Why are my son's specs better than mine?

gillywibble · 16 Sep 2010 at 20:55

It's not a competition, honest

Specs:-

Me:

AMD Phenom II X4 955
8 GB DDR3 RAM @ 1600 Mhz
Sapphire ATI Radeon HD 5770

Son:

Intel Core2 Quad Q8300
4 GB DDR2 RAM @ 800 Mhz
XFX ATI Radeon HD 5770

I don't understand the difference in 2D and 3D performance tests given that it is the same card.

Tests run without any overclocks. Could it be a PSU issue?

Any advice appreciated

RJC · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:02

Hmm strange, Couple of thoughts - does your cpu run at full speed when the tests were done also have you tried with only 4gb of ram.

Or could be Intel is far superior than AMD!!

Deleted member 77746 · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:05

Intel ... AMD .... Intel..... AMD....Intel

chipps101 · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:06

could be your just using a benchmark that likes intel chips

PermaBanned · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:07

Nah, the 955 is easily better than the Q8300...

discobiscuits · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:08

Yeh your cpu is at 800Mhz, id try again after disablling the throttling

Rroff · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:10

You both have same quality settings in the control panel?

Looks like C&Q bug with your CPU possibly.

gillywibble · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:21

discobiscuits said:
Yeh your cpu is at 800Mhz, id try again after disablling the throttling

It was at 3200Mhz during the test.

Rroff said:
Looks like C&Q bug with your CPU possibly.

What's that?

RJC · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:24

Cool & Quiet I think Rroff might be referring to:

http://www.amd.com/us/products/technologies/cool-n-quiet/Pages/cool-n-quiet.aspx

Rroff · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:34

If it was at 3200 then not a C&Q issue probably... possibly a powerplay issue but thats one I'm not upto speed on.

daydream605 · 16 Sep 2010 at 21:45

When you say control panel are you talking about catalyst?

Amonlym · 16 Sep 2010 at 22:49

Win7 vs Win vista..

ill bet thats the root cause - that and passmark is iffy at the best of times. run it on xp/98 for super fast 2d results, run the hdd bench 3-4 times in a row to magically gain 20%... etc

daydream605 · 16 Sep 2010 at 23:17

I do believe his Hardrives are not a good as mine tho. I spent a good £60 each on mine ( 500GB and 1TB ) whereas im not too sure about my dads.

OLDPHART · 16 Sep 2010 at 23:48

IMAO, rub it in while you can, wind your old dad up, give him some stick, l Know my two sons would.

Essexraptor · 16 Sep 2010 at 23:58

Could it be down to CPU architecture and the way that the processors deal with the same information during the bench test.????

IAmATeaf · 17 Sep 2010 at 09:42

What about things like chipset drivers, do both systems have the latest?

d_brennen · 17 Sep 2010 at 09:50

More importantly why are you concerned? Is your game performance lower than his?*

*this could be down to slower reaction and general old age

R088ieS86 · 17 Sep 2010 at 09:58

I'd check that it actually was at 3.2Ghz for the test. Do you lower the clock speeds for none gaming?

Freddie1980 · 17 Sep 2010 at 10:10

Just blame the software, say there's a bug in it or something and it’s biased towards Intel setups, that’s what half of us do around here when a benchmark doesn’t go our way.

Are both CPU's running at stock? Try disabling the power saving features in the BIOS, also see if you can find other scores from users with the same sort of setup as you to see if your results are comparable.