new score - 2324.4

[Leo Brennan]

Thanks! for the CD test, I put in the DVD from my Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas game. I experimented with all the DVDs/CDs i have (even burned some large files to DVD on my own) and this disk always gets me a score of 18.6, the most i can get with what i own at this time. I'll post more later, as i am at work right now.

- Leo

Congratulations on the TOP 10!!

As far as RAID 0 you would want two of the same Raptor 150 drives for the speed. If you where building a Just a Bunch Of Disks (JBOD) type RAID for storage you would not need them to be the same type or size.

My server has two Tera bytes and is a mixture of 500 GB drives from Seagate, WD and Maxtor. Though I am in the planning stage of replacing with all the same Seagate models because of the warranty 5 years.

Again Congrats!!

Oh and what media did you use for the CD test, I use a DVD as opposed to a CD brings the score up a few points, but is there something else i can use to increase my drive performance score??

Thanks

Merlin

[merlin]

Top 10

Congratulations on the TOP 10!!

As far as RAID 0 you would want two of the same Raptor 150 drives for the speed. If you where building a Just a Bunch Of Disks (JBOD) type RAID for storage you would not need them to be the same type or size.

My server has two Tera bytes and is a mixture of 500 GB drives from Seagate, WD and Maxtor. Though I am in the planning stage of replacing with all the same Seagate models because of the warranty 5 years.

Again Congrats!!

Oh and what media did you use for the CD test, I use a DVD as opposed to a CD brings the score up a few points, but is there something else i can use to increase my drive performance score??

Thanks

Merlin

[Leo Brennan]

Just finished tweaking my system for hopefully the last time. Overclocking the QX9650 processor from 3.0 GHz to 4.41 GHz was fun, even though it took me like 2 weeks to finally get to a stable point (so I hope at least). This was also my first attempt at overclocking, so it took me a lot of trial and error (mostly error though ). hahahaha. Anyway, I've submitted my latest results to the database. It is BL8760, with a score of 2324.4 (this should eventually be in the top ten when everything is updated ). Results are below:

- 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