Highly suspicious scores with i7 950s

[Bobnova]

Very, very, very suspicious, all within 1 mhz of each other? We all know how likely it is to have that many different chips top out at the same place.

 

[miahallen]

I too find it pretty suspicious Bob. Like one of them bought the CPU, and then "sold" it to the next, then the second guys benched it and "sold" it to the next....etc...

This represents a huge loophole in the HW sharing rule, but it's difficult to avoid since we all buy HW from each other all the time.

 

BUT!! - it appears (based on the screenshots) that these are not all the same CPU, since core voltage is not similar across all of them.

All this goes back to the staff's point that appearances do matter, and even if there is something wrong with these scores, it'd be near impossible to prove since it has been done (hypothetically speaking) very stealthily.

 

@ HWBOT staff, tsan doesn't have a screenshot, but back when he submitted the score, the screenshot was not mandatory, correct? If so, a note should be added to the rules page showing the date when that change took place for reference

[Linuxfan]

Very, very, very suspicious, all within 1 mhz of each other? We all know how likely it is to have that many different chips top out at the same place.

 

Seems like those guys have a system worked out for HW selling.

[Christian Ney]

Sam can you sell me your 8.2 Ghz chip ?

plz

 

PS: look carefully at the cat before reply

Edited February 11, 2011 by Christian Ney

[sofos1990]

I bought my cpu from member of HOT named TONY GAL ( http://hwbot.org/community/user/tony_gal ) from the following sale thread

 

http://www.hwbox.gr/arxeio-aggelion/7360-i7-950-a.html

 

Noone of the other 3 members ( gprhellas, tsan and subzero ) benched with my cpu .

I killed this cpu and RMAed it to get an 980X .

 

You guys are funny sometimes ...

 

gprhellas is hipro's best friend and bench partner . Do you really think he would have done something against the rules ?

Edited February 11, 2011 by sofos1990

[knopflerbruce]

I don't see how it is relevant that some guy benches with Hipro, but the FS part is fine - it's not forbidden to sell a piece of HW within the team, as long as it's not being passed around like it's everyone's property.

[miahallen]

as long as it's not being passed around like it's everyone's property.

 

...it may not be against the rules, but the loophole is gigantic

[knopflerbruce]

 

True, but what if the CPU or GPU was bought on a local auction site, and it turned out to be the same chip as someone else used? This is not uncommon I think.

[K404]

I can see that happening to two people, but the chances of it ending up in 3+ peoples hands is really unlikely, unless it's a controlled auction and people know exactly what they're buying and who from

[K404]

 

Was there a GTS450 based competition?

Edited February 14, 2011 by K404

[Bobnova]

Really? One guy explains his in a vaguely believable way and the thing is dropped?

I thought y'all were now shutting down accounts and scores if they might look suspicious in the future!