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    HWBOT Rev.4 - The Plan.

    in HWBOT Rev.4

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    1 Refrain from derogatory personal comments.

     

    2 Hardware sharing is not nearly as big a problem as some would like you to believe. The life expectancy of most of these components under extreme voltage and cold is hours at best. Most of the extreme guys will tell you they have killed multiple chips/cards. Everybody wants you to buy more product at retail, not at a wholesale rate from your friends and teammates.

     

    3 Separating manufacturer/pro/novice makes perfect sense. Separating the best submission from the rest of the team's work is ludicrous.

     

    4 Competition points? Only from sanctioned comps by manufacturers who support hwbot, right?

     

    5 The more you try to "level" the playing field under the guise of "fairness", the more we see its only about increasing the suffering population and income of this site. This is supposed to be about improving the quality of overclocks, no?

     

    All of these changes will ultimately work against your goals of improving hwbot. Once you have alienated the best and hardest working overclockers and their teams, you will have no one left to regulate. History has shown socialism does not work.

     

    Said better than I ever could. Let's hope it is taken to heart. All I see coming of this is the swift demise of HWBOT as a legitimate arena for competition in overclocking.

    HWBOT Rev.4 - The Plan.

    in HWBOT Rev.4

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    WOW. I t looks like the plan for rev 4.0 is a huge success already. Very well received I must say. so many positive responses already guys that I'm sure you'll push ahead with it. You would do well to remember this is a community or used to be.

    HWBOT Rev.4 - The Plan.

    in HWBOT Rev.4

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    I see a few decent replies in this thread (most of them consist of "baaaaad" or "you sux" - I don't bother to read those), mostly concerning the teams league. The best way to think of this change is that instead of all team members having to buy one sample of the popular hardware, this concept actually invites people to bench a variety of hardware. So, instead of all going for the 8800GTX, it's inviting people to go for the entire GF8 series: from low-end to high-end.

     

    That the LN2 guys might benefit from this is actually a valid point. We have considered creating the air/water team league as well, but that was quite a bit more complicated. Maybe when we do the actual coding, we'll see it's okay-doable, but not sure. The thing is ... it's already a huge advantage to run LN2; but on the other hand, in the really competitive rankings, it's often not that difficult to grab a bunch of points with just air/water cooled components.

    Love how you skirted the fact that this change ONLY "benefits" the big spenders/sponsored overclockers/teams. Gigabyte has deep pockets don't they Massman?

    HWBOT Rev.4 - The Plan.

    in HWBOT Rev.4

    Posted · Edited by OptyTrooper

    This is a horrible revision that seems designed for all intents and purposes to eliminate the small overclockers being competitive all together and feed the "pros" (I use the term loosely. Slap a pallet of new parts in my hands and I'll pwn 1/2 of the so called pros) and their corporate sponsors. It's nicely wrapped in a package of promoting fairness but I can wrap a turd in Christmas paper but it's still a turd.

    Bot support : forum name change

    in Support

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    Ticket ID: 992

     

    Priority: Low

     

    Could you please change my forum SN to OptyTrooper to reflect the name I bench under? I used to bench under my current forum name (AmericanNightmare) way back when I benched for OCN but I am no longer affiliated with that site or team. It would probably help simplify things as well. \r\n\r\nSo to clarify I would like my forum name changed to OptyTrooper for the above reasons.\r\n\r\nThank you very much for your time.

    ADD new CPU

    in Support

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    Xeon 2.4GHz Prestonia 20/512/1MB socket 604

     

    Differs from the other Prestonia 2.4Ghz in that it has a 1MB L3 and operates @ 1.525v.

     

    Here's the CPU-Z link:http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=1318796

     

    Thanks

    The official HWBOT OC Challenge July 2010 thread.

    in HWBOT Competitions

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    I for one am enjoying the competition. Though I likely won't win once the big guns come out @ the end I can @ least be competitive. There's no way I can afford the latest and greatest hardware and snazzy cooling but I can always afford a $5 dollar CPU or even a garage sale PC that holds some little gem inside.

     

    I need to grab a PS/2 PCI card and I'll be firing up my s7 EDO board as well.

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