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yes, that would be fine, you can of cousre use dry ice for one bench and run the other ones on air or water, but you would end up in the dry ice category, even if only one bench was made with dry ice.... otherwise it would be unfair.
and yes, adding fans is allowed, changing a waterblock or stuff like that is allowed.
the only thing that isnt would be going fron air to water, water to phase change or things like that :)
How many weeks will this prix be? Leaving for basic training in 8 weeks hopefully I have enough time to be around for the whole thing or maybe submit it all a bit sooner damn just when I'm about to leave all this fun gets underway :(
should be 1 wek for each bench, at least 4 weeks (2k1 2k3 2k5 aq3) probably more.
since we will start in 2 weeks it looks like you might not have the chance to take part in it :(
2 + 4 = 6 ?
6 < 8 ?
Right ?
4+x ;)
but it might work... if we hurry up and start the competition in 2 weeks or less and only use 5 or 6 benches it will work out :)
i think we should only use 5 benches max... 6 weeks would be too long i think...
what do you guys think?
5 would work for me :p: I want to hurry up and win my prize :banana: what would the 5th test be? SPI? Cinbench? Something out of Sandra?
I think 01/03/05/AM3/Pi 8M/cinbench should be done.
I've never done cinbench so that should be fun :D
And 8M instead of 1M on the Pi because its harder to do. Use the ms/anticheat version and you can do 1000 - seconds taken = points. So say it takes you 4 and a half minutes, thats 1000 - 270 = 730 points. Around the same amount as the 3d benchies. Maybe lower the 1000 to 800 or so since its an easier bench than 3d?
Well, what's the 8M world record ?
6 weeks is a looong competition ... but it might be funner that way.
i like cinebench tbh, but troman and me will have to discuss this and decide what we want to chose. but as ive said before, this competition is for you guys, we want you to have fun, so if you have a special bench youd prefer we will of course listen to you if theres a clear voice for a certain bench :)
Wow totally forgot about it what about PCMARK?
:lol: yeah that other futuremark benchmark that doesn't have flying missiles, exploding space ships, and matrix scene ripoffs... That sounds good!
pcmark? hmmmm tbh i find it a bad overall system performence indicator and its a really boring and ugly benchmark imo... :P
should items not on the market be allowed that might give an unfair advantage? such as macci using the crossfire...
I like render bench, something like 1000-time in straight seconds x 2.5
hmmmm why? id like to see some crossfire results, wouldnt you? :D
but yeah, unless there are several people with crossfire boards/cards it wont count in the same category of course. running sli and crossfire in the same category wouldnt be fun for people running sli :D
added to the competition rules :)
I still think we should force the multi card guys to take one card out...
How about at least 8M pi?
:D Hey - nice idea, maybe I'm onboard. But 1 week for each part of competition is not enough time. Many of us have to work a lot and dealed never before with some benchmarks (pesonally I never used Aquamark & PC Mark).
So to get familiar with all the bench programs the competion requires and to install them and run a couple of tests one week is a short time.
O.K. - one week contains 168 hours if You don't sleep or go to work but that is unrealistic - so what about a longer distance for each part? Maybe 2 weeks.
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Unless I am missing something, shouldn't it be pretty realistic for the benches to all be run inside of 1 evening? Can't help but think that if it takes a week to finish 25 minutes worth of benches, you might be out of the running.
Maybe I am totally on crack, or maybe I am just familiar with benching on these programs. Or maybe, it is a simple contest, first one of it's kind at that, and it is not life and death.
You can always prepare before the actual week ;) During the actual week it should only take you a day or two of benching to give a good score. More than a week is just way to long. Less than a week and some of the guys with busy lives may have to drop out due to lack of time to run the bench.
I am not one to be fast about benching but i dont think I am that slow that I would need 2 weeks. I think one week is fine. :fact:
Don't know about you guys, but we are in full summer mode here in Seattle, Washington. So...I need to do a little cold weather dance to the Gods above :p:
I would like to see the rules say it has to be a COMPUTER to even be in the competition. Not a heap of parts lying on the table. A computer (PC) is all installed in a case such as sold by Proprietary system builders.
com·put·er
n.
1. A device that computes, especially a programmable electronic machine that performs high-speed mathematical or logical operations or that assembles, stores, correlates, or otherwise processes information.
says nothing bout cases here.
You know what I mean. :slap: How often do you go to the store and see a computer for sell without a case? :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Wiggy McShades