As technology marches on, what was once the bleeding edge becomes the midrange, and what was once considered midrange becomes entry level. I recently built a pair of midrange systems. By any measure, their performance would have been bleeding edge just three years ago. Time and engineering march on.
These systems were the last pair of systems built to upgrade my Friday Night Follies LAN party systems. Will I be good to go for a few years, or will I be writing a version of this article in a couple of years? That depends, I suppose, on the health of PC gaming a couple of years from now.
But for the present, let’s see what the midrange looks like.
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By now, the Lynnfield reviews are in. Here are just a few.
Certainly any new processor and platform, like the new P55 chipset, is benchmarked to death. If you take a sort of metacritic approach to the reviews, you can get a pretty good picture of how the new platform behaves in a wide array of performance metrics.
However, I took a narrower view of Lynnfield testing: digital photography processing. How does the new platform compare to the older, but more powerful X58 platform? I ran a number of different benchmarks of actual photographic applications. Let’s see how Intel’s new mainstream quad core CPU shapes up for digital photographers. Read More »
So now the madness begins.
There's a New Kid in Town
This isn’t about Windows 7 itself. That’s for a later post. It’s about building a reference system to test Windows 7.
I’m working on various Windows 7-related projects. For that, I need a reference system.
What’s a reference system? Glad you asked.
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