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Windows 8 banned by benchmarking and overclocking site
- ajross 13y agoTitle is linkbait. What's happened is that there's apparently a bug with the Win8 RTC API implementation that doesn't properly calibrate for changes in the CPU BCLK, which obviously makes it useless in the presence of overclocking (beyond mere changes to the multiplier, anyway). That's a bug, and a comparatively bad one (though obviously it won't affect production systems), and it should be fixed. But the lede use of "banned" makes it sounds like MS was caught "cheating" or something, which is wrong. Presumably other OSes like Win7 or Linux expose the underlying ACPI RTC directly. Win8 probably tried to finesse things by using the CPU timer counters to improve precision.
- vxNsr 13y agoCan someone go into a little more detail about how Windows 8 can screw with the RTC?
- AaronMT 13y agoThis is fascinating. I wish we had view to the bug report submitted to Microsoft; I would love to see the discussions about this one over there.