New 3d Vantage poll

[loonym]

New poll up at hwbot... cast your votes. http://hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=2113

[loonym]

I truly think this bench is good for XS hwbot team no matter what people's personal feelings are about it.

[[XC] gomeler]

I would love to vote but for some reason I don't have a hwbot forum account or their password recovery doesn't recognize my email address. I want the default preset to scored for points though.

[loonym]

They're calling for 70% in favor of adding points in order for it to pass so that's steep odds.

[cowie]

from jmke's post at hwbot
current poll:
Yes: 61
No: 27
its close

[cadaveca]

I would love to vote but for some reason I don't have a hwbot forum account or their password recovery doesn't recognize my email address. I want the default preset to scored for points though.

ME too, and it worked beofre...

[jmke]

They're calling for 70% in favor of adding points in order for it to pass so that's steep odds.

who claimed that?

[Riggs]

I hope it passes.

[cowie]

who claimed that?

dude from hwbot news story lol
As 3Dmark Vantage does not comply to the hwbot rules (not free), we require at least 70 / 30 community majority in order to add 3DMark Vantage to the hwboint suite.

[jas420221]

I say yes, but only at the Performance level. Its asanine to think a lot of people both have 1. Vista 2. A monitor to support that resolution.

[zanzabar]

I say yes, but only at the Performance level. Its asanine to think a lot of people both have 1. Vista 2. A monitor to support that resolution.

u can use overscan and run svideo to a TV for extreme, or get a crt

[loonym]

who claimed that?

Right, just like cowie said, Rich made the rule.

[jas420221]

u can use overscan and run svideo to a TV for extreme, or get a crt

Thats lame. Im not buying other just to bench on X settings...

The point zanz was, IMHO, you want the biggest demographic you can to participate. With using extreme, you only have a select dew that could meet the criteria.

SImple Marketing.

[zanzabar]

so u dont have an svideo cable and a tv that can use it

[jmke]

Right, just like cowie said, Rich made the rule.

lol didn't even see that why didn't he discuss that with the crew

[jas420221]

so u dont have an svideo cable and a tv that can use it

Certainly I do...However my office is in a different room than my 1080p TV. I am an adult with a wife and child and cant have cables running through my house just to bench. THough 10 years ago, that would have been fine!

LIke I said, if you want a lot of people, the masses have to be able to 1. have the stuff to run it (Vista and monitor to support that res) 2. It has to/should be easy (meaning I dont have to run a cable to a tv JUST to run a benchmark.

You want the most people posting their socres and such, the default should be the standard, Performance.

[loonym]

lol didn't even see that why didn't he discuss that with the crew

Well that's for you guys to work out, lol (get him ) Very steep odds for passing but not completely unfair I suppose since it's not a free bench. That's the one major sticking point left and it's a big one even though the price is relatively cheap. I completely understand both sides of this debate.

[[XC] gomeler]

I never understood what was hard about paying for a full test suite like 3DMark.. A simple application like SuperPi or wPrime should be free as it's relatively easy to code but a 3D benchmark like Vantage? Compared to the amount of money we spend on hardware, $20 is nothing to pay for something you'll use for years.

[Stapler]

I never understood what was hard about paying for a full test suite like 3DMark.. A simple application like SuperPi or wPrime should be free as it's relatively easy to code but a 3D benchmark like Vantage? Compared to the amount of money we spend on hardware, $20 is nothing to pay for something you'll use for years.

I think it's more a matter of convenience than people actually having a problem with the price. Even the miniscule effort of typing in a billing address and credit card number is a strong deterrent when their is a one click alternative.