Leeghoofd

Yep, but with the use diff hardware rule, there aren't many options open, if one of the country members goes straight out and bench the bejeezus out of a card on phase or LN2... I don't see myself buying a GTX 570 or co for a single stage

At least you can contribute... at first you have no idea if it's for better of for worse !! As you have got no idea how the outcome will be... you can decide in the end if your final score will lower the total much yes or no,.. it's the score algorithm that will make or break it... can you motivate yourself to post an inferior score on stock cooling, when someone else put the same card on SS or LN2 already... posting that score is useless in the current state... If you fail to see that, then I rest my case... I'm out, no need to discuss it any longer Think you look at it way to basic... it doesn't solve anything it makes it a bit more harder ( maybe )

In your point of view : Let's take Canada : any user that has got no access to SS or more extreme cooling is no longer required to bench the GTX 480 or 580 as MK-Ultra has already set two nice scores... So what option do the rest have tht have got no access to extreme cooling ? Only thing that jumps to mind is another card to contribute. But keeping in your 70 year old mindthought : IF they want to contribute to a good score and keep up the pace MK set, they have to grab either GTX 570 or a 5970 cards to bench... If possible first let the guys with air or stock coolers contribute (just to make them feel they contributed something ) As from the moment another sub zero cooling score is posted again, it's over and done... still makes the guys that somehow contributed on air or co left out in the end... The fun could quickly over in my opinion... Result = everybody moves on to the next stage... what happens there, similar stuff...

Be honest : who of the "fun" benchers would think as such from the start ? Maybe they just want to contribute !! let's see what the outcome is of the first stage(s) ... I'm sceptical, as usual... I can't do anything else for stage 1... no other DX11 cards here, let's see if we can get 3 decent results for a real average score for Belgium...

So we don't join for fun ? For ya negative atmosphere aspect : That's just the way it is !! Same for this : Not everyone can bench on SS or LN2 on the cards... It's the same if you can gather a 570/580 and 5970 in ya country and another country can only get a 460, 6850 and a 5770... only one option : live with it !! That's why it's country cup, not team based, nor individual PJ.. everyone can join, being it good or bad for the final outcome... think the idea is to gather scores per country not ? Just to get some more OC motivation flowing ! But you can reverse that on me and say live with my rules

Try it, you will be dissapointed in some regions !! If you take the average per card it might motivate people to do a better effort, but you are prolly outsmarting me again

Who has got 3 GTX 580s ? I know what you want to do or to achieve, but it's gonna be tougher than ever... It's just the fact that many users have similar hardware in their setups (GTX 460/470/480 or 5850 or 5870)... why not letting them all count, and eg just either make an average score per card... Or if a country just has 3 scores makes an average score for the country total... lucky for them if they have GTX 580s available... too bad for the others...

I think the top 3 should use different hardware rule must go... I know it is intented to avoid hardware sharing, but it makes the compo a lot more complicated...and maybe less attractive... at least if you want to compete for top 3/5 spot... Better do one user = one submit with one type of hardware

he got a verification link, should be enough, cough cough cough

Drooling score... well done Boris aka downhill man !!

If there is one thing thing in this world I never ever will believe is that Chew is fooling around !!!

make him post proper screenies Steponz !! lacks info

We had to see this coming, once it goes all quiet the master will suddenly pop up !! Great work lads !!

If you install the hwbot uni version, you will have DX9 selectable, DX11 might start but prolly crash...

There he is, our northern neighbour !! see ya in the weekend Roger

yopu already got one Kenny, awesome !!

does trouffman also account as a female ?

We needed to give team XS a chance to win... was the prom Luc

guys book a room and stay inside for the whole weekend Good job and effort !!

Noone has got 10 SSD's to bench with, nor 6 Acards man don't worry it's in the bag !!! Congratz again Team XS and to all who participated... Thanks for the Vista tp Stratego San... was wallign hard at 4.4 and system wasn't as efficient under Vista then it was under Win7... but it was fun exploring it all !!

120Gb Revo, you must buy the X2 for Wr's

Revo 120Gb Steve, Win 7 64 bit ( make sure you set power profile to performance before installing any driver ! ) Imagine what an X2 revo can do for you !!!

Can I already say Congratz Team Xs ( again ) You guys are the masters of Hard drives

Yes indeed it is. In fact the phase on the picture is not turned on. This CPU is so cold it can run 3.4Ghz just like that (ambient temps are 21°C) I'm gonna lap it and go for 3450Mhz

eeeeeeeeek 6 acards amasing stuff...