Crew Strunkenbold Posted February 5, 2015 Crew Posted February 5, 2015 Some years back we had monthly competitions on hwbot often featuring some old but gold hardware. Often goal was to achieve fastest result in benchmark x featuring using socket z. There was often lot of research necessary for finding best CPU / Mobo combination and of course find those items on the market... To be honest, Im missing those competitions... I know Team and Country Cup often has some stages for old hardware but why should we do this fun just 2 times in a year? So my idea would be to establish an ongoing competition using all results that are already in the bot. I really, really would like to see some of those benchers who showed incredible skills with old hardware a little more often in the spotlight. So the idea is to create yet another league called "classic" which is actually something more of a mod to hwbot than a league. You know playing with old hardware can be really fun but often there isnt much competition and therefore points worth spending lot of time for research, modding and of course hours of time just to complete some benchmarks. The idea is to create a ranking which just includes classic cpu sockets featuring single core cpus (Intel up to s478, AMD up to s754) and graphic cards featuring up to dx8 (Geforce 4, Radeon 8000). Ranking system could be the same like we already have in the bot. Means best 20 hardware points and best 15 global points plus a classic hardware master league equal to current hardware master league. Oh and global points would be awarded totally different. Right now we award a zillion of different benchmarks with globals. Of course not a single of those new benchmarks runs on vintage hardware. So the idea is to concentrate on the classic benchs and instead award a zillion of different cpu sockets and slots. i.e. superpi 1m slot A 2x wprime socket 370 pifast socket 479 superpi 32m socket 7 ... For graphic cards there could be fastest dx6, dx7, dx8. Of course, this would probably mean to enable points for 3DMark 2000 and 99. I hope I could explain the basic idea behind this. I think this would be fun for all who still know that overclocking was actually badly needed to have a decent system and all those mad scientists that appeared out of nowhere and showed tricks that doubled your system speed and made you feel happier than any 1.1V 5 Ghz Haswell ever could do. Quote
Mr.Scott Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 CP totally supports something along these lines. Quote
Mikecdm Posted February 5, 2015 Posted February 5, 2015 Some of the old monthly competitions were fun. I miss them and we all know we need them competition points. Quote
havli Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Very good idea. I have tons of old HW here but not much motivation to benchmark it at the moment (except the Turrican Memorial Charity Challenge). Some kind of old-school HW league or competition would be nice. Quote
Massman Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 Currently we have the Challenger Div VII going on for legacy hardware http://oc-esports.io/#!/round/roadtopro_challenger_season1_division7_round1. It's a competition series for only legacy hardware. The competition engine is fairly flexible, so I guess technically we could set up a competition series like the old monthly OC challenges. I would need help organizing the stages and deciding the hardware though as I don't have that much time. If anyone's up for this, let me know. Quote
I.nfraR.ed Posted February 6, 2015 Posted February 6, 2015 That is a fact, but all stages require LGA775 CPU. It is nice, but not for me. I just can't participate in any of the stages. Maybe next time if it is AMD-oriented, but that's after 2 months. The old monthly competitions were more balanced and required various platforms. Yes, it was harder to win the whole competition, but I could at least bench for fun on some of the stages where I had available hardware. Anyway, good luck to the Intel guys Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted February 6, 2015 Crew Posted February 6, 2015 Nice to see familiar faces. I'm in Would be nice to have 2-3 months for each competition - we're talking about not only old but rare hardware and it might take some time for a good preparation. But we could start a new one before the first ends giving not only time but a choice and/or more action. I think this can be done. Quote
Massman Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 I'm open to this kind of competition series. But as said, I'll need some help figuring out the different stages and benchmarks Quote
phobosq Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 I'm also interested, gathered some old stuff and looking for incentive to put it to bench. Quote
Mr.Scott Posted February 11, 2015 Posted February 11, 2015 I'm open to this kind of competition series. But as said, I'll need some help figuring out the different stages and benchmarks And that's where Alex comes in. Quote
Crew Don_Dan Posted February 11, 2015 Crew Posted February 11, 2015 I'm open to this kind of competition series. But as said, I'll need some help figuring out the different stages and benchmarks Since everyone also wants to take part in the competitions, why not make a competition team of 5 - 10 long term members who send you some ideas and you pick some of them for the competitions. That way no member knows which stages will actually be part of that competition while you don't have to think of the stages. Quote
Stermy57 Posted February 12, 2015 Posted February 12, 2015 (edited) I'm agree with you Strunkenbold I love old school hardware in my opinion is more funnily than the new! There are only few information so is more difficult to find tweaks and good score! It will be exciting if you do more competitions with old hardware! In my opinion 3Dmark 2000 with AMD K6 series was very good!!! Edited February 12, 2015 by Stermy57 Quote
Mr.Scott Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Antinomy will be helping out No doubt. Quote
mr.paco Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Would be cool to see if some Multie-socket CPU action could be added somewhere in there too Quote
havli Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Multi CPU sounds interesting. Maybe some 3dfx Voodoo benchmarking would be nice as well. I could really use some competition in that area. Quote
Mr.Scott Posted February 13, 2015 Posted February 13, 2015 Multi CPU sounds interesting.Maybe some 3dfx Voodoo benchmarking would be nice as well. I could really use some competition in that area. Challenge accepted. Quote
skulstation Posted February 14, 2015 Posted February 14, 2015 love the Multi-socket id, cound me in Quote
Crew Antinomy Posted February 17, 2015 Crew Posted February 17, 2015 Post your thoughts here: http://forum.hwbot.org/showthread.php?p=360554 Quote
Luebke Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 done but please make a team competitions. i like team-play like team-cup 3-month-competitions would be ok to me. spring, summer, autumn, winter Quote
havli Posted February 18, 2015 Posted February 18, 2015 I hope there will be no restrictions for "one-man-team". Because I'm the only one benchmarking oldschool stuff in my team. Quote
Luebke Posted February 19, 2015 Posted February 19, 2015 if u participate it is automatically your team, too. because u r a part of the team Because I'm the only one benchmarking oldschool stuff in my team. in that case u represent the team alone Quote
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