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  1. All Benchmarks Lie

    Disclaimer: This is probably not 100% accurate, but it is some function of the truth.
    There is a lot of misinformation out there about products, especially high end PC products. Many of them are reported as anecdotes, some purport to be conclusive scientific experiments benchmarking performance. This blog entry deals with the latter. The Truth is that benchmarks are not entirely useful. The main problem is that these benchmarks are often relative measures of performance, and the PC platform is so varied it is hard to get an apples to apples comparison. There are two reasons for this hardware and software. Let us first deal with the latter.

    PC games do get better over time, but they have been overtaken by consoles with ...

    Updated 07-14-10 at 02:03 PM by hannibal

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    Video Games , Provocative Thought , Programming
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