PC upgrade

[»Lynx]

Wow sama, I just opened up that link... Your system sucks. It's like, right at the sucks end of the bar...

[Suicide_Run]

I highly doubt the common system performance at that site is really "common" with 17k points. I only got 5100 VirtualMarks =(

[Hakaku]

Well for that matter, I think I win at 800 VirtualMarks.

[Samapico]

Yeah... i7 CPU with a 285 ... you surely can run ANY game at highest settings with that.

 

On 2 monitors.

 

Also... the 'Best system' has like 2GB of RAM? ... wut? ... and a CPU overclocked to 5 GHz, wtf

[oid]

Yeah... i7 CPU with a 285 ... you surely can run ANY game at highest settings with that.

 

On 2 monitors.

 

Also... the 'Best system' has like 2GB of RAM? ... wut? ... and a CPU overclocked to 5 GHz, wtf

an i7 is pretty much the standard today, but idk why they put 285 for video card, 4870s and 4890s are more popular from what ive seen

also the processor they oced to 5ghz is complete overkill.. its actually meant for servers

edit: just looked at their system page thing and theyve got 4 295s in sli D:

Edited August 22, 2009 by oid

[rootbear75]

my laptop pulled 1200 virtualmarks. and its not even that good... however, i dont even know what one considers 1 VM

 

I also think that "Best System" thing is a joke.. I suspect they overclocked it just be the best.

 

Kind of like those Speed Limit signs with radar that tell you how fast you are going. Some people speed up to see if they can beat the "high score"

Edited August 22, 2009 by rootbear75

[»Purge]

I got 200 VirtualMarks...

[rootbear75]

I got 200 VirtualMarks...

maybe if your computer would stop cannibalizing itself, you might get more. (see Purge's avatar)

[»gallitin]

Are you running it from the site or locally?

[Samapico]

The VirtualMarks test is ran on the site... so basically the ActiveX just detects your hardware, so it's not a very accurate test... The 3Dmarks06 test I ran, however, is something you download (about 500MB). The free version doesn't tell you that much (see my screenshot); with the registered version you can get more detailed specs like ... triangles per second, or crap like that.

[Samapico]

RAM has been delivered, according to UPS tracking. weeeeee, can't wait to try it out. Though the GPU will be even more fun to try.

[NBVegita]

BTW ty sama...I had forgotten that they still haven't disabled my MSDN license from college lol.

 

nothing like free software!

 

I wonder how much longer I'm going to have it...I haven't taken a college course in over 5 years...

[Samapico]

That MSDN thing is awesome... I have 8 different windows licenses, all legal, for XP, vista and win7... and I could get MUCH more. You get like, XP english, XP french, XP english SP2, XP french SP2, XP english SP3, XP french SP3, Vista (same thing, languages, 32 bits, 64 bits, whatever), and I could have 4 different windows 7 licenses if I include the 64bits ones.

 

 

 

NEW RAM IS IN... seems to go faster, so far it's just an impression... let's do the Everest tests again.

 

 

                 OLD      | NEW
---------------------------|---------
Memory Read:     5794 MB/s | 6024 MB/s
Memory Write:    4158 MB/s | 4179 MB/s
Memory Copy:     4066 MB/s | 4695 MB/s
Memory Latency:   117.4 ns | 108.1 ns
CPU Queen:       1591      | 2386
CPU PhotoWorxx:  2409      | 2894
CPU ZLib:        7941 KB/s | 7776 KB/s
CPU AES:         1674      | 1319
FPU Julia:        694      | 701
FPU Mandel:       495      | 369
FPU SinJulia:     219      | 172

Basically, only the memory copy was consistently higher. The test lasts a few seconds, so it copies around a lot more than 1GB, which is probably why having 2GB speeds up that test. The CPU/FPU tests... have no idea what they do anyway, so they're just there.

[Samapico]

1247 3Dmarks - 1700 VirtualMarks

 

it's now

 

3989 3Dmarks - 5800 VirtualMarks

 

The demos in 3Dmarks were running at about 30 FPS, while they were at 3-5 FPS with my old card :S