What the hey???

[gamer178]

Hello all.

I am hoping someone can shed some light for me. I just built a new PC with an AMD 3200 Venice for gaming. I have:

Amd 3200 venice
1GB Corsair Twin X in dual channel pc 3200
1 SATA2 Western Digital HD 7200 rpm
Gigabyte K8N-Pro-SLI Nforce 4
1 PNY 6600GT PCI x16

Here is my problem: I had a benchmarking tool called passmark performance test 6.0. (i did not have sandra or 3dmark at the time of my test) Anyway, I ran this software against the rig above and a SPARE machine I had (Pentium 4 2.8 533 bus, 256 333mhz ram, and a plain vanilla HD with an 8mb vide card.) The Pentium scored slightly lower overall only because the AMD setup killed it in graphics.

All of the mem tests and cpu tests went to the pentium! Is that possible or is this a crappy unreliable program? I can't see how a faster FSB, more ram, faster and lower latency ram can score closely to a far inferior machine.

Thank you for any input.

 

[K8MAN]

Never heard of that bench before. Try something newer like pcmark 2005 or any of the 3dmarks and u'll see the performance difference.

 

[spman_1]

Never heard of that bench before. Try something newer like pcmark 2005 or any of the 3dmarks and u'll see the performance difference.

after u use this two software,u will see the performance difference.

 

[endyen]

Run aquamark instead. It's a better benchmark.

 

[liquidpaper007]

a lot of benchmarks say pentiums have more bandwidth. I dont care becuase my a64 owns the pentiums

 

[mpasternak]

on top of this

there was and still is an issue with these benchmarking tools

a lot of them are engineered and tweaked to run better on certain hardware.

I woulndt be surprised if the software you had been using had routines and technologies in it that put the Intel ahead of the AMD