A history of the Frog CPUs!

Published on September 12, 2014 By Frogboy In Personal Computing

Forever now, I’ve been naming my PC’s “Frog-<Year purchased>”, Toad for my home machine and Turtle for my laptop and then benchmarking them. My

Here’s a brief history of their Passmark scores:

Frog-2003 (Dell Pentium IV):	132
Turtle-2006 (ThinkPad T60)	150
Turtle-2007 (ThinkPad T61)	286
Frog-2007 (Dell XPS, Intel Core 2 Extreme) “Total monster”	798
Frog-2008 (Intel Core2 Duo E8200 Alienware Area 51)	2280
Frog-2009 (Intel Core2 Quad Q8300)	3040
Frog-2011 (Core I7-980)	8820
Frog-2014 (Core I7-4960X)	14027
Toad-2014 (Core I7-5960X)	17125

Comments

Campaigner

on Sep 12, 2014

I don't understand. There's turtle but no toad which would mean no homemachine

Frogboy

on Sep 12, 2014

Yea, i didn't find any of my Toad benchmarks.

Jafo

on Sep 12, 2014

I need something like the Turtle-2014 so I can get a 10 year old flight sim to run half-decently [FSX]. Bottleneck has to be the CPU as the GPU is 'good enough' [GTX590] ...

starkers

on Sep 13, 2014

I'm currently running 2 home builds with not-too-shabby CPUs

My main beast has an Intel Core i7 4790K with 32gb of 2400ghz RAM.

My 2nd beast has a AMD FX 8350 with 16gb of 1333ghz RAM.

Originally I was going to go with an AMD FX 9590 @ 4.7ghz for my main rig, but I'm quite happy with the i7 and will stick with it for a while, me thinks.

In the past I've upgraded annually to something more powerful from the latest and greatest, PC-wise, but this year I'm not going to. No, this year it's a 55" Ultra HD 3D Smart TV and matching 3D Bluray player... all up for a bargain price of $1259.00. Yes, there are 65" TVs and bigger out there, though at a much bigger price, but my loungeroom is not large enough to accomodate anything larger than 55" without it looking out of place/overly large.

As for the i7-5960X, well I'm NOT jealous one little bit.

Well maybe a little.

Orright, more than a little.

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