There is no need to start out every article with remedial lessons. It is reasonable for an enthusiast magazine to assume familiarity with how computers work. The average ExtremeTech reader should already know what memory is and how increasing the amount of memory changes (or doesn't change) performance.
It is not possible to give all the systems the same memory configuration. They don't support the same memory and don't have the same number of channels. And I expect giving all the systems 512 GiB of memory would only widen the lead because larger DIMMs are usually slower.
>Do they expect all of their readers to then audit the code of the benchmarking that they are doing to ensure that it cannot possibly be bound by this?
Cinebench is hardly obscure. The average ExtremeTech reader will already know what it is and what it measures.
It is not possible to give all the systems the same memory configuration. They don't support the same memory and don't have the same number of channels. And I expect giving all the systems 512 GiB of memory would only widen the lead because larger DIMMs are usually slower.
>Do they expect all of their readers to then audit the code of the benchmarking that they are doing to ensure that it cannot possibly be bound by this?
Cinebench is hardly obscure. The average ExtremeTech reader will already know what it is and what it measures.