Hey boys and girls,
Given the recent commotion about the Overclockers League being totally unfair (
), we have tried to come up with a different style of overclocking league. As a try-out, we've made a very rough sketch of what could be an AMD overclockers leauge. The link is not visible through the front-page (since it's not an official feature), but you can check out what it's all about here:
http://hwbot.org/rankings/amdleague/
As you can see, without too much issues we can make rankings based on specific hardware or manufacturers. This page is a nice concept of one of the ideas we've been playing with to seperate the extreme overclockers from the regular overclockers. Instead of thing top-down (eg: pro league), we've made an alternative going bottom-up. This means that we do not seperate the super-seeded from the regular-seeded, but the extreme from the non extreme.
The enthusiast league:
- cooling limited to ambient (= stock, air, water)
- frequency of each CPU and VGA limited to undisclosed value to prevent cheating and golden samples ruining the game
- no seperate result ranking based on cooling, points are gathered from the normal rankings(*)
- possibly: exclude expensive hardware from rankings
The extreme league:
- no cooling limitation
- no frequency limitation
- points are gathered from normal rankings (*)
(*) the normal rankings are rankings based on the hardware/manufacturer limitation. So, for this AMD league, the points are not calculate based on the entire database, but only based on the results with AMD/ATI hardware. This means it's possible that certain benchmarks (eg: 01 and 1M) have less weight than the normal rankings because they are a lot less popular than when you include intel hardware.
The idea behind using the same rankings for the enthusiast and extreme rankings is that there will be noticable transition when you switch from ambient cooling to extreme cooling. To show you how it works, this example:
- my best score on ambient cooling is rankined 89th in the superpi 1M ranking; I get 20 points for that.
- those 20 points are added to my total for the enthusiast ranking; I now have 180 points
- the next day, I use LN2 to cool my cpu and get a score that is ranked 15th in the 1M ranking; i get 60 points for that.
- these 60 points are added to my total for the extreme league
Since only your best submission is ranked, the submission with ambient cooling now receives 0 points. So, the total for my enthusiast league has dropped with 20 points. This method applies to all rankings and categories, which makes it a necessity to only choose for ambient, or only choose for extreme overclocking (since you cannot have two accounts in hwbot). So, you can be the Extreme King, or the Enthusiast King ... but not both. This, to make sure the extreme overclockers play in their own league.
Note: the current ranking has not been calculated as explained above. It would take too much time to do it properly, and time is something we do not have available currently. At this moment, we just make a sum of all points that are added to AMD/ATI scores.
