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[Bartman39]

A simple thought came to me the other day... Most of use tweak and twist our PC`s to the max (OC`ing and otherwise) so I wondered if there was a program to be able to pitt one PC against another...? (via lan or internet possibly...?) What I mean is you have games & benchmarks that basicly do this but why not have it were you can let 2 computers battle each other using resources and such to find a victor...? It would have to OS matched for classes also basic processor speeds and generations... I thought of this just because benchmarks do not always tell the tale of the true performance of a system and they can be altered too... Where I came up with this is I am a hotrodder and different setups in different auto`s (car`s & trucks) can be wide ranged at the strip... Sometimes a setup that should do much better than its built for but just wont but also on the other hand setups to things way better than expected... Certain combinations just work better... This type of program I am suggesting or seeking would be like 2 drag cars on the line and running against eachother with only 1 final winner not as a game for the person but for the machine...


I know this kinda sounds like a benchmark concept but look beyond that idea to actual PC against PC directly... To add a twist the winner could even cripple or kill the other PC at a software level...? Even have training for your PC (strength, speed, agility, stamina... like an athlete)
To far fetched for our time...?

thoughts...?

 

[igowerf]

That sounds like regular benchmarking except we're having the computers compare the results for us. If you want good, all-around, benchmarks, you need to run a few actual gaming demos and some office benchmarks.

 

[Bartman39]

I know this kinda sounds like a benchmark concept but look beyond that idea to actual PC against PC directly.

Like a war game PC against PC while you sit back and watch...? Not like a benchmark...

 

[DaveSimmons]

The problem is that PCs can't be customized nearly as much as a car -- the "engines" (CPU, memory, hard drive, video card) are all black boxes that you can't open and rebuild.

All you can do is buy a bunch of each and find the one with the best stress tolerance for overclocking, so the person who spent the most money buying a stack of P4 3.2 CPUs would always win -- not much skill or drama in throwing money at the contest.

Yes, tweaking the OS would be a slight competition, but after a short time everyone would use all of the tweaks, so you're back to squeezing an extra 10 MHz out of your RAM and CPU.

Case ricing is different since then you're competing through craft and creativity, moeny isn't really the limiting factor.

 

[EeyoreX]

To add a twist the winner could even cripple or kill the other PC at a software level...?

Why would anyone, other than Senator Fritz Hollings (virus writers, "hackers" and other miscellaneous losers aside. These types hide in the shadows and don't usually take "credit" for their BS since they don't want to be Buba's jailhouse beyotch), want to cripple or kill other people's PCs? And why, would someone subject themselves to that? This is just not needed, we already have enough people ranting about how their PCs get "eight million 3dMarks! My PC Pwns!!"

Even have training for your PC (strength, speed, agility, stamina... like an athlete)

And I also thought the Pokemon phenomenon was dead and past...

\Dan

 

[Bartman39]

Uh really simple if you look beyond the end of your nose (EeyoreX)

If we can develope software that can "train PC`s" to attack or also defend then with the speed and tactfulness of a PC the reg common hacker would be obsolete... It would be kinda of like a super chess machine but only as good as its resorces & training... What you dont also see or understand is their could be PC`s with different special apps like a sort of "Medic PC" that could go in and repair damage done by a hacker...

I did not intend this to be a detrimental idea but more of a stepping stone to AI...? My first post on this is just a basic idea from which to build... If you look closely the interaction between PC`s is very limited to what we basicly tell them... A reactive program or even a whole OS designed for the purpose I have tried to clarify would be a huge step twards AI... The potential is there but I understand many of us would feel threatened by such a concept... Maybe this is just and idea to far into the future or could it be developing now or always been here...? After all people kill people...?