As I sit here working on the next speed-bump CPU review, trying to somehow make it interesting for you all, I figured I'd just pop in and ask.
Are there any requests in particular for benchmarks you guys would like to see in a not-so-big upcoming CPU review? It won't be a dual core piece, and I've already beaten to death the idea that single core CPUs aren't so hot at multitasking so I don't see much of a need for more there. I was thinking about doing a few lighter multitasking loads to see what the difference in performance would be between a fast single core and a slower dual core with more moderate multitasking involved. Other than that, there's not too much else I've been able to come up with that may be interesting (outside of stuff I can't really talk about yet :)...).
I am also working on updating our benchmark suite (yes, with a new version of Premier as well) but that's not done just yet. So chime in with your thoughts and requests - I can't guarantee that I'll be able to address them all, but I'll do my best.
Are there any requests in particular for benchmarks you guys would like to see in a not-so-big upcoming CPU review? It won't be a dual core piece, and I've already beaten to death the idea that single core CPUs aren't so hot at multitasking so I don't see much of a need for more there. I was thinking about doing a few lighter multitasking loads to see what the difference in performance would be between a fast single core and a slower dual core with more moderate multitasking involved. Other than that, there's not too much else I've been able to come up with that may be interesting (outside of stuff I can't really talk about yet :)...).
I am also working on updating our benchmark suite (yes, with a new version of Premier as well) but that's not done just yet. So chime in with your thoughts and requests - I can't guarantee that I'll be able to address them all, but I'll do my best.
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Anonymous - Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - link
WOW! Some of you guys are just listing stuff for the heck of it. More than half of it is useless.AT - Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - link
#44: That would be useless. First of all, both of the OSes are pretty old and even though no one has conducted the benchmarks, people aren't looking for that anymore.Secondly, there shouldn't be too much, if any, performance difference between the two OSes.
hondaman - Tuesday, June 21, 2005 - link
Would be nice, just for the record, to see some xp vs 2k benchmarks using games, apps, etc.dvdshrink - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
Please include dvdshrink as a stand alone test.ravedave - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
I agree with reference computers. I would belive the average life of a computer for someone that reads Anandtech is 2 or 3 years maybe? Having a 2-3yr old CPU on all the benchies would be sweet. Most people don't upgrade from a 3200+ to a 3400+...It would be cool if you could build a flash widget to do a weighted comparo for processors.
Display all of the categories you have benchies in and what % the CPU is better than some other CPU. Then the user could tweak the sliders to add up to 100%, for what percent of usesage they use. So if someone only did office stuff they could tweak the slider to 100% office benchmarks and see much better CPU A say 10% is than CPU B. Wehere someone else mught tweak 10%office and 90% graphics and CPU A is only 5% better...Some sort of weighted average...
Anonymous - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
Screw CPUs!Whem is your "G70 is the king of videocards" review coming?
Andrew - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
I'd like to see some reviews of raid 5 SATA. Plus i'd like to see those reviews as whats supported by Novell Netware. Sata is getting much more inexpensive and now with Sata II, it should start putting a hurting on SCSI or does it even come close?Aquila76 - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
YAV for Divx6 and h.264 encoding/decoding. Why not throw in WMVHD, too, now that MS released the HW accel. patches for it?McTwist - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
I'd like to throw in a vote for seeing more engineering benchmarks (e.g. MATLAB). I work in the aerospace engineering field and use MATLAB a lot.Gracias
crtfanboy - Monday, June 20, 2005 - link
I'd love to see DOS emulation benchmarks. Like, try running one of those late 90s 3d DOS games in something like DOSbox, while doing other crap.