Custom PC benchmark

underworld00

underworld00

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Have any of you used the Custom PC benchmark app downloadable from their website? I have run it several times and keep coming out with the same score, which to me seems pretty low considering the hardware I am running.

Would any of you agree that this is quite a low score, and any suggestions as to what could be causing the slowdown?

Heres a pic of my desktop with CPU-Z; the benchmark app, and realtemp 3 (my idle temps arent usually that high its cos the radiator is on very hot tonight :D)

benchpic2.jpg


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e48/Underworld_00/benchpic2.jpg


Cheers

Jim
 
You need to clock your ram higher.

here's a small test i did on another forum:

Identical setup with same clocks on everything, but 2nd score is with twice the cache (E8200). A little interesting

E7200 = 1310pts
E8200 = 1358pts
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my ram is pc6400 (800ddr2) and is already running at 2.2 v. I dont want to up the voltage any more and did try running it on a higher setting but i seemed to have stability issues. Bit strange since my ram and mobo have had some good reviews in terms of overclocking ability.
 
Quoted from the Custom PC website :

"Scores

All the scores are normalised against our reference PC. This scored 1,000, so a score of 1,300 is 30% faster than the reference PC. The reference PC consists of a 2.66GHz Core 2 Duo E6750, 2GB of Corsair XMS2-8500 DDR2, 250GB S-ATA II Samsung SpinPoint P120 hard disk and Asus P5K Deluxe WiFi-AP motherboard running Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit."

The peice of kit they use isn't that bad tbh, they use faster memory, your hard drive affects quite a bit. What kind of hard drive do you use?

You should defrag before you do the benchmark. Depending when you last did it, might increase your points.
 
Im running a brand new Seagate 160gb drive as my main drive with Vista 32 bit Ultimate. Its a fresh new install as I have just built a new computer. Its just that for example on their "best hardware for £100" issue a couple of months ago they quote the E7300 (I have an E7400) as completing the benchmarks with 900 stock and 1433 points overclocked. Thats about 400 points more than mine....

I will try overclocking the ram on 2.2 volts and let you know if if works and if it increases my score!
 
I noticed that your you have a quite a few programs loaded, messenger etc. and your multitasking score is lower than it should be, maybe this is affecting it? you should do the benchmark when nothing else is loaded. It will give a truer benchmark of your computer capability.

Try MSCONFIG in run and disable all the startup programs you don't need.
 
Tbh I think some of those programs were opened after the bench had finished.

Anyway, just upped my ram to 1013mhz, although i had to loosen the timings (previously had timings on auto, now on 6-6-6-18 @2.2v

heres a pic of the latest bench results:

newbenchram.jpg


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e48/Underworld_00/newbenchram.jpg

So there is some improvement but i would still expect another 200 points or so. I will try running @ 4.2ghz (10 x 422) and post the results.
 
that made a fair improvement on the image editing!
the ram must have some bottlenecking.
yeah try 4.2ghz n see what happens.
 
Motherboard is an Asus P5Q Pro; Ram is Corsair XMS 6400 4gb (2 x 2gb)

Right heres another couple of benchmark pics. The first is at 4.2ghz, ram @ 1008 mhz

420times10fsb.jpg


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e48/Underworld_00/420times10fsb.jpg

The second pic is again at 4.2ghz but with the ram @ 1050mhz

higherram.jpg


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e48/Underworld_00/higherram.jpg

It seems that with the higher ram speed the benchmark actually dropped. Ill try it again just to double check but that is a bit weird! I cant seem to clock my ram any higher than this even with looser timings (although im not sure how loose they can go without drastically affecting performance)
 
yeah it must be, but what?

so i re-benched with internet connection off and got the following results:

Results:

Image editing: 1414 points.
Video encoding: 1494 points.
Multitasking testing: 903 points.
Overall score: 1270 points.

So slightly better but still no better than with the slower ram setting!
 
ok heres the result with pretty much everything turned off, including dreamscene, firewall, avira, winamp agent, internet connection. I have included task manager to show what was still running during the bench. Although this is a better result my multitasking score still seems to be letting the side down for some reason.

nakedbench.jpg


http://i36.photobucket.com/albums/e48/Underworld_00/nakedbench.jpg

Also, this isnt really representative of real life use as i will be running a background, antivirus, firewall, winamp etc.

Can some of you post up your scores just for a bit of competitive comparison? :D

it can be found at http://www.custompc.co.uk/benchmarks/how-to-enter.html
 
lol hmmm could that be because you have a clocked i7 by any chance!

i dont stand a chance against an i7 but it would be nice to see some c2d benchmark results. Come on people show me what u got....
 
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