Firstly, just wanted to give mucho respect to Passmark - both for the top s/w and for taking an active part in these forums - cheers.
OK, my position is that I've just bought a new-ish system, main specs thus:
Pentium D-940 dual-core, 3.2Ghz / 2Gb RAM / 300Gb HD (8mb buffer) / GeForce 7500 LE graphics card (512Mb).
The PassMark is around 450, which is OK considering it only cost me £230 (that's about US$460), and I've been using a P3-500Mhz up til now! BUT the main issue seems to be the CD/DVD drive, which comes back with a CD Mark of around 5 (using an audio CD with one long 74-min track)!!!! It's ATAPI (unlike my HDDs which are SATA), model number HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H21L. Any ideas why the mark is soooo low? It's bringing the whole score down, and since I primarily want to use the PC for ripping CDs, if there's a CD drive issue, I wanna know... !
Thanks in advance, Martin
OK, my position is that I've just bought a new-ish system, main specs thus:
Pentium D-940 dual-core, 3.2Ghz / 2Gb RAM / 300Gb HD (8mb buffer) / GeForce 7500 LE graphics card (512Mb).
The PassMark is around 450, which is OK considering it only cost me £230 (that's about US$460), and I've been using a P3-500Mhz up til now! BUT the main issue seems to be the CD/DVD drive, which comes back with a CD Mark of around 5 (using an audio CD with one long 74-min track)!!!! It's ATAPI (unlike my HDDs which are SATA), model number HL-DT-ST DVDRRW GSA-H21L. Any ideas why the mark is soooo low? It's bringing the whole score down, and since I primarily want to use the PC for ripping CDs, if there's a CD drive issue, I wanna know... !
Thanks in advance, Martin
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