The only constant in the PC platform is change.

Even in the last year, we’ve seen multicore processors come to very mainstream systems, and quad-core and even eight-core systems are now on the market too. Multicore means not only more performance, but more capabilities.

Problem is, most benchmarks out there don’t measure capabilities. They measure speed. But isn’t speed a capability, you ask? Sure it is, and a darn fine one at that. But capabilities extend beyond speed and get more to the heart of the matter for most consumers: the quality of experience. That may sound a bit warm and fuzzy, but there’s an entire scientific field called perceptual modeling behind it. And its this science that Intel® DHCAT applies to evaluating PC platforms.

We’ve learned a lot creating versions 1.0 and 1.5 of Intel® DHCAT, and we’ve rolled that learning into version 2.0. That new goodness takes several forms: support for Windows* Vista*, shorter run-time, and more intense workloads.

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