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The idea sounds good, but again, I have nothing to contribute to it. 

Dann, you fail at understanding

As it stands right now, there's sites like http://hwbot.org/ that encourage people to perpetually break world records (rather pointless since newer, better, faster chips are released) where you submit information and "proof" about your computer to be ranked. No program needed, although one could be made, full detection might be difficult. People are then ranked based upon information. There's a lot of overclock as far as you can go no matter the volts or temperatures but there's not much support for reasonable, 24/7 usage overclocking where voltages and temperatures DO matter as well as underclocking. This seems to be an untapped niche that would have a large fanbase if done properly. That's what this would be. A place where people would go to compete while staying inside voltage specifications for hardware.

Without getting into a schooling lesson, with top overclocking, there's a lot of variables that people can't control and IMO, world records are farces and people are just lucky with the type of chip and hardware that they get that allow them to overclock that far. You can take 1 model of chip, even the same stepping, take 50 different batches of that chip and they can all behave differently. Different batches/chips have different VID's (default voltages that the manufacturer says is guaranteed to run at) which can vary a LOT and thus vary the voltage the chip requires to run which can affect the peak overclock. It would take some creative thinking to get a proper ranking going that takes into account GHz or MHz per mV for that VID. This would rank people more properly based upon their skill, and rely less on the luck of the draw of hardware. Now, this site wouldn't be just for CPU's, there's plenty of other hardware to incorporate as well. This site should get really specific with hardware to try and eliminate OEM changes for example, RAM. You can have a model/brand of RAM but the actual chips inside may change with that model's revision and thus the performance changes as well.

Well I think we will need some pipe joints welded for this project Thanks for sending someone Skrewy. Mans, do you think this website would be needed and/or do you think there's a niche for it?

Hi, I just wanna let you guys know that I want to focus on this idea we have here. I think we all need to put a little bit more of our time together to get this thing standing up because somehow we've concieved an awesome idea and we all know there is a monetary benefit to this if we do it right. Everybody loves to make a little money on the side

I want to do it but I don't feel motivated.

I think a spreadsheet would be fine. I'm almost sorry I brought this idea up. I thought I would be more motivated when others liked the idea. It seems cool but a lot of work at the same time. I guess a good start would be to just have a dedicated web folder and mysql database eh? Hmmm, I just checked to see if I could make a database on this domain and let others access it and not my others, didn't really work out.