Xtreme Grand Prix discussion

[saaya]

EDIT:
If you have a Question about the competition please first read the competition rules to see if they answer your question(s) HERE
If you want to register to join the competition please please visit the registration booth HERE



Troman had the idea to make a new 3d contest not using only one benchmark but several ones to make it more demanding. i had thougt about a similar thing before and we both worked on the idea.
this is what we came up with so far:

we thougt we would use 3dmark 2001, 2003 and 2005 as well as aquamark, superpi and pifast. the results of all scores will be used to calculate a final score.

the current scoring system we thougt off looks like this:
3Dmark05 result divided by 15
3Dmark03 result divided by 30
3Dmark01 result divided by 40
Aquamark result divided by 100
Superi (1000-result)X10
Pifast (1000-result)X10

all scores will be added up and form the final Ultimate 3d score wich will be meassured in Xtreme Marks

we are still tweaking the rating system to make each benchmark as important as the other ones and to adopt it to each benchmark, as some scale more than others.

the contest will go as following:
to take part you have to register first, post the specs of the systems you will be competing with and details about the cooling, and if possible a pic of the system if any part in your system dies you can only finish the competition by replacing it with an identical piece of hardware.
the contest will run like a grand prix, but instead of having several race tracks we will have several benchmarks
we will run one benchmark for one week, and then switch to the next benchmark in line.
you will have a 1 week time window to tweak your system for a benchmark and submit your best shot, after that week is over all scores for that benchmark get locked, and your highest result in that benchmark for that week will be used to calculate the final score.

categories:
we will naturally split the field of racers into several categories from a "formula1" to a "demolition derby"
we havent decided about the categories yet though, and we came to the conclusion that it would be best to watch the systems of the participants of this competition and then create categories to evenly split the participants to. (if we make a cacade categopry and only 2 people use a cascade this would be pretty pointless for example...)

prizes:
honor, glory, loads of women and a pic of you on the front page

start and end date:
not set yet

please let us know what you think!
any feedback is welcome

we would appreciate it if some of you could post results of your system at stock speeds and at oced speeds in as many of the benchmarks we are going to use as possible, wich will be very helpfull to see what bench scales how, this will help us to tweak the formula to calculate the Xtreme Marks

and if you think we should drop a benchmark from the line or add another one, please let us know!

- Saaya and Troman