The official HWBOT OC Challenge January 2012 thread.

[StrategosSan]

It's not about to be fair. ES are not better than other. I ask that because the only cpu I got is a ES.

[knopflerbruce]

A different (and better approach) could be to award the lowest scores, too - like if you have 11 teams competing you could give 10-8-6-5-4-3-4-5-6-8-10 points for a stage.

Fighting for the 5th score is quite silly, you cant really aim for it while benching - you got no real target, you can't push the system in any direction and have a better chance of winning.

[I.nfraR.ed]

I personally don't like the idea of deleting better score and replacing it with worse. I'd rather submit my best score on water than aiming at the 6th place with lower clocks than my current 24/7. There won't be any effort in that score.

Good that you can still fight for the first place and take 10 points, but let's consider the other possible situation.
I'm fighting with knopflerbruce and tiborrr for the first place and throw everything possible in the stage, but in the end I end up 3rd, simply because they are better than me. I won't be disappointed, because it's just the place I'm able to get, no skills/hardware/luck for more.
With the new rules, should I produce several results in different timeframes which don't represent my system's maximum and personal skills, and just wait and aim for the 6th place with deleting and uploading differenet scores, depending on other's scores?

Imagine 10 minutes untill the end all people deleting better scores and uploading worse scores, so they can take the 6th place.

I admire the idea of giving chances to air/water setups, but there are flaws as well. Don't know if there's a perfect solution.

Originally Posted by StrategosSan

It's not about to be fair. ES are not better than other. I ask that because the only cpu I got is a ES.

I'm ok with ES chips, as long as they are similar to retail chips (e.g. no unlocked multipliers, while the retail chip is locked). Since it's not a model based comp (e.g. Sempron 145 allowed only), I don't see a problem allowing ES chips.

[Massman]

There's no perfect solution, I'm sure.

Guys, please remember that the HOC competitions are mainly for fun and for testing things out. So, I'd like to know what all the people who are against it now, say after the competition has finished. Doesn't matter if your opinion is the same, different or more elaborate ("this is good, this is bad") .

Btw, last month we had a another point scheme and Overclock.net won. On their forums, there was actually a thread going with guys discussing how to approach it. So, they had a plan and they won.

[ShrimpBrime]

End of month, top 3 places benchoff for Ultimate 1st place x days required for submission.

[eketehe]

Originally Posted by Massman

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

the system not allowed me to submit 555be unlock more 1 core for total 3core

[Massman]

Originally Posted by Massman

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

Oh, I just realized it's configured differently. My bad!

Stages are based on stock CPU core_count and not on effective cores. Ie: in the 2xCPU category, you can technically use a quad socket system with 4 dual cores .

I'll update the frontpage too so it's more clear

[sumonpathak]

please do

[eketehe]

Originally Posted by Massman

Oh, I just realized it's configured differently. My bad!
Stages are based on stock CPU core_count and not on effective cores. Ie: in the 2xCPU category, you can technically use a quad socket system with 4 dual cores .
I'll update the frontpage too so it's more clear

so that, 1 processor will only allowed for 1 stage i.e. sempron 140 will allowed for 1x,555be for 2x,960t for 4x no matter how much the active cores,except disable the stock.
well then, ok.thx massman

[Massman]

I've updated the names of the stages so it's more clear.

- single core = all CPUs with 1 core (multiple cpus allowed)
- dual core = all CPUs with 2 cores (multiple cpus allowed)
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