HWBOT Country Competition - 7 weeks, 7 stages, 7 prizes, 150 competing countries
 

7 stages, 7 weeks, 7 prizes, 150 countries

Wake up everyone!!

HWBot is excited to present its first official competition. The concept is completely different from all other competitions so far, so let us explain.

1. Concept

The competition consists of seven benchmarks spread over seven weeks. In other words, chances are big that you will not have the time to submit a world record breaking result, which makes it interesting to see who will come up with the best result within a very limited time-frame. The results are grouped per country and countries are ranked based on the average score of the top-3 submissions. So, in order to win, you will have to motivate your fellow overclockers to submit good results. Per stage, countries are awarded points and the country that gathered most points at the end of seven stages wins the competition.

2. Stages

For each stage, the HWBot staff has prepared a combination of platform and benchmark. To keep things exciting, we will not reveal the combination, but only the list of platforms and benchmarks. This prevents people from benching in advance and preserves the concept of one-week benching, but still allows people to prepare as you can already figure out the limitations of the platform. The only two people who know the combination of the platform and benchmarks are RichBa5tard and Massman. Evidently, both can not win anything in this competition.

2.a. Benchmarks

• 3DMark01
• 3DMark Vantage
• Pifast
• SuperPI 1M
• SuperPI 32M #1
• SuperPI 32M #2 (different hardware limitations)
• Wprime 32M

2.b. Required hardware

In order to make this competition fun and challenging, each stage will have certain hardware limitations. For example, we could limit the 3DMark01 stage to only use a Intel Core 2 Quad processor. The hardware requirements for each stage will be announced a few days before the start of the stage.

Hardware required if you want to compete in all stages:

• AMD processor
• AMD/ATI videocard
• A P55 motherboard
• Intel Core 2 Quad (not extreme)
• Any single core processor
• Any Intel Core i7 processor

If you do not own this hardware, either go bargain hunting or encourage fellow countrymen with this hardware to join the competition. There are 7 stages in this competition, so it's not a disaster if you can't compete in one of the stages due to hardware limitations. Remember, in the Country Cup competition it's not important how high you score, it's important how high your country top 3 average is.

3. Prizes

As this is an official HWBot competition, we need to give away prizes to those who performed best during this competition. Although this is a country competition we cannot give a prize to every single overclocker from the winning country. No, you have to put a lot of effort in trying to win something.

At the end of the competition, there will be a top-3 formed based on the points each country has been able to gather. The best overclockers from each country will be sent a K|ngp|n LN2 container. The containers (2x CPU, GPU and NB) are awarded as follows:

• Winning Country: top 3 overclockers get each one container
• Runner-up: top 2 overclockers get each one container
• Third: best overclocker gets one container.
• Special achievements (eg first submission): hwbot T-shirts, hwbot dog tags

4. Rules

• Submission verification must be according to the HWBot rules.
• We expect everyone to play fair, whoever cheats in this competition gets banned from HWBot.
• This is not a software tuning competition, but an overclocking competition. Any special software tweaks must be explained to the HWBot staff during the competition and will be published on HWBot afterwards.
• Reminder: act smart.
• Retail hardware only. Hardware must be availabe for purchase at the beginning of this competition. Pre-order is not okay.
• The usage of Liquid Helium is not prohibited.

More details and the official link to the competiton microsite will be published next week. The first stage of the competition will start on Wednesday the 4th of November.

Who's gonna do the work for Belgium? :D

I'll make a newspost when the contest actually launches and do the updates here at [M].

depending on the hardware restrictions, I'll see what I can do ;)

i can give support to benching party's but there it ends i think for me.
no time :s, only on some sunday's and monday's.

in the next 7 weeks, you have no time ... ;-)

This competition will be won by users who are using air or water I think. just check if you have matching hardware, do one session on sunday and submit result ... you never know :D

I'll try with whatever hardware I've got here (I need that Quad back Geoffrey :p)

i have i7 920, 4850, DE CELERON :D. nie echt iets super dus :), tenzei ik even probeer voor de cascade op de 920 te draaien :D.

u know shi(f)t about how i life and work john, so dont ever say that again!

Lol, well, pm me if you do, it's not my cpu so not my decision :)

I need it before the 4th of november :) for the week of Pi 1mb with a quad core... will be impossible to beat the Q9650's, but we will give it a shot :p

Hope it can do 500FSB again (and more), but now with 8.5 multi... (and only 2 cores enabled then on the REX)

can you disable 3 cores? ;)

I can use my powertool and drill a hole in it yes :p

Have to test again if 1 core is faster than 2, I vote for nr 2

I hope to get sub 10secs, but that might be pushing it already...

500Mhz FSB won't suffice for that I'm afraid, unless you pull an OBR?

4.5ghz (530FSB) should be enough, the cpu primed at 500FSB on the budget Giga on air...

Before? I'm on duty until 2/11 so can't make trips that far :s

ik kan er ook om komen he of halfweg of iets dergelijks jongeman... zillion ways to trade hardware...

call me then ok

k heb hardware die mag gepijnigd worden voor deel te nemen voor belgie :

P4 955 extreme
p4 515
p4 630
p4 631
p4 830
celly 352
celly 346
celly 347
celly ..........
E8600 Q822A435 2x cpu.
Gulftown 3.07Ghz XE (ja unlocked)
i7 975 XE D0
ati 5770
ati 3450
8800gt
8800gtx
quadro fx370
asus P5Q (moet nog Vmod krijgen)
Asus commando (Vmodded)
A-data DDR3 triple channel 2133Mhz
ddr2 micronD9gtr
DDR3 MicronD9chr

en nog paar cpu's onderweg en vga's low end voor leuke puntjes hardware op hwbot.
Tevens heb k ook een ln² vat staan van 50liter, pas aangekocht.
en nog extra scherm voor bench rig.
rollen armaflex 1mm,
3 spuiten acrylic compound spray (pcb)
tubes dialectric grease.

Dus als er iemand bij mij voor de Hwbot Country competition wilt spelen, altijd welkom thuis.
Ben serieus wezen shoppen, en der komt nog bij,
en denk da k nog paar zaken mis in lijst die ik opnoemde.

@ leeghoofd, kan k van de maand u REX X48 es lenen voor superpi1m ?

heb hier twee leuke E8600's liggen die over de 6.2Ghz gaan op ln².

You left our overclocking team remember :)

it's country contest, witch country do i live in ?

this is not for team contest but country, so witch team doesn't matter, but if you don't whant me ? ok then.

Oh, so let's just pretend then :)

k got the clu :no:

bench for belgium with whatever you got !! if it's allowed push it !! **** teams it's countries now

spoken as the king !!!!!!! :ws: :ws: :ws:

Nice signature!

vond t catchy.

don't care where you live, if you're not part of "Overclocking Team BE" you should not be posting in this TEAM forum. Go post that in PURE team forums.

5..

Wouldn't put it that harsh, but I don't get why you leave a team completely unannounced, badmouth us on your new forums and then walk in as nothing happened.

You can't have it both ways: either you show respect for this forum or you don't :).

...visit it.

Just FYI, the competition has started.

Awesome prizes, by the way:

Hey guys!!

leeghoofd u got that quad off ure's and a board ?
cascade can be used! sunday and monday if got free.

OK, since old scores are allowed, I'll kick this off :

http://www.hwbot.org/compare.do?resultId=687759

Not much, but better than nothing ;)

Edit : exactly how do we submit ?

think xtreme cpu's are not allowed thorgal :p.

okay within 2 weeks i hope to have my new dewar.

QX isn't allowed mister :)

BAH :mad:

Never owned another, unless perhaps a Q6600 :(

LG still hasn't called me for the Q9550 blind

i think the man has hiss hand full on dippers and S-H-i-T

I've got an indigestion due to delicious éclairkes... will be for tomorrow evening G... How can we hook up the best ?

I will need 525-530FSB at least to have a sub 10 sec score... I see some Q9650 action at XS but them scores are so badly tweaked and pure done on raw CPU power... and on DDR2... I hope to have a small edge with DDR3.... (wished ya UD3P was still alive Blind)

As soon as I have the Q9550 i will pretest on the REX with the phase, if I need more I might head to Brugges or Waregem...

u eat tomutch eclairs !!!

btw GO LUCK TO THE FRECH SIDE OFF BELGIUM :D, hope its not gone be like most contest's last minuted submits.
only 2 country's enter so far.