Ever since moving to Win 1909, our compile benchmarks have been a bit off. I was at Supercomputing last week, literally got back Saturday to start writing the review, and I need to get some time to debug why it's not working as it should. I've got Qualcomm's Tech Summit next week and IEDM the week after that, so you'll have to wait a bit. Ian (the editor of the review)
Consider adding Linux as the underlying platform for some of your tests. Not only it's usually easier to script repeatable developer-oriented workloads, but your reviews will be more comprehensive as well. The Linux scheduler is quite different and more advanced (as illustrated by vastly different Gen 2 Threadripper performance on Windows vs Linux), and your articles have not been capturing this.
I can see why Linux is not yet the mainstream for gamers, but this OS should be more popular among the HEDT crowd.
I can't resist asking something that's been bugging me for a long time. The issue of insane travel schedules has openly plagued AnandTech for a long time now, both delaying reviews and severely impacting their quality when they do come out. Every tech website out there covers the big events in roughly the same way, very few do proper deep dive technical reviews like you've done in the past. Is it really the best use of your time to (partially) squander the comparative advantage you have in favor of rushing from one event to the next, reporting the same things everyone else does?
His CPU reviews in particular have at times been virtually unparalleled in the industry. I don't think name recognition is an issue. It's just painful to see that suffer for run of the mill industry news reporting.
Quick question: How are you handling Intel's security patches vis-a-vis benchmarks/consistency? In particular as there are like three(?) performance impacting fixes now that were released over a two or more year period.
For example in articles like this where you include older chips are you just listing the numbers from previous benchmarks, or are all running on the same patch level/OS?
