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    News Industry group invalidates 2,600 official Intel CPU benchmarks — SPEC says the company's compiler used unfair optimizations to boost performance

    …And this is not the first time either. When AMD created 3DNow, the Intel compiler nether tested for, nor optimised for it, and before that, when Intel created their competitor for the AMD64, (not Itanium), if the CPU identifier contained “Intel”, then the compiler optimised, otherwise it did...
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    My ACER laptop will not boot from DVD bootable ISO

    Turn off secure boot. Win8 (and the latest updates to Win7) will not allow you to boot anything else if secure boot is on. If you cannot turn off Secure boot, go to legacy mode by disabling UEFI boot. But then you may not be able to boot Win8 without re-installing. If you are replacing Win8...