New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

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What I am saying is simple: if it turns to a manufacturer contest (If not using Store parts, intel will not participate, and will voice that it is not a fair contest, we will stay on the high road, no consumer misleading demo, that s it.), you got to take into account what people do with them ... and it is mostly Air and Water ... removing this from the contest create a very misleading image of the market.

You don't want the OC community to turn into a marketing tool... it is the worst that could happen to it.

by the way, It is easy to bin parts when you don t produce a lot of them, agreeing to binning for OC is admitting that you are not under pressure of delivering as many parts as you can, that means, people don t buy your parts, and you have time to bin them more ... humm hummmmmmm in simple words, that is a very bad news if you have time to bin for extreme OC ...

Francois

Why are you BS'ing people man? The chips at GOOC 2009 were handpicked, someone told me they heard those EXACT words came out of your mouth maybe after one beer two many or something . SO why are you trying to say no handpick no for this event and all this baloney about the driver and not the card? HYPOCRISY!!!

YOU are the one that started all this BS manuf ES handpicking do you realize that? YOU are the reason that it's even an issue today. Everything AMD has done has been in response to how you have and STILL operate. You don't want the overclock community to turn into a marketing tool eh??

We probably need to start creating rules and charters that companies will engage themselve to sign up and respect them, the exact same way the F1 or all the technology sports do.

I can give a hand if the organizers of this contest, I can provide lawyer support to write a draft, and set up one time for all, some public rules that the company participant, and Overclockers has to follow.

If you look at the Spec Web site, there are rules to be allowed to participate, rules about what you can use during the contest, and how you actually publish your result. They have rules as well on when the hardware you are using has to be released, and they have a verification commision.

SPEC.org is very much what you want to be inspired by, AMD, Intel, IBM and most of others industry players agreed to sign up on those rules, I know intel will sign up on similar rules if apply to overclocking.

It is time to move OC to an other level, as an organized sport/Hobby, not only a marketing tool.

Like every championship, the rules has to evolve over time, here is an example:
http://www.spec.org/cpu2006/Docs/runrules.html


Notice:
1.3.2 Obtaining Components
Therefore, it is expected that the components used in a published result can in fact be obtained, with the level of quality commonly expected for products sold to ordinary customers. Such components are required to:

be specified using customer-recognizable names,
be generally available within certain time frames,
provide documentation,
provide an option for customer support,
be of production quality, and
provide a suitable environment for programming.
The judgment of whether a component meets the above list may sometimes pose difficulty, and various references are given in these rules to guidelines for such judgment. But by way of introduction, imagine a vendor-internal version of a compiler, designated only by an internal code name, unavailable to customers, which frequently generates incorrect code. Such a compiler would fail to provide a suitable environment for general programming, and would not be ready for use in a SPEC CPU2006 result.


If we can inspire a "charter" out of the Spec example, we can establish a very fair and honest contest.

Francois

Can OVERCLOCKERS please make the rules for the contest and NO ONE ELSE OVERCLOCKER magazine? Seriously...
It seems though alot of things are up in the air and there isn't anything solid yet with regards to rules and regulations and I think that needs to be 100% cleared up before I can give full commitment. Whoever made the f1-scca comment was spot on .