Kenwood's PR department definitely has the "positive pump" drill down, anyone who finishes reading their literature is tempted to say "Yeah! Oh yeah baby, this is the goods!"
Thankfully, we have benchmarks which aren't susceptible to PR hype, and only know one mission:
Accurate performance measurement.
Here are the specifications for the two test rigs we utilized to validate Kenwood's 52x performance claims:
Intel Pentium 2-450 CPU
ABIT BX6 v2.0 Mainboard (Slot-1 - Intel 440BX)
Goldstar 128MB PC-133 SDRAM (Prototype)
Canopus Spectra 3200 16MB AGP 2D/3D Accelerator
Quantum3D X-24 Voodoo2 SLI PCI 3D Accelerator
Adaptec 2490UW Ultra-Wide SCSI Controller
IBM Ultrastar 9 8.4GB UWSCSI HD
Diamond Monster Sound MX300 3D PCI Sound Card
Win95 OSR 2.1
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Intel P2-450 Results
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Test Conditions and Specifications:
All tests were run a total of three times with the results averaged to determine final score.
