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, modifing Drivers ect
MeltDown comment: SSDs are acceptable, they are NOT what is meant by RAM drives
Note... not all has been mentioned here, just keep in mind "The Spirit of the Games"
Penalties for violating this will be harsh.
****** EVERYBODY READ ******
These are the rules voted on, this thread will be locked.
If you have a question regarding any part of the rules, please state your concern on the Rules thread.
Summer Warz 2008
Summer Warz Dates......
Prelim/Stock Testing: Sept 5th - 19th (Hardware upgrade cut off is the 19th)
Picking Rosters/Teams: Sept 20th - 26th
Go to War: Sept 27th - Oct 18th
All deadlines are on 11:59 CST US & Mexico
All Players MUST register at HWBOT for their Home Forums, Wprime 32, Super PI & Aquamark3 will be submitted there and links to your scores will be required on your scoring posts. Submitting the rest of your bench's to HWBOT is not required, but your forum would greatly appreciate it in the team rankings.
If your forum is not registered at HWBOT, You will need to do that 1st (It's easy, dont worry)
Bench's used for Summer Warz and their Score weighting
Geekbench (10x score)
(32bit version only)
3D01 (true score)
Aquamark3 (strict Screenshot rules) (33% score)
3D05 (3x score)
PCPIT - (CPU & Mem Scores) (12x score)
Super PI (7 sec = 120000 score)
(version 1.5)
Wprime 32 (7 sec = 120000 score)
(version 1.55)
****** All benchmarks can be found at
www.nofearcomputers.com ******
IMPORTANT***
Links to your scores are REQUIRED when posting a score.
Screenshot Rules: ALL Screenshots REQUIRE (2) CPUz & a Timestamp.
AQUAMARK REQUIRES (2) Screenshots (1) of the score page & (1) of the results page showing the score at the bottom with (2)CPUz, GPUz & a timestamp.
SUMMER WARZ 2008 CLASSES
Unlimited Xtreme Class (better have something in your wallet) (3 player teams)
No upgrade restrictions
ES chips allowed except unreleased architectures
No cooling restrictions
Anything goes...
The "A" class (3 player teams)
Unlimited downgrades per team
No Unreleased ES chips
No liquid nitrogen, cascades or dry ice... single stage vapo, Peltier, water, and air are OK
Quad SLI/CF OK
The "B" class (3 player teams)
Unlimited downgrades per team
No Unreleased ES chips
Air or Water cooling only
Quad SLI/CF OK
The "C" class (3 player teams)
Unlimited downgrades per team
No Unreleased ES chips
Air or Water cooling only
3 GPU Maximum (Can be a 3870X2/1(or 4870X2/1), 3x 3870, or tr-SLI)
The "D" class (3 player teams)
Unlimited downgrades per team
No Unreleased ES chips
Air or Water cooling only
2 GPU Maximum (Can be a 3870X2/9800GX2 or SLI/CF)
The "E" class (3 player teams)
Unlimited downgrades per team
No Unreleased ES chips
Air or Water cooling only
Core 2 Extreme (QXxxx0) not allowed
1 GPU Maximum (no 3870X2/9800GX2 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 or Vista 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...
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......
ALL FORUMS AND PLAYERS MUST REGISTER AT HWBOT
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 they 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 "SUMMER WARZ 2008 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 (6 teams count toward the Overall)
No limit on Quad placement (but higher team placement is reccomended)
Ultra cooled Rigs will ONLY be allowed in the 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)
Overall Scoring......
Forum final rankings from Unlimited Xtreme thru E teams are added up and the lowest total wins the overall
Tiebreakers are fewest # of penryns, quads & SLI/CF rigs, Forum players 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 forum (at the end of the wars) has their highest scores on their A Team, they will recieve 1 ranking point
When their B team has the second best score, they get another ranking point
When their C team has the 3rd best score, 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.
As you already know... 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.....
Forums can place a team in any class, but have a much less chance of winning the overall
The Judges:
Coolcase (ASUS Independent)
Meltdown (Xtreme CPU)
Deanzo (OC Forums)
Intel Guy (PC Pitstop)
Luis GT (The Raptor Pit)
Jammin (OverClockers Club)
Raymo (The Raptor Pit)
FWs08 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.
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.
*** Disclaimer***
TRP (The Raptor Pit) will not be responsable for any damaged, broken, bent or burned hardware as a result of Overclocking a Personal Computer. Any Player that Overclocks his/her PC... does so at their own risk and will not hold (TRP) responsable... If you enter (by posting a score) then you accept this agreement.
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