Sunday, August 18th 2013
HWBot No Longer Accepts Record Submissions from Windows 8
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.
81 Comments on HWBot No Longer Accepts Record Submissions from Windows 8
Imho however, you're quite wrong:)
Not that I've ever made posts on HWbot, and prolly my hardware won't even be classified as high end, but there are sooo many reasons to buy high end stuff, HWbot is just for hobbyists.
The clock is now set so it groups the interrupts together, a part of the battery saving strategy.
Both android and IOS do that.
As for the windows 8, most things have changed for the worse, not better. Except for the improvements of windows explorer and task manager everything else is downhill.
The metro interface is useless by itself, missing even the most basic necessities for a working OS, It doesn't even have a file explorer ffs.
However i would like a Microsoft response to the situation as well as some proof that AMD is also affected by this, its not just Haswell/Ivy energy optimizations acting up with this new RTC.
-> with SSD Win8 boots even faster
It takes hours to install a typical windows, drivers, software, apps, customization, configuring (3rd party of course) security (antivirus, firewall, HIPS, sandbox, etc)...
A typical Ubuntu (even Solaris 11)) can be run from the CD itself. And when installed, it's pretty much inclusive of everything. And takes less resource, MUCH better security. Definitely better for everyday tasks, and now even gaming - Steam.
It's not even much more secure these days, unless you're counting security through obscurity.
Works fine, has support for most things a non-poweruser would need like printing, but its obviously still a metro(modern UI) app, so fullscreen-ish and minimalistic.
the majority of people that bench use win7 anyway as it can be stripped down to near nothing and you can boot/bench on overclocks you wouldn't be able too on win8.
the problem is only for dx11 apps where fps gets calculated differently.
I bet over time there will have to be a transfer or change to this, but its a good step of hwbot banning the platform atm
But it doesn't come packed with any more applications. It comes pre-installed with all of the same basic software utilities as Windows - just different.