek to you then start a thread. We hate having new threads to help out somebody with onverclocking :rolleyes: You said the most important thing though, you are having fun :D That's what matters.



Oh that's almost a user infraction :smackbum:

Yeah I picked up another point or so by just tightening up my timings on my ram to 8-8-8-24 2t but I couldn't get it to boot at 1t or anything lower than 8. Most likely just a setting i'm missing or this bios LOL.

I'll get a headset today though. :D