Resources to evaluate performance of PC parts
Quality review sites
Databases and miscellaneous
Resources NOT to use to evaluate performance
These websites primarily use Synthetic Benchmarks 1 for comparisons (at this point its better to consider sites terrible until proven otherwise) and as a result do not reflect real world performance 2 as well as use statistics like clock rate 3 that have no legitimate usage within this scenario. Other sources should be taken with a grain of salt and evaluated against 4. These sites also tend to suffer from unregulation of results, verification of results and self-selection bias.
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benchmark_%28computing%29#Types_of_benchmarks
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https://web.archive.org/web/20150510220146/http://cpuboss.com/cpus/Intel-Pentium-G3258-vs-Intel-Core-i5-4460 (Thanks ik0uuu)
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http://gernot-heiser.org/benchmarking-crimes.html (Thanks ZeDestructor)
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https://disconsented.com/posts/ryan-shrout-professional-disclosure/
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