scores look ok?

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just finished putting together a new system and since the baseline options are pretty limiting, I wnated to check with the users to see if these seem good.

msi p35 neo combo board
2x1gig mushkin ram (4-5-4-11 timings) in dual channel
e4500 core2duo
32meg seagate 500gig sata2 drive
radeon 1900XT

Benchmark Results
Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 491.9
CPU - Floating Point Math: 663.6
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 450.3
CPU - SSE: 3962.3
CPU - Compression: 5794.8
CPU - Encryption: 30.4
CPU - Image Rotation: 2062.3
CPU - String Sorting: 2485.9
Graphics 2D - Lines: 95.2
Graphics 2D - Rectangles: 63.6
Graphics 2D - Shapes: 40.9
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 191.0
Graphics 2D - GUI: 167.4
Graphics 3D - Simple: 2722.7
Graphics 3D - Medium: 478.9
Graphics 3D - Complex: 58.8
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 1988.6
Memory - Read Cached: 1909.0
Memory - Read Uncached: 1774.6
Memory - Write: 1464.0
Memory - Large RAM: 479.1
Disk - Sequential Read: 99.0
Disk - Sequential Write: 93.9
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 3.2
CPU Mark: 1406.5
2D Graphics Mark: 389.2
Memory Mark: 563.0
Disk Mark: 709.0
3D Graphics Mark: 1043.4
PassMark Rating: 802.6
System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
(2 Core(s)/CPU, 1 Logical(s)/Core)
CPU Type: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU E4500 @ 2.20GHz
CPU Speed: 2212.2 MHz
Cache size: 2048KB
O/S: Windows Vista (WIN64)
Total RAM: 2046.7 MB.
Available RAM: 971.2 MB.
Video settings: 1440x900x32

cpu seems good (saw that bigass cpu chart on their site) but not sure about ram scores?

thanks in advance for any feedback!

[Ian (PassMark)]

For this type of system the RAM is mid-range, while the Disk and 3D are good.

Ian

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that's what I suspected. my vista experience score is only 4.8 (cpu being 5.1 and graphics and disk being 5.9), it seemed on the low end to me. I can't figure out why because a) the p35 chipset performs just fine (from what I"ve read), and i grabbed good ram this time around, and have my bios ram timings set to exactly what the ram is spec'd at .. 4-5-4-11. when i was running 2x512meg sticks of kingmax ddr1 with my athlon x2 3800, i'm pretty sure my ram score was higher.

any thoughts?

[Ian (PassMark)]

Maybe your RAM is slower than the comparison baselines. What is the frequency of your RAM?

Ian

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ram is running at fsb of 200, its ddr2 800 ram.

[Ian (PassMark)]

Your RAM is not much slower. The small difference could be due to a number of reasons, the RAM timings, RAM heat, RAM not in paired channels. Depending on your system, there may be some tweaking you can do in BIOS.

Regards,
Ian