road-runner Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 Dates: August 1-14 prelims (Stock score posting) Saturday 15th (last minute posting at TRP only!!!) Sunday the 16th will be an off day for roster submissions Monday the 17th thru Saturday Sept 5th (go to war)(Database is closed on Sept 2nd) Thursday Sept 3rd (All disputed scores listed at TRP) Friday & Saturday Sept 4th & 5th (last minute posting at TRP only) All deadlines 9pm CST (Texas) (All Score links and Screenshots must remain active during the war) (If they are not active you will recieve a zero for a score) Summerwarz Benchmarks: 3d01 3d06 GBench SPi w OC bonus (SSw2CPUz) Cinebench (multi) (SSw2CPUz) The Unlimited Xtreme Class (3 player teams) No upgrade restrictions No unreleased architecture ES chips No cooling restrictions (LN, DICE, Cascades) Anything goes... The Limited Xtreme Class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No Unreleased ES chips Air, Water, Peltier & Phase cooling only (4 VGA Core max) Quad SLI/CF OK The "B" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (4 VGA Core max) Quad SLI/CF OK The "C" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No i7 or Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (4 VGA Core max) Quad SLI/CF OK The "D" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No i7 or Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (2 VGA Core max) (Can be a X2/GX2 or SLI/CF) The "E" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No Quadcores, i7 or Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (1 VGA Core max) (no X2/GX2 or SLI/CF) http://www.theraptorpit.com/forum/index.ph...ic=4184&hl= Summerwarz 2009 Rules Changes... (since the last war) Posting scores in the last few days will be allowed only at TRP Benchs are 3d01,3d06,SuPi with an OC bonus,GB & Cinebench Phase & Peltier allowed in "A Class" Now dubbed Limited Xtreme class Quad restriction in "E class" Windows 7 OS allowed Longer benching session for the war ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The Spirit of the Games... This is very Important! Tweaks are allowed, FSB, Multi, Htt, Memory,Voltage, VGA Bus & Mem... ect Cheats are not, Ram drives, no on-the-fly affinity modifications, modifying drivers ect Note... not all has been mentioned here, just keep in mind "The Spirit of the Games" Penelties for violating this will be harsh. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Summerwarz Dates..... August 1-14 prelims (Stock score posting) Saturday 15th (last minute posting at TRP only!!!) Sunday the 16th will be an off day for roster submissions Monday the 17th thru Saturday Sept 5th (go to war)(Database is closed on Sept 2nd) Thursday Sept 3rd (All disputed scores listed at TRP) Friday & Saturday Sept 4th & 5th (last minute posting at TRP only) ALL DEADLINES are on 9pm CST US & Mexico (Texas) Take Note: These are hard deadlines, there will be no excuses for missing them (None) (All Score links and Screenshots must remain active during the war) (If they are not active you will recieve a zero for a score) Summerwarz Benchmarks: Geekbench (10x score)(32bit version only) 3d01 (2x score) 3d06 (4x score) SPi w OC bonus (SSw2CPUz&TS) (7sec = 120k score) Cinebench (multi) (SSw2CPUz&TS) (4x score) Overclock Bonus (1000 points for every 1% OC on Super Pi) ****** All benchmarks can be found at www.forumwars.us ****** ***IMPORTANT*** LINKS TO YOUR SCORES ARE REQUIRED WHEN POSTING A SCORE. ALL SCREENSHOTS REQUIRE (2) CPUz & A TIMESTAMP. MAKE SURE YOUR SCORE IS SUBMITTED BY CHECKING THE WEBSITE. The Unlimited Xtreme Class (3 player teams) No upgrade restrictions No unreleased architecture ES chips No cooling restrictions (LN, DICE, Cascades) Anything goes... The Limited Xtreme Class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No Unreleased ES chips Air, Water, Peltier & Phase cooling only (4 VGA Core max) Quad SLI/CF OK The "B" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (4 VGA Core max) Quad SLI/CF OK The "C" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No i7 or Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (4 VGA Core max) Quad SLI/CF OK The "D" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No i7 or Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (2 VGA Core max) (Can be a X2/GX2 or SLI/CF) The "E" class (3 player teams) Unlimited downgrades per team No Quadcores, i7 or Unreleased ES chips Air or Water cooling only (1 VGA Core max) (no X2/GX2 or SLI/CF) The Rules...... Two systems per player maximum, 1 is reccommended Second systems can be added to fill out the rosters (only 1 system can be on the A Team) The 2nd Rig must have a different CPU and Reduced VGA. Reduced VGA means if you use SLI, you cannot use the same set up on your 2nd Rig, you can only use 1 card. But if you have a lesser set of VGA cards... thats OK! Standard HDD performance tuning (like RAID) on ATA, SATA, SATA II are ok. No limit on # of HDD's. Ram or Virtual Drives are not allowed. SSD's are ok. Acceptable Operating Systems: Windows 2000, XP, Server 2003, 2008, Vista & Windows 7 and all variants of each (32-bit/64-bit, home/pro/ultimate, etc.) Acceptable Drivers: ALL (No driver limitation) Acceptable Hardware: All (except unreleased ES chips and similar) NO UPGRADES after Prelim Deadline, None... Period! (RMA's & Downgrades are ok, subject to validation for lesser hardware). Forum Police can deny any posted score if not properly submitted The Forum Wars Judges will vote on All Questionable scores The "Police Station" is where the forum police will post a poll and discuss scores and rule clarifications. This forum will be password protected. All Forum Police will be registered in our Database and all scores will be entered into the database then transferred to our spreadsheet. Then tabulated and posted on the TRP website (usually twice a week). ***No Unreleased hardware may be used in Team Scoring... Players in the UX class can swap hardware for each bench. Please Note: If the UX player is entering 2 machines he CANNOT use the same VGA setup or CPU (used in the A-E classes) in the UX Class Machine Everything else (covered by the rules) is ok and can be used at the players discretion. Ultra cooled is defined as: Dry Ice, Liquid Nitrogen and Cascades (you dont have to redo all your tests to post an updated Score) Participating Forums...... Each Forum must provide their own Forum Police (2 to 5 is preferred) All cops will have access to "Forum Wars Police Station and the Courthouse" and the Database for Score entries If a Forum has no forum cops players will be REQUIRED to post at The Raptor Pit on the Scoring thread. Participating Forums need to create 3 threads A discussions thread that I can link to from the main site for checking each other out and taunting A closed "Summerwarz 2009 Scoring" thread (not hidden) (where all scores will be posted) An "Forum player entry thread" to Recruit your Players and Cops And of coarse... a passworded private forum for your players only. Forums that wish NOT to Field an A Team will be required to have AT LEAST a B team Teams and Catagories...... Unlimited Xtreme, A thru E Teams...3 players per team (1 team in each class counts toward the Overall) Quad placement restricted from the "E Class" (i7 are restricted to the UX, LX & B Classes) Ultra cooled Rigs will ONLY be allowed in the (UX) Unlimited Xtreme Class The Slacker class wil be used for all the late entries and do not count toward the overall The Slacker class is unlimited... Anything Goes!!! The Preferred Roster is to have your best players on the "A Team", second best on the "B Team" and so forth. Ultimately you can build your rosters as you wish. (see bonus points) Class Winners...... This Award goes to the winners of each class... A forum's best three scores combined to win the class entered Power of three Award...... This is a new Award that goes to the winner of each forums best three scores combined (in any class... your best against their best) Overall Scoring Award...... Forum final rankings from Unlimited Xtreme thru E teams are added up and the lowest total wins the overall Contest (Ultimate Win) Tiebreakers are: fewest # of i7's then quads then SLI/CF rigs then coinflip If multiple Teams from the same forum exist in each class, only the highest scoring team's ranking goes toward the "Overall" and "Bonus Points" Bonus Points....... When a forums A Team scores higher than their B Team, they will recieve 1 ranking point When their B team scores higher than their C Team, they get another ranking point When their C team scores higher than their D Team, they get 1 last ranking point. (3 bonus points Max) This will only effect forums with a full or mostly full complement of players (18) The bonus ranking points are totaled then deducted from the forums overall score ranking. The lowest ranking wins the overall and 2 or 3 deductions can mean alot. So most of the larger forums will comply by putting their best players on the A, hopefully their second best on B and maybe play around with the rest of their players for best position with in the remaining teams. or stick it out and make their C team their third best either by design or by accident.... Teams that wish NOT to Field an "A Team" will be required to have a "B Team" and are NOT eligable for the Ranking bonuses..... The Judges: ??? ( ??? ) Meltdown (Xtreme CPU) Deanzo (OC Forums) Intel Guy (PC Pitstop) Luis GT (The Raptor Pit) Jammin (OverClockers Club) Hokiealumnus (The Raptor Pit) FWs09 judges can participate as a player like anyone else in their forum, but if there is an issue involving them personally or a member of their forum, they are not allowed to vote as a judge. Forum Police & Judges can verify any score in any participating forum (they are global). Judges & Police cannot verify their own scores (submitting them at TRP is the quickest solution) These rules will not be modified in any form. Any concern about the wording on specific issues will be voted on by the Forum Warz Judges. The polling outcome will be final and not be disputed. Any additions or clarifications approved by the administration will be added separately to the rules as ammendments, with no alteration to the original wording of these rules. The term "Awards" are for bragging rights (no gifts are given) The Gifts are given thru a random drawing at the end of the war. http://www.theraptorpit.com/forum/index.php?showtopic=4187 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ccokeman Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 WOOOOOOO! I need a better 965 for this one. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 I said i would make it to winter warz but stuff happened. I'm definitely looking forward to Summer warz! Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 I will be ready this time around... I know a little more about LN2 and got a Dewar now. I got to get some more insulation dang acetone overflowed and pretty much eat it up... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
cold_snipe Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 My 260 wont oc after winterwars, but im good for a low team. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 Wewt. Good thing I'm getting a GTX 275 soon. I hope this time I'll get some nicer scores and the heat won't hold me back lol. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
road-runner Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 Wewt. Good thing I'm getting a GTX 275 soon. I hope this time I'll get some nicer scores and the heat won't hold me back lol. That is 4 months away no telling what hardware may come out between now and then... Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Onion Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 Yep, but the 275 is still better than using the 265 I used for winter. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattwalter85 Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 too bad we're not running vantage lol the 295's still do alright in 06 Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
ARandomOWL Posted April 15, 2009 Posted April 15, 2009 Yesterday I reached first in Vantage with my hardware (9800GTX) & 610th in Vantage out of everything Also I may have an i7 by the summer warz. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RHKCommander959 Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 ordering up some stuff, vmod time :0 this cpu's a dud, the other was better Hope I can participate, time will tell Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Smith Posted April 16, 2009 Posted April 16, 2009 PII FTW. I will try them on DICE or LN2 soon, and if everything works well I will repeat for the wars. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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