New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

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There has to be a limited number of teams so that they can all get proper sponsorship.

that doesnt make sense, i am talking about the guest teams, not the manufactuer teams, and with this comment in the first post, i cant see any problem with sponsership.

Sponsorship

Each team is free to organise its own sponsorship. At present Corsair and Kingston are prepared to supply top-quality RAM to anyone that needs it. Power Supplies have also been promised by Antec, Corsair and Cooler Master. Galaxy is happy to supply graphics cards.

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.

Francois

Francios i must say i havent exactly been a 'fan' of yours in the past, but what you have just said about retail reciepts and so on, is the best comment i have seen on the thread so far