New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

[saaya]

you have probally hit this on the head, its not a compettion, its a PR stunt

Intel should get on board, or maybe they are not for that very reason?

well its both... just like F1...

buckeye... i dont think we should worry about money as of now...
thats only going to slow things down... once its going, people will get paid, im sure about that... teamX wins the first championship, after that everybody wants teamX and will basically bid for it...

but you cant ask intel to pay teamX 5 million us$ for a competition that has never been done before, and nobody knows how sucessful itll be or if itll be sucessful at all... not to mention theyve never seen how well teamX does in such a competition.

there are countless top teams that failed in competitions cause you need a diferent strategy... its not longer about benching for weekends or several weeks until you finally get that lucky run with all hw maxed out...

vince, dont you think it should be ok for people or teams to only enter one or a few competitions and not all... they wont win the final big finale that way, but that way small teams and invididuals have a chance to show what they can do, that they just dont have the time or financial support to basically race every track around the globe... know what i mean?
if a guy is really good but hes busy with work, he cant devote that much time and compete in every round, but he can at least pick a race and win it and hope to get attention from one of the big sponsors who might support him for the next years round...

anyways, we can always think about the details later, for no i think the overclocker deserves all our support to get this started!
once its rolling we can still adjust the direction its actuallry rolling into

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.

in an ideal world maybe, but the fact is that 90% of the ceos have no clue whats really going on in their company or they only know the basics and spend most of their time thinking on how to make more money...
i think the only support we need to get golden chips to an F1 style event is marketing and maybe product managing... marketing will give this a go, no doubts about it, unless they are idi0ts cause at this point supporting the event costs them nearly nothing...
then again, in my experience most marketing people dont really know what they are doing, so we need some good luck here
product managers might not want it cause they dont see a direct benefit for themselves... but im sure at least amd will support this.
after they killed the FX line in the worst possible way, which used to be their strongest pr product, they now seem to wake up and spend more time and efforts on highend and marketing products again.

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.

the problem with this, at least in my opinion, was rather that foxconn doesnt have a real marketing department, and the ones that do work for marketing at foxconn either dont know what they are doing or are like a leaf in the wind, trying to keep low and not make a mistake rather than trying to stand out, but in a positive way... then again thats a company and possibly regional specific attitude... i think if you got smart enough marketing people who actually know about the market they are supposed to create some attention in, they will know how big of a chance this is, especially if they jump in early and support it from the start when its almost free for them...

The logical path for all this (hopefully) is that come season two, three, five, whatever all competitors can get paid by sponsors to compete. Each team will be paid money by PSU supplier, RAM supplier etc etc. There would be entry fees to compete in the competition, there would be BIG prize money, and you'd see advertising for it everywhere.

Prospective 'drivers' could continue to make a name for themselves in existing HWBot leagues (which will swell in numbers due to the publicity of F1) and live comps etc.

My dream is to have some eccentric millionaire offer Vince and someone a stupid amount of money to drive for their own 'vanity' team full-time. Maybe newegg or godaddy or something like that - just to get the exposure.

But we've got to start somewhere!

I'll wake up now. But why the hell not??

very well said... totally agree, if theres anything i can do to help, let me know...

Dont just block people from getting seeded, they worked hard to make the contacts.

easy
i dont think he wanted to cut of yours or anybody elses supply...
and yes, while i actually dont like golden chips seeded for pr purposes, at least not the way its going on now, all you critics out there have to realize that its nothing you should blame the people for that use that hardware...

the responsability for seeding those golden hardware parts lies at the makers of the hardware who seeds it, not the ones who use them.

[Buckeye]

Hey there Saaya and thanks for the post

Like Vince I can give 99% of my time and pretty much bench everyday. LN2 is a big problem out here where I live as it's not easy to get a break on costs and having delivery to my home is a problem for big Dewars. Thats ok tho as I use Cascade to tune and if need to go colder I can use my smaller Dewar.

Not everyone can do that tho with work & families, or should they be expected/required to give that much time ?

I am sure all this will get ironed out before anything even starts and the people picked for this first season will know what is required/expected of them.

As this is a 5 month long event what would happen if a person who is on a team needs to drop out for some reason, how will backup benchers be handled ?