hwbot.org - Info Page.

About hwbot.

What is hwbot?

Hwbot is a website dedicated to gathering specifications and benchmarks of computer hardware. You can use hwbot to compare processors or videocards with each other, or to compare your own computer to ten thousands of other people, to see whether it performs well. Hwbot is not limited to one benchmark application, but a whole suite of the most popular benchmark applications available.

Hwbot is unique in several ways. In contrary to other hardware sites, the performance of the hardware is not based on one user experience, but based on a community of thousands of users. This is especially usefull when inspecting the overclockability of a processor or videocard. One reviewer being able to overclock a certain processor 20% over stock speed means very little, but if hundreds of users manage to overclock it by 20% on average, you know a whole lot more.

Using hwbot encourages your forum vistors. You can configure our botservice to scan a specific forum topic to monitor for benchmark results. If a forum visitor posts a benchmark result in the topic, it will automatically be added to the team ranking once scanned by a bot.

Due to the excellent set of features and active crew, hwbot has grown to be the favorite place for overclockers (people who run there system faster than factory settings) to compete. Check out the team, member and result hall of fame.

History.

Hwbot started as a school task, but due to large success development continued after graduation. For the first 18 months the hwbot crew existed solely from richba5tard, a former madshrimps reviewer. As popularity tripled each 6 months, additional crewmembers where necessary.

Things really speeded up when mtzki joined, intellectual father of some key hwbot features like hwboints. Once Saucy joined, a walking videocard library, the videocard database grew respectably, making hwbot an excellent resource for videocard specifications. Sadhiq recently joined to maintain the processor specifications, at which he’s doing a great job too. Massman is our primary result moderator, who looks after the validity and consistency of the submitted benchmark result, removing all cheaters instantly.

How it works.

There are 3 ways to submit a benchmark result to hwbot.

use the online submission form
use a benchmark application which makes use of hwbot external interface, like wPrime.
post your score on a hwbot monitored forum

posted on 20 December, 2006 by frederikcolardyn