HWBOT has banned all Windows 8 benchmarks, claiming that problems with the real time clock on the OS means scores "cannot be trusted"



From Neowin:

This past week, the HWBOT site posted up a article on its blog that announced that, from now on, they were banning any benchmark scores submitted from Windows 8 PCs. The blog puts the blame on the real time clock (RTC) in Windows 8. Besides just making sure that your PC has the correct time, benchmark software applications use the RTC as well. HWBOT says, "By synchronizing with the RTC, the benchmark knows exactly how much time has passed, and takes that value into account when calculating the performance of your system."

HWBOT says that Microsoft created Windows 8 to be compatible with as many devices as possible, but because of this effort, it had to make some changes to its RTC in how it measures time. The blog says those changes made Windows 8 " ... compatible with embedded or low cost PCs that do not have a fixed RTC clock."

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