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    Should HWBot be divided into a two class structure?

    in HWBOT Development: bugs, features and suggestions

    Posted · Edited by El Gappo

    Welll.... its hard to compete against people who have everything given to them- multiple samples of each, to find the best gear. A reasonable % of them dont even need to pay for all the LN2.

     

    IMHO... as someone mostly on the outside of what im about to say.... if you have a stack of parts and they were all free.... its easier to take chances. "Y'know what.... i'm gonna try 1.5vTT on this 980X" Its hard to compete with that when all the parts come out of the monthly pay packet and you're hoping the resale value will be alright.

     

    There is more to a Pro league than reducing the flame-fest over use of ES.

     

     

     

     

    Heading into the very-unlikely-to-happen route... it would be great if amateur could be split up a bit based on cooling. Theres hundreds of guys on air/water.... cant compete against the LN2 guys, irrespective of sponsors. I would say that affects more people than the ES arguement.

     

    I've kept my mouth shut thus far in these debates because although I like the idea I can't see it working. There are many flaws in the es argument, one being that AMD do not even mark their es samples clearly and they aren't recognizable in cpu-z screens etc. People lie.. But your unlikely-to-happen comment made my brain fart;

     

    What if there was a separate points system that showed up on your profile like globals do but were awarded for "fastest retail sample" or "fastest dice run" "fastest air run" etc? Not effecting overall points or team points because it's to easy to cheat, just points to take pride in. It would be nice for users like myself that cannot get ln2 but still pride themselves on getting the highest results in a given cooling category or on a certain stepping :) Maybe not even points, just a medal or cup.

     

    I think rev 3.5 was a step in the right direction allowing you to search for the highest cooling results. Maybe add retail and es to the filter options also?

     

    There are plenty of ways to do it without splitting up the community. Who wants to be king of the amateurs? =/

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    CPU Unlocking Question

    in General hardware discussion

    Posted · Edited by El Gappo

    For example a 965 becomes a athlon II 265 when cores are disabled http://valid.canardpc.com/show_oc.php?id=900338 That is my own validation and i haven't submitted it. You can tell via the cpu psn and description that it is a 965 and als the fact a 265 doesn't exsist is kind of a giveaway :P

     

    Although this is locking cores rather than unlocking cores I do think it is unethical to create boints for yourself but this has been a problem on hwbot for a while, in my opinion unlocked cpu's should have thier own categories to avoid domination in their original categories by people who just got lucky.

     

     

    jmke It is possible (although not the issue at hand) that most single threaded benchmarks would benefit from this due to a reduction in heat and power consumption, but results in the 965 category showing an athlon II would constantly get reported and deleted. Yet another reason why they should have their own catergory.

     

    edit: started typing this after post 3, you stole my thunder :(

     

    and of course this means all athlon categories with corresponding model numbers need checking through, for example 955=255 940=240? etc etc tri's and quads should pull off this little trick ;)

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