Quote Originally Posted by The Nemesis View Post


Personally I would like to see some of these top overclockers use something other than a Extreme chip. Now there's a test of skill and luck of a draw. How many i7 920's have we seen running 5GHz+ 3DMark 06 or Vantage. That would take us back to the not so distant day of the celeron 300A's we all chased off the shelves to overclock. Things were somewhat level back in the non extreme days.
So the point is ? Didn't most of them do that at eg the Gooc qualifiers ? The competition is called F1, F1 stands for maxium speed, bending rules yet not break them... why limit yaself to 920's and annoying Bclocks. I really don't see the point in all these comments about cherry picked, review samples or not. They want to use retail CPU's in the competition, users will still go out and look for special batches etc like we did in the old days and like we still do today.
For the common users they might do a formula 3000 or such...(cheaper hardware and or cooling methods) no mods etc...

These guys will go hard and fast with anything you can throw at them... this competition has got nothing to do with Hwbot or how you scale compared to the big boys. I really don't get all this ing

Only thing that bothers me is how to prove it was a retail CPU or a handed sample somewhere in time...