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    Rev3 Up and Running - Complaints, Ideas, Ramblings, Comments ... but no bugs

    in HWBOT Development: bugs, features and suggestions

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    I think it's still too early to make bold statements, but I have a few remarks/observation:

     

    1. I thought the hwbot was about collecting data from all hardware, but now in rev3 we are more or less discouraging the bench of old hardware? For you information: I love wandering through the bots database and comparing old hardware from the old days..

     

    2. When hardware is not popular at this moment, and older than lets say 1 month, with rev3 it will probably never become popular anymore because no one is willing to bench it anymore?

     

    3. I have lots of old stuff laying around that wants to be benched, but running SuperPI32M and wPrime1024M on a heavily overclocked Pentium 3 system is now an investment of 5-8 hours of work for what: 0.2 boints? Even on popular Pentium 3 hardware not everybody is benching SuperPI32M and wPrime1024M because they take over 1.5 hours to complete, hence resulting in even less boints and motivation to still do so..

     

    4. Is it really necessary to take away points on one place and adding them on another? I think that a multiplier for popular hardware would have the same effect in concept, without changing any rev2 legacy.

     

    5. No matter what rev3 does, I applause the hwbot team for trying to shape up the hwbot concept and daring to innovate. But don't forget, hwbot was and still is just a mysql database. And it's partly successful because of it's biggest data-fillers. Don't neglect them!

     

     

    .... sacred words!

     

    I would add that pushing hard with very old hardware could lead to a high probability of failure, mainly due to wear of components.

     

    The real problem is not the failure itself, but the difficulty of finding a new one: unfortunately for these models there is no RMA available.

     

     

     

     

    none of the comments made in this thread fall on deaf ears, RB & MM are looking through all replies made by those who formulated their opinion in a respectful manner. Rev3 will get a revision which will address the issues brought up by the community;

     

    what will change exactly we can't say yet until we've seen the changes in action on the dev server;

     

     

    Thank you for the work and understanding of our situations.

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