New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

[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?

[Drwho?]

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?

I am making sure that intel will not provide hand picked CPUs. You guys will have to deal with what is in the stores. On real product, no misleading!

Francois

[mike]

I am making sure that intel will not provide hand picked CPUs. You guys will have to deal with what is in the stores. On real product, no misleading!

Francois

sounds great - let's even out the platform a bit !

[dread77]

I am making sure that intel will not provide hand picked CPUs. You guys will have to deal with what is in the stores. On real product, no misleading!

Francois

That's an honest move I hope that AMD will go the same way.

[dinos22]

I am making sure that intel will not provide hand picked CPUs. You guys will have to deal with what is in the stores. On real product, no misleading!

Francois

sounds great - let's even out the platform a bit !

how does that even out the competition?

It seems to me that Francois does not have the last word in intel on cherries anyways (erm someone talking about a 6GHz Pi chip lol the other day)

[k|ngp|n]

I am making sure that intel will not provide hand picked CPUs. You guys will have to deal with what is in the stores. On real product, no misleading!

Francois

Only problem with that is most retail i7's arent that great for extreme overclocking

Also this part is HUGE:
The benchmark submissions must follow the same rules and standards for submission as both the orb and hwbot.
NO POST PROCESSING DISABLE, NO MIPMAP REG HACK, NO TIME WARP, NO PHOTOSHOP, NO BS PERIOD.
If you are caught using any of these on your benching your results should be disqualified and you should be made a complete ASS of.
I see the goofy stuff that goes on at these events and I dont want it to tranfer over to this. These rules for submissions need to be clarified before any benching begins

[The_Overclocker]

Also this part is HUGE:
The benchmark submissions must follow the same rules and standards for submission as both the orb and hwbot.
NO POST PROCESSING DISABLE, NO MIPMAP REG HACK, NO TIME WARP, NO PHOTOSHOP, NO BS PERIOD.
If you are caught using any of these on your benching your results should be disqualified and you should be made a complete ASS of.
I see the goofy stuff that goes on at these events and I dont want it to tranfer over to this. These rules for submissions need to be clarified before any benching begins

Fortunately we have good precedents to copy from Formula 1 for cheating. While we can't fine people $100 million dollars for flagrant cheating, we are encouraging cutting edge speeds here. Every result will naturally be scrutinised and I fully expect some results to be reversed by Stewards after the event - that comes with Formula One style competition. The boundary between extreme tweak and cheating can be marginal in some cases, so 'cheats' should not necessarily be flogged alive.

Just remember that every result will be scrutinised. We need to decide at what point an anomalous percentage boost must be openly revealed or face disqualification/penalty. I'm really not wanting instabans in this if we can possibly help it.