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I had half an idea last night What do you guys think about: Award points for a score based on how much of a lead it has over the score it beats. At the moment, the exponential points difference at the top of popular leaderboards IMHO, is skewed. There could be 1 point in score difference and there will be 10 points difference. It might encourage people to stop playing backup games and stop sandbagging generally. It would encourage people to push harder, knowing that big leads get more points. At the moment, if someone can get a certain ranking and not pass the score ahead... they usually stop. It encourages a wee bit of laziness sometimes..... if there was more points (even just... 0.1, 0.2...) for squeezing all they can out of the hardware, despite the ranking not changing... it would make them a more motivated and dare I say it... better... bencher. It should also encourage people to use their MHz as efficiently as possible For scores like SPi where many scores are the same...... instead of ranking by submission date, could it be coded to interrogate the CPU MHz box and rank score by lowest MHz? It could be the start of ranking scores by efficiency, which would be nice. I do appreciate HWB will then have to deal with a bunch of guys downclocking for the screeny....... Grrrrrr Alternative is to give all the same scores the same joint ranking..... Have...e.g.... 5 guys at 7.00s flat... there is a 5-way tie at rank 178th or...whatever

Ticket ID: 984 Priority: Low There are categories for the 6600 and 7800GT Dual cards.... please can we have this one too?

Awesome pic of 00-Massman getting off the plane Nice pics bro!

I was using one with Sergio in Valencia... not for a LONG time... but a bit. I struggled to get on top of how fast it responds to LN2... sooooo fast. I was clicking more with the Otti pot. Thats my problem though, not a problem with the design.

You just admitted that to the whole OC community

....you were gone??

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SM3 score of 8700 @ 850/ 1150 Deep Freeze in particular likes GDDR clocks. Here are my score breakdowns from my 9800GTX, GTX+ and GTS250 runs: At similar clocks, my SM3 score is much lower than yours, or, to equal it, I need another 100MHz on both the core and RAM. For these cards, if all tests run correctly, SM2 should be~8% higher than SM3 Do you have a Futuremark .3rd file you can upload for your score?

Have you disabled Post-Processing?

Hey. No problems at all, but we didn't really test above ambient.

Hey bro Only just saw all your scores for the GTX Congrats! Some nice work and great GDDR clocks.

At a group session, how can you tell the two apart? I disagree with your idea Sam, sorry. It would open the doors to hardware sharing and all it would take is a background switch between runs and its "all ok" Whichever team has golden hardware XYZ and can get 10 guys in the same place at once will get an unfair advantage

It would help the RMA process I think It would help stop the scummy people who troll the RMA process. "Dead board-> Buy another-> "this board is DOA"-> send 1st board back No-one here does that, right?

I'm sure that a one-write IC/EEPROM etc can be added in for minimal cost. Write serial number to chip, write process blows internal fuses, no re-write can occur. Chip can be read or GPU-Z etc purposes, cannot be re-flashed like the BIOS can to make one card look like many OR: re-write process kills card.

No way bro.... it's not your fault any of this happens. Get as much fun as you want out of your hobby. Let the BS take care of itself My own emotion.... disappointment.

Yes, you are

OMG almost 3 days for 1M. Thats truely hardcore. How did people USE these old computers? DAMN

Why do hardware rankings drop and then rise back up? I've had 2 golds move to silver... then go back to gold. I've wondered if scores submitted in the 2x GPU category... "pass through?" the 1x category?

How come we're only seeing these ES now? Great work bro!

Maybe speaking slightly out of turn about Vinces pots..... it would be nice IFFFFF a European pot-maker did some kind of deal/agreement with him about "licensed" pots, using Vinces schematics. Copper is cheaper in Europe, theres no customs charges to worry about and shipping would cost less. BUT.... thats a topic for another thread... or behind closed doors entirely. Always nice to see a stack of pots Ryba Nice one! I like the look of the Fat GPU container..... wish my board had space for it

OCP mods made a big difference I think vGPU was about 1.45v... I stopped before I ended up with a bunch of results that would get me accused of cheating

Thanks bro

Whoa... this is tough! Problem is... the right thing to do is support the hardware loan... but theres a chance Massman will be right... and no-one is ready for that :p:p

My parents bought me a computer for school work.... just at the time AMD were hitting the GHz mark, I remember. I started playing games- AVP2 ran really slow in the heavy action sequences and my local electronics shop were offering a CPU, board + RAM bundle deal so I jumped on it. It made no difference and I got mad because id spent a lot of money for nowt, so I started learning how PCs worked. I found CustomPC magazine and they had their own benchmark suite and a leaderboard... thats how I discovered the competitive side I had a Via chipset A-XP setup, then I moved to Epox NF3 about a week before the first SLI mobos were in shops.. then things spiralled

Any progress on dealing with all the old/removed/beaten scores that are still showing up in hardware rankings?