Benchmark Results: 3DMark And PCMark
Unlike most games, 3DMark shows a significant performance difference between the overclocked $1,500 and $3,000 machines. Because synthetic benchmarks don’t represent real-world performance differences, the results aren’t used in our final value assessment.
Poor hard drive performance results for the $1,500 PC can be partly attributed to its builder not using AHCI mode for the drive controller. Excellent results for the $3,000 PC’s drives were achieved thanks to the low latency and high bandwidth of its Level 0 (striped) SSD array.
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Nice article. I hope that you guys make an athlon x4 620 build next smb. It'll be interristing how much it fair to x3
"prefers Intel technology"? "Photoshop loves Core i7"?
Are alternatively when it comes to number crunching and CPU-intensive operations such as media work Intel's architecture crushes AMD.
That's why these types of software run better on Core i7, not because they've been programmed to prefer Intel.