BECOME AN OFFICIAL OcUK REVIEWER & WIN SAPPHIRE HD 5970, 5870, 5850 & 5770 GFX CARDS

PaulGreyhead said:
Wonder if it's a bad idea putting our questions on here? Could it spoil the competition?
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Probably be best not to till at least the winner has been called, even then it be a bit of a bad idea as peeps might go "they are **** questions/reviews" or "they were my questions" and/or cry fowl and start the great OCUK forum wars of 2010 with the Forum Troll Empire entering the war in aim of taking over.
 
Wow I really feel for the guys. How many directors are there at overclockers?

If we say 9, and make the average length of the essays about 1400 words (just a guesstimate) and number of entries 150 (same again), that's already 21,000 words to ready and critique for each of them, and then they have to compare all of them!

I would literally be in awe if they got this done by the 21st without calling in for backup from other ocUK employees!

Take all the time you need guys, you're spending such a huge amount of your time on this and then giving away thousands of pounds in prizes, mahoosive respect :)
 
That's nothing compared to what my parents have to do. They're both university lecturers/teachers and that would be a fairly normal workload for them weekly... But it stresses the hell out of them when they have that much to mark, so yeah it will be difficult. Also the entries will be judged ultimately by James Napier, OcUK's director. Good man and bless him! :)
 
Yes, but the ocUK directors jobs still have their normal jobs to do, whereas your parents work as teachers during the day, then the rest of work is spent lesson planning and marking, whereas the directors need to, you know, direct? :D
 
I wonder if they'll use some kind of special software that automatically detects if a review is worth reading as well :p
 
Well funny you should say that, my sister mentioned her college use something that detects how much of an essay is just copy and paste from the internet.

So maybe they will use something similar?
 
Speed said:
Well funny you should say that, my sister mentioned her college use something that detects how much of an essay is just copy and paste from the internet.

So maybe they will use something similar?
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yup it is true, theres plagarism software. i believe it has all sorts of books and web info loaded onto it, which will scan a document and see if anything has been copied. hence why they now also speicfy it has to be electronically submitted
 
It's a little more advanced than that (the anti-plagiarism software). It does detect directly copied work, but in addition to just having books and essentially a search engine, it detects key ideas, so they can tell if you've just paraphrased as the key ideas and sequencing often gets left the same. In addition, it can flag up possible changes in writing style, which point to plagiarism e.g. sudden use of complex language, or terminology only used in small parts of the work where more general language is used elsewhere.

I don't think they'll be checking every single piece with plagiarism software, but to be safe they may do on the winners' pieces before announcing it.

I didn't have access to many benchmarking tools for the review I wrote, and was thinking of using another site's benchmark results (obviously with credit given), but tbh with monitors benchmarked numbers don't really translate into much, and they are much less important than actual opinions and cold, hard specs like screen resolution. Plus I feel having a bunch of numbers that you don't really understand thrust in your face often makes you want to stop reading.

I don't speak for everyone, but the only benchmarks I ever really look at and actually understand are fps in games and 3dMark scores :) Colour response benchmarks, for example, can't really tell you much more than words do.

3 days :)
 
Wow I didn't know it was that hardcore sounds very 24 like, does it take a fair amount of system power to do quickly with everything it has to check and cross check ? I did my own benchmarks for a review I did for anandtech's call for writers it took a while I tell you and makes you appreciate good benchmarking tools like Farcry 2's and loath basic ones like say DOW2's or Batmans.
 
I don't know the IT implications of it, that's just what I know from discussions with my teachers, sorry.

Yeah if it was a game, gpu or cpu then I'd put in benchmarks, but I reckon people generally both know and care less about monitor benchmarks, as the measurements aren't generally as easy to imagine and contemplate as frames per second or processes per second.
 
As I did a case review, all I can tell you is temperature benches under idle and load with my rig.

I know Custom PC have a Pentium Extreme rig with a passive graphics card that they use for case testing, and they measure against the temperature of the room.
 
Without giving away your review entirely, what's the M59 actually like? I'm currently working out what I want in my build and the M59 is something I was looking at if I remember correctly...
 
I think it's a great case, personally. It's got a lot more personality than most ~£45 cases, feels really sturdy. There was a couple of issues, one of which was the little stealth bay thing under the light at the top sticks. I tried it with both my primary and secondary (which has a stronger motor) DVD drives, and it still stuck. It depends on how willing you are to fiddle around inside and loosen the spring tension.

Apart from that I have no issues. Oh wait, if you plan to run SLI or Crossfire with graphics cards longer than my ~10 inch 9800GT, then you will run into problems, as the hard drive caddy is mounted with the drives facing the side panel. To get around this, you may have to take a dremel to the caddy.

Those are the only issues I had. I hope I didn't give too much away, but if it helps you make a good choice, then I'm sure it's fine.
 
phil_c_ said:
yup it is true, theres plagarism software. i believe it has all sorts of books and web info loaded onto it, which will scan a document and see if anything has been copied. hence why they now also speicfy it has to be electronically submitted
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I doubt they will. Considering a lot of the features would be taken from the manufacturers stie.
 
My review was a modified version of one I posted on my website. I did explain this and my account email address uses the domain of that website - but if they do use Turnitin type software it will probably be about 80% plagiarised ;)
 
Well like I said, I guess they'll probably just run it through on the winners, they're not out to embarass and disqualify people, and then on the winners they'll probably ask for an explanation if they show up as plagiarised.
 
Yeah, just remembered I posted mine on my site too! I did include a link to it in the second email, and the site has my name on it so no trouble there.

Just thinking, if I won the 5970 (which I very highly doubt!) I would have to spend a fortune on a new PSU and some hench case, either that or hacksaw time! I am using some cheap iCute case, my HDD and end of my 9800GTX are about 1mm or two apart as it is! I think I need an upgrade soon...

My case!!
 
If I won the 5970 I would have to spend a ton of money getting a computer that is actually worth running.

I think the 5870 would be massively bottlenecked too.

I think that your 520W power supply is probably able to handle the 5970. My reviewer friend told me that in his badass core i7 rig with a 5970 barely touches 600W even under full load. I doubt your lil Phenom will draw that much.
 
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