You need to separate equipment ... Even in a non official way ..
How can a desktop machine compete with some one running on a dedicated test bench with lots of fans blowing on every hot spot ..
Maybe Air / Water / extreme
Air cooling is just as legit as LN or DICE , but not every one wants to go extreme , or to that extreme , or kill there hardware in search of records , + its always good to have a starting point . I guess if your F1 class you have little interest in Go Karts , but people need to start some where ..
If your only interested in one extreme , thats fine , but why would you want to discourage any one new from competing against others within a certain cooling class ..
Water cant compete with LN - LH - or DICE , so why would you not be in a water cooled class . ??
I have done DICE [ XP Days ] and whilst its interesting , its not for everyone ..
Do you want to make overclocking a sport ? or just keep it a elitist activity .
I used to run water cooling , but I just dont want to mess around with it any longer , as there is little to be gained .
But every now and again , its just fun to push the machine to see how hard it goes , if I wanted to be serious , id go Intel , buy a pot , and do some LN runs . But I dont , I run a lowly AMD on Air .
I will just say , it would be nice if the classes were by cooling method and separate AMD from Intel , as its really no contest .
My motivation is simply to give people more realistic goals to archive , Air VS Air / Water VS Water / Extreme VS Extreme ..
And if Im stepping on some extremists toes for suggesting this : then good !