2008-12-10, 20:07
@spozen
We could make a thread but first we need to define which information is valuable and necessary and then provide a list of samples to be able to benchmark more acurately the configs.
However I don't think it's a good idea to base a benchmark only on the killa sample since it's not well encoded. Nevertheless i agree that some heavy weight samples might be interesting to test for the future yet since we can't forsee it and especially the time when 2160p will become a new reference, i don't feel it's mandatory. In any case i have at my disposal some 100mbps samples if i remember well so tests are possible.
Now from the data i gathered so far, it is true that the E8400 stands out but it's also true that cheaper CPU manage to deal with the killa sample and 1080p in general. I would gladly cut the costs on cpu/mobo to spend it on storage or nicer case for example.
All in all i believe it's necessary somehow to have a little database with this valuable information but first the model has to be drawn. And we can't either drop all the amd based systems since the idea, as i see it, is to provide a benchmark, and the wider its variety, the better. We can't focus on one single cpu/architecture.
We could make a thread but first we need to define which information is valuable and necessary and then provide a list of samples to be able to benchmark more acurately the configs.
However I don't think it's a good idea to base a benchmark only on the killa sample since it's not well encoded. Nevertheless i agree that some heavy weight samples might be interesting to test for the future yet since we can't forsee it and especially the time when 2160p will become a new reference, i don't feel it's mandatory. In any case i have at my disposal some 100mbps samples if i remember well so tests are possible.
Now from the data i gathered so far, it is true that the E8400 stands out but it's also true that cheaper CPU manage to deal with the killa sample and 1080p in general. I would gladly cut the costs on cpu/mobo to spend it on storage or nicer case for example.
All in all i believe it's necessary somehow to have a little database with this valuable information but first the model has to be drawn. And we can't either drop all the amd based systems since the idea, as i see it, is to provide a benchmark, and the wider its variety, the better. We can't focus on one single cpu/architecture.