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Story: Dual core shoot-out: Intel versus AMD

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Regarding the multimedia related tests in general and more specifically the video and audio encoding tests, it would be very useful to include information about the used source media. Such as: What was the size/duration/length of the source video or audio file? What was the resolution of the video file?

This would make it possible for a user of a CPU not included in the benchmark, to compare the performance in some (inaccurate) way. Just seeing that the AMD CPU X can encode a file of unspecified length and resolution in 15 minutes doesn't say much about the general performance, only the relative performance between the processors included in the benchmark.

At the moment, with the presented review, I don't have a clue whether how useful it would be to upgrade my Athlon XP 2000+ to such a dual-core chip. Sure, video encoding would be faster... but _how much_ faster?

Second, I think it would be useful to include some kind of performance test of compilers. Building a large project with a commonly available compiler would be most interesting, as it would enable many people to compare the performance of the tested machine with their own systems. One example could be compiling the Linux kernel using GCC (with a specified version ofcourse) or compiling a large C++ project such as The ACE ORB preferably also using commonly available compilers such as the GNU compilers.

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