I remember growing up in the 80s/90s how benchmark tests were a big deal because each new generation of chips meant a noticeable jump in speed and performance. But with chips now so fast does someone notice the speed difference between the iPad Air and Surface 3?
Nope.
That’s why I stopped building them 8 years ago.
My 1st big build was a 486DX2-66, With Creative Sound Card and two Matrox 8meg video cards all thst beautiful work was viewed on, at the time, stupendous 21” Color CAD/CAM monitor.
Today’s laptops have plenty of horsepower and I usually just load em with as much memory as they can take.
I’m moving to SSD drives next year and that’ll be plenty fast