Love the map, but the coastal edge striping feels a bit harsh for me in those narrow waters. Have you considered fading it out a bit?

Unfortunately, there were complications after the second part of his surgery. He's been in medical care since then, and hasn't been able to come by the forum.

His condition is not good, and we are not expecting him to return anytime soon, if at all.

Usually, the better number to look at is the value listed under "Single Thread Performance", not the MHz numbers. The performance numbers are computed from actual tests ran on the CPU and gives a number easier to compare than the MHz ones.

(The main "CPU Mark" number in that table is the multi-core performance)

Going back to the MHz numbers, also note that the CPU can only maintain turbo speed for a limited amount of time (unless you are fond of playing around with overclocking) so it is generally helpful for short burst of activity needing a bit of extra push, but is useless for longer computations.

For CC3+, there will not be much of a difference between those two. A lot of operations in CC3+ are single threaded, in which those two score pretty much the same (but about 50% better than your old one).

Some processes, like some effects do take advantage of multiple cores, but it is unlikely to fully saturate your CPU, so even if the 7700 is better, I doubt you would observe much difference between them. But the 7700 do have two extra cores that can work on other things the same time as CC3+ works though, which can be an advantage.

As it quite obvious, I am way behind in adding these to the atlas. Sorry for that, but I have had and still do have other things taking up my time as well.

But, I did manage to at least process the winning maps today (Except Lorelei, which need an intermediate map before I can add hers), and I assigned the badges to the winners.