So, AMD Gaming is having starting a Social Reviewers Program, where they gave away 100 A8-3870K APU's, and I was lucky enough to get one. I want to do the review right, so I looked over some review procedures at some of my favorite sites and came up with this review protocol using the programs I have:
- Processor Specs/CPU-Z/GPU-Z/W.E.I.
- Test System Specs
- System Benchmarks
- Sisoft Sandra 2012 SP4a
- CPU Benchmarks
- Maxon CineBench 11.5
- 7-Zip
- WinZip
- iTunes 10.4 - Encoding
- x264 HD 5.0 - Video Encoding
- GPU Benchmarks
- 3DMark Vantage/3DMark11
- Unigine Heaven 3.0
- Game Benchmarks
- S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call of Pripyat
- The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim
- Just Cause 2
- Batman: Arkham City
So, what do you all think? Comprehensive enough? Any other (preferably free) benchmarks you would recommend? Thanks in advance for your feedback, and I'll be sure to post the review here!