Synthetic Benchmarks
08:00 - Tuesday 8 July 2008 by Don Woligroski
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: system, builder, marathon
Source: Tom's Hardware – Keywords: system, builder, marathon
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Synthetic Benchmarks
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Let’s begin by analyzing the synthetic benchmarks. This will set a performance expectation that we will keep in mind when comparing to actual performance.
3DMark shows us that the overclocked versions of each system usually matches and sometimes beats the stock-clocked system in the next higher value tier.
PCMark shows us some interesting data, but nothing unexpected. The hard drive test favors the RAID configurations of the sub-$2,000 and sub-$4,000 machines.
And SiSoft Sandra XII shows us some more points of interest. You can really see which synthetic benchmarks favor multiple cores, and which ones seem to be satisfied with the dual-core sub-$1,000 machine.
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Mmm, so everyone who's going to overclock their PC has a gaming-quality 24" LCD? No? So why didn't you focus on 1680*1050 if you're going to even bother including the sub-$1000 system in the comparison? That's the standard resolution of high-end 17" and most mainstream screens under 22" (even some cheap 22" as well)