New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

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I think that a prove of purchase of the hardware should be required, from a store or online store, this would avoid cheating from manufacturer, this should include the serial number of the hardware (all online store does this)
The rules of Formula one are much stronger than this, because the cheating is going very strong in the past in F1, all sports need strick rules, when it comes to the world top players.

Intel will take the high road and stick to store parts. I hope you guys will reconize this and allow every Overclockers to participate, not only few hand picked samples from one company ... This is killing the sport!
Sponsorship should be through money, not hardware, because you can not quaranty that the hardware is really for sell. (example: By decreasing the out of order windows into an x86 CPU, you are verylikely to increase the speed that a CPU OC ... there are many tricks like this that Manufactured can do.)

In fact, we should make sure that the CPUs are "stock", the best way to do so is to show a SPECCPU run at stock frequency (And compare it to SPEC CPU site). The F1 guys keep measuring and weighting the cars before and after the competition. Nothing disturbing, it is the price to pay for high competition.

GOOC and most of the OC contest are make with one set of hardware, because as soon as you start comparing Manufacturer, they start using bellow the belt tricks to win ... You have to regulate the kind of OC used, to make sure that it does not requires 20 000$ of cooling, you probably want to limit it to a certain amount to be sure ... otherwise, you ll end up with a 100 000$ chiller used in French CEA to cool uranium that only one company can pay ... ;-)

Throwing money at the competition should not be the way to win the contest, you want the talen of the Overclocker to be what make him win!

you should have aircool results, watercool results, Chiller results, and Liquid gas result, and the average of the 4 is what will make the final score. in fact, based on Spec recommandations, you should be using the geomean of the scores. (agreed by all the bench industry)

Francois