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:: I'm a bit dubious that any overclocking is likely to effect things from a support/compatibility perspective enough for us to worry about. The clean-up would be fairly simple if speed indicators were just purged. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 08:11, 29 April 2017 (CEST) | :: I'm a bit dubious that any overclocking is likely to effect things from a support/compatibility perspective enough for us to worry about. The clean-up would be fairly simple if speed indicators were just purged. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 08:11, 29 April 2017 (CEST) | ||
::: Although we overall don't focus on performance on the wiki, from my understanding the main purpose of the testing section is providing an insight of how well a game run on a given system configuration and a specific Dolphin version. In that regard, even a minimal overclocking of the CPU will directly affect the results and thus I strongly think the overclocked speed should be included in the test entry on those cases. Otherwise, for CPUs running at stock speed, dropping the GHz indicator is harmless since they're reflecting the performance all users of that CPU should get at stock settings... - [[User:Jhonn|Jhonn]] ([[User talk:Jhonn|talk]]) 09:31, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | ::: Although we overall don't focus on performance on the wiki, from my understanding the main purpose of the testing section is providing an insight of how well a game run on a given system configuration and a specific Dolphin version. In that regard, even a minimal overclocking of the CPU will directly affect the results and thus I strongly think the overclocked speed should be included in the test entry on those cases. Otherwise, for CPUs running at stock speed, dropping the GHz indicator is harmless since they're reflecting the performance all users of that CPU should get at stock settings... - [[User:Jhonn|Jhonn]] ([[User talk:Jhonn|talk]]) 09:31, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | ||
:::: I'm not convinced of that. Outside of very rare cases, there shouldn't be more than ~10% CPU speed improvement through overclocking (usually less than that), which seems unlikely to be truly significant to observed Dolphin performance. In general folks posting their speeds are just chest-thumping. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 18:32, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | |||
:: @[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] If the guidelines were changed so that speed would not be included anymore, then certainly I would follow that. But at this time they instruct us to include the speed of the CPU ("Indicate CPU speed with a "@ #GHz" postfix listing the stock or overclocked frequency"). | :: @[[User:Kolano|Kolano]] If the guidelines were changed so that speed would not be included anymore, then certainly I would follow that. But at this time they instruct us to include the speed of the CPU ("Indicate CPU speed with a "@ #GHz" postfix listing the stock or overclocked frequency"). | ||
::: Yeah, that's unintentional. It wasn't covered that way because we really wanted speeds. More that that folks kept specifying them and, if so, we wanted it to be done consistently. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 18:32, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | |||
:: Regarding the formatting of the CPU speed - Though it is a minor detail, it's important to me that my own testing entries include the .0 appended at the end, It looks neater, more uniform with the CPU speeds of other testers, and it is officially how both Intel and AMD classify their products. Is that acceptable to you, until the guidelines are changed? [[User:Flang|Flang]] ([[User talk:Flang|talk]]) 08:18, 29 April 2017 (CEST) | :: Regarding the formatting of the CPU speed - Though it is a minor detail, it's important to me that my own testing entries include the .0 appended at the end, It looks neater, more uniform with the CPU speeds of other testers, and it is officially how both Intel and AMD classify their products. Is that acceptable to you, until the guidelines are changed? [[User:Flang|Flang]] ([[User talk:Flang|talk]]) 08:18, 29 April 2017 (CEST) | ||
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:::: If the concern is the amount of work needed to clean up all the test entries to match each other, I would happily do all the work myself, beginning immediately. [[User:Flang|Flang]] ([[User talk:Flang|talk]]) 11:40, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | :::: If the concern is the amount of work needed to clean up all the test entries to match each other, I would happily do all the work myself, beginning immediately. [[User:Flang|Flang]] ([[User talk:Flang|talk]]) 11:40, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | ||
::::: Yours. All similar ".0" entries on the wiki have been purged. There is no interest in adding zeros all over the place to make other entries consistent with yours (please don't), or having your entries be inconsistently handled. At the same time clean-up should be easy to handle, if we were to just purge the speeds, which I's still prefer we do as it would reduce the frequent maintenance they force. [[User:Kolano|Kolano]] ([[User talk:Kolano|talk]]) 18:32, 30 April 2017 (CEST) | |||