Low score ?

[darkhorse]

Hi.

I run a homebuilt computer here based on the ASUS P5Q Deluxe motherboard, and the Intel Core2 Duo E7300 @ 2.66Ghz processor.
Graphics card is the NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE with the latest driver 260.99.
The system has 4G of RAM, and the OS is Windows 7 Ultimate 32bit.

All drivers are the latest from ASUS.

Having ran the Passmark Performance test, the score is just 559, and this is way too low ?

What say ?

/Erik

[darkhorse]

Hi again.

I don't know if this info has something to do with the low score ?

No DirectX 10 capable video device found

After the message, I click on 'OK', and the performance continues

/Erik

[David (PassMark)]

I suspect the warning is correct, the GeForce 7300 LE doesn't seem to support DirectX 10. It is a low end card with low performance.

If you post your results we can probably tell you if it is just the video card that is slow.

See also this FAQ
Causes and Solutions for a slow PC

[darkhorse]

All ok, and thanks for the reply.

Do you mean I shall show the result here on the forum ?.

If so, how do I copy/paste it ?

Does the issue have influence also on the low score in Performance Test ?

/Erik

[darkhorse]

I suspect the warning is correct, the GeForce 7300 LE doesn't seem to support DirectX 10. It is a low end card with low performance.

If you post your results we can probably tell you if it is just the video card that is slow.

See also this FAQ
Causes and Solutions for a slow PC

Here I have results ready:

PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 7.0 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: 16. januar 2011

Benchmark Results
Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 203.8
CPU - Floating Point Math: 829.6
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 559.3
CPU - Multimedia Instructions: 4.0
CPU - Compression: 2426.8
CPU - Encryption: 6.7
CPU - Physics: 73.4
CPU - String Sorting: 985.8
Graphics 2D - Solid Vectors: 2.2
Graphics 2D - Transparent Vectors: 2.1
Graphics 2D - Complex Vectors: 4630.1
Graphics 2D - Fonts and Text: 64.0
Graphics 2D - Windows Interface: 35.5
Graphics 2D - Image Filters: 288.0
2D Graphics - Image Rendering: 159.7
Graphics 3D - Simple: 61.7
Graphics 3D - Medium: 15.5
Graphics 3D - Complex: 7.5
Memory - Allocate Small Block: 1671.7
Memory - Read Cached: 1266.7
Memory - Read Uncached: 1449.9
Memory - Write: 1279.2
Memory - Large RAM: 879.4
Disk - Sequential Read: 75.4
Disk - Sequential Write: 70.6
Disk - Random Seek + RW: 2.7
CD - Read: 13.5
CPU Mark: 1385.6
2D Graphics Mark: 1970.1
Memory Mark: 582.6
Disk Mark: 537.8
CD Mark: 1657.6
3D Graphics Mark: 57.0
PassMark Rating: 583.4
System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
Cores per CPU: 2
CPU Type: Intel Core2 Duo E7300 @ 2.66GHz
CPU Speed: 2667.0 MHz
Cache size: 3072KB
O/S: Windows 7 (32-bit)
Total RAM: 3327.0 MB.
Available RAM: 1934.2 MB.
Video settings: 1600x1024x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: NVIDIA GeForce 7300 LE
MANUFACTURER: NVIDIA
BIOS: Version 5.72.22.78.0
DATE: 10-16-2010
Drive Letter: C
Total Disk Space: 48.8 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS

/Erik

[darkhorse]

Also here there is a result:
http://www.urbakken.dk/BenchmarkResults.htm

[David (PassMark)]

Your CPU score is also a bit down on the average.
CPU Mark: 1385.6 vs and average of 1820 for the E7300

Switching 64bit would help this and also give you access to another 680MB of RAM.

[darkhorse]

Then what about what you siad about the NVIDIA card ?

I suspect the warning is correct, the GeForce 7300 LE doesn't seem to support DirectX 10. It is a low end card with low performance.

If you post your results we can probably tell you if it is just the video card that is slow.

[David (PassMark)]

CPU is slow (see above).
Video card is slow and doesn't support DX10 (see above).
Hard drive might be OK, but we don't know the model number, so hard to comment.

[darkhorse]

Many thanks.

The Hard drive is a Western Digital WD1600AVVS-00L2B0 160GB

[David (PassMark)]

The drive is low capacity with a low amount of cache, designed to be 'green', reliable and used in AV applications, rather than fast. So r/w results of 70MB/sec are OK in this circumstance. Random seek time is low however (2.7MB/sec). It isn't a drive I would buy. Drive sounds OK for a media center, but capacity is too low, and performance is poor once you try and do 2 things at once (e.g record and playback at the same time).