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Suggestions for Benchmarking New System Please

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ELB

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I recently finished building a C2D-based system and would like to benchmark it to ensure all is functioning at the level it should be. While it's clearly most important to test the CPU and GPU functionality, I'm also interested in HD speeds (read mostly). What resources would you recommend for this, and what kind of score, as a ballpark figure, should I be seeing from my system (see below specs)?

And if there are any other worthwhile tests, I'd like to hear about them. Something tells me I just invited flames ("the survive a drop from two stories test," "the how fast can a mouse find a piece of cheese on the MB test," "the will a nice picnic lunch for two fit easily inside the case test" and so on) -- well, if you can't resist, please at least make them funny.:rolleyes:

Your helpful input would be greatly appreciated.

- ELB

My system (running completely stock at present -- no OC'ing yet):

C2D E6600 w/Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro
Gigabyte GA-965P DS3
2 GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
ATi Radeon X1900XT w/Zalman VF-900
WD Caviar SE16 250 GB
Samsung SH-S162L Lightscribe DVD-Writer
SB Audigy 4
Ultra V-Series 500w
Thermaltake Mambo case
 
All free with advanced versions available for $

3dMark2001 - good system test

3dMark2003-2006 - GPU/system test

PCMark 200x - system test

SuperPI - CPU/ram test

Sisoft - independent tests (cpu, ram, hd, etc)

HDTach - free for the read/burst test only
 
Well, I downloaded a number of the benchmarking tools Chris mentioned and received the following scores:

3dMark2006: 5803 (1st run), 5118 (2nd run), 5811 (3rd run), 5784 (4th run)

Interestingly, the 2nd run was the one for which I attempted to turn off everything I have running in the background. The first and the third were also done with my monitor initially at 1024x768 (and 3dMark switched the res. to 1280 for the test). The second and fourth runs had the res. set native to 1280.

PCMark05: 6532 (1st and only run)

I tried SiSoft Sandra, but it didn't output one consolidated score, so I've nothing to post on the results.

HDTach gave me the following results: 13.5ms random access, 1% CPU utilization, 56 MB/s average read, burst was 167 MB/s

I hope my SATA2 driver/MB controller is actually working -- I read something in the manual after installation about an install procedure one can run during OS installation, but I've no idea whether it's mandatory (the manual is fairly poorly written).

Please get back to me with any feedback on these scores. I have to say that I wasn't exactly thrilled as I watched 3dMark2006 drive my framerates into the teens during much of their tests. But what do I know, perhaps they're grueling.

- ELB
 
3dMark 2006 does that. When 3dMark 2003 & 2005 first came out, they did the same thing. Only now do people get frame rates which would be considered playable in those older benchmarks.

When you overclock your system you should get a better score like this: http://service.futuremark.com/compare?3dm06=472453 (or higher!)

But for stock your system looks fine. Benchmarks are where they should be. Your HD #'s look fine. EVERYTHING IS PEACHY.

Now go have some fun.... actually play some games on it....
Or go outside and enjoy the nice fall weather! :)

-C
 
Thanks, Chris, for letting me know all is well -- I have this issue with always being skeptical all the right drivers were loaded during the chaos of installation. Part of the reason for this is that SiSoftSandra's "performance analysis and optimizer" listed some issues, namely that my system bios should be set to "shadowed" (which I don't think is an option with this board), that "ECC is not enabled for L3 cache" (also not applicable, I suspect), that "PCI/AGP initialization failed" (perhaps it doesn't detect PCI-e?, because the card appears to be working, and to "check controller supported transfer modes in the BIOS, as this is not optimized," which is what initially got me thinking that I was somehow running the drive via IDE, and not SATA2, protocol (if that's possible).

If you have any comments on the above -- or how to actually benchmark using SiSoftSandra -- I'd like to hear it.

But for now I will now go forth, take your advice and install something fun. Thanks again.

- ELB
 
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