As while I would have rather emailed the author and/or editor for the article, all they offer as contact info was this board so here goes...
I've read Tom's for years now, and am usually quite impressed with the detail you guys can go into, but I was severly unimpressed with the recent triple core story as well as your past 64 bit CPU reviews. How are you gonna review this type of hardware on an operating system that barely even supports it yet and completely ignore the ones that do? Windows XP is not a viable system for benchmarking 64 bit nor multiprocess/core CPUs, Microsoft would probably tell you this themselves. As for Windows XP-64 and Vista, they're both still in beta, and neither one's gonna show good numbers either. Why not use Linux or BSD or some sort of OS that has supported these features for many years now? I'm not saying you'll have less crashing on them with your odd triple core setup, b/c I don't have the hardware to test it myself (thus why I read your site), I don't know...but I'd say it's a fairly safe assumption to make 😉
So please, for all future CPU reviews and benchmarks involving multiprocessors, multicores or 64bit computing, how about using the appropriate system to test them on?
I've read Tom's for years now, and am usually quite impressed with the detail you guys can go into, but I was severly unimpressed with the recent triple core story as well as your past 64 bit CPU reviews. How are you gonna review this type of hardware on an operating system that barely even supports it yet and completely ignore the ones that do? Windows XP is not a viable system for benchmarking 64 bit nor multiprocess/core CPUs, Microsoft would probably tell you this themselves. As for Windows XP-64 and Vista, they're both still in beta, and neither one's gonna show good numbers either. Why not use Linux or BSD or some sort of OS that has supported these features for many years now? I'm not saying you'll have less crashing on them with your odd triple core setup, b/c I don't have the hardware to test it myself (thus why I read your site), I don't know...but I'd say it's a fairly safe assumption to make 😉
So please, for all future CPU reviews and benchmarks involving multiprocessors, multicores or 64bit computing, how about using the appropriate system to test them on?