Lets say I'm testing two cards of similar cost, card A and card B. On a certain benchmark card A scores 5000, card B scores 6000. So card B looks better value. But in reality, card B has detected that my benchmarking program is running and reduced its detail levels; if it hadn't it would have only scored 4000.
This doesn't make card B any better at maintaining high framerates in the latest games, it just makes it appear to be better than it actually is. I could turn the detail levels down on card A and correspondingly better framerates (score of 7000, say).
In the UK, local daytime calls are 4p ($0.064 approx) a minute, 1.5p ($0.024) after 6pm and 1p ($0.016) at weekends. There's also a minimum charge of 5p ($0.08) on every call, so if your modem doesn't connect, tough luck.
Luckily I'm at university at the moment, so I'm not affected, but my last exam is on Tuesday...
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Interestingly, in IE6, if I click the link to go to the reference rendering, then hit the back button, the score increases to 5.
Is that a slight improvement, or damning evidence that IE6 can't even render a page the same twice?
I think you're missing the point somewhat.
Lets say I'm testing two cards of similar cost, card A and card B. On a certain benchmark card A scores 5000, card B scores 6000. So card B looks better value. But in reality, card B has detected that my benchmarking program is running and reduced its detail levels; if it hadn't it would have only scored 4000.
This doesn't make card B any better at maintaining high framerates in the latest games, it just makes it appear to be better than it actually is. I could turn the detail levels down on card A and correspondingly better framerates (score of 7000, say).
In the UK, local daytime calls are 4p ($0.064 approx) a minute, 1.5p ($0.024) after 6pm and 1p ($0.016) at weekends. There's also a minimum charge of 5p ($0.08) on every call, so if your modem doesn't connect, tough luck.
:/
Luckily I'm at university at the moment, so I'm not affected, but my last exam is on Tuesday...
My pockets feel lighter already