Does the team always get points with submissions?
Yes, all submissions will earn additional points for the team
Higher scores for certain hardware will award more points when your submission is ranked among others but there is generally always some award, however big or small that may be.
Basically if you getting better results on your 1700x should I bench other stuff for the team?
Absolutely! The more submissions we have a team, the better we will do. You can even see where all these submissions made a terrific impact on our teams performance. (
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It has bumped us up quite a bit on the team rankings too!
I've been overthrown! Huge congrats to everyone for the amazing contributions.
The nice thing, and this is very important, is that on this particular forum a good majority of the users are on certain hardware that functions best in SFF cases. In general, this leads to a lot of similar hardware being used/tested. Be it on DX-ATX, HD-Plex, or SFX PSU's, users that submit similar hardware can work with others members on the forums to undervolt or perhaps find greater forms of efficiency.
For example, let's say 20 SFF.net users are on an i7-7700k and someone says, "Hey, I undervolted to XX.Xvolts and achieved the same clockspeed for my submission but my temps dropped 8c" other users can then experiment with undervolting to increased their hardware's efficiency.
This also helps to find additional performance when your rig is somehow scoring comparatively lower than other people with similar hardware. "Hey, wait, why is your GTX1060 scoring 500 points higher than mine?"
It's great to watch a team naturally work together when simple competitions like this on are posted because it can help to make all of our machines better.
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Kwirek
I too use a 2560x1440 display. I use
irfanview (Freeware) to save all images at 1280x720 at a 60% compression level.
In my experience, this typically changes a 8MB screenshot to just 1.5MB.
It also helps that the tool has the ability to quickly batch entire libraries of images (I use this for our reviews).