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HWBot No Longer Accepts Record Submissions from Windows 8

Potty27 said:
Ah ok, are the prizes actually worth it though? (meaning spending thousands on a top end rig that will be beat in no time)
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Is there any point in whacking a tiny white ball over a field into a tiny little hole? I mean, there are laser pointer enthusiast out there. LASER POINTERS! :eek::eek::eek:
 
Potty27 said:
Ah ok, are the prizes actually worth it though? (meaning spending thousands on a top end rig that will be beat in no time)
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It's not all extreme edition chips with quad titans :)

Gigabyte are sponsoring a superpi comp via the bot with an Amd chip only rule, top prize is $5k!!

Money gets involved as vendors love nothing more then putting this board/chip/memory/gpu broke this and that record :)
 
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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There is an easy solution for that my friend. Its called a Windows 8 install key. With this key you can install the upgrade version safely eithout having to install Windows 7 first. Once windows is installed, go to my computer, system properties, view windows activation details. Now input your legitimate upgrade key. Bingo, no need to install windows 7 first. Here is the Windows 8 install key, perfectly legitimate and works for the first 30 days after which you need a proper key. Good luck.

Install Key

XKY4K-2NRWR-8F6P2-448RF-CRYQH

pgi947 said:
Add image to disc/USB, install clean, use upgrade key, bingo. ;)

I quite like Windows 8 tbh.
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PG Tips knows the score.
 
I gotta say, I was very hesitant about Windows 8 having read the 'horror storys'.

But I've just done a new build and I decided to put the Windows 8 ISO on a USB3 stick. It was the fastest system install i've ever done, and though at first a few features were a bit counter intuitive, it's actually really good!

The fact that DICE have said DX 11.1 (which only Windows 8 has) is faster on the Frostbite 3.0 engine is a bonus, and EA are going to start making a lot of their games using those Frostbite engines.
 
If I'm reading it right, they have banned W8 because it was making peoples scores worse than they should have been not better? If the was an issue with the RTC causing W8 to gain time when overclocked doesn't that mean that timed tests would "appear" to take longer thus making peoples scores worse :S
 
LtMatt said:
There is an easy solution for that my friend. Its called a Windows 8 install key. With this key you can install the upgrade version safely eithout having to install Windows 7 first. Once windows is installed, go to my computer, system properties, view windows activation details. Now input your legitimate upgrade key. Bingo, no need to install windows 7 first. Here is the Windows 8 install key, perfectly legitimate and works for the first 30 days after which you need a proper key. Good luck.

Install Key

XKY4K-2NRWR-8F6P2-448RF-CRYQH
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I will try that thanks :)
 
ubersonic said:
If I'm reading it right, they have banned W8 because it was making peoples scores worse than they should have been not better? If the was an issue with the RTC causing W8 to gain time when overclocked doesn't that mean that timed tests would "appear" to take longer thus making peoples scores worse :S
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No just the opposite.
W8 looses time if you lower the bus speed once the OS is booted.

So it is easy to cheat.
Boot into OS with HIGH BCLK
Use software OC software to lower BCLK and raise multi.
 
ubersonic said:
If I'm reading it right, they have banned W8 because it was making peoples scores worse than they should have been not better? If the was an issue with the RTC causing W8 to gain time when overclocked doesn't that mean that timed tests would "appear" to take longer thus making peoples scores worse :S
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It can work both ways, the tests will be completed in the same time regardless but due to the RTC being inaccurate the computer can be tricked into thinking that a test has completed either faster or slower than it actually has, so it's rather easy to artificially inflate benchmark scores.
 
cainer said:
i think the point of the article is that these scores might be artificially high ;)
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I think the article says the exact opposite

Overclocked systems (lower frequency) were giving the illusion time was going slower so were finished with benchmarks faster giving them higher scores

So, take superPI for instance, if the actual time was 20 seconds but the underclocked cpu was reporting that it only took 18 seconds, it would get an inflated score

An overclcoked cpu would give the illusion of time going faster so instead of 20 seconds for superPI, it would report 23 seconds and give a low score
 
VincentHanna said:
USB3 It was the fastest system install i've ever done
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Yeah nothing to do with computers being massively faster now and USB3 not being invented when 7 was released.

I don't see the point of installing a tablet OS on a gaming rig based on anecdotal suggestions of an extra FPS here and there and "it's not as bad as everyone says". What about actually being objectively better? Like Vista -> 7 or ME -> 2K.
 
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