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

[SoF]

55 pts for 5970 @ 03. That's not too bad...

 

Anyway, we understand you don't like this, we didn't expect everyone will be pleased with rev3. Remember we made the changes because the community complained about rev2, and we thought they had a valid point.

 

Feel free not to use hwbot any more, no hard feelings. It's the only way we will now we need the change the algorithm again.

 

Oh I was looking on the 2x 5970 score of stummerwinter - a lot money and work is involved, it is one of the highes 03 all over (197k...) and it gives.....11.5 points...whereas 150-165.5 points (triple as much as 5970 @03!!!) are awarded for a "simple" SINGLE GPU WR....

I am one of thoose overclockers who simply buys what it takes to crush the big numbers - that is how overclocking was for years and hwbot wants to change it now???

Why not giving every class a 100 or 150 points, as EVERY WR in EVERY class is worth THE SAME - even if only 4 people compete this is a topnotch game and everybody has to put a lot effort into it...

What annoys me most is that hwbot is trying to judge which WR is worth more while everybody else who has been into this game for more than 5 years knows that every global WR is worth the same, no matter how much money was involved and how many people overall challenged this WR...

 

Do you think it is an achievement to be No. 89 of 150 and deserves to get a lot points for it??? Beeing No.89 you should get kicked in the nuts but for sure not get any points....

I think you simply focused too much on the average joe overclocker and forgot that this game should still be compatible for the "elite" overclockers using latest and best technology...I want 5970, you want to force me 5870 just because of your freakin' points systems if I want to see me in TOP20 / TOP10...now you force everybody wanting to climb up to buy single card GPU...see what you've done with your system? screwed up a wide range of high end stuph, limiting us to 5870...maybe you just forgot to rename yourself during all the other work - is this now "averagejoehardwarebotsinglegpucompetition"? wow until today I could never describe how it works here in one word...now I can :woot:

 

And yes massman you should do any maybe also move my posts right there

[Massman]

is this now "averagejoehardwarebotsinglegpucompetition"? wow until today I could never describe how it works here in one word...now I can

 

Yes, that múst be the best description for this competition, look at all the "average joes" at the top of the ranking:

 

[Chiller]

most rewarding is benching with most popular hardware ? WTF ?

 

and if you have a WR with hardware you are the only one on the planet ?

 

You get NOTHING THEN ???

 

correction : 0.1point.

 

how is it possible the the global ranking,

place of the world now is not so important anymore ?

 

yust having the most popuilar hardware.

[Massman]

yust having the most popuilar hardware.

 

Let me put it this way: Rev3 equals

 

"Having competitive harware instead of expensive hardware"

[Leeghoofd]

I am one of thoose overclockers who simply buys what it takes to crush the big numbers - that is how overclocking was for years and hwbot wants to change it now???

 

Then you are in the crowd they want to realign... seems you are missing the point of the rev3 and are just sort of digusted that the cash yo put into it isn't as rewarding anymore. Those who were on top in REv 2 will still be in Rev3... points for the easy I have loads of cash to spend crowd will be less... this was really getting silly as those that were able to buy 5970's and a good CPU gained more than those that benched their a s s es of to get anywhere... it had to be corrected somehow...sometime... somewhere...

 

Give it some time it's it first day out, some things will prolly be adjusted on demand of the users... I enjoy overclocking for the fun of it, not for the points gained...

Edited December 31, 2009 by Leeghoofd

[thebanik]

My 5870 benches saved the day for me and I am back to where I was with rev2, otherwise me too hate the new rev. though honestly its beneficial for money crunched ocers like me......

 

Massman, yes its about LN2 now, most of the time you cant get anywhere near points within popular category if you are not using some exotic cooling.........

[BenchBros]

Is there a overview for all benchmark categories?

Global ranking for 1 GPU

Global ranking for 2 GPU

Global ranking for 3 GPU

Global ranking for 4 GPU

and so on... for all CPU categories, too...

 

Keep on the awesome work for this project...

 

THANKS!!!

[Chiller]

Let me put it this way: Rev3 equals

 

"Having competitive harware instead of expensive hardware"

 

expensive hardware you need for best results.

 

best result, WR records as a example will have then less points then a E8600 ???

 

What the use of Hwbot fairplay then?

 

A World Record place with less points then a E8600 ????????????

[Lippokratis]

Let me put it this way: Rev3 equals

 

"Having competitive harware instead of expensive hardware"

 

and competitive hardware is expensive hardware - well done - the circle is complete

 

if you wanted to give the bencher of the mainstream hardware more points why don't you just raised the max hwpoint limit up to 75 and done.

 

the thread here shows you that there ist something wrong with the rev. 3 14 pages in just a few houres and usa isn't awake

 

we are the people!!!!

[Splave]

I can see how this is less about the money now in the sense of hardware. But I just feel now like the best of the best stuff is not worth it now, why push the bleeding edge without reward is what they are saying. A e6600 is more of a money maker than a 975 in the new version which just seems a bit backwards.

 

You were talking about getting more sponsors. Why would they want to back you when you are in-directly forcing people to scour ebay and other forums looking for old hardware that is worth more points then jumping over to the egg to buy their newest products that are worth jack you know?

[Massman]

My 5870 benches saved the day for me and I am back to where I was with rev2, otherwise me too hate the new rev. though honestly its beneficial for money crunched ocers like me......

 

Massman, yes its about LN2 now, most of the time you cant get anywhere near points within popular category if you are not using some exotic cooling.........

 

- Now you need 1x5870 to grab a set of global points, in rev2 you needed 2x5970. More money? huh?

 

- Why do you want the most popular categories? Go for the mid-popular categories: still fair amount of points and not too difficult to get into top10.

[Chiller]

and competitive hardware is expensive hardware - well done - the circle is complete

 

if you wanted to give the bencher of the mainstream hardware more points why don't you just raised the max hwpoint limit up to 75 and done.

 

the thread here shows you that there ist something wrong with the rev. 3 14 pages in just a few houres and usa isn't awake

 

we are the people!!!!

 

i agree with this, Hwbot is filling up with complaints in just a few houres, and USA isn't awake now ?

 

OOHHH my god, Hwbot is maybe going to crash with all this complaints.

 

Well HWbot make your conclusions, Where are indeed the people using Hwbot for a good time now, and this rumors, complaints klachten.

 

think good about this, we are indeed the people !!!!!!!!!!!!

 

And very much indeed (who is awake) are NOT satify with this REV3 bummer

[Ming@s]

I can not do search.

 

Why?

 

http://yfrog.com/5hcapturadeecr20091231144p

[Leeghoofd]

and competitive hardware is expensive hardware - well done - the circle is complete

 

nope it's not ! that's where you are missing the point... I see some posts here complaining about the rev3. Then I look at their results, a big fast CPU, and stock clocked GPU's, maybe they got 150 points in the old rev due to the possesion of 1000 euro's on GPU's... them days are over :woot:

Edited December 31, 2009 by Leeghoofd

[SoF]

Yes, that múst be the best description for this competition, look at all the "average joes" at the top of the ranking:

 

 

Oh massi....yesterday stummerwinter was ranked 1st with like 10 points ahead...now in the new ranking we have kingpin with almost 500 (!!!!!!) points ahead - the rest is far far behind...did you look on the points also? you saw the gap there? looks like you made your new ranking, looked if the top10 are still known names and thought you've done good...and I strongly disagree...

 

If I am not too screwed about all this, I maybe take a friend into new heights just by telling him which hardware to get and maybe helping him a bit with DICE...he will jump into TOP20 like a rocket for sure...much more easy as v2 was...but I think I understood what this is all about - hwbot was never what I thought it is...it is not a "High-End World Record platform" it is a "mass benching platform" or whatever you want to call it now...

...and so I am out...

[thebanik]

- Now you need 1x5870 to grab a set of global points, in rev2 you needed 2x5970. More money? huh?

 

- Why do you want the most popular categories? Go for the mid-popular categories: still fair amount of points and not too difficult to get into top10.

 

Thats exactly what I have done honestly since I understood this part completely, got a 5870 from my limited sponsor, used DICE and wallah I have 125 global points where as I had in total half of it using 2 x 5870 and my other 200 submissions. But now take this, I am sorta of a guy who gets very limited support from Hardware companies, 5870 was not a problem, but getting 5970 is/was a PITA but I would have persisted with my links to get me a/couple of 5970, if I didnt get any support I would have then put my own money and bought one or maybe 2 of them so that I could have tried reaching the top, ofcourse the TOP Most guyz you are posting again and again would certainly go for overall WR's and still continue to do so even without the boints but for mid level ocers like me, I wouldnt touch 5970's even with a barge pole, now honestly tell me guyz, you think this is the way to go forward????

[Massman]

Oh massi....yesterday stummerwinter was ranked 1st with like 10 points ahead...now in the new ranking we have kingpin with almost 500 (!!!!!!) points ahead - the rest is far far behind...did you look on the points also? you saw the gap there? looks like you made your new ranking, looked if the top10 are still known names and thought you've done good...and I strongly disagree...

 

If I am not too screwed about all this, I maybe take a friend into new heights just by telling him which hardware to get and maybe helping him a bit with DICE...he will jump into TOP20 like a rocket for sure...much more easy as v2 was...but I think I understood what this is all about - hwbot was never what I thought it is...it is not a "High-End World Record platform" it is a "mass benching platform" or whatever you want to call it now...

...and so I am out...

 

1) Kingpin benched the 1x5870 a couple of days before the Rev3 was launched. His margin is solely caused by him preparing for Rev3. Give the ranking a month and then you can make this kind of claims

 

2) If he can managed top20 - cool!

 

3) No one obliges you to be active at hwbot.

[der8auer]

Why don't you just raise the points you get for less benched hardware? Why don't keep the 2p for 1st place? It's just nuts to bench for 0,1p which is "nothing"!

[knopflerbruce]

http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=878680&tab=info - no verification links... My guess is that this score was done using the checksum validation, but that info isn't visible anywhere;)

 

Also, there is a bug in the wPrime 1024m tricore rank - alot of unlocked CPUs are there, but when I try to moderate them I realize that they are already identified as quads by the engine, so they shouldn't really be there at all... This is not an issue with the 32m tricore ranking. btw.

[Evocarlos]

I should have made a complaint thread next to this bug thread

 

lol the thread would be full for ever and ever ha ha

[Massman]

Why don't you just raise the points you get for less benched hardware? Why don't keep the 2p for 1st place? It's just nuts to bench for 0,1p which is "nothing"!

 

If there's no competition, the 1st gets 1,5p. If there are 10 competitors you have >2p.

[Massman]

http://www.hwbot.org/result.do?resultId=878680&tab=info - no verification links... My guess is that this score was done using the checksum validation, but that info isn't visible anywhere;)

 

Also, there is a bug in the wPrime 1024m tricore rank - alot of unlocked CPUs are there, but when I try to moderate them I realize that they are already identified as quads by the engine, so they shouldn't really be there at all... This is not an issue with the 32m tricore ranking. btw.

 

Noticed that as well, thanks for the heads up!

[Advanced]

it still takes skill, it still takes time, it still takes money.. but less money.

You are absolutely right! In Rev3 you still need skill, time and money. But in many categories you simply don't get the points like many said before.

Just because there are only 30 competitors that doesn't mean that it is easy to reach top10.

But mostly you don't even get points for being #10. 0,1 points is like nothig for tweaking and benching old hardware, doesn't matter if it's popular or not.

[Massman]

You are absolutely right! In Rev3 you still need skill, time and money. But in many categories you simply don't get the points like many said before.

Just because there are only 30 competitors that doesn't mean that it is easy to reach top10.

But mostly you don't even get points for being #10. 0,1 points is like nothig for tweaking and benching old hardware, doesn't matte if it's popular or not.

 

Quite frankly, it's super-easy to get into the top10 in most 30-people categories. Everytime I bench a VGA card, I just do vmod + different air cooler and get into the top with ease.

 

It takes some time to get to know the card though ... For some top5 spots I spend an afternoon tweaking and tuning the system. If you want lots of points fast and easy, well, than was Rev2 perfect

[Lippokratis]

If there's no competition, the 1st gets 1,5p. If there are 10 competitors you have >2p.

 

the first gets 2 points but the second gets nothing just a silver cup filled with no points. why don't you said

 

less than 10 submission rev3. point system less points but not 0,1 points for an second place

10-19 submission a mixture of rev2 and rev3 with a firm placing points

over 20 submission rev2 with in max hwpoints of 75

Edited December 31, 2009 by Lippokratis