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    Why did you start benching?

    in Offtopic

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    One day had a crazy idea and decided to buy mt first computer back in 2006 and within the first month I stumbled across XS. Stumbling across the OC section I asked someone about what Ocing was about they pretty much told me not to bother with it as it would be way too much for me as I was such a big NOOB, as you can see I did not take their advice:D

    blocked scores

    in Submission & member moderation

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    I noticed that my older 8800GTS scores were given points and that the newer submissions stated that they were not the highest scores obtained by me and therefore were not receiving points. I soft deleted the older scores in hope that it would force the newer submissions to update but it appears to be unsuccessful..:o

    Any consideration maybe?

    in General overclocking

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    If something IS written down, any user will be aware, any user will also know the loopholes are enormeous and will abuse it. Don't underestimate the willingness of people to exploit loopholes to get benefit.

     

    As I also said on the secure forums:

     

    - We shouldn't be making rules for things that are out of our control. If we publically announce: no CPU sharing, people will report cpu sharing and we will have no solid ground to say whether or not a cpu was or was not shared. It'll angry both users, something we want to avoid

    - That the benchmarks of today are a bit CPU limited may just be temporary. I don't know if it'll be the same with next-gen gpu's.

    - Also, sharing a CPU was initially allowed for the benefit of those who cannot spend a gazillion dollar on hardware; if they know someone with an i7, they can use that platform to show their skills with a certain graphics card.

     

    I do not want to create an environment where every day I get a dozen reports of people who -think- others are sharing CPU's. We have simply no tools available to even check if the story checks out, so any claim will be followed by "we don't know, so we can't do". This will angry the one who reported as there's no solution AND will annoy the one who got reported as there might be nothing going on.

     

    We have already enough problems applying the basic hardware sharing rules, let's not make it an impossible job to apply more complex rules. I prefer to rely on, how naïve it may sound, people's honesty and integrity rather than forcing them to walk in between two unclear lines.

    I see your point and understand where you are coming from, it's just when WR's at hwbot are involved it seems to really rear it's ugly head of what can happen when a golden CPU is entered into the equation. Your, right though as the only way to really moderate this would to be to depend on people's honesty and integrity.:)

    Any consideration maybe?

    in General overclocking

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    I guess I really never noticed it as I never really read up on the rules of hardware sharing as it was something I never really thought about as I assumed it meant pretty much if it's not your hw then you can't post/submit results with it on the bot.

     

    Recently, there was a submission that was done with hw that got my attention and forced me to really read the rules and I was enlightened on the fact specifically that someone can use another person's CPU for 3D benchmarks.

     

    I am asking that at least some discussion be brought up in regards to this matter for future submissions as I can see this potentially becoming an issue....raw power of a CPU is the heaviest factor in 3D benches when it comes to the top scores in hwbot IMO.

     

    Imagine if I sent my CPU to all of my teammates one at a time.......everybody on the team would be at the very least in the top 30 on hwbot when it was all said and done. Imagine if somebody like Andre started doing this.....:eek:

     

    I honestly would not send my CPU to my teammates for this even though it is legal to do as I just can't but help feel that it is somehow unethical.

    Validation only sucks!

    in General overclocking

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    FM validation is insufficient to easy check score and been protected from cheats, but it is a fastest way to save score, where it needed.

     

    p.s.sorry my poor english =(

    understood exactly:)

     

    Many times in benching there was only enough time for me to save validation as system would crash soon after....now if they want to change the rules that is fine too:)

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