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[XC] gomeler
I don't think people are concerned about cherry picked motherboards, ram, or video cards. The concern is simply cherry-picked CPUs which will be a null point if we all have silicon that performs roughly equal. The point for this is that then it is in the hands of the bencher to extract as much performance as possible from a roughly equal CPU. This keeps two or three teams who have cherry chips from dominating the other 7 teams that haven't got access to cherry chips. It wouldn't be a competition if one team was benching 400MHz higher than everyone else, it would be a slaughter and everyone would quickly lose interest.
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