Full PC Benchmark

[Ya Mother]

huge score increases

Cheating / Exploiting or making the most of whats available I suppose that is down to the individuals stance but taking these realtively "simple" steps does produce vastly inflated scores :P
Either way quite a nice little app for a full system test

You can't really compare it to others as its open to abuse. your first score was 2.... then you got 22.... thats a crazy increase in score. It should test your pc and thats it...i dont mind the overclocking of your pc to get a higher score as that represents what your pc is capable of doing maxed out. but the increases you got was mental.
I dont understand how i got a higher score than jura55ic?
Hes got x2 4870s crossfire and clocked and ive got a 4870 1gb standard settings. i do understand my cpu will bump it up a bit ...but hmm.
I done this test months ago ....got it from stevieboy...aka goldchain.
Now find a test that cant be tweaked please xxx

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You can't really compare it to others as its open to abuse. your first score was 2.... then you got 22.... thats a crazy increase in score. It should test your pc and thats it...i dont mind the overclocking of your pc to get a higher score as that represents what your pc is capable of doing maxed out. but the increases you got was mental.
I dont understand how i got a higher score than jura55ic?
Hes got x2 4870s crossfire and clocked and ive got a 4870 1gb standard settings. i do understand my cpu will bump it up a bit ...but hmm.
I done this test months ago ....got it from stevieboy...aka goldchain.
Now find a test that cant be tweaked please xxx

Anyone can do what ive done with a helo from theor friend Google :P

As for the scores Quads get a better score than Duals and teh GFX element is not a huge percentage of the overall score. Also I dont think, after some playing about, that this is a true reflection of the GFX power of your card(s) as eh "3D" tests dont actually test your 3D and it doesnt (other than the last GFX test) appear to use the secoond GPU or core

Anyway my e-peen is huge on this one so its my favourite for the moment :P

No go grab yourself a RAM drive

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After some discussion on their forums, they have released an updated beta:

32-bit: http://www.passmark.com/ftp/petst7beta.exe
64-bit: http://www.passmark.com/ftp/petst7beta_x64.exe

"Update - 19 Feburary 2009
Beta 6 now available. Changes the way the Passmark rating is calculated in order to stop extremely high values on individual sub scores from having a disproportional affect on the overall score. "

"We've made a change to the score calculation and put up a new beta. The new formula will severely limit the effect of a few sub scores being in the extremely high ranges. The formula is basically like this.

each sub score is used as a divisor to its weighting

weighting (eg. 0.29(29&#37 for CPU) / cpu sub score

These are than added together and inverted.

1 / addition of all sub-score formula outputs.

There's a few other things we do in order to keep the scores roughly equivalent to the old V6 ones so you can't apply this formula directly to your sub-scores and get the actual Passmark rating but this is the gist of it."

Still haven't addressed the 3D test

Anyway, I gave it a whirl "out the box" and got:



So a drastic reduction in the overall score, but has it completely levelled the field for RAM discs and Image mounts ? Lets see :P

NO RAM DISC (USING EVERYDAY HDD) AND DISC IN THE DVD PLAYER:



1897.0

Exactly the same setup, ran straight after the above, but with