The 220 cap is staying ??? Bad Desision Bad, we are still back in 2007 ??? Seems that after many years we stil gotta hold back our hardware ??? This is Completely unacceptable by me and goes after what overclocking its all about and the principles of whats overclocking.

 

Im out of this game then and i wont play it anymore ,very unffair to keep the 220 cap and to add the other new rules , have fun everyone i will fade away now , I have a NewBorn Baby about to come into this world , Now i will spend all my time with new Baby and maybe leave hwbot and never come back , theres a time in life when we got to move on ... Ill go back to my old hobbie or find me a new one , overclocking does not apeal to me anymore and i am no longer interested.

 

Sincerely Dissapointed: Angelo.

If that Baby cries anyway near as much as you do you're in trouble.

 

Kthnxbai

New rules suck. Just one small step in the right direction is not enough. You told was is allowed and what is not about one single subtest (video/audio encoding). And the rules already existed about RAMdisk (HDD sybtests) and browser (replacing with a third-side browser).

 

So PCMark doesn't have any other tests? What about transparent windows - what's allowed and what is not? And so on.

Hwbot is going lately a wrong direction.

The 220 cap is staying ??? Bad Desision Bad, we are still back in 2007 ??? Seems that after many years we stil gotta hold back our hardware ??? This is Completely unacceptable by me and goes after what overclocking its all about and the principles of whats overclocking.

 

Im out of this game then and i wont play it anymore ,very unffair to keep the 220 cap and to add the other new rules , have fun everyone i will fade away now , I have a NewBorn Baby about to come into this world , Now i will spend all my time with new Baby and maybe leave hwbot and never come back , theres a time in life when we got to move on ... Ill go back to my old hobbie or find me a new one , overclocking does not apeal to me anymore and i am no longer interested.

 

Sincerely Dissapointed: Angelo.

if this is completely unacceptable for you then just don't bench pcmark05.

seriously, if you quit overclocking\hwbot just because of one benchmark that has a cap, nobody can help you.

 

and good luck with your baby.

 

If that Baby cries anyway near as much as you do you're in trouble.

 

Kthnxbai

lol gappo

So PCMark doesn't have any other tests? What about transparent windows - what's allowed and what is not? And so on.

 

You can tweak the subtest app all you want (OS/driver/mouse-moving). You can't change that subtest app.

 

Has Transparent Windows -ever- been a problem? No, it hasn't. It was just something someone figured out (mouse-moving) and others didn't.

wtf Angelo, just stop Pcmark05 then... can't 100% understand the frustration...

 

Look at the votes, most wanted new rules, but did not vote for the removal of the 220XP cap...

cool sounds good, to be honest gautam convinced me about removing the cap, i think it should go, but i like these new rules, they give a bit more direction and thats what is needed

Short comment on the cap: it was 50/50 on keeping it or not. Either way would've made some people unhappy. So, as the cap has pretty much been with PCMark05 since forever, I decided to keep it.

 

It's a part of what defines PCMark05 as benchmark.

Video Encoding tweaks allowed for other versions of PCMark?

It gives 2x boost (from 464 to 983 fps in my case) in PCMark04 WMV Video Compression subtest:

 

 

Can I submit this score?

Short comment on the cap: it was 50/50 on keeping it or not. Either way would've made some people unhappy. So, as the cap has pretty much been with PCMark05 since forever, I decided to keep it.

 

It's a part of what defines PCMark05 as benchmark.

 

Good call, IMO, Massman. I support that.

We'll see how this works. We can always remove the cap later if we need to, even if that means that the scores posted from today until the time we remove that ridiculous rule are "worthless":) It's no big deal, right?

I propose a 3DM01 Nature cap also just for shits and giggles since the current scores are way out of my reach.

 

Also I think we should have a CPU MHz cap on Vantage's CPU test, this will help us from killing our CPU's and also save Intel some RMA losses.

Would people who want to complain about the startup cap please use correct analogies? Limiting MHz or limiting 'out of reach' scores are totally wrong ...

Massman, it was not only about mouse moving - I wouldn't ask if it was that simple. O.K. - everything goes, but don't replace the app/browser/codec - right? I got your point, thank you for the answer!

well... now this score is legal, right ?

http://3dmark.com/pcm05/3101247

looks good

Thanks ! I've done it some weeks ago, but I didn't post it because there were old rules.

If 8000+ video encoding are allowed, I'll post it

im liking this rules updates, guys are putting up some cool scores..

 

long live pcm05 !~@

well... now this score is legal, right ?

http://3dmark.com/pcm05/3101247

 

Denis, your score looks fine to me, transparent windows looks great!

Shame to see that startup limit still in place. Hopefully the new rules will yield a revival of PCM05.

 

Now.. PCM 7? We need moar system benches.

PCM7 is nice, plus the 3 loops make it harder to keep in control when running on borderline stability.

Denis, your score looks fine to me, transparent windows looks great!

 

well... thanks.

Lot of exercise with curveball flash game LoL

I think some people have more front than sainsbury's commenting on this topic - especially when you look at the scores people have achieved, which quite frankly are cheats, but somehow got passed right under the noses of the mods.

 

Anyhoo - I love this benchmark, I hate the cheaters and especially the hypocritical ones.

 

I sincerely hope we keep this test and that the rules become tighter than a ducks arse - and that (as a big a job as it may be) the mods take the time to strip people of any cheated score they have, although if you do that you might find the same names rolling over and over, then you have to ask if that type of person deserves to be here at all.

 

Moderating this site must be tons of work for you guys, I know people may not always agree with what you say or do (rev4 being the thing I disagree with most) - but you have my respect for doing what you do.