Download The CustomPC Media Benchmarks Here
Posted on 26th Oct 2009 at 11:30 by Clive Webster with 50 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!
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Discuss in the forums ReplyThe 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...
Image editing: 1657 points.
Video encoding: 3649 points.
Multitasking testing: 1598 points.
Overall score: 2301 points.
Benchmarks finished.
Can't tell you what CPU I'm running yet ;-), 24GB RAM @ 1465MHz 9-9-9-24, win 7, 500GB Deskstar.
Image editing: 1275 points.
Video encoding: 1928 points.
Multitasking testing: 845 points.
Overall score: 1350 points
Image editing: 233 seconds with 15% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 1612 points.
Video encoding: 282 seconds with 38% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 2907 points.
Multitasking testing: 121 seconds with 22% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1546 points.
Overall score: 2022 points.
i7 920 OC~3.8GHz (cooler master V10 cooler)
ASUS Rampage 2 ROG
XFX 5870 XXX 1GB
6GB OCZ 1600MHz RAM
1TB Spinpoint F3
250GB WD
200GB Seagate
Win 7 64bit PRO
Image editing: 1488 points.
Video encoding: 337 seconds with 33% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 2434 points.
Multitasking testing: 131 seconds with 23% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1422 points.
Overall score: 1781 points.
Benchmarked at 3.6GHz
edit to ADD rig config: seeing this weeks UD7 review
Gigabyte X58A UD3R
i7 920 + corsair H50 water cooler
3x2GB corsair 1600C8 >>only just makes spec. in my opinion :-(
Kingston V+ 64GB SSD
Samsung F1 Spinpoint 1TB
Win 7 x64 Enterprise
and off we go [[OC > 4.360 GHz]] with little extra voltage 1.32Volts CPU !! good grief
Image editing: 458 seconds with 26% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 819 points.
Video encoding: 585 seconds with 63% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 1402 points.
Multitasking testing: 272 seconds with 44% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 688 points.
Overall score: 970 points.
XPS 720
3GB DDR2 667MHZ [2X1GB, 2X500MB]
XP Pro SP3 32bit
Image editing: 234 seconds with 31% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 1604 points.
Video encoding: 297 seconds with 68% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 2758 points.
Multitasking testing: 125 seconds with 40% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1500 points.
Overall score: 1954 points.
i5 750 @ 4Ghz
4GB RAM
Win7 64-bit
Image editing: 1186 points.
Video encoding: 1940 points.
Multitasking testing: 1051 points.
Overall score: 1392 points.
Dell Inspiron 580
AMD64, i5 750@2.67GHz,
6GB RAM
Win 7 Pro 64bit
Image editing: 728 points.
Video encoding: 1667 points.
Multitasking testing: 950 points.
Overall score: 1115 points.
Dell T7400
Xeon 5472 (3GHz)
18GB RAM
Win XP 64 bit
Are there any tests for hard disk performance ?
Image editing: 614 seconds with 59% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 610 points.
Video encoding: 1124 seconds with 84% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 729 points.
Multitasking testing: 341 seconds with 71% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 549 points.
Overall score: 629 points
Samsung R519
Celeron Dual Core T3100
2GB
win 7 32Bit - mplayer was green
Intel Xeon X5570 - 2.93 GHz - Gainestown
4GB DDR3 PC3-10700 - NVIDIA FX1800 - Vista 64
Image editing: 1378 points.
Video encoding: 2499 points.
Multitasking testing: 1268 points.
Overall score: 1715 points.
Image editing: 1913 points.
Video encoding: 3329 points.
Multitasking testing: 1507 points.
Overall score: 2250 points.
i5 2500k@4.4Ghz stock cooling
asus p8p67
4gb muskin silverline
amd hd4770
win7 64
Results:
Image editing: 175 seconds with 14% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 2145 points.
Video encoding: 198 seconds with 37% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 4152 points.
Multitasking testing: 127 seconds with 17% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1467 points.
Overall score: 2588 points.
Looking at the other results posted it has done quite well but then it is an i7 2600k running at 4.9Ghz. Don't know why the Multitasking is a little lower though.
Not overclocked yet as I want to compare both scores.
Results:
Image Editing: 1592
Video Encoding: 2920
Multitasking Testing: 1608
Overall Score: 2040
What score can I expect with an OC of 4.5Ghz using a Dark Rock Advanced?
Image Editing: 1405 Odd how that's lower!
Video Encoding: 3496
Multitasking Testing: 1708
Overall Score: 2203
Definately worth the overclock then...
Os : Win7, 64 bit ???
Image editing: 1067 points.
Video encoding: 1975 points.
Multitasking testing: 982 points.
Overall score: 1341 points.
4GB kingston Hyper X 1600MHZ
Asus P8Z68-V
OCZ Vertex 3 60GB
MSI ati radeon 6950 OC Twin Frozr 3
Image editing: 1957 points.
Video encoding: 3698 points.
Multitasking testing: 1711 points.
Overall score: 2455 points.
Have searched around but nobody seems to have identified what the cause/solution is.
Video encoding: 3215 points.
Multitasking testing: 1771 points.
Overall score: 2231 points.
CPU Core i7 2600k Stock
RAM 8GB 1600 mhz stock
OCZ Vertex 3 120gb
GPU ATI 6870 stock
2TB Green HDD
Windows 7 64bit Index 7.7
Image editing: 1127 points.
Video encoding: 2163 points.
Multitasking testing: 1205 points.
Overall score: 1498 points.
Mobo: Gigabyte GA-EX58-UD5
CPU Core i7 920 @ 2.66Ghz (default speed)
Prolimatech Megahalems - with Nexus 120mm Real Silent Case Fan - 1000 RPM
RAM: OCZ3x133LV2G (OCZ Intel Extreme Edition DDR3 3x 2GB 1333Mhz)
OCZ3G1333ULV12GK (OCZ Gold DDR3 PC3-10666 Ultra Low Voltage Triple Channel)
running at 539Mhz 8-8-8-19 (533Mhz aka PC3-10666 with a rounding error?)
HDD: 3ware 9750-8i. PCI Express 2.0 x8, 512 MB buffer, 8 CH, SATA-600 / SAS 2.0
JBOD: Intel postvile G2 76GiB
RAID5: 4x Samsung HD103UJ (1TB, 7200RPM, SATA300 32MB)
GPU: Sapphire 5870
i5 2500k @ 4.3Ghz
4x2Gb corsair xms3 1600mhz ram
500Gb WD Sata3 7200rpm HDD
Sapphire 5830 Gpu @ 900mhz
Results:
Image editing: 1436 points.
Video encoding: 3375 points.
Multitasking testing: 1636 points.
Overall score: 2149 points.
Intel Xeon E31225@3.10GHz 4GB Ram
Win 7 sp1 32bit
Image editing: 263 seconds with 26% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 1428 points.
Video encoding: 321 seconds with 63% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 2558 points.
Multitasking testing: 152 seconds with 41% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1230 points.
Overall score: 1739 points.
gigabyte z77x-d3h
kingston ddr3 4gb hyper x blue 16000MHz
win7 64 bit
nvidia gtx 550Ti
Image editing: 226 seconds with 27% average CPU usage.
Image editing: 1661 points.
Video encoding: 288 seconds with 69% average CPU usage.
Video encoding: 2852 points.
Multitasking testing: 129 seconds with 59% average CPU usage.
Multitasking testing: 1444 points.
Overall score: 1986 points.
Image editing: 1964 points.
Video encoding: 3597 points.
Multitasking testing: 1722 points.
Overall score: 2428 points.
i5 3570k @ 4.4Ghz
Crucial M4 128GB
16GB Corsair 1600Mhz
Nvidia GTX 670
Win7 64-bit
Image editing: 2116 points.
Video encoding: 3885 points.
Multitasking testing: 1885 points.
Overall score: 2629 points.
Gigabyte Z68AP-D3
Intel i5-3570K @ 4.6GHz
8GB Crucial DDR3 (2 x 4GB) @ 1800MHz
Thermaltake SP-530PCWEU PSU
Arctic Freezer i30
Video encoding: 2093 points.
Multitasking testing: 1518 points.
Overall score: 1695 points.
I feel cheated! Other i7's without an overclock are scoring much higher.
Asus P8P67 Pro
i7 2600K
8 GB HyperX Grey
GTX 580
Intel SSD
Win 7 64Bit
Image editing: 1782 points.
Video encoding: 3409 points.
Multitasking testing: 1589 points.
Overall score: 2260 points.
T9300 @ 2.5GHz
6GB RAM
Results:
Image editing: 902 points.
Video encoding: 984 points.
Multitasking testing: 697 points.
Overall score: 861 points.
Image Editing 1874
Video Encoding 3383
Multitasking 1653
Overall 2303
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