Quote Originally Posted by K404 View Post
One very very very important point and knock-on effect that I dont think anyone either here or on HWB has mentioned.


Who is in a position to dedicate 5 months of their life to overclocking. What will pay their rent/mortgage, put food on the table and pay their 'leccy bill and LN2 bills during this time if they arent working?


* If there is to be an F1, there should be F1 PAY

* If companies arent willing to do this, then the only people who can literally afford to do this are the people so close to the respective company that they get so much hardware, they can sell it on to make enough money to keep them alive, or they are officially on the payroll of the company..

Which essentially makes this a competition for the employees of the performance department of a company



Maybe its time for overclockers to stop being free/very cheap PR for companies
It would be a dream come true for me to see it happen, but working in such companies for 2 years or so, I think it will only happen if the CEO is an overclocker. That's what I wanted to see through with the Quantum Force Schoilarship idea but it is so hard to justify to people who are in control of the budget. Especially when it comes to cold hard cash, you will get QUESTIONED big time. For these people, they look for pictures from a big event, lots of people, tonne of marketing materials hanging on walls, coverage on tonnes of websites, then they say "Wow, great marketing effort!"
A screenshot of 200,000 3D Mark 01 means nothing to them, and to ask for money to do this, everyone will look at you with a fishy attitude. Even when I have to send out some hardware, I have to go through all sorts of crap, that's why I back down from this side of things already.