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  1. I agree that this definitely does not look good. Neither drivers nor a BIOS nor any tool can change the way that clocks are set on the g80/g92/g200 cards.

     

    The only question that remains is is there a tool that sets clocks in such a way that it "fools" GPU-Z as well. I think there's a slight chance that afterburner could do this on the g200 cards, but I'll have to test to confirm.

     

    I think its still a bit early to say he's cheating this definitively, but we (hwbot staff) should probably have a chat with him...

  2. Nice post, I particularly like the last point. However, I'm starting to feel that the time has come to drop PCMark05. It's true that we could use photos and other forms of verification in an effort to enforce the set rules, but there is a fundamental reason why PCMark05 always finds itself in the center of controversy and benchmarks like 01 and 32m do not. The benchmark itself is full of holes that the Hwbot rules simply make an effort to patch up. We can keep trying to add and enforce rules, but I feel it's going to be a never ending battle.

  3. This is normal. Bullet library was updated between patches and the scores of the Physics and Combined tests changed slightly. What you are seeing is exactly this.

     

    The difference was considered small enough so that we did not invalidate results from older versions but for any contests etc. there should always be a rule to use the latest available version at the start of the competition or this kind of issue may crop up...

     

    I don't know what your definition of "small enough" is, but at the top level of 3DMark11 scores (>20K) it's easily over 1000 pts.

     

    I thought in the past, scores were not supposed to change with different versions of Futuremark benchmarks. At the least there should be some more blatant way to invalidate scores done with 3DMark11 1.0.1.

  4. Got what you meant. What's not clear is why it matters to you? You run new hardware and collect tons of points like one of the 1%.

     

    Given all you have why should you begrudge the poor folks running old hardware who want to earn a point or two from the old benchmarks that were designed for the hardware we run.

     

    Seems petty, small minded, mean spirited and selfish. Greed just isn't pretty.

     

    Occupy hwbot!

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