Episode 95 - How Badass is Your PC? Benchmark It!

Is your rig the fastest it can be? Join us as the folks from Extremetech.com show us the best tips, tools and techniques for benchmarking your PC!

Watch and download here.

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[fishtoprecords]

Nice info, but two questions:

1) why the black background? No green screen working?

2) The Revision 3 logo/bug is in the middle of one of the guest's head. Very tacky. When you have something real up there, move the bug to lower corner

[kcchan]

I believe that this was shot at the ZDNet studio. I recognize the table from DL.TV. The black background is probably from when they shoot Cranky Geeks.

[kiwifrog]

I just woke up after watching this episode, did anything actually happen in the end?. Was a great episode if your one of these ego's who have their pc specs as a sig (like anybody really cares).



Mike.

p4, 1 gig of ram, 250gig sata, radeon 9600. From off to the desktop in around 5 minutes. . Seriously

[davmoo]

Hey, if you were asleep you really did miss something amazing and never before seen on TV...Loyd Case *smiled*!!! And he did it more than once!

[xfuuey]

Originally Posted by davmoo

Hey, if you were asleep you really did miss something amazing and never before seen on TV...Loyd Case *smiled*!!! And he did it more than once!

hah. that is something never before seen
can't wait to watch now

[ddreier]

The one thing that I don't like about Systm right now is how 'produced' the show is. But, this episode was absolute crap as far as production goes. It sounded like they were using the 'Auto' volume setting on what ever was used to record audio, and the audio just sounded like crap overall, unless they all had colds.

White Balance was off between cameras, and the handheld shots were just too bad as far as stability goes.

My apologies for just coming on and totally ripping this episode, but this episode was really bad, and should have been a segment on Tekzilla.

[rasprague]

Maybe someone out there know the answer to this.

I compile code for a living. Well, that's what it feels like, anyway. Every time I hit the compile button in Visual C++ I'm greeted by a lengthy wait.

Will a system with a faster CPU help me here? Or do I have to worry more about hard drive / I/O bus speed?

On a side note, I just bought / built an MSI Wind "nettop", which has an Intel Atom 330 (1.6GHz dual-core) and a Maxtor SATA hard drive and maxed out the memory at 2gb. Not a powerhouse, but still better than my aging Athlon 3000+ box, and boy it was cheap.