Usually PC builders are attempting to get essentially the most energy potential into a particular setup. But Gordon Mah Ung, PCWorld Executive Editor and gleefully cackling agent of chaos, is aiming for one thing a bit completely different with the most recent PCWorld video. His “Island of Misfit Toys” construct, a Frankenstein monster of parts from a sequence of cursed machines, is aiming to get the worst rating within the Cinebench benchmark.

Along with particular visitor Dr. Ian Cutress, Gordon offers a tour of his tortured machine. It’s powered by the Gigabyte P750GM, which has a reputation for exploding. The motherboard is an historic, forgotten BTX design from a Dell pre-built desktop, with a plastic shroud over the Celeron D processor that sucks in cooling airflow. That cooling setup makes it inconceivable to plug in a contemporary GPU, so Gordon needed to join a Radeon Fury X card with an NZXT PCIe riser cable…which has been recalled as a fire hazard.

And the entire thing is working Windows Vista Ultimate on a 160GB spinning onerous drive. This is essentially the most low-power construct potential, with a 64-bit desktop CPU and a PCIe port for discrete graphics. The components don’t slot in a case. It’s an absolute freakshow of a pc. And, as if its mere existence wasn’t painful sufficient, Gordon and Ian are going to torture it with Cinebench.

I gained’t spoil the outcomes of the video for you, however I’ll say that Gordon is attempting to beat (as in, rating decrease than) a Cinebench R15 single-thread rating of 17, which Ian achieved with a similar PC a number of years in the past. For a degree of comparability, Intel’s latest flagship CPU will get a single-thread Cinebench R23 rating of round 2300. My home-built work desktop, with a 4-year-old mid-range CPU and a dozen working packages, manages 1006 with a most potential rating of round 1275.

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