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dude i have taken your comments on board, along with every elses, you need to understand that sometimes the rules/decisions arnt just clean cut, this is a very complex decision on something that has long been allowed, in an ideal world we would ban all RST submissions using memory caching but how about while were at it lets remove changing visual quality settings in drivers, LOD, run order in 3dmark01, the 3dmark01 tweak used in z77 bios, as these are all things that change the perception of the benchmark end result, some we would probably remove now if we could, some would stay, plus what about all the users have submitted scores that have been seen as totally legitimate for the past 12-18 months, this is a totally difference issue than these so called "super-tweaks" as are plain and simply cheats, the moderators of hwbot believe this is the fairest and best compromise to go forward, i dont want to hear that talk about how allowing RST is taking harddrives out of the equation, how? virusscan is still the domain of areca/raid controllers, if we have the same setup, we both have dual ssd for virusscan, and i have a areca for my general access? who do think is winning, me and by a reasonable margin if anything allowing RST brings hdd more into play since you need at last 2 marvell ssd, aswell as an areca controller w/ cache and some sort of acard attached to that, its now more storage hungrg

Ok final decisions are made and they are no different than we have been saying all along I will write a small press release in the next few days and release shortly after that Do us the favor and remove all your sector size modified scores now

Lmfao

Apple is a dying trend, how come you're following them now lol

hahah crapsky

your dead right on this one, but i think the key difference is those things are breaking fundamental hwbot rules, where as RST has been accepted in the past, i think everyone needs to understand there is no rule change here, its simply rule enforcement and in some tricky cases where things might fall between rules, clarification of rules take this sector size for example, by changing the sector size you are tricking the benchmark into giving a score thats not real, changing the percieved speed of the benchmark

Everyone is never going to be happy, facts of life Intel RST has long been allowed and AMD raid xpert is its equivalent from another vendor Other software caching programs have long been banned You think it's a nightmare to moderate rst? Try going back through the entire pcmark results and removing all the submissions using RST? Plus all the people using it for over a year and now their results being removed Similar to Lod this might not be the ideal situation but we think it's the best taking in all the factors We want a level playing field in the future without impacting existing scores in our ranking, no one said moderation would be easy, it won't, but people know now if there result is out of line they will be asked to explain it, so try it on and see what happens Blatantly breaking hwbot rules won't just result in submission removal

unstoppable man. bad luck about the CPU. Time to bin some more hehehe

as ive previously said Moose, making proper decisions can take time, and even if it takes 6 months, we are going to take the time rather than make the wrong decision, i can give some insight into the current thinking of staff, but this is not finalized and could change as per our final announcement, but the current thinking is, rst/raid xpert allowed, sector size changes not allowed, if you have overly high looking hdd scores then you may asked to demonstrate how its possible and it will be your responsibility to prove its legal EDIT: Didn't realize I was logged into our team.au account, this is pro

well done mate!

well done, tough bench this one. new driver looks nice

damn nice dude man we havent done any vantage at all....i guess time to get cranking

are you secretly hoping it dies?

dont worry Allen all is good

LN2 ALL OF THEM dont waste time with air

There will be an official statement addressing a few issues shortly, sorry for the delays

very nice indeed man!

crazy GPU man, well done we need one of these hehehe

why

look at that GT3, nice EXTREME!

wrapper is rubbish imo. it should be scoring a bit more consistently dinos22

nice man

sorry i dont speak russian, could you please msg me in english mate

great stuff mate