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hwbot related news:
A working phpbb3 plugin has been added to the hwbot engine. It has successfully been tested with the latest phpbb3 release, with the default theme.
Please select the "phpbb3" plugin in your forum configuration if you are using a phpbb3 forum. If you already tried the beta version of the plugin, remove your forum configuration and create it again. read more »
3 comments - posted on 17 June, 2008 by richba5tard We just upgraded the hwbot engine to fully support vbulletin 3.7. Please select "vbb 3.7" in your forum configuration if you want to enable it, as the interface differs from vbb 3.6.
hwbot engine 2[...] read more »
2 comments - posted on 8 June, 2008 by richba5tard A fake SuperPi application has been spotted in the wild. It looks just like SuperPi, but can produce any result you want.
Our mods have been instructed to look for submissions using this fake SuperPi. Anyone caught using it will be permanently banned. read more »
29 comments - posted on 4 June, 2008 by richba5tard Since vBulletin 3.7.x, a new security feature has been added to fend of spambots. While this is great, it also keeps hwbot from editing posts. We have written a small tutorial on how you can solve this issue manually, until we have found a way to do it automatically. read more »
4 comments - posted on 30 May, 2008 by richba5tard  The member and team rankings are down at the moment, and as I'm at work and don't have my laptop with me our dev team is unavailable at the moment, it will probably be down for the rest of the day. read more »
9 comments - posted on 23 May, 2008 by richba5tard As part of our effort to streamline the rules and guidelines of all supported benchmark applications, and make the life of our result moderators less stressing, it is required as of today to supply a valid x86-secret link. The same username as your hwbot account has to be used, in order to prevent stealing links. read more »
23 comments - posted on 20 May, 2008 by richba5tard  In the past two weeks, the 1500 entries long moderation backlog queue has been completely solved, thanks to titanic work of our result moderators jmke and demiurg.
Every single result ever reported has been checked and moderated accordingly. We are putting a final hand on the submission guidelines, which will be published this week. Hopefully, this will provide clear guidelines and help our moderators and members keep the database clean. read more »
12 comments - posted on 20 May, 2008 by richba5tard As of today, aquamark03 submissions are required to have a valid screenshot which contains a screencapture of the aquamark result, cpu-z with processor tab (and preferrable memory tab too) and gpu-z (or rivatuner in case of gpu-z failure to dedect hardware properly) open. read more »
9 comments - posted on 15 May, 2008 by richba5tard In order to moderate our quickly growing database properly, we need sufficient proof of the online submitted benchmark scores. Many of these scores are perfectly legit, but lack the required information to serve as verification. As we still allow screenshots, we needed to provide better verification screenshot examples to guide you. read more »
18 comments - posted on 12 May, 2008 by Massman As our beloved hardware moderator left us recently, we are currently looking for someone who is willing to manage the hardware specifications. Your job would be to monitor new releases of processors and videocards, and add them to the hwbot database once announced. read more »
13 comments - posted on 8 May, 2008 by richba5tard The wizard to create custom hwbot signatures has been made public today, as we received more and more requests from people to have a customized signature. You are now free to make as many signatures you want for yourself or your team. read more »
10 comments - posted on 3 May, 2008 by richba5tard For those who use the bot scanning service of hwbot and are using virtual bulletin board: do not upgrade your forum to vbb 3.6.10, or your bots will break!
Vbb 3.6.10 and 3.7.0 (release candidate) have a new feature to keep spambots away. This is generally a good thing, except that your bot will no longer be able to edit posts. We will let you know when we've found a workaround. read more »
4 comments - posted on 1 May, 2008 by richba5tard  With futuremark releasing 3DMark Vantage today, we finally have a successor to the popular 3Dmark 2006. It looks incredibly smooth and is sure to tax your quad core, three way SLI system, but it does have its downsides. It's no longer free, and requires Windows Vista. What is your thought? Voice your opinion in the forum poll. read more »
129 comments - posted on 28 April, 2008 by richba5tard Big thanks to the UK-based Aqua PCs, they're the first to support hwbot and help us cover the dedicated hosting cost of our two servers. They specialize in cooling gear and exotic memory/psu's, so they're sure worth a look when shopping around for new ln2 kits to cool your new hardware. read more »
11 comments - posted on 9 April, 2008 by richba5tard The member and team hwboints history has been restored today. The archive table was purged 2 weeks ago when the new server was installed, to make transition smoother. read more »
5 comments - posted on 4 April, 2008 by richba5tard  The HWBOT hardware index is the brainchild of mtzki, our in-house mathematics and statistics guru. The hardware index indicates the performance of thousands of videocards and processors when pushed to their limits, based on 160.000 benchmark results. 2008 Q1 is the second time we publicly release these charts. read more »
2 comments - posted on 3 April, 2008 by richba5tard  Today we interview 4QMan, one of England's top overclockers and member of the rising benchtec uk team. read more »
27 comments - posted on 28 March, 2008 by Massman hwbot.org is often unresponsive or unavailable the last few months, for which we apologise.
A second, dedicated server has been ordered and will be installed sometime this month. The new Dell 1U quad core, 8GB DDR2 and 2x300GB raid array should be able to serve hwbot.org smoothly. read more »
38 comments - posted on 12 March, 2008 by richba5tard  A few days ago we posted a news item saying we would update the default hwbot signature soon. As we received a lot of (constructive) criticism on the new design, we took note of your comments and made a second version. read more »
24 comments - posted on 11 March, 2008 by richba5tard  Thanks to the overclocking spirit of 10.000 people from 500 teams and 100 different countries, we reached the milestone of 150.000 benchmark results today! read more »
8 comments - posted on 10 March, 2008 by richba5tard No_Name has beaten both Hipro5 as k|ngp|n in the battle for the throne last night. This is the first time Germany is ruling the rankings. read more »
30 comments - posted on 28 February, 2008 by richba5tard  Unseen, the legendary Greek overclocker from OutOfSpecs.gr, gets close with our interviewer. The thoughts and secrets of a great overclocker. read more »
13 comments - posted on 28 February, 2008 by Massman In order to make the default hwbot signature look less nineties, we have been improving the hwbot signature create to generate nicer images. The new one is more polished and consumes less bandwidth. read more »
33 comments - posted on 26 February, 2008 by richba5tard  Please remind that it is mandatory to use wPrime v1.55 as of 1/1/2008. People who use other versions will have their score removed. read more »
18 comments - posted on 22 February, 2008 by richba5tard  Less than a week ago we reported a close struggle was going on in the overclockers hall of fame, as No_Name challenged Hipro5 for the first place in the member rankings. Things changed quickly when k|ngp|n decided to join the fight. read more »
34 comments - posted on 14 February, 2008 by richba5tard  The German overclocker No_Name is making a run for the first place in the overclocker rankings, now less than 50 hwboints behind Hipro5. After months of ruling the rankings, the reign of Hipro5 is suddenly under threat. read more »
34 comments - posted on 7 February, 2008 by richba5tard The release of the AMD/ATI HD3870X2 caused quite a stir amongst our members. The HD3870 is a very decent gpu, and when you put two on them on one pcb, you release a very powerfull videocard that does not require a crossfire capable motherboard. Should we change the rules so the single videocard rankings stay clean of these videocards? read more »
59 comments - posted on 4 February, 2008 by richba5tard On popular request, we have released a ranking based on nationality. This ranking may be subject to changes, as we are still undecided between a ranking based on a top 10 average or total amount of hwboints. Currently, it's implemented like the team rankings: ranked by the total amount of hwboints. read more »
24 comments - posted on 1 February, 2008 by richba5tard The HWBOT hardware index is the brainchild of mtzki, our in-house mathematics and statistics guru. The hardware index indicates the performance of thousands of videocards and processors, based on hundred thousands of results. 2007 Q4 is the first quarter we publicly release these charts. read more »
12 comments - posted on 24 January, 2008 by richba5tard As 3-way SLI is available and 3/4 way crossfire is coming soon, we are preparing the hwbot engine to handle these configurations better.
There will not be separate rankings for 3/4 way SLI/CF. The [...] read more »
22 comments - posted on 24 December, 2007 by richba5tard The greek team OutOfSpecs.Gr manage to score 24,4k on the PCMark05 benchmark ... read more »
30 comments - posted on 11 December, 2007 by Massman  Today HWBOT interviews Masell, one of the top world overclockers from Poland. What motivates a person to cool his laptop with liquid nitrogen, push an old Intel Pentium 2 processor to 3 times it's rated speed, or touch the magical 8Ghz barrier? Read on... read more »
24 comments - posted on 7 December, 2007 by Massman The popular multithreading benchmark application wPrime has been updated to v1.55 last weekend. As this version is stable and has decent cheat protection, it is mandatory to use v1.55 for new submissions. read more »
13 comments - posted on 4 December, 2007 by frederikcolardyn They're back, the OCX knights. Together with the help of the Spanish overclockers ... read more »
21 comments - posted on 16 November, 2007 by Massman Today is a black day in the HWBot history as we are deeply saddened to be forced to salute DOM, benchmarker of the Hellas Overclocking Team. read more »
73 comments - posted on 22 October, 2007 by Massman Brandybuck has been removed from HWbot indefinitely after numerous false submissions read more »
16 comments - posted on 18 October, 2007 by crew  GPU-Z to become the defacto standard to prove videocard overclocks? read more »
23 comments - posted on 8 October, 2007 by Massman Starting Oct. 8th HWBot will be conducting an in-depth cleanup campaign read more »
26 comments - posted on 29 September, 2007 by crew The Power of Spontaneous Flight. read more »
9 comments - posted on 12 September, 2007 by rainless  Two men... lots of free time... WHO WILL SURVIVE?!?!? read more »
32 comments - posted on 12 September, 2007 by rainless The hwbot server wasn't reachable from 0 AM till 6PM +1GMT due to... a loose networkcable.
Still big thanks to the hosting company which was willing to trouble[...] read more »
1 comment - posted on 9 September, 2007 by richba5tard  Stoolman has spared no expense in storming into the top ten. read more »
17 comments - posted on 6 September, 2007 by rainless Hwbot is proud to present 2 new additions to the crew: meke, our new videocard specifications maintainer and rainless, our new reporter. read more »
4 comments - posted on 30 August, 2007 by frederikcolardyn  What happens when you take the all the greatest overclockers of one of the largest nations in the world and put them on the same team?
FREE TRIP TO #1 ON THE GLOBAL RANKINGS!
As of this past Saturday, August 25th, Born in USSR did just that. read more »
60 comments - posted on 28 August, 2007 by rainless H.O.T. is closing in on XtremeSystems, and fast. Will H.O.T. be able to push XtremeSystems from the first place this week, or have they just woken the giant? read more »
32 comments - posted on 13 August, 2007 by frederikcolardyn Dear HWBot members,
In the past we have stated that for joined benchmark sessions users could register a new account to start a subteam. The impact of these subteams, however, was more than a bit u[...] read more »
18 comments - posted on 10 August, 2007 by Massman  wPrime, our favourite tool to test the multithreading capability of your processor, just got a major upgrade. Please use v1.53 for future submissions. Older versions are still supported, but not recommended. read more »
9 comments - posted on 25 July, 2007 by frederikcolardyn  H.O.T. (Hellas OC Team) is the first team to make use of the "one team, multiple forums" feature in rev2.0. Three major Greece forums - Pctechnology-Overclockers, HwBox O/C Team Hellas and TheLab.gr - joined forces and jumped right to the second spot in the community rankings! read more »
37 comments - posted on 12 July, 2007 by frederikcolardyn ![[ view screenshot ]](signature.img?iid=27761) Yesterday we reported Zennema beating OMEGA3's SuperPi record by 0.02 seconds, but it didn't took OMEGA3 more than a few hours to match his record. For the first time in history, we've got two SuperPi 1m champions. Congratulations both! read more »
6 comments - posted on 12 July, 2007 by frederikcolardyn ![[ view screenshot ]](signature.img?iid=27630) Zennema, of team Tecnocomputer.it, has beaten OMEGA3's SuperPi score by 0.02 seconds and can claim the world record in the most popular benchmark tool for overclockers! read more »
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