Is this normal for a Pentium D???

[thingymawotzit]

PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 6.1 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Wednesday, April 18, 2007


Benchmark Results

Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 25.1
CPU - Floating Point Math: 164.5
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 78.6
CPU - SSE/3DNow!: 649.3
CPU - Compression: 793.5
CPU - Encryption: 6.4
CPU - Image Rotation: 102.3
CPU - String Sorting: 435.4
CPU Mark: 190.6
PassMark Rating: 51.5

System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
(2 Core(s)/CPU, 1 Logical(s)/Core)
CPU Type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
CPU Speed: 2813.8 MHz
Cache size: 1024KB
O/S: Windows XP (WIN32)
Total RAM: 2047.5 MB.
Available RAM: 1509.5 MB.
Video settings: 1280x1024x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
MANUFACTURER: GeForce 8800 GTS
BIOS: Version 60.80.0D.00.60
DATE: 01/17/07
Drive Letter: C
Total Disk Space: 37.3 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS

[David (PassMark)]

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Your CPU mark figure is very low. A result of 700 for the CPU mark could be expected. So low that I think there must be something wrong. Maybe some other application running in the background.

[thingymawotzit]

Clean Install

Yep thats what I thought. So i had so much crap on my pc i did a reformat and ran it again. Still i think there must be something wrong because i only got 270. If anyone has heard of this problem or has any suggestions please help me out.

PassMark(TM) PerformanceTest 6.1 (http://www.passmark.com)
Results generated on: Wednesday, April 18, 2007


Benchmark Results

Test Name: This Computer
CPU - Integer Math: 42.3
CPU - Floating Point Math: 226.2
CPU - Find Prime Numbers: 98.7
CPU - SSE/3DNow!: 1007.3
CPU - Compression: 1294.4
CPU - Encryption: 8.7
CPU - Image Rotation: 128.9
CPU - String Sorting: 496.3
CPU Mark: 273.7
PassMark Rating: 73.9

System information: This Computer
CPU Manufacturer: GenuineIntel
Number of CPU: 1
(2 Core(s)/CPU, 1 Logical(s)/Core)
CPU Type: Intel(R) Pentium(R) D CPU 2.80GHz
CPU Speed: 2813.4 MHz
Cache size: 1024KB
O/S: Windows XP (WIN32)
Total RAM: 2047.5 MB.
Available RAM: 1490.2 MB.
Video settings: 1280x1024x32
Video driver:
DESCRIPTION: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTS
MANUFACTURER: GeForce 8800 GTS
BIOS: Version 60.80.0D.00.60
DATE: 01/17/07
Drive Letter: D
Total Disk Space: 372.6 GBytes
Cluster Size: 4.0 KBytes
File system: NTFS

[David (PassMark)]

Do you have both cores of your dual core CPU enabled? In the Edit / preferences window of PerformanceTest do you have at least 2 processes selected.

Do you have a look in windows task manager to see if anything else is using CPU time?

[thingymawotzit]

Yea i have 2 processes enabled in options and my task manager has system idle process using 99% of my cpu

[David (PassMark)]

I don't have many other suggestions as to why it might be so slow.

Maybe the heat sink is badly fitted and the CPU overheads during the test and throttles down to a lower speed to protect itself? But this is clutching at straws a bit.

Maybe you have something set wrong in BIOS. Like the cache disabled or I don't know what?

[thingymawotzit]

Crappy Pentium D's

[ice]

Crappy Pentium D's

true say man, true say...

Get A core 2 duo, man, it's so easily overclockable... i overclocked my Core 2 Duo e6600 to 3.4GHz and i get a CPU mark of over 2000 !!!

Good luck man,

p.s. if you can't afford a Core 2 Duo, then just get an athlon .. my other pc, the Amd x2 4200+ with only 1mb of shared L2 Cache beats the crap out my my friend's Pentium D 3.2Ghz and 2mb L2 cache... I get a cpu mark of about 845 or so

cheers

[thingymawotzit]

Yea but if i do any of that i have to change motherboard as well. Its not the money thats a problem just sucks pulling everything apart and doing it all again.

[tony]

So you wouldn't recommend getting a pentium D?

I was thinking about getting a new chip for my PC but the motherboard has a 800 mhz limit fsb and won't take a core2duo and so pentium D was the obvious upgrade from my 2.93 ghz P4.

I only have the recovery disk from oem xp and I think ppl are mentioning that it may not even work if I replace the chip.

[DavidB]

Tony, I'm going through the same decision at the moment.

I assembled my PC using a Gigabyte GA-81955X-ROYAL mobo around the time the Pentium Ds first came out. I thought I had future-guarded myself for a little while, so installed only P4 3.0GHz figuring I would upgrade to dual core later when they were cheaper.

Unfortunately, my mobo doesn't support Core 2 Duo so I looked at installing a higher end Pentium D. However, when I looked at the performance comparison between them and my current P4 3GHz it hardly seems worthwhile.

So sadly, it looks like I will have to get a new mobo, new core 2 duo and I'll probably end up upgrading to faster memory (though this is probably not necessary).

As for re-installing from an OEM-recovery CD, I'm not too sure whether it will work or not. I bought a full OEM copy of XP Pro when I bought the system components and plan to use that in the new system I build. I'm not ready to move to the pain that is Vista for a while yet.