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4 years ago

I use rtings.com every time I buy a monitor.

https://www.rtings.com/monitor/tools/table

They rigorously test their hardware and you can filter/sort by literally hundreds of stats.

I just built a PC and I would have killed for a site that had apples-to-apples benchmarks for SSDs/RAM/etc. Motherboard reviews especially are a huge joke. We're badly missing a site like that for PC components.

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Ajedi32  4 years ago

> I just built a PC and I would have killed for a site that had apples-to-apples benchmarks for SSDs/RAM/etc.

Userbenchmark has benchmarks for SSDs[1] and RAM[2]. Can't help you with motherboards though.

[1]: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/

[2]: https://ram.userbenchmark.com/

  • NavinF  4 years ago

    Unfortunately Userbenchmark is totally useless for comparing components. They don’t even attempt to benchmark one change at a time while keeping all other parts of the testbench identical.

    Worse yet every time I benchmark one of my machines, I score significantly higher than the average user results for the same hardware. Perhaps the average submitter has crapware/antivirus installed or their machines are misconfigured (e.g. XMP disabled) which makes all their data suspect.

  • ______-_-______  4 years ago

    I appreciate the links. But it's tough to believe stats uploaded by random users, especially when we're only talking a few percent difference. Not to mention, if you sort by "avg bench %", apparently WD released an NVMe drive that's faster than Intel Optane. You'd think that would have made the news.

    fwiw the best motherboard comparison I found was on overclock.net[1]. It didn't list everything I cared about, but it was a great starting point

    [1]: https://www.overclock.net/threads/official-intel-z690-mother...

    • Ajedi32  4 years ago

      Individual benchmarks uploaded by random users would be hard to trust yes, but UserBenchmark collects thousands. If you click through to the page for a given product it'll even show you a distribution graph of the collected scores from different real-world machines.

      > apparently WD released an NVMe drive that's faster than Intel Optane

      "Faster" is a matter of opinion; it depends on what you're optimizing for. Optane obviously has faster random reads, but it's not so great at sequential writes. The UserBenchmark score tries to take all of that into account: https://ssd.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-905P-Optane-NVMe...