BTW, given that you're benchmarking in a noisy multi-tasking environment, I'd generally pick the maximum value over three runs rather than the average.
You'll probably never actually achieve the real maximum speed, but the more runs you do, statistically you'll probably get a max that starts to approach it.
By averaging, all you need is one ill-timed bit of background activity to create an artifically bad score that will disappear the next time you run.
I'll try to post my i7-8700K numbers tonight.
Aaron
|