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TerraRaptor bags two more Core 2 Duo E8200 golds
Kazakhstani overclocker TerraRaptor secured two more gold medals with a Core 2 Duo E8200 in wPrime, after overclocking the chip and optimizing the OS.
Just two days ago, Kazakhstani overclocker TerraRaptor published his first record with the Core 2 Duo E8200 processor. Back then, the enthusiast focused solely on SuperPi — 32M, and it seemed odd that there were no validations in other benchmarks.
Now, the reason for the two-day delay in new results has finally become clear.
This time, TerraRaptor decided to benchmark his overclocked Core 2 Duo E8200 processor in wPrime - 32m and its more demanding counterpart, wPrime - 1024m. According to the enthusiast, he spent two full days tweaking and configuring his operating system:
EFFICIENCY :D Alright, to make our game fair, this is an ultimate tweak that will boost your wPrime scores on older platforms (not sure if it helps with new-gen hardware) — replace the msvbvm60.dll file in the system32 folder with DLL version 6.00.9832. This specific Visual Basic runtime library version will make wPrime benchmarks a bit faster. Use this + the right OS + other tweaks. Good luck everyone.
The Kazakhstani overclocker's insights only reinforce what we've recently said in our news coverage: pushing hardware limits isn't just about component overclocking. To achieve top benchmark scores, you also need to optimize and modify software; but never the benchmark programs themselves — that leads to immediate disqualification!
Now, let's dive into the benchmark session's results:
In the lighter wPrime - 32m run, the chip completed the test in 13 seconds and 21 milliseconds:
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⤢ ВІДКРИТИFor the more intensive wPrime - 1024m benchmark, the results were 7 minutes, 3 seconds, and 891 milliseconds:
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⤢ ВІДКРИТИIn both instances, the chip was overclocked to 5144 MHz using a phase-change cooling system.
The enthusiast only specified the ASUS Rampage Extreme motherboard as part of his test bench.
By the way, if you missed our previous news update on TerraRaptor's experiments, we recommend checking it out; the overclocker shared his ASUS Rampage Extreme motherboard modification method there.
Source: TerraRaptor's HWBot profile
