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HWBot No Longer Accepts Record Submissions from Windows 8

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HWBot announced that it no longer accepts benchmark record submissions from PCs running Windows 8. It discovered that the way Windows 8 handles real-time clock (RTC), compromises the veracity of benchmark results. HWBot announced that is looking into possible solutions for the problem, and till such a time, it won't accept benchmark result submissions from Windows 8 PCs. This decision could affect leaderboards and records set using Windows 8 benches, and could greatly stunt adoption of the operating system among the professional overclocking community. A statement by HWBot reads;
As the result of weekend-time research, the HWBOT staff has decided to invalidate all benchmark records established with the Windows8 operating system. Due to severe validity problems with the Windows8 real time clock ("RTC"), benchmarks results achieved with Windows8 cannot be trusted. The main problem lies with the RTC being affected when over- or underclocking under the operating system. The operating system uses the RTC as reference clock, and benchmarks use it to reference (benchmark) time.
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http://www.techpowerup.com/189236/hwbot-no-longer-accepts-record-submissions-from-windows-8.html

I don't use Win8 or HWBot but I think there will be some unhappy people about. Setting up those LN2 benches involves a lot of time and effort.
 
Didn't think anyone actually used this for hardcore benching. Shouldn't effect much if they remove all the scores that were set on W8 (mainly people like me i guess? Noob overclockers who do it for fun)
 
Conspiracy alert! all benchmarks done on windows 8/Haswell could be false! which means you could have bought something on the pretence that it was a few % better than another item only to find out it was not as good as you thought and then just accepting it and putting it down to luck! when actually they were never that good to begin with!
 
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Orangey said:
Why would you even install 8 when 7 works perfectly well?
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Because its faster than windows 7, provides slightly higher fps and benchmarking scores than windows 7, and when i upgraded Windows 8 cost £25 for a legitimate version. All you needed was a dodgy version of Windows 7 for the cheap upgrade. That's why. ;)
 
Its because people arer cheating again!!! They have done this so many times with all OS. Its so crap!!! why dont people just run the bench.
 
LtMatt said:
Because its faster than windows 7, provides slightly higher fps and benchmarking scores than windows 7, and when i upgraded Windows 8 cost £25 for a legitimate version. All you needed was a dodgy version of Windows 7 for the cheap upgrade. That's why. ;)
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Yes I did that and bought the win 8 upgrade. Except when I upgraded my PC and had to do a fresh install, I could not do a clean install of win 8. Microsoft wanted me to install Win 7 ultimate and then 8 on top of that. I stuck to win 7 since.
 
8 Pack said:
Its because people arer cheating again!!! They have done this so many times with all OS. Its so crap!!! why dont people just run the bench.
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As is human nature, for every 10 good guys you always get one **** :(

At least the guys at hwbot figured it out and made it public

alex_123_fra said:
Yes I did that and bought the win 8 upgrade. Except when I upgraded my PC and had to do a fresh install, I could not do a clean install of win 8. Microsoft wanted me to install Win 7 ultimate and then 8 on top of that. I stuck to win 7 since.
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Add image to disc/USB, install clean, use upgrade key, bingo. ;)

I quite like Windows 8 tbh.
 
Orangey said:
Why would you even install 8 when 7 works perfectly well?
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LtMatt said:
Because its faster than windows 7, provides slightly higher fps and benchmarking scores than windows 7, and when i upgraded Windows 8 cost £25 for a legitimate version. All you needed was a dodgy version of Windows 7 for the cheap upgrade. That's why. ;)
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i think the point of the article is that these scores might be artificially high ;)
 
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