The test setup
I should start by saying that we very rarely publish benchmark numbers obtained at trade shows or in other sorts of pre-arranged settings outside of our own test labs. We have elected to do so in this case because of an extraordinary opportunity to get an early glimpse at a brand-new CPU architecture in action. You should know, though, what the test conditions were like.
We used test systems
pre-configured by Intel before the show, and we had very limited time to conduct testing or inspect the systems. We were
not allowed to look inside of the case of either PC, and the scope of
the benchmarks we were allowed to run was defined by Intel. We weren't given the leeway to record our own custom timedemos for the games, and we didn't have enough time to run each test three times or even reboot between the tests. Intel PR reps painted timedemo results on the screen with white-out after our Quake 4 test run.
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