PCMark2002 -=- Scores Wanted

[Lars_Coleman]

<A HREF="http://gamershq.madonion.com/" target="_new">http://gamershq.madonion.com/</A> <<< Download.

Let us all know what the scores where. Mainly the HDD score, but all of them would be cool!

I'm not a big person to use benchmark programs like this, but I figured that if it was new then I would try it!

<A HREF="http://home.earthlink.net/~larscoleman/Pics/SYSmarkP4.bmp" target="_new">P4 1.4GHz, 384MB RAMBUS, and a Maxtor 5T030H3</A>

<font color=red>People and hard drives are like bandwagon fans and sports!</font color=red>

 

[Toejam31]

Mine ...

System 1 (Pentium 4) ...

CPU - 4006
Memory - 3578
HDD - 748
<A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=11027" target="_new">http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=11027</A>

System 2 (Duron):

CPU - 3336
Memory - 2301
HDD - 866
<A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=12149" target="_new">http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=12149</A>

In particular, the HDD scores:

Pentium 4 (with 2 x IBM 75GXP drives):

Cached File Write 21.5 MB/s
Uncached File Write 21.4 MB/s
Cached File Read 27.9 MB/s
Uncached File Read 33.3 MB/s
File Copy 8.4 MB/s

Duron (with 2 x Maxtor D740X drives):

Cached File Write 21.6 MB/s
Uncached File Write 17.9 MB/s
Cached File Read 32.8 MB/s
Uncached File Read 38.5 MB/s
File Copy 12.9 MB/s

See ya!

Toejam31

<font color=red>My Rig:</font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=6847" target="_new"><font color=green>Toejam31's Tantalizing Tantric Toy</font color=green></A>
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[Lars_Coleman]

There's a lot of people with scores up around 15000 marks for the HDD. The only way I figure that is a RAID or high end SCSI drive ...

Thanks for your scores!

<font color=red>People and hard drives are like bandwagon fans and sports!</font color=red>

 

[Toejam31]

You are welcome!

It's obvious that <i>something</i> is different about those systems that skewed the results. I did notice that the majority of them were overclocked. Ot perhaps there is a weakness in the program that allows user manipulation of the final score.

I don't think even SCSI drives in a RAID configuration could account for that great a discrepancy.

Toejam31

<font color=red>My Rig:</font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=6847" target="_new"><font color=green>Toejam31's Tantalizing Tantric Toy</font color=green></A>
<font color=red>Second Rig:</font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=15942" target="_new"><font color=green>Toey's Dynamite DDR Duron</font color=green></A>
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<font color=purple>"Procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."</font color=purple>

 

[Lars_Coleman]

Yeah, I agree. It's weird ..

<font color=red>People and hard drives are like bandwagon fans and sports!</font color=red>

 

[FatBurger]

<font color=red><b>Important info:</b></font color=red>

If you have a RAID <i>and</i> a single drive in your system, PCMark will by default benchmark the single drive, not the RAID. I was wondering why my RAID 0 was getting 400 points.

<A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=10646" target="_new">My normal overclock</A> (CPU@155MHz, RAM@116MHz)

<A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=16592" target="_new">CPU&Mem @ 133MHz</A>

This shows slower memory getting a better score. I posted in the MadOnion forum about it, we'll see what is said.

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[Ncogneto]

Yeah the silly benchmark did not even know what to do with my array, all's I get is hdd n/a. Everyother benchmark runs fine. I take it you have to buy this program to enable testing on specific drives/arrays othe rthan the one your OS resides on?

It's not what they tell you, its what they don't tell you!

 

[Lars_Coleman]

I wouldn't doubt it! I don't even like the 3dMark that they have. They tell you nothing, but I thought I would see what everyone was getting for scores so I knew where I stood.

Anyways, as far as I'm concerned this benchmark isn't much better then SiSoft Sandra. What do you guys think?

<font color=red>People and hard drives are like bandwagon fans and sports!</font color=red>

 

[Toejam31]

If you are looking for benchmarking tools, take a look at this <A HREF="http://www.benchmarkhq.ru/b_e.html" target="_new">website</A> that camieabz found. There's enough stuff here to keep someone busy for quite a while!

Toejam31

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<font color=red>Second Rig:</font color=red> <A HREF="http://www.anandtech.com/mysystemrig.html?rigid=15942" target="_new"><font color=green>Toey's Dynamite DDR Duron</font color=green></A>
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<font color=purple>"Procrastination on your part does not constitute an emergency on my part."</font color=purple>

 

[jc14all]

Here is my <A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=55167" target="_new">Athlon 1.3 with no OC</A>, at first I had write-back cache on my SCSI controller disabled, and didn't care for those benchmarks. So, I enabled write-back caching and only a little improvement.

Lars, what is the advantage/disadvatage of enabling/disabling write-back cache? I know write-back has better performance than write-through, but in this case I didn't see much improvement. I don't know much about benchmarking to say whether this was a good tool or not. If you have a good link on improving performance for SCSI HDD's let me know. Thanks.

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[lagger]

p-4 NW 2.0a
512 kingmax pc 2700
soyo p4s ultra mobo
2, maxtor 40gb ata 133 drives at ata 100
radeon 8500 retail
all stock clocks for this bench

CPU= 4612
Memory= 3775
HDD = 986

lagger

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[The_Neon_Cowboy]

COMMENT: Just really good drives raided togeather .. should do it asuming your config and some tweaking... NOTE: any thing running on the pci bus effects the avail bandwith for your IDE... In you bios make sure delayed transaction is disabled can makea big diffrence...Your os plays a role two... your file system on your harddrive etc.. ...

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[pr497]

i wonder why i get a pretty crappy score on my HD (not to mention an evil number too)..
<A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=16078" target="_new">Everything at stock speed</A>

<b><A HREF="http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?2932776" target="_new">P4 + DDR333</A>=<font color=blue>OK</font color=blue></b>

 

[jc14all]

You think your numbers are crappy, I was wondering the same thing and my HDD's are SCSI. <A HREF="http://service.madonion.com/compare?pcm=55167" target="_new">Everything at stock speed</A>

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