Best bang for buck cpu April 14th 2010
The results are at InformedSelection.org.
I know its' not much, but it is still a work in progress.
The code for the bot that feeds the database is getting more and more robust.
There is a new metric I made called the Trifecta Score. Basically, a cpu gets points for having an above average bang for buck ratio, below average price, and above average performance. These are all computed as percentages relative to the average, and then summed.
It is a more valuable metric, that takes everything into account minus overclocking potential.
So for example a processor that costs slightly more and has a lower bang for buck ratio can still win by having massive amounts of raw computation power.
I posted asking for feedback, HardOCP let mine stay, toms hardware deleted my post but not my account, and Anandtech banned me as a spammer. I didn't try at xtremesystems because they have a clear no external links policy.
Notice that I said these benchmarks don't take into account overclocking potential. This is because the passmark guys don't want to put their overclocked cpu list in html table form like they do for their list of processors at stock speed. I asked them to do this and they flat out said a big fat NO.
So, I plan to wean the benchmark scores off of passmark by writing my own benchmarking program. That way I don't have to parse data off of some site and can gather overclocked stats to factor in.
Benchmarking programs are very tricky to write. I am still way in the R&D phase.
-Rez