New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

[Charles Wirth]

F1 drivers do not buy the car to race.

Better to have the buyers assemble the bench rig parts and send them to us (dead equal playing field). I would expect the CPU and other parts to be in the box factory new.

We all have the needed tools of the trade so whatever method of cooling we have (F1 or Cascade) we will use.

We are putting on an exhibition and setting aside months to finish, and this is for what?
air water... best used for human consumption.

[Drwho?]

F1 drivers do not buy the car to race.

Better to have the buyers assemble the bench rig parts and send them to us (dead equal playing field). I would expect the CPU and other parts to be in the box factory new.

We all have the needed tools of the trade so whatever method of cooling we have (F1 or Cascade) we will use.

We are putting on an exhibition and setting aside months to finish, and this is for what?
air water... best used for human consumption.

Intel will only sample Store parts, you are so comparing apple and banana ... The all competition makes no sense then.

Based on some survey I got, more than 80% of the overclockers does it with Air, 12% on water ... the rest is peltier and liquid gas ... you want to leave the majority out?

Francois

[massman]

Intel will only sample Store parts, you are so comparing apple and banana ... The all competition makes no sense then.

Based on some survey I got, more than 80% of the overclockers does it with Air, 12% on water ... the rest is peltier and liquid gas ... you want to leave the majority out?

Francois

Based on another survey (probably the from the same company), more than 97% of the people allowed to drive a car stay below 250KM/h.

If you know what I mean ...

[Russian]

Based on another survey (probably the from the same company), more than 97% of the people allowed to drive a car stay below 250KM/h.

If you know what I mean ...

Entirely agreed. F1 is not something that we want to even begin to compare to regular overclockers. FFS an F1 racecar is more expensive than most supercars... and even those are 1 in a million.

I was looking forward seeing you bench 3Dmark06 with EVGA board - wait - I don't think EVGA has a board that has onboard graphics - right ????

Actually, they have a few

[mike]

Actually, they have a few

ouch I was laughing too early

[[XC] gomeler]

Intel will only sample Store parts, you are so comparing apple and banana ... The all competition makes no sense then.

Based on some survey I got, more than 80% of the overclockers does it with Air, 12% on water ... the rest is peltier and liquid gas ... you want to leave the majority out?

Francois

Simply yes.

Okay, and what would make this F1 competition than so different from what we have already? Hwbot.org and overclocking events would then be just fine.

Precisely. This would be 2 members contributing to 1 account instead of 1 account per member... *yawn*

i think francois is onto something here massman

Do you know what SPEC stands for? Standard Performance Evaluation Corporation. This is supposed to be an expo with ridiculous people using ridiculous hardware to showcase ridiculous results. Anything but standard.

[dinos22]

i dont think you get the point francois is putting across

i have been talking about some official standards and rules in overclocking preventing manufacturers showcasing their cherry picked hardware like AMD and Intel have been doing in recent times as well as some other that was going on. i know fully well what SPEC is but that is not the point here at all. It is about creating some rules specifically related to our "sport" mate..........extreme overclocking with some sound rules

that's what francois is talking about

massman > simply making it a professional sport and really putting the hammer down with some strict rules to prevent comps like this from blowout results where NO ONE would want to watch someone repeatedly win and win due to some advantage they have

[[XC] gomeler]

i dont think you get the point francois is putting across

i have been talking about some official standards and rules in overclocking preventing manufacturers showcasing their cherry picked hardware like AMD and Intel have been doing in recent times as well as some other that was going on. i know fully well what SPEC is but that is not the point here at all. It is about creating some rules specifically related to our "sport" mate..........extreme overclocking with some sound rules

that's what francois is talking about

I thought we had come to that conclusion on page 5 or 6?

[dinos22]

i like that it's coming from one of the BIG manufacturers that was guilty of cherry picking and showcasing hardware which was not exactly close to retail product thats all

[massman]

massman > simply making it a professional sport and really putting the hammer down with some strict rules to prevent comps like this from blowout results where NO ONE would want to watch someone repeatedly win and win due to some advantage they have

Okay.

So, the suggestion to prevent winners to win because some advantage is to use only retail samples?

>> Winner =
The one who finds the ultimate sample =
The one who can either test most, or have someone test them for him =
The one who has the unfair advantage.

Even the suggestion to put a limit on the used frequency is laughable ... this way, a manufacturer should not push its motherboards, but just make sure it can run a certain frequency.

How do you define unfair advantage? I mean ... if for instance Evga has a board that allows you to run each cpu 200MHz higher, the Evga team has an unfair advantage, no?

[hipro5]

OK....gprhellas will touch it.....