top ten bound?? (2223.6 rating and climbing)

[Leo Brennan]

You could easily hit that extra 45 points and maybe a little more with a RAID 0 setup on your drives. Check out my drive Performance compared to yours my Passmark file name is BL8742


Disk Read - 153
Disk Write - 161
Disk Random Seek + RW - 6.6
Disk mark - 1163

Nice setup too

Merlin

thanks, I'll definitely look into that after the holidays. Do they need to be 2 of the same type of drive (size, speed, manufacturer, etc.)?

-Leo

[Leo Brennan]

That's a beast...wow...musta cost a fortune

on a side note....nice case choice...got one myself....badass

It was expensive.....but i think i won't be needing any upgrades for about 3 or 4 years though. hahahahaha

[Leo Brennan]

new score - 2324.4

I finally did it. I should be in the top 10 now!! Not sure how long it will take to actually show up there though (when you click on the top ten button when searching for baslines to install). My BL number is BL8760. I basically replaced my hard drive with a 10000 RPM Western Digital 150GB. I'm using this one for the operating system only, and using the 750GB Seagate drive I originally had to store all other programs and games. I could probably get an even better score if I went and set up a RAID 0 configuration on my drives, as merlin pointed out in this thread (thanks for the advice by the way!). I have never dabbled with RAID before, but I think both drives need to be the same size in order to set up a RAID configuration. I'll investigate that after the holidays though. I'm also seriously considering a second 8800 Ultra graphics card (using SLI of course) to boost my graphics performance even further. Speaking of graphics cards, mine had been set for best quality, and when I told it best performance instead, my 3D scores skyrocketed! Anyway, my results are below. Again, BL8760 for those interested.

- Leo


PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 6.1 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Saturday, December 01, 2007

Benchmark Results
Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 834.5
CPU - Floating Point Math: 3193.9
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 2329.5
CPU - SSE/3DNow!: 19320.5
CPU - Compression: 21618.8
CPU - Encryption: 122.2
CPU - Image Rotation: 4066.2
CPU - String Sorting: 15048.1
Graphics 2D - Lines: 147.7
Graphics 2D - Rectangles: 156.8
Graphics 2D - Shapes: 65.2
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 587.1
Graphics 2D - GUI: 277.3
Graphics 3D - Simple: 3870.6
Graphics 3D - Medium: 917.5
Graphics 3D - Complex: 93.6
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 3791.8
Memory - Read Cached: 3362.9
Memory - Read Uncached: 3380.3
Memory - Write: 2748.9
Memory - Large RAM: 1433.6
Disk - Sequential Read: 74.1
Disk - Sequential Write: 70.8
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 5.7
CD - Read: 18.6
CPU Mark: 5581.5
2D Graphics Mark: 859.7
Memory Mark: 1088.1
Disk Mark: 544.5
CD Mark: 2275.5
3D Graphics Mark: 1562.3
PassMark Rating: 2324.4
System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
(4 Core(s)/CPU, 1 Logical(s)/Core)
CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz
CPU Speed: 4418.8 MHz
Cache size: 6144KB
O/S: Windows Vista (WIN32)
Total RAM: 3326.3 MB.
Available RAM: 2412.9 MB.
Video settings: 1920x1200x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: GeForce 8800 Ultra
MANUFACTURER: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
BIOS:
DATE: 04/18/07
Drive Letter: C
Total Disk Space: 139.7 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS

[merlin]

Top 10

You could easily hit that extra 45 points and maybe a little more with a RAID 0 setup on your drives. Check out my drive Performance compared to yours my Passmark file name is BL8742


Disk Read - 153
Disk Write - 161
Disk Random Seek + RW - 6.6
Disk mark - 1163

Nice setup too

Merlin

[CiD]

That's a beast...wow...musta cost a fortune

on a side note....nice case choice...got one myself....badass

[Leo Brennan]

my system specs, in case there is interest

Just in case anyone is interested in the "gear" i used to make my system, here it is:

* Antec 900 case - with 5 case fans total
* ASUS P5K3 Deluxe WiFi AP Edition (1333MHz FSB, Dual Channel, DDR3 1333, LGA775 Intel P35+ICH9R chipset)
* Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 3.0GHz, 12MB Cache, 1333 FSB
* Thermaltake Blue Orb II CPU cooling fan
* 4 x 1GB OCZ DDR3 1333 MHZ RAM
* 1000 Watt Ultra X3 Power Supply (modular)
* BFG tech GeForce 880 Ultra (Overclocked) Graphics Card with 768 MB GDDR3 RAM
* Seagate 750GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200 RPM, 16MB cache, SATA-3G)
* ASUS QuietTrac SATA DVD Writer Drive (DRW-1814BLT) with Lightscribe


Again, just for those that are interested. Have a great weekend.

- Leo

[Leo Brennan]

I'm messing around with overclocking and different media for the CD Read test. Right now, I have a score of 2223.6....... and I have not yet hit the limit on overclocking (i think). Also, if I have any better media for the CD read test, I should be able to pop into the top ten soon. Only 45 points away from the number ten spot. hehehehe

here is my stuff:

PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 6.1 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Saturday, November 24, 2007

Benchmark Results
Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 822.9
CPU - Floating Point Math: 3155.1
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 2294.7
CPU - SSE/3DNow!: 18977.4
CPU - Compression: 21251.0
CPU - Encryption: 120.4
CPU - Image Rotation: 3984.4
CPU - String Sorting: 14786.8
Graphics 2D - Lines: 142.5
Graphics 2D - Rectangles: 151.9
Graphics 2D - Shapes: 64.0
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 584.9
Graphics 2D - GUI: 268.3
Graphics 3D - Simple: 2763.1
Graphics 3D - Medium: 778.9
Graphics 3D - Complex: 92.4
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 3743.6
Memory - Read Cached: 3326.7
Memory - Read Uncached: 3324.2
Memory - Write: 2786.7
Memory - Large RAM: 1224.2
Disk - Sequential Read: 63.4
Disk - Sequential Write: 56.1
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 2.7
CD - Read: 18.6
CPU Mark: 5485.4
2D Graphics Mark: 843.4
Memory Mark: 1065.0
Disk Mark: 441.6
CD Mark: 2276.2
3D Graphics Mark: 1163.1
PassMark Rating: 2223.6
System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
(4 Core(s)/CPU, 1 Logical(s)/Core)
CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Extreme CPU X9650 @ 3.00GHz
CPU Speed: 4336.7 MHz
Cache size: 6144KB
O/S: Windows Vista (WIN32)
Total RAM: 3326.3 MB.
Available RAM: 2313.4 MB.
Video settings: 1920x1200x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: GeForce 8800 Ultra
MANUFACTURER: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra
BIOS:
DATE: 04/18/07
Drive Letter: C
Total Disk Space: 698.6 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS