well one can submit GPU score for this compo and resub total score for normal HWBOT rankings. Now if the majority was for GPU score only, no need to change the rules....
Seems my own 3770K degraded badly (or someone swapped them at an event)... no clue whats going on but I lost 200-250Mhz on this CPU
so looking for a potential replacement 6.3GHz Cinebench would be top
Skylake and newer Intel CPUs do not need to have the timer enabled as they are RTC bug free.
However we have seen some "bugged" subs with an error (regarding HPET timer) in X265. (with a Coffeelake CPU and a Server OS).
The creator of X265 says there is sometimes a detection issue with some server OSses ( probably due to lite versions ) and it is recommended in case X265 gives an error to enable the HPET timer and re-run.