New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

[saaya]

When the MLB/NBA/NHL/NFL were first created people complained that they were just trying to exploit popular hobbies for their own monetary gain. However, that turned out pretty well for those who competed in those hobbies, no?

Not only will the competitors have access to a metric-ton of free hardware, but they will also have the opportunity to get paid to overclock. I fail to see the exploitation.

Therefore, if The Overclocker were to gain financially for organizing all of this, I have zero problems with it.

Saaya might as well limit GPU clocks too if you are limiting CPU clocks.

If I was on team Intel, does that mean my sponsor could not provide me a chip?

there isnt that big of a diference in gpu clocks and there is no gpu binning going on, well at least so far :/

about team intel, well yeah, of course not...
if you could get a handpicked cpu from intel then how would any other team have a chance?
seriously, try to see this from everybody elses perspective there for a minute

or were you just kidding?
you cant compare the two... all you need to play basketball is a 50$ or less ball, once in a few years maybe, and a pair of 200$ shoes, and the latter isnt really necessary...

its about selling hardware here, and the way companies are starting to use overclockers to mislead cutomers and buy certain hardware rubs me the wrong way, and i dont see it changing all the sudden, just because...

dont get me wrong, sure, if ocers get paid for clocking and benching and theres a fair competition going on and it helps to push mfcs to improve their hardware, hey, thats great... i just dont hope it happens on the back of the average joe user who gets misled to buy hardware that doesnt perform as good as advertized...

its not exactly like the F1 either, cause nobody really buys an F1 car... if you would compare F1 and overclocking then its as if the F1 would be racing with propper F1 cars but build a carbon fibre cover for them to make them look like their best selling street cars, and claims its the same thing to boost their sales, but actually people buy a diferent product than what they see winning the races...

see what i mean?

if its really in propper F1 style and its non retail silicon vs non retail silicon, and nobody claims its retail silicon then thats fine... but thats not how intel and amd play right now...

and yes, hipro and giorgiprimo in one team is kinda weird, but sounds like fun