What really had me scratching my head was why they used a 5900 card as apart of the test bed while no other review site has or would in a performance testbed.
All I know is that a while back there was a big stink as to why Tom's site was posting substantially lower scores than any other website (just speaking in general terms) in regards to the A64 & P4EE launch. Well if you look at all of the sites and compare the hardware there is usually one glaring difference... the video card. If you use a Radeon 9800 or anything ATI the scores shoot up in alot of benchmarks and the results seem to turn out completely different.
Now it might be that some of the BIOS settings just happen to be not as aggressive as some of the other sites, but aside from that i can't think of anything else.
Not try'in to start drama but just something I've noticed.
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What really had me scratching my head was why they used a 5900 card as apart of the test bed while no other review site has or would in a performance testbed. All I know is that a while back there was a big stink as to why Tom's site was posting substantially lower scores than any other website (just speaking in general terms) in regards to the A64 & P4EE launch. Well if you look at all of the sites and compare the hardware there is usually one glaring difference... the video card. If you use a Radeon 9800 or anything ATI the scores shoot up in alot of benchmarks and the results seem to turn out completely different. Now it might be that some of the BIOS settings just happen to be not as aggressive as some of the other sites, but aside from that i can't think of anything else. Not try'in to start drama but just something I've noticed.