Asus has broken Intel non disclosure agreement

[LAwLz]

Then they should run a CPU benchmark and motherboards don't effect perfomance so this is a complete fake.

Do you understand what "margin of error" is? The results to me looks like just that.

Like Derangel said, 1) it's a motherboard review, not a CPU review and 2) it's probably just to make sure nothing strange is going on.

[SwimmingBird]

I love how people comoletly ignore the 5% margin on results. Its an agreed margin in statistics for diferentiating values when they are close. Less that 5% different, could be the same. More that 5, ok we can talk.

 

Yah seems like a lot of people never studied basic statistics. 5% significance levels (or 95% confidence intervals) are pretty much the standard in scientific research

[Gunjob]

Today on WCCF stuff that we totally didn't make up!

[AMICLG]

Motherboards can effect performance, negatively. The reason [H]ard runs those benches is to make sure everything is working as it should be. Also there is no point in running a CPU benchmark because they're using a 4770K and it isn't a CPU review it's a motherboard review. On another interesting note the owner of [H]ardOCP stated on their forums that they are not under any NDA from Intel regarding any piece of information in the review.

Do you understand what "margin of error" is? The results to me looks like just that.

Like Derangel said, 1) it's a motherboard review, not a CPU review and 2) it's probably just to make sure nothing strange is going on.

I see what your saying now, I was just too tired last night.

[ViruZ_HUN]

why is this sad?

[Prokart2000]

stuff 4k 640x480 FTW!

[cDNA]

Yah seems like a lot of people never studied basic statistics. 5% significance levels (or 95% confidence intervals) are pretty much the standard in scientific research

agreed, and thanks now i know the english terms ^^

[DavidTheWin]

I think it might be legit, OC3D released their Z97 previews of the Asus boards that day and TTL said something along the lines of "Asus want us to tell you all the details about this stuff but that sounds dodgy so I'll make sure to stick within Intel's NDA" and his previews were along the same lines as any other tech site's previews of say Gigabyte or MSI boards without any of the extra information in the article in the OP. If someone as respected as TTL said that about the NDA, I'd tend to believe them.