New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

[MACMAC]

YOu need to get cpu manuf to seed EVERYONE in the comp the best of the best and we all go for it

I agree, but Intel's not up for that anymore. Legal reasons

[George_o/c]

I agree, but Intel's not up for that anymore. Legal reasons

What ? For real ?

[Kinc]

Hi mate, Sorry - you're name was down because I asked Asus at Computex who they wanted and they said you. I've been trying to contact you since. I'll have a word off thread...

It is indeed a great initative, love it! But as Sham says it will get endlessley time consuming. Have I understood correct that all listed benchmarks + achievment will running for 5 months or devided 1 per months?

[[XC] gomeler]

It is indeed a great initative, love it! But as Sham says it will get endlessley time consuming. Have I understood correct that all listed benchmarks + achievment will running for 5 months or devided 1 per months?

I would hope it would be 1 benchmark per month. Would really be frustrating/infuriating/stressful to hold #1 in a benchmark for nearly all the season to only have someone snipe you at the end.

I agree, but Intel's not up for that anymore. Legal reasons

Ask AMD? I personally would love to see AMD sponsor this with chips. $5,000 in silicon would go a long way for PR

[youngpro]

dino and i shotgun brawn gp colors... and i am only to be refered to as Jenson from this day forth!

[Stapler]

I think the best idea is for every team to receive cherry picked CPUs at the very least, but and this is a big but, those CPUs cannot be used for other competitions such as HWBot and the ORB. It would probably be a good idea for the cherry picked chips to be ID'd differently by CPUz to insure that they don't find there way into other competitions. That way this league is clearly set apart and distinguished from other competitions. This would not only make the league more exciting, but it would mitigate the problems posed to other competitions by cherry picked CPUs. I think everyone wants to see the craziest results they can, and to a certain extent that requires the cherry picked CPUs, but on the other hand they also break the hobby for the rest of us. This F1 competition is an opportunity to not only see what those chips can do, but to keep them out of the hobby at large. If this is set up right, this could really be the best of both worlds for us, but Vince is right, let them have the best hardware they can get there hands on(just don't let them us it on HWBot).

[dinos22]

dino and i shotgun brawn gp colors... and i am only to be refered to as Jenson from this day forth!

lovin the new avatar ...i was thinking more like Mark Webber and Sebastian Vettel ROFL ROFL ROFL........

i like that idea vince

Intel/AMD seeding the best of the best to competitors (also agree to keep these chips OFF hwbot)

dont see how that could have legal implications

i dont think anyone will sue Ferrari because their new car from showroom performs nowhere near F1 car capabilities right

[emo]

WOW,,, seems will be a excellent event... Team CHINA still TBC????? :P

[massman]

and i am only to be refered to as Jen-Hsun from this day forth!

How's CUDA coming?

[Charles Wirth]

Manufactures seeding all participants is a good idea and that way they would be allowed a in the competition as a sponsor.

I have the time and have thought it over, Nick will let you guys know later.

Macci and ? team AMD?

[The_Overclocker]

So let me get this stright, sorry I might be a bit confused.

It's the manufactures who are picking the team members or OverClocker ?

Depends on the team. Most manufacturers have picked their own people. Other teams were picked through discussing at live OC finals.

Still nothing is finalised and much is changing all the time.

[The_Overclocker]

Also I don't get the country classification of non-manuf teams, shouldn't it be more like privateer classification or something? These guys will still get manuf support just like the other guys.

Privateer is exactly the right term - but not everyone knows it! In a few seasons, it will be interesting to see if, say, Team Finland is still team Finland... or some sponsor's team. All national teams listed are highly sponsored already.

[The_Overclocker]

I have another concern ... Is there any perspective in creating even larger teams ? I do get that 2 membered teams is the way to go for now, but will that be discussed in the future ? There is huge potential on such League, I don't even want to talk about what's going to change if everything's goes as planned by you guys (The Overclocker). But really, if only two membered teams are going to compete (I'm not referring to Season 1 here, just thinking about the future of such a sport), then lots of guys will lose interest.

It's going to be very adaptive. If rules need introducing then they'll get introduced. It's all so new, we want to get season 1 going and see what happens.

I think there should always be a limit on team numbers though - it gets impossible to follow for non-die hards then. It also means there's nowhere to hide for competitors and only the cream stay in the league.

[The_Overclocker]

retail/available hw rule is SERIOUSLY flawed, because it is easy to make any ES look like retail and like manuf cant cherry pick a retail sample anyway?
YOu need to get cpu manuf to seed EVERYONE in the comp the best of the best and we all go for it , THATS what its really about.
Each team gets limited amount of ES cpus with special ES CPUZ coding or something that must be shown in all screenshots, and if you burn them all up your done. F1 teams have a limited amount of engines they can use.

Can we try season 1 first and then see if it would be better to change? There are benefits either way. Yes, the retail rule is a bit more SuperBikes than F1. But manufacturers are going to want 'in' more if they see their retail boards appearing at the top of lists with retail kit - people will want to buy them. That said, you're right too.

However, it will be harder to go back to that rule (if needed) than move to it if deemed popular for season 1.

All the manufacturers are aware of the retail rule at present so I wouldn't want to change it. Smaller ones (eg DFI) might want to pull out. or something.

[The_Overclocker]

It is indeed a great initative, love it! But as Sham says it will get endlessley time consuming. Have I understood correct that all listed benchmarks + achievment will running for 5 months or devided 1 per months?

One per month. Over 5 months.

[The_Overclocker]

I think the best idea is for every team to receive cherry picked CPUs at the very least, but and this is a big but, those CPUs cannot be used for other competitions such as HWBot and the ORB. It would probably be a good idea for the cherry picked chips to be ID'd differently by CPUz to insure that they don't find there way into other competitions. That way this league is clearly set apart and distinguished from other competitions. This would not only make the league more exciting, but it would mitigate the problems posed to other competitions by cherry picked CPUs. I think everyone wants to see the craziest results they can, and to a certain extent that requires the cherry picked CPUs, but on the other hand they also break the hobby for the rest of us. This F1 competition is an opportunity to not only see what those chips can do, but to keep them out of the hobby at large. If this is set up right, this could really be the best of both worlds for us, but Vince is right, let them have the best hardware they can get there hands on(just don't let them us it on HWBot).

Starts getting very very tricky to manage. Plus Intel refuse to do super-binning anymore. Which is good. They've got their regular team of 35 but that's it. And they've more important things to do!

[gallag]

Its all getting pretty complicated, What ever happened to just overclocking the sh1t out of your hardware and posting your results for your fellow enthusiasts to appreciate. It is all just a scam now and news of high clocks don't excite me any more because it is more a proof of concept from the manufactures that from some guy pushing the limits for no other reward than the respect of his peers. Remember why XS started.

[The_Overclocker]

OK so...

Team Greece will defo be Hipro and grphellas.

Team DFI looks to be completely open - PM me if you're interested.

Team Tom's Hardware will have new personnel (better supplied). It will hopefully consist of two of no_name, stummerwinter or joe_cool

Team MSI will probably be Benchtec

Team Asus is all up in the air - I'll talk to HQ on Monday. I'm still hearing crotale and elmor mentioned for it.

Team EVGA is probably k|ngp|n and Andre Yang

FUGGER is in charge of Team USA what with winning GOOC and all. He can call a vote or do what he wants!

Hicookie still hasn't chosen a partner for Team Gigabyte.

I'd REALLY like to see giorgioprimo and Zolkorn involved too!

PM me if you want to be put forward for teams!

[The_Overclocker]

Its all getting pretty complicated, What ever happened to just overclocking the sh1t out of your hardware and posting your results for your fellow enthusiasts to appreciate. It is all just a scam now and news of high clocks don't excite me any more because it is more a proof of concept from the manufactures that from some guy pushing the limits for no other reward than the respect of his peers. Remember why XS started.

Not really.

14 teams
5 bencharks
5 months.

Just discussing who's in the teams. No limits yet. Most discussion has been on what ifs and personnel. It's why I'm so keen to bullishly push this through quickly to avoid everything getting hung-up on bureaucracy!

[carpo93]

very nice idea
i love this kind of competitions, and i also love f1 racing, i live near Ferrari's headquarter, in maranello

[gallag]

Not really.

14 teams
5 bencharks
5 months.

Just discussing who's in the teams. No limits yet. Most discussion has been on what ifs and personnel. It's why I'm so keen to bullishly push this through quickly to avoid everything getting hung-up on bureaucracy!

But that is the thing, The money people i.e manufactures have already decided the teams, This sentence killed this "we were actively talked out of having a team UK team for this by the industry because there simply aren't many people in the UK who care about extreme overclocking"

I think this will not be the last time you guys will be "actively talked out of " doing what is right because some people will not make as much money.

[dinos22]

so who do we get to sponsor us all to fly to Monaco and take the main casino for our event while we all get a third team mate of our choice.....i think it would be nice to get some help from say Monica Belucci

hey i wonder if Timbo the pimp might be able to finally stop womanising in Indonesia and be hicookie's partner in crime They did well in the past as a duo

[The_Overclocker]

But that is the thing, The money people i.e manufactures have already decided the teams, This sentence killed this "we were actively talked out of having a team UK team for this by the industry because there simply aren't many people in the UK who care about extreme overclocking"

I think this will not be the last time you guys will be "actively talked out of " doing what is right because some people will not make as much money.

Noone's making any money. We're just excited about putting together a series that people have been talking about (at live events) for a long time. It would be good if we did make some money. Hopefully down the line. It won't just be The Overclocker at all. The prize money and potential sponsorship should be big for the competitors.

UK is alsmost certainly going to be Benchtec now. Keep up!

[The_Overclocker]

so who do we get to sponsor us all to fly to Monaco and take the main casino for our event while we all get a third team mate of our choice.....i think it would be nice to get some help from say Monica Belucci

hey i wonder if Timbo the pimp might be able to finally stop womanising in Indonesia and be hicookie's partner in crime They did well in the past as a duo

Can you imagine!

And I'll fly you to Monaco when I have my Maybach and fifty yaughts and Bernie Ecclestone-style glasses.

There's a multi-quote button? Sorry.

[gallag]

Noone's making any money. We're just excited about putting together a series that people have been talking about (at live events) for a long time. It would be good if we did make some money. Hopefully down the line. It won't just be The Overclocker at all. The prize money and potential sponsorship should be big for the competitors.

UK is alsmost certainly going to be Benchtec now. Keep up!

OK dude, Thanks for taking the time to reply, Looking better.