To engineering samples owners: Why no real benchmarks?

[CryptiK]

This bothers me everytime a new CPU is in the works and people get their hands on the chips early and leak stuff.

I suggest you build a bridge. There are sites that do this kind of review, use them.

Things tested are superpi, wprime, chess benchmark and so forth. All of these benchmarks have no practical relevance at all, superpi is completely outdated (and inefficient btw).

That's because for the most part, the people on XS with these connections able to get pre-release samples are not interested in video encoding, rendering or cpu-intensive games/settings (with the use of savegames, not timedemos). They test what they are interested in, and what the XS community is interested in.

In case you haven't realized, some of the above named 'useless benches' to you are often held in quite high esteem here. The fact that SuperPI benching has it's own section on the forum may help you understand. Young PC users that find there way here "cos it's sounds awesome and extreme yo" tend to find out pretty rapidly we aren't focused on typical computer uses here. Kingpin doesn't gloat to his pre-pubescent mates on msn about how fast his 6.5GHz gulftown is encoding the latest pirate version of Harry Potter and the this_is_not_anandtech.com. We bench, so those with the ES's bench them. Pretty straightforward.

No offence, but sometimes I'm under the impression that only morons get engineering samples (or people who just want to antagonize the rest of us with meaningless benches). Why is that?

No offense, but calling some of our most respected members who do us all the service of testing the latest and greatest morons is not going to win you any favours here. 'The rest of you' are in the minority here, so you are unlikely to be pandered to. Accept it and move on.

Why not test real stuff like video encoding, rendering, cpu-intensive games/settings (with the use of savegames, not timedemos, which most integrated benchmarks are).

XS is not generally concerned with real stuff. Real stuff is boring. I have a slow boring PC to do real stuff on, as do most of us here. When I go into a ES testing thread, I want to see as little real stuff as possible, preferably none at all.