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bobo5195 · 03-09-2006, 06:10 PM

Did have a long post about engineering ethics and all that but wouldn’t of helped so I’m just going to say it’s a pitty.

I was similarly going to say loads about testing procedures and this whole TTV nosense. There is no one true test for performance and both methods are valid. Personally I am happy with repeatable results to a good standard of error that can easily be compared over many years. Cpu A is better than cpu B is all any test, on any test bed is going to tell you. The rest is just getting error bars smaller. Scaling of results to CPUs would be good but to be honest hand on heart who here can tell me how much my processor sitting by me here (a 3500+ Newcastle in a shuttle sn95g5) is dissipating to within 1w? 5w’s? And even then what about the IHS etc. pfft you can’t. You can tell me that this block is better than this one though.

Personally I like being an enthusiast (and I call myself and enthusiast), enthusiasts get it wrong more than the professionals but the best and newest ideas always come from a guy tinkering in his shed in his spare time. Doing something professionally sucks and I would never do a hobby and a job at the same time.

03-09-2006, 06:10 PM	#31
bobo5195 Cooling Savant Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: uk Posts: 400	Re: An End to the Insanity. Did have a long post about engineering ethics and all that but wouldn’t of helped so I’m just going to say it’s a pitty. I was similarly going to say loads about testing procedures and this whole TTV nosense. There is no one true test for performance and both methods are valid. Personally I am happy with repeatable results to a good standard of error that can easily be compared over many years. Cpu A is better than cpu B is all any test, on any test bed is going to tell you. The rest is just getting error bars smaller. Scaling of results to CPUs would be good but to be honest hand on heart who here can tell me how much my processor sitting by me here (a 3500+ Newcastle in a shuttle sn95g5) is dissipating to within 1w? 5w’s? And even then what about the IHS etc. pfft you can’t. You can tell me that this block is better than this one though. Personally I like being an enthusiast (and I call myself and enthusiast), enthusiasts get it wrong more than the professionals but the best and newest ideas always come from a guy tinkering in his shed in his spare time. Doing something professionally sucks and I would never do a hobby and a job at the same time.