Forced upgrade of PT9 to PT11 proves inconvonvient

[BambiBoom]

Passmarkians,

For a new -to me_ HP z440, (E5-1650 V3 / 32GB DDR4-2133 / Quadro K4200 4GB / ZTurbo Drive 256GB AHCI (!) / HP OEM W10, purchased this morning PT10.2. After the first run, PT informed me that to upload the results,and manage baselines, I would have to upgrade PT11. After upgrading at a cost of ~$26, I learned that the $12 PT11 upgrade would have upgraded from any version, therefore directly from PT9, thereby costing the time I used PT10.2 to about $30/hr.and plus an extra +$26.10 to be able to view baselines. BTW, the best PT9 Rating for the z440 was 5205, and the best PT11 Rating was 4284.

I am obviously not a wise consumer,..

Does anyone here if there is an Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) version that will provide multiplier controls along with voltages controls for the E5-1650 V3? I 've seen on PT9, systems running those at up to 4.7GHz

HP z620_2 (2017) (R11) > Xeon E5-1650 v2 (6C@ 4.6GHz) / z420 Liquid Cooling / 64GB (HP/Samsung 8X 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered) / GTX 2080 Ti 11GB / Samsung SM951 M.2 512GB AHCI + Samsung 970 EVO M.2 NVMe 500GB + HP/HGST Enterprise 6TB / Focusrite Scarlett 2i4 sound interface + 2X Mackie MR824 powered studio monitors / 825W PSU / Windows 7 Prof.’l 64-bit (HP OEM) > 2X Dell Ultrasharp U2715H (2560 X 1440)

[ Passmark Rating = 6465 / CPU rating = 16149 / 2D = 857 / 3D= 15363 / Mem = 3102 / Disk = 15363 / Single Thread Mark = 2549 [4.25.23]

HP z420_3: (2015) (R12) Xeon E5-1650 v2 (6C@ 4.6GHz) / z420 Liquid cooling / 64GB (HP/Samsung 8X 8GB DDR3-1866 ECC registered) / NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1070Ti 8GB / Samsung SM951 M.2 256GB AHCI + Samsung 860 EVO 500GB + HGST 7K6000 4TB / ASUS Essence STX + Logitech z2300 2.1 / 600W PSU > Windows 7 Professional 64-bit (HP OEM ) > Samsung 40" 4K

[Passmark System Rating: = 6337 CPU = 15851 / 2D = 862 / 3D = 11147 / Mem = 3072 Disk = 13629 /Single Thread Mark = 2540 [11.29.21]

Dell Precision 390 (2006) (R9): Xeon X3230 (4C@ 2.67GHz) / 8 GB DDR2-667 ECC / Quadro K2200 4GB / Samsung 850 EVO 250GB + HGST 7K4000 1TB / Creative Audigy 2ZS S/C > Windows 7 Ultimate Professional 64-bit
[ Passmark PT9: Rating = 1964 / CPU = 3402 / 2D= 398 / 3D=3300 / Mem= 845 / Disk= 2691] [STM= 1021] 12.3.20


BambiBoom

[David (PassMark)]

There is no forced upgrade. You can keep using V9 forever.

There is a new feature to have an online account with all your baseline files. But that was never in V9. So if you want the new feature, then yes, the optional upgrade is available.
If however you wanted to continue with V9, then you can still save baseline results and manage them on your local hard drive.

purchased this morning PT10.2

It is impossible that you purchased a V10 upgrade from us this morning. We stopped selling V10 a couple of months ago.
If you can Email us your order numbers, we can take a look at what was actually purchased and refund any double purchase.

costing the time I used PT10.2 to about $30/hr

You should bill at a higher rate

Intel Extreme Tuning Utility (XTU) version that will provide multiplier controls

Isn't something we have looked at. But there might also be settings in BIOS for overclocking.