I understand that ECS requested no benchmarks, but its these low power cpu's I want to see benchmarks the most on. We know the 4960X is fast, and pretty top of the line, but a slow celeron like this has a lot of cpu's with similar performance. The competition sorta speak intel, amd, arm, via whoever can match it. It is not only who can have X amount of performance, but how much power they use while doing it.
On future reviews, if possible, I would like to see benchmarks with performance per dollar and performance per watt like W1zzards gpu reviews.
performance per watt is possible, I suppose. Per $$ is not quite possible as features on systems like this are going to change, and as such, this metric may give the wrong impression. I had considered the same with memory and board reviews, but it's not really possible there either.
If I had some hardware that was similar in regards to performance, I would have done some benchmarks. Like Intel Celeron 807/847/1037U (NM70) or Intel Atom D2550 would work, but at the same time, I'm not about to spend money on hardware like this just to review a $200 item.
I mean, if I was an employee of TPU, getting paid for my time and all expenses covered, man, I'd do whatever you guys asked for when it comes to reviews. AS it is now, I have to balance my time, and my money, when it comes to reviews, while trying to meet your needs. That's a very delicate balance, let me tell you.
It's not like I rated this as a 10/10. It does have some short comings. However, if it is successful, and we see this design further iterated on, in 3-4 years I think we'll have some really nice capabilities within this sort of "form factor". Until then, devices like this are not going to meet everyone's needs. Really, I'd have liked to give it a 10/10, because I think ECS did exactly what they wanted with this, and the final score really reflects what I knew you guys were going to say, which was "where are the benchmarks".
I now use this ECS LIVA box about 12 hours a day. I only power up the 4960X rig when about to game. Do I have to wait sometimes because this box is rather slow...yep. Do I care that it is slow? Nope.
And it's not HT, either..it's two real cores.
