What will my passmark be if i upgrade my hard drive?

[Malexry]

I have no clue how to calculate what my passmark will be if I switch out my hard drive for a new one here are my Current specs:

motherboard mark= 3037
cpu mark= 8912
g2d mark = 1081
g3d mark = 5146
memory mark = 2471
disk mark = 781

over all passmark score was 3100

the only one I am planning on changing is the harddrive, im going to upgrade it to a 120gb ssd Samsung evo 850. its passmark disk make is 5,874 what can I expect? would I be in the low 7000 or high 6000? or would it not even really effect where I am?

[David (PassMark)]

There is no motherboard mark value produced by the software.

Your overall score would definitely increase, and the machine would feel more responsive.

If you wanted to calculate out the theoretical new PassMark rating after the upgrade you can find the formula here,

http://www.passmark.com/forum/showth...-and-disk-mark

[Malexry]

Would it actually increase it from 3000 to at least 6000. I don't really understand that formula.. And I know that the motherboard is it taken into account but the passmark I just downloaded has a motherboard passmark... But back to my question would a 5000 benchmark hard drive raise my proformance to a 6000 or even 7000 passmark?

[David (PassMark)]

Sorry, I don't have time to do the maths for you. Maybe you have a friend that is good with Excel that can help.

[Malexry]

on the thread link you gave me, what do the 'wi' and 'xi' stand for? i can probably calculate it out but i don't know what those variables mean.

[Malexry]

NeverMind i calculated it, i figured it out, now my only question is according to the formula my passmark will be just over 5,000. is that worth 100 bucks to go from a 3100 passmark to a 5000 passmark, will it actually improve my battlefield 4 game play and my netbeans ide programming? or is that just a fictional number that means little to nothing?

im only like 800 dollars into my computer so if i have to be 900 dollars into it that is fine i do not mind, but only if it will actually increase my computers performance.

also is this considered a bottleneck? i have never heard of a hard drive bottlenecking a system but if those calculations are right its bottlenecking about 40% of my system... is this accurate?
old hard drive passmark 781, new hard drive 5874. almost 9x faster

[David (PassMark)]

Gaming load time will be better. But frame rates shouldn't change.

If you are using the machine for professional programming then in my opinion a SSD is very well spent. I wouldn't dream of ever getting a development machine without a SSD now. It's a no brainer really.

[Malexry]

Thank you dave, Also I final figured out that formula it was not difficult if you google harmonic mean it gives you a calculator and u can plug in all the values into it and then take the final mean and multiply it by the given factor here is that website link: http://www.gyplan.com/weighted_hm_en.html
great tool!

[patrocle]

Just curios , how you got the mother board reading mark?

I have this readings on my i5:

Cpu=3248
2dg=472.4
3dg=147.6
Memory=1263
Disk=306.1

Summary Rating=765

PassMark Rating for this computer is: 2956.7

Not sure how good is it , but is running slow ! Have a lot of software installed and i don't play games. Thinking about buying a SSD too, maybe will be faster.

Thanks,

[David (PassMark)]

how you got the mother board reading mark?

Me too actually, as it isn't a feature of the software. The motherboard itself doesn't do any real processing, so it is hard to isolate their performance contribution and measure any significant performance difference between them (if the other components are all the same).

You can compare you scores to the score on these sites.
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/
http://www.harddrivebenchmark.net/
http://www.memorybenchmark.net/

You can also download baselines for comparison within the software.

Hard to comment on if your scores are OK, without knowing the hardware specs of the machine. But without even seeing the specs, the scores are way behind what one would expect from current desktop hardware.

[patrocle]

Hello David,

Thank you for that info!

Here are few specs of my system:
http://tinypic.com/a/3g3kk/3
(4 pictures)

I already got a 240gb ssd drive today , and now i have to find a software that can migrate from a 150gb sata to the new 240gb ssd , and i have win 7 ultimate 64bit , wanted to migrate a exact copy of everything i have right now.

Hope that this improves my pc speed.

Will also check those sites mention!

Regards.
p.

[David (PassMark)]

OSFClone can help migrate the disks. You'll need to manually extend the partition at the end of the process.

Your CPU result looks OK. It is a 5 year old CPU after all.

[patrocle]

Yes, i know 5 years old and dual core, i need to move to quad core cpu, i guess.

Will also have a look at that software!

Thank you! Appreciated!.

P.