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October 29, 2013 2:32:56 AM

Hi,

I thought that maybe this site can use the power of masses in order to gain a huge benchmark charts of CPU/Graphic-cards etc.

Simply every person will execute a software that will performs the benchmark and the results will be sent to Toms Hardware to be published in the chart.
(The website will parse the textual output string of the software so that it will automatically inject the results to the right places.)

This way, with every one doing that, we can populate the chart pretty easily.

What do you think?

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October 30, 2013 8:20:09 AM

Hrm, and interesting thought - though there are considerable differences between the configs here. And not all components are in the same working order, mind you. Crowdsourcing benchmarking is an interesting thought though, but it presents a few technical hurdles that would need to be overcome first.
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October 30, 2013 9:31:56 AM

jpishgar said:
Hrm, and interesting thought - though there are considerable differences between the configs here. And not all components are in the same working order, mind you. Crowdsourcing benchmarking is an interesting thought though, but it presents a few technical hurdles that would need to be overcome first.
-JP

I'm not totally sure what you mean, but I'm sure that this kind of database can benefit to users worldwide.

People with all kinds of system & configs would post the high-resolution data (about their systems & config) & various benchmark results.

When someone thinks of buying a system, he would seek in the database about a system with satisfying performance and try to find one that fits his budget.
He would most likely find a system with components that can be found in a near PC store.

Users may have systems which are based on the builds that can be found in the database, with minor modifications as advised by forum members.
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October 31, 2013 6:05:48 AM

I believe that is the whole idea behind Passmark, which TBH no one here really places much faith in. A crowd-sourced benchmark would inherently be compromised by different hardware sets, people have different motherboards, RAM, HDD's, differing overclocks and levels of stability, etc.

Crowd-funding benchmarks for PC hardware sets as a whole could be useful, but not in the way your thinking. With data like that, I would be interested to see how powerful people machines are on average and how that changes (or doesn't) over time. Using this forum would skew the results toward the more powerful end, but the idea if applied evenly across all users would be interesting.
I think the closest data similar to this is the Steam Hardware Survey.
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October 31, 2013 8:32:54 AM

manofchalk said:
but the idea if applied evenly across all users would be interesting.

That's all my point! The idea would be applied evenly.
We can make a softwares bundle with a python script that needs to be executed.
That python script would record system's info (system's hardware & software info) and then would launch additional softwares that will perform the benchmark.

Eventually the output will be transmitted to Tom's Hardware for analysis and to be inserted to the DB.
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