WTF Tom left out sound card and CDROM

Welp, I was reading a article on P4 overclocking and in the benchmarks they turned sound off to get a +40 FPS increase in benchamrks.

http://www.sharkyextreme.com/hardw [...] al/5.shtml

Could the sound card and CDROM slowed the vapochill box that much to pull it back out after loading the system?

Is this the only way the Tbird can beat P4 in tests? GFG Tom

Last post I made on this topic all the AMD losers chimed in with some BS that im a moron and it did not make a diff.

Well, I can say STFU you brainless morons! I told you something was fishy in that article yet you thought it was kosher.

Next question is how many times has he pulled parts to improve AMD scores on tests so AMD could win. Busted his lame ass on this one.

Im not a lemming, I dont just follow the crowd around falling into whatever the person ahead of me does. lemmings are mindless followers.

Yeah, real smart to release this article when he plans to do it again.

Tom left those parts out for a reason, the reason was "that they did not benifit from it" that tells me that they hurt it so bad that it wasnt practicle to put them in.

"In this edition I refrained from adding any other component to the Power Box, such as a sound card, DVD-ROM, CD/RW and more, because the benchmarks in this first Power Box article would not benefit from it"

And more, wtf else did he leave out? why was is neccisary to leave those parts out.

Dont read my posts if you dont like them. but im sure you come here to find posts from me and you cannot resists sticking your foot in your mouth.

1) You can read...

2) ... a well known biased Intel website

3) this is true for all systems, if additional components/features are used when benchmarking

4) no

5) what kind of answers do you expect to your ranting?

6) the whole setup and process is documented

7) never

We usually do all benchmarks with no sound card and/or sound turned off as documented in the Test Setup table. There is nothing new to the fact that more turned on features (and yes, this includes sound) have an impact on the frame rate. Kudos for finding that out this well kept secret.

think first, then post

Fredi
Tom's Hardware Guide

PLs tell me how this makes a real difference when both the P4 and the Athlon box share the same advantage???

M

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You really cannot be that... um... Surely you were able to understand everything that Fredi stated in his posts, right? I mean, he stated rather bluntly that all of the systems had the Sound Off. In other words: competing on equal grounds. Tom plans to stick a sound card in later on anyway, so you'll get your "equal" results.

It seems that you're just truly trying to find SOMETHING wrong with the test results or something. Have you read all of the posts in response to yours? A lot of them make some good points regarding the performance (granted, not all discuss the performance). Anyway, I'm just trying to be fair and stuff.

Charles

I give up. I never proved any of your points. To say it again in simple words:

All systems run stable with the components or not. The benchmark numbers are the same with or without the components installed since the sound is turned off in the benchmarks.

Benchmarking is about eliminating as much different variables as possible. Of course, we are the only ones doing this.


Fredi
Tom's Hardware Guide