My Latest 8-core Project

[Uranium-235]

new...girl?

[Topcat]

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[Uranium-235]

you said message posted from the new girl

oh you mean new computer. I get it. I don't apply genders to my systems

[shovenose]

I experimented with it on the right - I agree it's perfect for widescreens.
However it went back to bottom because I didn't like the way it put the icons in the taskbar

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by Topcat

...and for your little parrot (shovenose), I'll stack my measly used little XP system against anything you've got... Up for it?

Challenge accepted. What do you want me to do?

Don't get me wrong - you've got an awesome system there - I'm a bit jealous!

[Topcat]

Originally Posted by shovenose

Challenge accepted. What do you want me to do?

Don't get me wrong - you've got an awesome system there - I'm a bit jealous!

Last time I did this, it was always sisoft sandra duels, comparing CPU benchmarks.....but that's been a good 8+ years ago... if it wasn't in person, it was posted screen shots. This was a common source of entertainment at any given LANfest. Considering this system was circa 2009 (atleast thats when the CPU's and motherboard were made), it'd be interesting to see where it came in.

[Per Hansson]

Originally Posted by Uranium-235

vista had suck ballish overhead. I've seen 7 run beautifully on quad core systems with 4gb that xp ran slower

I've seen higher processing power taken up because of XP's 2d rendering, which is barely directdraw. explorer is pretty much cpu based rendering. I've seen scrolling web pages have problems when a flash app is up in a browser on XP, but not on 7. Why? cause 7's video is pretty much hardware accelerated. True there is no performance difference between dx9/10/11 with windows gui cause it used dx9 no matter what, but it used some nice d3d rendering to make windows look awesome, but be video accelerated, taking tasks off the cpu

when was the last time you tried 7? have you?

Wow, I did not actually know this.
I do realize that I see this behavior in XP x64 myself...
Don't get me wrong I actually do enjoy Win7 and at work it makes a nice productivity improvement over XP for me...
But at my home computer I never got around to actually using Win7 after the beta stage ended, since I made a clean install of the RTM I've simply been too lazy to install all the apps I need

[shovenose]

Originally Posted by Topcat

Last time I did this, it was always sisoft sandra duels, comparing CPU benchmarks.....but that's been a good 8+ years ago... if it wasn't in person, it was posted screen shots. This was a common source of entertainment at any given LANfest. Considering this system was circa 2009 (atleast thats when the CPU's and motherboard were made), it'd be interesting to see where it came in.

Run NovaBench on it, post a screenshot. I'll do the same!

[Topcat]

downloading now.

[Topcat]

Well,not sure how believeable this program is....its saying I have P3's, even after some patch they said it needed.....but here's the result after installing and running without a reboot. I had 2 browser windows up and outlook.

Specs....note what it says the processors are


...and the results...


From what I'm reading about this, the video card is the biggest killer of my overall score....

[mariushm]

Sounds about right, but it's a flawed benchmark. It gives you more points simply because you have more ram and it looks like its disk benchmark tops at 109 MB/s just to name a few flaws.

here's mine for comparison.

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[shovenose]

I don't really trust NovaBench...
my laptop got 590, my desktop got 754...
I'm going to try this next:
http://www.passmark.com/download/pt_download.htm
OK, the results are in...
MY DESKTOP is the one with the tree background, my laptop is one with the black desktop background...

[Topcat]

^
While not 100% accurate by anymeans, it was a medium we could all kind of compare to. My video card is killing me!! jeez, that thing scored horrible. CPU's and RAM were ranking pretty good. Wish I had trusty old sisoft 2012....the only place I can bootleg a legit pro copy, the download is broken...

[Topcat]

Just for grins, here's the benchmarks from my main rig at home:

Specs:


...and the results...


Graphics bit me in the ass again....and my older 73gb raptors aren't looking that great either. DDR3 memory speed sure kicks butt though. The CPU's I want are 6-core, but cost about 1200 each...can't afford/justify that....so the e5520's are it for now.