New Formula One Overclocking Competition Announced

[The_Overclocker]

Hi guys,

A lots been said lately and much of it's very wrong.

There are way too many 'if's and 'if they cheat'. This is why I'm driving everything so fast... to avoid getting bogged down in all this hypothetical stuff.

We already have contests that pit overclockers with binned identical components against each other: the live events. Long may they continue.

We already have contests with rules that are open to everyone: see HWBot.

If you read the start of the thread F1 OC is ALL about driving technology forward AND exciting the general tech enthusiast... not just overclockers.

The idea of using store bought samples is ridiculous and totally unpolice-able. We could make a million legal rulings to stop 'cherry picking' and we'd never even start. The price will prohibit competition from the start and we'd be off sometime near Christmas if we're lucky.

I expect every team will use the best example of its hardware and will bin everything they use. That's the whole point. So long as it is a retail spec.

As I said right in the beginning, if season two needs rules to stop super-mega-cherry picking we will introduce them then. All this talk of lawyers can stop right now.

No rules. No Limits. Just retail-spec kit and lots of skill. That is all.

There are two safeguards to everything...

1) All published results will be provisional. Any anomalous results will result in a stewards enquiry. The stewards will have full power to impose penalties as they see fit.

2) And this should answer just about every concern mentioned above... I propose, if one team is using what looks to be super cherry picked motherboard or graphics card - then any other team has the right to buy it for the recommended retail price. That's used in Finnish banger racing and works a treat to stop people binning cars. This does not go for RAM (which is already built and sold based on super cherry picking), CPUs (which are going to be HEAVILY scrutinised in season one) or PSUs.

That's it.

For those who don't agree, please re-read the original proposal and see what this contest is really all about and has been agreed to already. Noones coming here and changing it so extensively.

It will be kept as simple as humanly possible. Rules will only be implemented if something happens to warrant them. Until that happens, stop suggesting them, please.

This is only the start. Everything will evolve naturally and be pretty polished by season 3 or 5 or whatever.