Weird drop in CPU score?

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Ardems

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So I upgraded to windows 8 on my gaming machine because my school gave me a free upgrade and I figured the slight improvement in gaming performance was worth it. When I went to test my machine on windows 8 though I found a drop in scores for my processor.

Windows 7 - here

Windows 8 - here

I didn't mess with my clocks or anything, just upgraded to 8, installed my drivers and ran windows update to get windows up to date. Is this a known issue with 8? I see other scores with 8 that match my 7 score at the same clock, though 3dmark isn't the most reliable at attaining clock speeds. Any help is welcome.
 
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3dmark is a synthetic benchmark suite and as such does not realistically translate to real world performance, especially in games where a good part of the whole is subjective.
By that I mean its more the feel of the game some times. I have played games that others would say are performing badly but have enjoyed them more than other games that my hardware can treat with total contempt.

Its not useless, I myself use it but only as a very rough benchmark of how good one PC is to another, say after a GPU or CPU upgrade.
I wouldn't rely on it to as you say, judge performance to a small point.

Mactronix :)
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So what you're saying is that 3dmark is basically not to be taken into account when judging PC performance down to a fine point? I have tested on the same drivers (it would take a bit of searching through my web history to find it) and the difference in score was the same.
 
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3dmark is a synthetic benchmark suite and as such does not realistically translate to real world performance, especially in games where a good part of the whole is subjective.
By that I mean its more the feel of the game some times. I have played games that others would say are performing badly but have enjoyed them more than other games that my hardware can treat with total contempt.

Its not useless, I myself use it but only as a very rough benchmark of how good one PC is to another, say after a GPU or CPU upgrade.
I wouldn't rely on it to as you say, judge performance to a small point.

Mactronix :)
 
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