Anandtech's Bench Beta?

[aigomorla]

It looked pretty interesting..

just noticed this today also..

Anandtech's Bench Beta which gives you a comparison of cpu's...

http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?b=2

 

[soccerballtux]

Cool. Unfort it's synthetics, never can trust those. Anything is better than Tom's Hardware's ad-ridden site though.

 

[tigersty1e]

The game benches don't work...

 

[formulav8]

IMO I see it as basically useless unless you want to compare same gen cpu's.



Jason

 

[aigomorla]

well maybe thats why its called beta?

trying to show us we got one now... we could always request what we wanted on if possible..

 

[Flipped Gazelle]

Originally posted by: formulav8
IMO I see it as basically useless unless you want to compare same gen cpu's.



Jason

Not sure I'm getting you here... I can compare many CPU's from the last couple of generations in a variety of real-world applications. Seems like a pretty useful tool.

 

[SunSamurai]

Originally posted by: formulav8
IMO I see it as basically useless unless you want to compare same gen cpu's.



Jason

How so?

 

[Tempered81]

Originally posted by: tigersty1e
The game benches don't work...

works for me:
http://www.anandtech.com/bench/default.aspx?b=47

 

[heyheybooboo]

Never can have enough 'tools', however ... In FireFox 3.05 and Mozilla 1.7.13:

crappy interface - does not list chipset, mobo or ram on the 'mouse-over' - can only do 2 CPUs at a time, or, when when you post by benchie for all CPUs bars are not color coded - only one of 31 'comparisons' worked correctly for me in head-to-head (cinebenchr10-multi) - bars were 'overlayed' or stacked on top of one another

In IE:

only one of 31 'comparisons' worked correctly for me in head-to-head (cinebenchr10-multi) - bars were 'overlayed' (better than Firefox-were not on top of one another) - listed chipset, mobo, ram, etc on the 'mouse-over' but it was funky (had to give it 2 or 3 mouseovers) - had to 'launch' 7 activeX controls (not sure how many were associated with the chart)