TheKarmakazi

I was sad to see no_name quit the bot, hopefully he will come back. He is hands down one of the best benchers in the world. No_name you should not give in so easily! Im sure its annoying to be accused of these things, but you were the person who was innocent... just ignore these things and keep breaking WR's. It is understandable why someone could've thought you were sharing, no need to take it personal!

Well its a good thing your not a PR manager then . I dont ask for free hardware, what do you think im daft? I do legitmate review that get published on my website and local magazine. All I was saying is its not just as easy as that, since there are many respectable review sites all looking for review samples. Ive gotten tons of freebies from cold calling companies and offering to do review for new products... so unless your approach is any better (im waiting to hear it) then please.... Also I'm not some hardware wh0re who give a 5 * or 10/10 rating just for getting some gear. Which is another reason its not that easy if your an honest reviewer, because you reivew a product bad and your chances of getting something else from a company goes down...

Not as easy as you may think to get sponsored in the U.S. Ive talked to many companies about doing reviews for hardware (Intel, Apacer, STT, etc etc etc) and get stonewalled many times (review site isnt big enough, they already have all samples sent out, every other excuse you could think of). I think you Germans get the mushkin love though dont you? And you got the cool LN2 delivery truck guy!

I agree with tiborr somewhat... the heavy sponsorship of those at the top makes it very hard to compete for someone with a normal situation (cant spend 10K+ per year on hardware and no sponsors). The popularity of OC'ing is a double edged sword though. More people OC'ing means hardware manufacturers pay much more attention to our market segment. We get mobos with all the tweaked out options we ask for, etc! But... A certain few lucky people seem to get all the sponsorships... Nothing against those people since most have worked very hard to get where they are! But it would be nice if companies sponsored some less well known names, since the big shots will always get their hardware. Im not saying start giving out 4870x2's to everyone, but maybe just spread the love a little. Would make competition a little more interesting at least (not to mention I might actually receive something lol). I would love to get just 1 motherboard for testing/review purposes in a year... there are many who receive 1 per month! In addition to RAM, CPUs, GFX Cards, etc. But oh well, life's not fair, and the only way to change something is to go out and do something about it right? Many companies are open to sending out review samples if you have an avenue to publish a review (blog, review site, forums, etc). So maybe try that? Work is involved, but it can pay off with free hardware!

OK thanks for clarifying that for me! I think I was mixing up the old rules for CPU-Z before validation was required. IIRC you couldnt use a photo which makes sense for CPU-Z.

I have noticed in the past days many results being submitted, not as an actual valid screenshot, but a photograph of the screen. As I understood things, I thought photographs were not considered valid, since the system could well be frozen. Some of these results are even top20 HOF scores... Please clarify for me, thanks!

taken care of

I love little birdies!!

i think either T_M or pro should get an interview, they both benched there way up very quickly. lots of dedication and skill. not to mention both are good guys, always willing to help ppl.

keep at it guys and great work! (maybe i4 will catch up and have some fun too)

Hipro has to make an appearance too, and im sure it will rock the charts

Great job to both pro and SF3D. Ive been watching the back and forth for a while. Always fun to have a good competition! Everyone push it to the limits!

very nice

all I meant is that your logic is generally very sound

maybe some basic rules could be established for this category also... i.e. DDR1 no looser timings than 4-4-4-x.... DDR2 no looser than 5-5-5-x.... DDR3 no looser than 7-7-7-x Or something along those lines. Im not an expert memory tweaker so the fine points should be fleshed out by those who know whats up.

So I take it by the lack of responses this discussion is finished and PCMark Vantage will not be receiving points?

i dont see anything wrong with what wprime does. its using 100% of the cpu what more could you ask? if it didnt use 100% of the cpu then what? 95%? 5%? Random %? Looking at your logic I dont think you understand what your asking. Not to mention acting like an @$$ to everyone certainly wont further your ideas, I can guarantee you that much. Lighten up buddy p.s. u dont want to argue with jmke, he will win lol

*watching, waiting*

Yeah CPU-Z for DDR/DDR2/DDR3 would be an AWESOME addition to hwbot. +100000000 to that idea I agree that the GPU-Z HOF is a bad idea, too many variables to standardize it.

I also think this is a cool idea! Sometimes PP makes it easier to compare similar setups

Yeah this is awesome

"if you have an older score (before 15/5) which was blocked for this reason; please don't hesitate to contact the mods in this thead: http://www.hwbot.org/forum/showthread.php?t=1787 posting the URL of the score that was blocked; thanks!" can you please unblock this one: http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=716273 Thanks man!!

would be cool to see this intergrated with hwbot

Thx hipro, I have nothing but respect for you, your a top notch overclocker. Glad you cleared it up for everyone. And nice PSUs you make, I like the long cables

i think it should get points... pcmark05 is to easy to manipulate with iram.... the point of PCmark is just that... to bench the WHOLE PC. not your $5000 worth of irams in raid0. which is all most of the top scores are, just plug in 6 irams and away you go. with vantage it moderates that a little bit. just my 2 cents