It was recently agreed that another folding competition might be a good idea, for two reasons:
1. Top crunchers are getting a bit bored at the top and would enjoy some extra competition, and the competitions are good fun for all.
2. We could do with some more members, and its a good way to have a bit of fun and friendly competition with both folders and non folders even if they don't stay with the team afterwards.
So, this is whats been said so far:
So, any thoughts?
How will we make it fair?
Does offering prizes using a few small donations sound like a good idea?
Should it go in gh and be open to all?
Should we allow gpus and quad cores?
Will not allowing gpus and quad cores defeat the pont a little by not allowing those with the best hardware to win, bearing in mind this might be open to non folders in the gh with a view to retaining them after the competition?
Should we have a selection of categories, such as one for gpus (although this would require more prizes if we're doing prizes)?
Decided so far:
The Ranking & Prize Categories:
-Team AMD
-Team Intel
-The power league
-The overclockers league
-The ecowarriors league
-The prizes:
-Winner of the power league.
Person with the highest points over the duration.
-Winner of the overclockers league.
Person with the highest average ppd gain over the average ppd of their cpu at stock speed.
Average PPD data for the participants cpu type at stock speed is used and compared with the actual average ppd of the participant. This will be their average ppd over all the stats collected, so if we only used the stats from the weekly news in the two weeks of the competition we would use their average ppd out of these two figures. However there are likely to be more frequent stats reports, and the average ppd from all these stats reports will be the final figure.
-Winner of the eco warriors league.
The person with the highest ppd/cpu + typical system wattage.
Ppd is the ppd at the end of the competition.
Cpu + typical system wattage data is taken from reviews.
-Raffle prize.
All who enter will have their names drawn from a hat.
The Rules:
-No gpu clients
-SMP client not allowed
-Beta work not allowed
-advmethods set at users discretion
-Multiple machines not allowed under one username
-Username must be of the specified format.
-No more than 4 cores
-One prize per participant, if a participant wins multiple leagues they can choose a prize and any other prizes will go to the person who comes 2nd.
-One username (and hence machine) per forumite.
-Folding user names must be in the form: [F@H07_*forumname*_*cpumanufacturer/team*] e.g [F@H07_Joe42_AMD]
The Particulars:
-Will be posted in gh
-Competition will be two weeks long.
-There will be regular stats updates with all participants listed under each league in order of performance in that league.
1. Top crunchers are getting a bit bored at the top and would enjoy some extra competition, and the competitions are good fun for all.
2. We could do with some more members, and its a good way to have a bit of fun and friendly competition with both folders and non folders even if they don't stay with the team afterwards.
So, this is whats been said so far:
VeNT said:we need to get some races going tbh!
Mattus said:This is true! The best way to get the banter and points flowing, IMO.
shadowscotland said:anyone up for another single machine comp, as of 3-4 months ago.
Joe42 said:If we do lets make it public and bring in a few new folders while we're on. Put it in gh perhaps, invite people to compete even if they don't stay with us afterwards.
I'm up for it.
Perfect timing too with the Christmas holidays fast approaching.
Although i'm not sure if we should allow gpus to be part of a single machine in this instance, if we do theres not much point in me competing. Hell theres not much point anyway with these conroes but i'll do it anyway in the hope that some people with similar cpus compete to make it interesting.
We'll have to lay down some well thought out rules to make it fair and fun.
Mattus said:I'm up for it! It's probably gonna involve a few different categories, given that you could call a quad-core system with two GPUs one rig these days. Needs some thought... could make a rule of CPU WUs using the standard client only in the main category, if people were OK with that?
Agree about making it public as well - the aim should be participation
rich99million said:A category just for GPUs could be good - could be quite a close fight though could potentially get a bit dull with the consistant output
Joe42 said:I was thinking i would probably be happy to donate £5 via paypal if someone else can deal with buying some prizes and paying for and dealing with postage to the winners. Even something like a set of cathodes would do as a first prize.
Mattus said:I'd be happy with a £5 donation, though I don't think it should be compulsory!
shadowscotland said:I'll make someone a sig as a prize (not first prize obviously )
Joe42 said:Certainly wouldn't be compulsory. I'd still donate even if i wasn't going to enter.
I was just saying with a couple of small donations and someone willing to buy prizes and pay for postage we could offer some small but meaningful prizes and makes things much more lively.
So, any thoughts?
How will we make it fair?
Does offering prizes using a few small donations sound like a good idea?
Should it go in gh and be open to all?
Should we allow gpus and quad cores?
Will not allowing gpus and quad cores defeat the pont a little by not allowing those with the best hardware to win, bearing in mind this might be open to non folders in the gh with a view to retaining them after the competition?
Should we have a selection of categories, such as one for gpus (although this would require more prizes if we're doing prizes)?
Decided so far:
The Ranking & Prize Categories:
-Team AMD
-Team Intel
-The power league
-The overclockers league
-The ecowarriors league
-The prizes:
-Winner of the power league.
Person with the highest points over the duration.
-Winner of the overclockers league.
Person with the highest average ppd gain over the average ppd of their cpu at stock speed.
Average PPD data for the participants cpu type at stock speed is used and compared with the actual average ppd of the participant. This will be their average ppd over all the stats collected, so if we only used the stats from the weekly news in the two weeks of the competition we would use their average ppd out of these two figures. However there are likely to be more frequent stats reports, and the average ppd from all these stats reports will be the final figure.
-Winner of the eco warriors league.
The person with the highest ppd/cpu + typical system wattage.
Ppd is the ppd at the end of the competition.
Cpu + typical system wattage data is taken from reviews.
shadowscotland said:As to Oc I've been doing some research and come up with two simple ratio's as power/thermal output is liner to clock cycles.
Most Intel’s are between .098 and .093 watts/Hz. To keep it simple I'll call it .095
C2D and AMD's have a shallower line of between .078 and .084. so I'll call this .08.
Or to put it an other way, Intel’s have Oc factor of 95w per GHz, and C2D & AMDs have a factor of 80w per GHz
Are we all following ok - no! well let's give an example.
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= 185w (stock) + [(3.6-2.66)*95] (Oc in Ghz times 'intel Oc factor' above)
= 185+[.94x95]
= 185+89
= 274w
-Raffle prize.
All who enter will have their names drawn from a hat.
The Rules:
-No gpu clients
-SMP client not allowed
-Beta work not allowed
-advmethods set at users discretion
-Multiple machines not allowed under one username
-Username must be of the specified format.
-No more than 4 cores
-One prize per participant, if a participant wins multiple leagues they can choose a prize and any other prizes will go to the person who comes 2nd.
-One username (and hence machine) per forumite.
-Folding user names must be in the form: [F@H07_*forumname*_*cpumanufacturer/team*] e.g [F@H07_Joe42_AMD]
The Particulars:
-Will be posted in gh
-Competition will be two weeks long.
-There will be regular stats updates with all participants listed under each league in order of performance in that league.
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