who with a AMD Athlon 3000+ has this score for Vista

[Ace Modder]

Hi

I have just installed Vista, Aero works with the exception of the 3D task flip Alt + TAb thingy.

MY CPU is only scoring 3.8 in the system rating

Should I be getting that low a score?

 

[::: CooliceT ::]

yes, it would be around that score

 

[Dureth]

The 3d flip is windows+tab not alt+tab.

Also thats exactly the sort of score you should get for that CPU.

 

[gurusan]

yeah that score sounds right

I score 5.4 with my athlon x2

 

[Ace Modder]

ah., windows tab....thanks!

also my mate with the same CPU, but sck 754, runs at stock 2.0Ghz and gets 4.2

Why did the same CPU but different pins give different ratings? Esp as my skt 939 is newer tech that his skt 754

 

[gurusan]

your 3000+ runs at 1.8ghz no?

 

[Ace Modder]

yes my skt 939 Athlon 64 3000+ run at 1.8Ghz

but my mates skt 754 Athlon 754 3000+ runs at 2.0Ghz?

isn't 939 the better tech?

I know AMD's don't run on the clock mhz speed for the comparisions, but my CPU is getting a 3.8 score in Vista, whilst my mates getting 4.2 on his?

 

[Justintime]

Maybe its just taking raw cpu clock into account and not architecture?

 

[Lolcb]

I Scored perfect score.

 

[Ace Modder]

if so, thats a crap, none true indication of ** CPU rating!

 

[Quixote]

if so, thats a crap, none true indication of ** CPU rating!

But is it ? DOES a 1.8 GHZ Skt 939 Athlon 64 out-perform a 2.0 GHZ Skt 754 Athlon 64 ? Maybe it's equal or slower. After all, they are a similar architecture & memory differences never really seem to make sod all difference on any platform. The 939 chip will probably run cooler on lower volts but whether it's faster at a lower clock speed I'm not sure.
I don't actually know either way but it's worth considering.

 

[gamesaregood]

The main advantage of S939 Compared to S754 is the Dual Channel Support, I would therefore expect your ram score to be greater than his if you were using the same ram etc?

 

[Ace Modder]

I'm just surprised, and my mobo is not allowing my CPU to be o/c.

I have a Asrock 939-SATA2 mobo (yes that is the model number)

and i increased my multiplier to 10, from 9. and when I reboot its defaulting back to 9.

So would that be the mobo doing that? or the CPU possibly being locked?

 

[vanandjuanunited]

I'm just surprised, and my mobo is not allowing my CPU to be o/c.

I have a Asrock 939-SATA2 mobo (yes that is the model number)

and i increased my multiplier to 10, from 9. and when I reboot its defaulting back to 9.

So would that be the mobo doing that? or the CPU possibly being locked?

You are limited to a 9x multi with that chip.ie 9x200 =1.Up the fsb in increments. My Asrock allows 270 fsb. Which ives me 2.7 Ghz with an A64 3200+

http://forums.overclockers.co.uk/showthread.php?t=17457881&highlight=dual+sata

 

[Tetras]

I would ignore Vista and game ratings for CPUs/graphics pretty much whatever. I doubt they take anything important into account, prolly just a Ghz rating with a bump for a dual core

 

[Dureth]

The CPU and graphics benchmarking in the Vista performance score is very much relevant. The graphics performance performs memory tests and shading calculations. The CPU test is definately right, the score of any CPU compared to others faster/slower than it is normally just right. After testing 4 different speed CPU's (1x A64, 1A64 X2, 1x P4, 1xC2D) they were all roughly rated in order of speed (dual core is important as the test is multithreaded).

 

[jaykay]

reviews should start using the windows performance bench
it shouldnt be baised and should give accurate resulkts