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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (17617)	11/4/2000 3:54:06 PM
From: jcholewa	Respond to of 275872

> Nah, I actually got your point, believe it or not. But then again, some people on this thread think that too many > benchmarks will clutter a review. I don't, because I like in-depth analysis, but I think some people are still longing for > the days when a few simple benchmarks were enough to paint an accurate picture of performance. Well, see, I'm an amazing extremist to that other side. I will dumbly use nearly every benchmark that I can get my hands on (while still being able to reasonably configure each without producing bad scores) so that my personal biases can't strongly be brought into question. There'd be loads of complaints about how my articles are far too huge then they should be (shades of Sharky!), but nearly everybody will be sated with at least part of it, as people with specific favoured benchmarks will be able to check out only the benchmarks that they think are fair, and those who want a more general idea of performance potential can just average out everything or something. That's also why I'm avoiding giving "point ratings" to processors. I know that there are forces pressuring me to be biased. I own AMD stock, and AMD's Drew Prairie just mailed me a Duron-800 a month or so ago. So there's no way that I'm going to quantize my opinion of the chip when I know that (A) my opinion might be slanted one way or the other, and (B) the test result numbers often speak for themselves better than an arbitrary number given by the reviewer. Er. That sort of thing, I mean. :)     -JC