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The lowly Alder Lake Pentium G7400T gets overclocked to 5.8GHz setting World records

Sayan Sen — Wed, 26 Jan 2022 08:00:01 +0000

Intel's locked Alder Lake-S Pentium G7400T was overclocked from 3.1, all the way up to 5.8GHz, a massive ~87% increase using BCLK tweaking. As such, the CPU has produced some impressive benchmarks. Read more...

Core i9-12900K(F) on Z690 is smashing records left and right, but 8GHz OC seems far fetched

Sayan Sen — Mon, 08 Nov 2021 15:18:01 +0000

ASRock has announced today that its overclocking (OC) records on Alder Lake-S using the Z690 AQUA OC board have been validated by HWBOT. Meanwhile, Gigabyte has denied that it faked its 8GHz CPU-Z OC. Read more...

HWBot now banning Windows 8 benchmarks from AMD as well

John Callaham — Mon, 26 Aug 2013 14:01:21 +0000

The PC benchmark database website HWBot has now banned Windows 8 scores from AMD computers as well, after another website claimed that the RTC bug also affects AMD chips. Read more...

HWBot: Windows 8 benchmark errors don't show up on AMD PCs

John Callaham — Wed, 21 Aug 2013 15:45:08 +0000

The benchmark community site HWBot now says the issue they found with benchmarks programs used on Windows 8 don't appear on an AMD PC. It also claims Windows 8.1 suffers from the same issue. Read more...

3DMark and PCMark creator Futuremark responds to HWBot's ban of Windows 8 scores

John Callaham — Tue, 20 Aug 2013 03:41:27 +0000

Futuremark, the creator of the 3DMark and PCMark benchmark software products, has responded to the ban of Windows 8 benchmark scores that was put in this weekend by the HWBot database. Read more...

Windows 8 PC benchmark scores banned from HWBOT database

John Callaham — Mon, 19 Aug 2013 14:42:02 +0000

HWBOT, a website database of PC benchmarks submitted by its community, has banned all Windows 8 benchmarks, claiming that problems with the real time clock on the OS means scores "cannot be trusted" Read more...