2010/01/01 20:44:59
nateman_doo
that is marketplace link, which thread?
2010/01/01 20:55:14
Rudster816
It was locked\Deleted.

In a nutshell Reggie claims Pgmoney sold him an i7 920, but when he got it, the CPU wasnt in there, just the stock HSF. Pgmoney claims the CPU was in there.
2010/01/01 21:05:43
xxrabid93
Q, you know how you said you lost a ton of points? Check the Bot and see if you got some back. There was another update to the points system today. They decided to give points to the top 50% of people in hardware categories, instead of what they first set it at, which was top 33%.

Link: http://www.hwbot.org/article/news/important_bugfix_hardware_points_to_50_instead_of_33
2010/01/01 21:59:22
Q56_Monster
xxrabid93

Q, you know how you said you lost a ton of points? Check the Bot and see if you got some back. There was another update to the points system today. They decided to give points to the top 50% of people in hardware categories, instead of what they first set it at, which was top 33%.

Link: http://www.hwbot.org/article/news/important_bugfix_hardware_points_to_50_instead_of_33


Yea, I did get some back, but not even close to where I was before.  I 'll just have to accept the new algorithm.  What I really don't get is their logic of giving significantly more points to single gpus V. multiple GPU's.  They say once more folks post results for multiple gpu's the point values should go up.  But who's going to chase low point values just to hope they go up in the future, especially since most users only have single cards.  We really got hammered on the quad 295 vantage scores.  IMO, these are arguably harder to achieve, but worth considerably less points compared to an equivalent single card run.  It's amazing to think that if you achieve a WR in vantage, or any gpu bench for that matter, that it's not really worth jack at the bot.  Gotta go single card...and LN2 to compete in that category, or work twice as hard to gather the "second tier" multiple gpu points.

But on to better things.......  John shot me some CPU suggestions to try.  Cpu is key right now to my continued vantage success.  Hard to believe I've been benching these cards for almost a year now...1/25 is their anniversary.
2010/01/01 22:10:34
johnksss
if you aren't on ln2/le/dice
you can pretty much forget about ranking any time soon.

it was a challenge for me to do that with chilled water and land in the midst, but once they added the single dual cards to that list...really wasn't worth much at all... so i completely understand what it is your saying Q.
edit:
damn, i got a few points back.

2010/01/02 09:53:50
nateman_doo
John, what you did on a chiller is still top notch in my book.  I never was much into the bot, until you guys got me into it.  I will defiantly be more involved this year with it.
2010/01/02 09:58:58
johnksss
thanks nate!
i like the bot because it gives us somewhere to post scores for the rest of the world to see...but... it should have been broken up just a bit further.....extreme/mid-range/stock.... but i understand why not though....that is about 10 times the work need to do just what is being done now. and to easy for people to slip through the cracks with scoring.

2010/01/02 13:00:30
Q56_Monster
John got me into the bot.  Over the summer he would say, "now flip off physx and do another run".  When I saw him scoring in the top 20 in vantage, I thought hey, we ain't to shabby here at team eVGA!
2010/01/02 13:49:30
johnksss
that was to show we could do both sides of the fence...
but that lead into much...much...much...much more benching...lol

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