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dave17
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   7th Feb 04 at 19:30   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote





Its a P4 2.8 GHz
1 gb RAM
GeForce FX 5600
180gb HDD

[Edited on 07-02-2004 by Dave17]
Marc
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7th Feb 04 at 19:31   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

What does it do the 1/4 mile in?
Simon
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7th Feb 04 at 19:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

is this a show off thread?
dave17
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7th Feb 04 at 19:32   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

i havent times it yet, but il try and give it a dry run 2mo 4 ya
Adam_B
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7th Feb 04 at 19:33   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

bhp? 0-60? Topspeed?.....
dave17
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no, this is a, 'is this fast thread'. did u not read the title?
PaulW
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Writes quicker than it reads....

should be opposite way round! I'll do a few checks see if its a good result, guessing its a SINGLE drive & not a RAID?

Also is it SATA, IDE (ATA133, 100, etc...) or SCSI??
dave17
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7th Feb 04 at 19:42   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

its a RAID setup. errr dnt know what the

Also is it SATA, IDE (ATA133, 100, etc...) or SCSI??


means?
starkmotorsport
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7th Feb 04 at 19:43   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Dave17
no, this is a, 'is this fast thread'. did u not read the title?


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CPU is about right... mine is 205 MFLOPS (Athlon 1600)...

Disk is a bit slow... Mine is 16.99MB reading and 14.00MB writing...
PaulW
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SATA, IDE are different standards / connections

tim's right though, the disk access is pretty slow, looks like software-raid & not hardware at those speeds!
Rob Withey
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My Hyper threaded 2.4GHz P4 beats it. I do have a 1 gig of Corsair LLPT 800MHz dual DDR though, which helps.

Integer maths : 228.9
Floating point math : 240.2 MegaFlops
Complete result : 238.2

I expect that my highish memory scores is what pushes up my overall score and makes up for my slower CPU and slower graphics card. Fast memory means that you aren't throttling your CPU.

On the advanced disk test, on my SATA 7200 RPM 120Gb drive I see average transfer rates of 43Mb/s (win32 uncached, async, 4Mb blocks, 50/50 read/write). My ATA100 7200 RPM 10Gb drive only manages 13.6Mb/s under the same conditions.


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what can i do to boost it then?
T5POL
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My complete result was 243.3.

Amd Athlon 3000+
512Mb Ram

CORSA NUT
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WTF are all you wierdo's on about now!
T5POL
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in fact I got a better result second time around.

CPU Integer Math : 155.3
Floating Point Math : 349.3
Memory read Cached : 729.8
Memory Write : 538.6
Passmark Rating : 245.4

What does all this stuff mean?

Its quite a cool test tho!

[Edited on 08-02-2004 by T5POL]
Dom
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quote:
Originally posted by PaulW
SATA, IDE are different standards / connections

tim's right though, the disk access is pretty slow, looks like software-raid & not hardware at those speeds!

software raid ?! WTF thought you could only get it, if the mobo had a suitable raid chipset?

have to admit dave, the hd seems fooked mate you sure your running its at ata133? i would change over the ide (or sata) cables for some nice decent jobbies that are full 80pins and support ata133 that might help alot have a butchers on overclockers.co.uk
other than that, could drive downloading some utils from the hd's manufactures website and see if they have something that will increase the times. If its a maxtor drive, they have a programme which allows you to set the volume of the hd - ie: loud, low etc. Basically, it slows the drive down to reduce the noise level of it and that will reflect on times etc.

to be honest though, your not going to get any killer times best way is to get raid sorted out on your machine, its fooking wonderful my XP1700+ is about 3-4times quicker at loading programmes than my XP3000 (which im swapping over too)
Dan B
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Results (complete):

CPU - Integer Math = 152.1
CPU - Floating Point Math = 347.2
CPU - MMX = 265.7
CPU - SSE/3DNow! = 105.2
CPU - Compression = 1843.5
CPU - Encryption = 9.2
CPU - Image Rotation = 128.1
CPU - String Sorting = 541.9
Graphics 2D - Lines = 58.6
Graphics 2D - Rectangles = 182.9
Graphics 2D - Shapes = 15.1
Graphics 2D - Fonts & Texts = 122.4
Graphics 2D - GUI = 173.4
Graphics 3D - Simple = 517.1
Graphics 3D - Medium = 1139.0
Graphics 3D - Complex = 53.3
Memory - Allocate Small Block = 1636.1
Memory - Read Cached = 701.1
Memory - Read Uncached = 482.1
Memory - Write = 411.4
Disk - Sequential Read = 48.6
Disk - Sequential Write = 34.7
Disk - Random Seek + RW = 3.6
CD - Read = 0.44

CPU Mark = 374.6
2D Graphics Mark = 137.5
Memory Mark = 315.0
Disk Mark = 229.6
CD Mark = 21.8
3D Graphics Mark = 569.8

Passmark Rating (Complete result): 293.3
dave17
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8th Feb 04 at 17:11   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

' you sure your running its at ata133? i would change over the ide (or sata) cables for some nice decent jobbies that are full 80pins and support ata133 that might help alot '

huh? i aint got a clue mate? my mates dad built it 4 me?
Rob Withey
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14th Feb 04 at 15:35   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Rob Withey
I expect that my highish memory scores is what pushes up my overall score and makes up for my slower CPU and slower graphics card.


Just removed my slow graphics card from the equation (switched my GeForce 2 GTS for a nice shiny new ATi Radeon 9800 Pro (AGP 8x)), and switched the hard drive test to my SATA drive. My complete result jumped from 238.2 to 418.6

Results (complete):

CPU - Integer Math : 228.9
CPU - Floating Point Math : 240.0
CPU - MMX : 198.2
CPU - SSE/3DNow! : 149.5
CPU - Compression : 1788.8
CPU - Encryption : 7.9
CPU - Image Rotation : 155.2
CPU - String Sorting : 634.4
Graphics 2D - Lines : 91.9
Graphics 2D - Rectangles : 176.3
Graphics 2D - Shapes : 22.5
Graphics 2D - Font and Text : 211.5
Graphics 2D - GUI : 170.4
Graphics 3D - Simple : 2120.4
Graphics 3D - Medium : 1477.0
Graphics 3D - Complex : 764.2
Memory - Allocate Small Block : 796.0
Memory - Read Cached : 1235.8
Memory - Read Uncached : 1150.8
Memory - Write : 887.3
Disk - Sequential Read : 32.3
Disk - Sequential Write : 30.6
Disk - Random Seek + RW : 2.6
CD - Read : 2.6
CPU Mark : 381.0
2D Graphics Mark : 168.7
Memory Mark : 396.8
Disk Mark : 173.0
CD Mark : 128.6
3D Graphics Mark : 1453.9
PassMark Rating : 418.6

AsusTeK P4C800 (i875) PAT + HT
Intel 2.4GHz P4 800FSB
1G LLPT Corsair Dual DDR400 Ram
128Mb Radeon 9800 Pro (AGP 8x)
120Gb SATA WD Caviar (JB - 8Mb cache) on ICH5 hub (non raid)


Rob
dave17
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what software ru using to test this with?
leeshez
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14th Feb 04 at 17:09   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

Yes that is a little quick
Rob Withey
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14th Feb 04 at 17:24   View User's Profile U2U Member Reply With Quote

quote:
Originally posted by Dave17
what software ru using to test this with?


Passmark performance test v5 : http://www.passmark.com/download/index.htm
dave17
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now it runs like dogshite
Lee Wilson
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