PCMark Vantage
“PCMark Vantage is a PC benchmark suite designed for Windows Vista offering one-click simplicity for casual users and detailed, professional grade testing for industry, press and enthusiasts.
A PCMark score is a measure of your computer’s performance across a variety of common tasks such as viewing and editing photos, video, music and other media, gaming, communications, productivity and security.
From desktops and laptops to workstations and gaming rigs, by comparing your PCMark Vantage score with other similar systems you can find the hardware and software bottlenecks that stop you getting more from your PC.”
PCMark, tests just as the name implies, benchmarks your entire PC. Its a great overall benchmarks which tests every aspect of your computer. It then gives a very detailed printout of what it received in the various test suites and a break down for within those sections. The suites used to benchmark the entire computer are: Memories Suite, TV and Movies Suite, Gaming Suite, Music Suite, Communications Suite, Productivity Suite, and HDD Test Suite.
With the setup I have, the 415e shows great results. By coupling this with a more power graphics card, these numbers can easily go up, but there is nothing stopping this rig from some great home theater or home server use. In fact, this is pretty much perfect for just getting things done.
hi buddy… i just wanted to say that my msie is freezing when I click on the pics… are you using some js or something?
yeah there is some JavaScript. Works fine on my Mac 😛
But seriously try using a different browser. IE6 isn’t actually supported by many sites anymore.
This is just blatant PR for AMD. Complete waste of time as a review.
Max Power (I can only assume that is a reference to the Simpsons from the episode where Homer changes his name and becomes popular),
Unfortunately, we do not have any preference for any company and the simple fact is that AMD made a worthwhile product. We are not a PR Agency and do not act as such, although if you’re looking for a good PR agency to represent you, I would suggest The Max Borges PR Agency. If Intel would like to have a comparison done against this processor, they are more than welcome to send what they feel is their equivalent product. Our job here is simple. We build a rig, using random parts. We do NOT, under any circumstances, use specialized installs, manufacturer suggested parts, or any thing that would manipulate results in any way. If you see different results on other sites, it is likely that they have different computer builds. If a computer build has only one slight difference, it could skew the results drastically in either direction. This is why it is important that you take information from multiple sources, and can only use the average of what you find to make an assumption of product performance, before purchasing a computer.
I say it is worthless as a review because:
1) Some of the benchmarks you run are not compared to any other processors, so what is the point? These results can’t be compared to results from other sites because as you say your builds are from random parts
2) The benchmarks you do provide comparisons chips to, the processors are just so far out of the Athlon II’s league (eg core i7 860) it again is just a waste of time because the performance difference is huge.
I do apologize for the tone of my previous arguments, I just question the point of this article.
“Keep in mind that the results are for your testing benefit. Check your rig against these results to see how much of an upgrade you might get.”
You’re suppose to compare these results to your own rig.
Also, there was no way for me to change the i7 stuff for cinebench 11.5. I thought it fairly obvious considering my comparisons in SiSoft Sandra.
Here in Okinawa, power consumption is a BIG deal. We offer get electric bills of $600 in the summer months. So a CPU that does more with less power works for me. Not to mention my air-conditioner works less.
a 50% power loss drop is impressive