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Examining Benchmarking

Posted by michael on from the no-benches-involved dept.

VL writes "Benchmarks exist to determine how a particular piece of hardware performs in relation to itself, and to others. Question is, are readers getting the information they really need?"

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  1. Depents on the user... by acegik · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Not everybody needs it offcourse but if the user want to know that what he bought or want to buy worth the money or even decide between two pieces of hardware then sure.. the better and percise the test its easier to make a decision.

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  2. TAO weights more than benchmark by oakad · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Benchmarks are for fulls. Only TAO (the way) matters. My favorite computer is SGI O2, terribly old. It takes 10 minutes for it to load Quake2. And still, it's much more lovable. I can even add that I always loved and used only ATI cards, though very bad support policy, buggy drivers and horrible X support (before XFree 4 I mean). Why? Because I love how they look like.

  3. Re:They are irrelevant. by scalis · · Score: 1, Redundant

    ...In other words, MOST users DO get the information they are looking for.

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