Review: Intel Digital Home Capabilities Assessment Tool

by Bob Crabtree on 21 December 2005, 09:57

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Lab notes 2 - the numbers


I first began by manually running the test three times (one iteration each) to see if the results were consistent and if the margin of error was low. My initial results seemed to confirm this was so in each case, with the total score not varying by even one point. Individual scores did fluctuate but did so by less than one per cent, which is VERY impressive.

Intel DHCAT scores legendElements that the IDHCAT tests and how it scores them



IDHCAT - Detailed tests - page 1 of 5IDHCAT test summary

After re-examining the scores, it was clear that the Level-3 Connected test was especially low - no element was passing the test. Intel says that it's scoring system errs on the side of caution to ensure that a PC will perform at least as well as its suite predicts and not worse.


IDHCAT test result details for Level 1 - Basic







IDHCAT test result details for Level 2 (HD) and 3 (Connected)

To try to figure out what was going on, I checked out the Help file to find out exactly what each test did.