Posted at 11:30 by Clive Webster with 17 comments
A couple years ago, CustomPC made its own suite of benchmarks to test motherboards, PCs, laptops and so on. We wanted to create a set of tests which aped how people use their PCs and would show the benefits (or not) of faster hardware and overclocking in a way that was relevant to real-world use.
One of the most important elements, apart from the obvious stuff above, was that the benchmark suite must be distributable and completely self-contained. We've therefore used Open Source applications, all of which install into a standard folder (with no entries into the Registry, or links to any OS services or applications). This means that you can download the benchmarks, install them and run them without any outside influences from OS updates and so forth.
Because of this, you can download the Media Benchmarks, run them on your system and see how it compares to the kit we're reviewing. You can also see just what effects an upgrade or an overclock has on your system. That's kinda handy, no?
This blog post is more about having a useful way for you (and us) to find a download link for these benchmarks than for any actual discussion, but we hope you find the fact that you can run the same benchmarks that we use useful. Enjoy!
One of the most important elements, apart from the obvious stuff above, was that the benchmark suite must be distributable and completely self-contained. We've therefore used Open Source applications, all of which install into a standard folder (with no entries into the Registry, or links to any OS services or applications). This means that you can download the benchmarks, install them and run them without any outside influences from OS updates and so forth.
Because of this, you can download the Media Benchmarks, run them on your system and see how it compares to the kit we're reviewing. You can also see just what effects an upgrade or an overclock has on your system. That's kinda handy, no?
This blog post is more about having a useful way for you (and us) to find a download link for these benchmarks than for any actual discussion, but we hope you find the fact that you can run the same benchmarks that we use useful. Enjoy!
Comments (17)
Discuss in the forumsThe leaderboard was on the old custom pc site. Unfortunately it couldn't be ported easily, so creating a new one with the bit-tech backend is still on the to-do list.
Oh thats nice. I'm just saying because last time it didn't. Think it was the early beta ati driver or something.
Ah heres the error message i probably got last time: "ERROR: The display must be run in 32-Bit (True Colour) colour depth." And don't go all "hey I think you have to set your display to 32bit" on me, because it is :P
Results:
Image Editing: 1032 points.
Video Encoding: 2164 points.
Multitasking testing: 1235 points.
Overall score: 1477 points.
Typical system config:
i7 920
GTX 275
P6T-D v2
DDR3-1600 3x2gb
Vertex 60gb
Win7x64
All power saving features enabled and default clocks.
Results:
Image editing: 612 points.
Video encoding: 795 points.
Multitasking testing: 486 points.
Overall score: 631 points.
Athlon 64 x2 4600 stock (939)
In a A8N-SLI 2gb ddr running xp
Video Encoding: 2138
multitasking testing: 1187
overall score: 1500 points.
Image editing: 1192 points.
Video encoding: 369 seconds with 39% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 2224 points.
Multitasking testing: 165 seconds with 24% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1133 points.
Overall score: 1516 points.
Stock i7 920, 6gb RAM and a P6T, Vista x64
Image editing: 810 points.
Video encoding: 1146 points.
Multitasking testing: 587 points.
Overall score: 848 points.
Image editing: 1141 points.
Video encoding: 1543 points.
Multitasking testing: 1120 points.
Overall score: 1268 points.
Not too shabby for only three cores...