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And why would these "couple of thousand volunteers" help with this?





And how would you ensure that all of them were really volunteers and not colluding with the vendors? Like, tech companies cheating on benchmarks is an old, old story (personal favourite: in the dark ages, before 3D acceleration, some graphics card drivers, on detecting a 2D acceleration benchmark, would _simply draw the wrong thing_), and I wouldn’t trust at least three of the major players as far as I could throw them.

I'm pretty sure my bios still contains an option to "improve performance of 3dmark 8" or something similar.



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