Cinebench is a good bench to hold a contest on. use the CPU part of it and set a limit. Last one I was in was pretty fun.

I think benches only testing one part of the computer are a bad idea. Easier to cheat with CPU benches, with software adjustments, and a bench to test everything is a good way of seing how balanced the PC is.

Yeah and testing everything gives us AMD guys a shot. :)

Man I wish I had some coding experience. I am going to make a benchmark test yet....

That's a good point Cecil.

Have to agree testing the PC in more than one aspect will reveal how well it does and to also test the skill of the participant. That in itself goes back to the beginner or novice being able to learn the basics or improve in more than one aspect of our cyber-sport.

To do that, a benching program such as SiSandra or Everest could be used BUT to use all the available benching progs, you have to buy it.
One I can suggest we've seen and probrably used before (I have) is NucleaRus MC. RAM timings along with the CPU does matter in that bench. If you've never tried it before, it's a good proggy.
As for GPU, well, there's alot of stuff out there that could be used that either does a blend of benchmarks or is a pure and simple GPU bench.

Ideas?

How about a combination of existing benchmarks. Would not be hard to combine a couple of apps, with a taskmanager screenshot showing them running simultaneously.


Something along the lines of a memory dependent of a memory dependent CPU benchmark, like spi32 combined with a 3d app that is not as CPU dependent. OR Develop a loader that sets affinity for each so if you have a dual core or quad core your can assign one or two cores per application.

If we are talking about making our own benchmark, which seems to be how this is headed, I have some other ideas that I would be more comfortable discussing in a more private setting. Seems to be a unique idea, and would rather not have the idea taken :)

If you visit the EOCF, RunLinux has created a benching program that is based on calculating squareroots.
http://forums.extremeoverclocking.co...d.php?t=283270

It's actually a nice program he's come up with. Of course it would be a courtesy to let him know if we decide to use it.
He'd appreciate the feedback on it for improving the program.

I like the idea of using a game. For older stuff, Far Cry was enough to stress CPU and GPU, and memory helped as well. Then for newer stuff, use either Crysis becnh, or X3 TC.

I think for any further LLC contests you should not announce the end time AT ALL! Even with the 48 hour window, ppl will just hold onto scores until its announced. If you simply make the contest end abruptly with no warning, it will prevent the backupscore-titis. Everyone will post what they got when they get it, or risk missing the window! Will make it not only more competitive, but will encourage challenging each other to push harder (the point of these contests I think?)

I kinda like that idea....:clapping:

I'm in for X3 Cecil. :clapping: That would be a killer bench stessing all components. And make the contest windows shorter...this SPI contest has drug on like molasses.