The official HWBOT OC Challenge January 2012 thread.

[sumonpathak]

Well...locking cores in Intel allowed i hope???

[Massman]

No. Enabling more cores is allowed; disabling them is not.

[sumonpathak]

^^ok...no biggie

[DOM.]

What about HT ? Like on a 2600k can it be used or can it be turned off... Or it can't be used at all ?

[Massman]

2600K = 4x CPU

[GunGod]

U call this background ? Its a pic of Massman clonings! :P

p.p. I don't like the concept. Not agreed some1 tricky to win with lower score. It ruin the purpose of best tweaked and highest score to win. -1

[Massman]

If you have the highest score, you get 10 points. Which is the highest amount of points you can win per stage.

[StrategosSan]

So, do I have to consider that ES are allowed?

[GunGod]

Originally Posted by Massman

If you have the highest score, you get 10 points. Which is the highest amount of points you can win per stage.

I mean that if i win 3 stages and screw on 2 there is chance someone to get lucky with adding/removing poor scores and to be 4 or more times 6-th or 11-th and he may win the competition. So at the end the winner will be not the best overclocker with best results it will be the most sneaky and tricky one. This is overclocking community not advanced school, point are rewarded by our oc achievements not sneaky tactics. It will be a "cold war" not competition. But it is up to us after all, if someone not like conditions may not join it.

[saint19]

Originally Posted by StrategosSan

So, do I have to consider that ES are allowed?

For a fair competition, I guess not

Originally Posted by GunGod

I mean that if i win 3 stages and screw on 2 there is chance someone to get lucky with adding/removing poor scores and to be 4 or more times 6-th or 11-th and he may win the competition. So at the end the winner will be not the best overclocker with best results it will be the most sneaky and tricky one. This is overclocking community not advanced school, point are rewarded by our oc achievements not sneaky tactics. It will be a "cold war" not competition. But it is up to us after all, if someone not like conditions may not join it.

I think that this gives to the non-extreme overclockers a better chance to win a competition, we both know that at the end guys with LN2 and sub-zero temps are the possible winners. With the same points in three different places, non-extreme overclockers can fight among them and get a chance to win.