skierkid450

I'd pay to watch (not really, but I definitely would watch the stream)

a guide that details how to run CD drives as virtual would be good if you are going to use it, and of course it wouldn't be changing the app so you can compare cd drives on your own if you want to, while eliminating that as a bottleneck/tweak so all users would be on equal ground as far the optical drive result, given its obscurity as far as benching goes (are there really any drives that are particularly fast? the only things i care about for optical is SATA interface, lightscribe, and a decently fast loading tray- just think about measuring performance of the loading tray itself LOL)

as long as the boints rankings for subzero and ambient temps are separate I'm golden. I have 133 submissions right now that range from .1 all the way up to a staggering 3.2 (135 submissions including my reference clock and maxxmem submissions, i delete non-points-scoring submissions so my pages are cleaner) I can't afford a lot of different parts, I can't afford parts dieing, I can't afford LN2 (nor would be within hours of buying the LN2 or DICE), and i don't live within 500 miles of any other overclocker that I know of. The most i've ever paid for a component is $200 for my 1055T, highest next to that was $150 for a used GTX 260 which i sold shortly later. So as you would expect, I can't keep up with the guys with 980X's or even regular i7's, and still have trouble staying with the guys even with lower tier 890FX boards. Doesn't mean I don't get any global points, but my 4.1 sure were hard as hell to get. I am the little guy, and i bring in over 50% of my teams points because no one submits on the team i'm on. I love benching and overclocking, and I lap the hell out of my coolers to be competitive at all I look at people like MASTERCHIEF79 or -Masterchief- (i assume the same person being on the same team) with less than 10 submissions with much better hardware than mine bashing the thought of a new incarnation of the bot. If you havn't even run and submitted all the benches for ONE of your parts (CPU or GPU) I can't see how anyone can value your opinion- you don't care about benching other than epeen, so if you dont get top points you don't even try. I get sh|t for points and I still submit every bench for every crap card and every crappy CPU I can get my hands on, just to see how they perform, and how they compare to others. The main reason I come to the bot is to compare submissions for specific parts, so I can weigh a purchase, see how easily other people have clocked it, or how well it scores in vantage, and in some cases to buy it because not many other people have to see just how far the part can go in my hands. And 25% of the time I come here is to reference a part to suggest someone else buy it. The points are nice, but they're not the only to use the bot. again, separate points for LN2/DICE/Phase/Cascade and H20/air and it will be good to go; regardless of where you live, who you can or can't bench with, and what parts or cooling methods you have access to, and I don't think the user should be moved into a specific category because he/she starts using ln2, but the submissions themselves be. keep a user hardware cap, it shouldn't be any higher than 500 because as it is already most users have nothing but hundreds of points from low end parts so they have a hundred hardware golds from systems I could find at the local dump and don't even submit with their main systems because it would be less than 2 pts. for the team hardware sharing, I think it should be top 2 or 3 submissions instead of one, this still limits sending a chip or gpu around for all the points, but still allows people that happen to have the same hardware to make submissions and contribute, top2 preferred over top3 or top1. have to keep in mind this is for contributions to the Team, user total can still get inflated with sharing, but that's inevitable and uncontrollable sadly that's all i got.

well cheap for one person is pricey for another, my most powerful video card is a GTX 260-216 i got for $150, which is also the most i've ever spent on a single part too(until 1055T which i'll afford in another week or two)(my H50 will last me until AMD replaces the AM2/AM3 socket with something entirely new) to get my locked(15.5x) Phenom II X2 up to 4.2GHz on air i was pushing 1.7 volts and was proud that i could get that high with the chip being a locked version compared to everyone else's Black's as i had the highest C3 next to chew who is up at 6590MHz

I agree with going by cooling, but the only way to enforce that(or easily be able to tell) would be forcing temperature apps running for the screenshots(and forcing screenshots too, i still see a lot of new submissions that do no provide screenshots which is disappointing as I personally use HWBot submissions as performance comparisons from GPU to GPU, CPU to CPU as that is what they are, when you can tell what cooling is used. recently I looked through the 3dm Vantage(CPU score) i7-9,i7-8,i5-7,i5-6,i3,C2D,C2Q,AII X2,PII X2,AII X4,PII X4,PII X6 submissions searching for 4GHz runs or close to it just to see how the scores scaled architecture to architecture, or Intel to AMD and based my purchases and suggested routes for friends solely on my findings, that and discovered HT is and has always been an additional half-core performance wise...) a submission shouldn't be able to be done without a screenshot, plain and simple for anyone could have air cooling/water be the standard as there isnt really a huge difference in temperatures between high end air and most water because, well both are dependent on on ambient room air temperature, its all efficiency past that. then you have the serious categories, phase change/refrigeration/cascade/Dry Ice/LN2+ all of which are at least consistently below freezing(granted yes, if you live in the far north you can dependably have temps below 32F/0C outside during winter months but we're not talking any colder than -10F really whereas you take cascade or dice even which are still significantly lower than that) [points-wise] have the global points listing where everything is still together, but have a sub ranking for below zero cooling or above which are independent of eachother, but the above freezing category would be scaled to gain more points since there are far more results above freezing than below(right?), not to mention air would not gain much of anything from the global points where below freezing would take the majority of their points(and have a temp. app like coretemp running, or require a photograph of the system if coretemp does not function at the current temperature to keep the dice or cascade guys out of the aircooling category(a LOT of people forget to change it off air, so you see lots of guys on "Air cooling" at 5GHz...)) -from a user with 123 submissions that get points, and 104 of those submissions gain .1 ea. yes, I bench above freezing-and i also get some hardware for review, but have purchased all motherboards and CPUs and most of my GPUs and all cooling. -getting peripherals and cases dont help overclocking too much

did you have 6 threads enabled to run in wPrime? looks like a one-threaded result