Benchmarking Program??

[KnightStalker]

Short story:
I was lucky enough to receive a copy of Windows 7 Ultimate the other day, but before I installed, I wanted to increase the memory in my machine. Did not spend too much time shoping and purchased G.Skill f2-6400cl5d ram. However, the order got screwed up and now I have 2 of these = 8G. What is a guy suppose to do now??? Answer - Go get a faster cpu to keep up. Therefore, i purchased an E8500 (again did not spend too much time shopping) to replace E6600. Must have done something right b/c wife was not happy .

Question: Before I install all this I would like to benchmark the machine before and after to get a sense of the improvement. Anyone have any suggestions? 3DMark05-Free?

Thanks,
ks

[SRVsCopticCross]

Just did the same thing KS........Went from a E6700 to E8600 but I only have 4 meg of ram. I ran 3DMark 03 and 06 and saw a marked improvement (But thats on Win XP Pro 32bit OS). Just finished loading Win 7 Pro 64bit last night, now at some point I will benchmark the system and see if I gained anymore performance with the 64bit OS which will utilize all the memory.
Let us know how you make out. I'll post my scores from XP 32bit OS.........If I can find them, along with the new resuts.

[Black_Dingo]

Futuremark puts out a few common ones listed like everywhere for reviews. Another is SISofts' Sandra benchmark suite. I think it's free to try too.

[KnightStalker]

Sorry this took me so long to post. I was holding off b/c I have not been able to make any changes to the default setting to achieve any kind of OC. Not really sure why, but i would guess at 2 sources. 1. MB does not support win7. 2. MB is not happy w/ e8500. I state #2 b/c as soon as I dropped it in, I could not get the OS to load until I went back to default when I did a new install of win7. I did not intent on installing 7 at this time, I really wanted to make sure all new hardware was working properly first, but since i could not get anything to load, what the hell.

OK, so far my #'s. Fairly modest increases since I can't OC

Shit that did not change:
MB: asus p5n-e sli 680i
FSB 1333/1066MHz
Memory Standard DDR2 800
HD: raptor 10k
gfx: 8800gts
ram: (X2) for a total of 8G - G.SKILL 4GB (2 x 2GB) DDR2 800 (PC2 6400, Timing 5-5-5-15


E6600@2.6
Win XP
3.25G Ram

SuperPi
1M: 23s
2M: 55s
4M: 2m06s
8M: 4m38s
16M: 10m09s
32M: 22m05s

3DMark05 1.3.0
3DMark: 14,142
cpuMark: 8,082

Future Mark v1.5.0
1,832 oMarks
fps Min: 27
fps max 40
fps avg 31



E8500 @3.16
Win7 32bit
3.25 GRam

SuperPi
1M: 15s
2M: 38s
4M: 1m32s
8M: 3m33s
16M: 7m53s
32M: 17m10s

3DMark05
Score: 17,953
cpuscore: 13,576

Future Mark
Score: 1,826
fps Min: 15
fps Max: 41
fps Avg: 30


E8500
Win7 x64
8G Ram

SuperPi
1M: 15s
2M: 37s
4M: 1m31s
8M: 3m29s
16M: 7m46s
32M: 17m20s

3DMark05
Score: 17,818
cpuscore: 13,447

FutureMark
Score: 1,826
fpsMin: 15
fpsMax: 41
fpsAvg: 30

[Black_Dingo]

Interesting that your FPS dropped migrating OSes. I guess that's a driver thing. Did you use the same version of Nvidia forceware drivers?

Synthetic benchmarks don't tell the whole story though, sadly.

[Darkest]

Try removing 4gb of RAM. Could be an issue with the board and the total amount of ram (even though it should work)

Not sure why you have problems with Win 7 and games? The only issue I get is on occasion PB cannot connect and I get kicked. Usually a reboot remedies this problem.

[KnightStalker]

OK, in the end I had to get a new MB that supports the 45nm CPU's. System and lag appears to be stable now.

Gigabyte GA EP45-UD3P
E8500 oc'ed @ 4.0Ghz
8G of 800 Ram
8800 GTS
Win 7 Ult x64

3DMark Score 19727 3DMarks
CPU Score 20554 CPUMarks

FurMark did not change much. Min went to 18fps and the others did not change.

ks

[Darkest]

Glad to see the rebuild went good for you!

[KnightStalker]

@darkest, Yes. thanks for your help and talking me through it.

I installed the new MB w/o re-installing the OS. Just deleted the mb drivers and dropped everything in. worked great. so far nothing has freeked out.

Really like Gigabyte's simple OC'ing program. A push of one button and the machine was running @ 4.0ghz. Too easy.

ks