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I use it as well but there is a down side. With CPU you can compare them almost directly but be aware that AMD architecture is different and might performe a little slower. With the GPU's always check for benchmarks. Do this because the software they use (which you can download to test your machine) is a synthetic benchmark, so games might run as expected or not.

Wrong benchmark! You're listing a combined score, which doesn't show single-thread processing.

>Please note that we focus on single-core performance CPUs, therefore not every i5 and i7 card will meet Rift's recommended system specifications.

I would suggest using Pass Mark since it has the ability to do single-thread performance tests. It's a 30-day evaluation, but it will do the trick.

You're looking for at least 2121 (rating for a i5-4590) on the "Single Thread Rating".

At 4.5GHz my 2600k gets 2454, so it's completely doable.

I was running the Performance Test http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm from Passmark and there is a windowed jetfighter scene where it runs at ~500fps and I was wondering why there is no screen tearing in that situation?

Run benchmarks for both your video card and your CPU. Make sure both are in line with what you'd expect from them.

To keep it very simple, I'd recommend just running the benchmarks that PassMark offers. While I don't care for the results of the benchmarks themselves and find them inaccurate, we need to make sure your CPU and GPU are both performing at previously measured speeds.

There's two types of benchmarks: Synthetic and Real World. IMO, Synthetic (stuff like Passmark) are rather meaningless for most people. It's kind of a measuring contest to see how big of an arbitrary number you can get. Real World is where it's at.

So what you want to look at is something like Anand's review on the Pentium OC'd. It will give you actual numbers that games will run at when it's OCd and stock. So you can actually take this and say "well if I OC to XGhz then I can expect to get Y fps in this game". BF4 is actually one of the games he reviews, so you might expect similar performance increases with BF3.

But keep in mind that he's using SLI 770s for the review, so with your single 760 YMMV. You might be gfx limited and not CPU limited. To check if you're gfx or CPU limited, play a game with MSI Afterburner running on the side and watch the CPU and GPU %usage. If the CPU is capped and the GPU is hovering below 100% then you know you're CPU limited an OCing will help. If the CPU is floating and the GPU is capped then OCing the CPU won't do a lot for you.

Maybe try Passmark performance test to see if your PC has cpu/mem related issues. Here's url for the site: http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

At least back in the days system restore did nothing but messed pc up. Especially display drivers did not work properly. Some people use DDU display driver removal tool, then reboot and install new (or maybe a bit older) drivers.

Is there a benchmark I can run to check an overclocked processor? I have an i7-920 overclocked from 2.67 to 3.48 GHz. My processor score on all of these websites is most likely lower than it should be. This machine has been running great for about 6 years now. I think just need a new GPU, but it would be nice to make sure.

Edit: Looks like I can get a trial of the passmark benchmark here: http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Edit2: Ran passmark from that link, I scored 6504, the recommended i5-4590's score is 7211. I hope that's not a big difference. I think I'll just get a new GPU first, and upgrade my cpu/motherboard if things don't run well.

Edit3: Stable overclock to 4ghz, score of ~7300 now.

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

however download speccy first. we want to make sure your system isn't overheating. An incorrectly installed cpu cooler will slow the whole system down due to throttling.

One important problem that the core M runs into is its incredibly low TDP. While it will perform well at the start it can over heat quickly. Most reviews of core M systems mention that this throttling with prolonged use can get pretty annoying. This Anandtech review of the updated Yoga pro 3 does a good job of showing the difference. Compare the relatively long cinebench score with the other short duration cps. The amount of time that your computer puts load on the cpu matters a lot for core M.

cpubenchmark.net doesn't offer a lot of information about what exactly goes into the test and I am not going to buy it. This page doesn't say if it is a long or short duration benchmark so you can't be sure it encapsulates the problem.

You can get a trial version of PassMark Performance Test and it'll get you some raw numbers to compare to a computer you've already got, plus you can watch the graphics go through their paces. Another nice thing is it's at least marginally stressful on some of the subsystems, so you can get a little warm-fuzzy if it at least runs all the way through.

Can you try Passmark's PerformanceTest 9.0 ? In the first 3d benchmark(the one with jets flying around) I get about 90% drop in framerate: from 150-200 fps it drops to 10-15.

Only some benchmarks/workloads have significant impact, and I think most are not noticeable to the eye, you have to take notes of the FPS. I've posted some data in the IOMMU mailing list, if you can test those on Xen it would be a good base for comparison: https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/pipermail/iommu/2017-June/022944.html

> the cinebench scores are only slightly lower with NPT off

Depending on the algorithm used for this benchmark, it may not be too much affected by memory access that much

If you want to see the difference in performance with a benchmark, try passmark performance test. With 2133 memory, I get about 1500 on bare metal and 1800 if using dual channel. On KVM, I get around 1000 with npt=0 and about the same as bare metal with npt=1.

Be warned that passmark crashes the VM if you use cpu=host. I have to use -cpu=Penyr to avoid crashing.

Run the full benchmark on http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm.

It will compare you to possible 100s of other systems with similar setups and let you know if your performance is terrible or not. At least then you have a better number of samples.

If passmark says you have similarly horrible performance (meaning your system is dogging and should not be) make sure you go into the bios and load setup defaults and save. If that does not do it consider drivers and version of windows that go better with that motherboard MFGr or find integraded graphics driver direct form the mainboard mfgr instead of reference drivers from the chipset mfgr.

Their are tightly linked to an FX-60. What has changed here is "voltage" to the CPU overclocked, but wait for this, CPU is operating below the voltage set by AMD in an strong overclock mode (2.9Ghz), that is the reason their is a big hold-up for the DDR not progressing.

When user(s) overclock their raise the voltage to make it stable, but is it the CPU fault, not always from what I have discovered.

This is what the project is about, overclocking the CPU, but with everything at it's lowest voltage point. The DDR voltage may also come down again to 2.55V.

Benchmarks is much closer to those users on "low end" DDR3 & DDR are out performing DDR 2 PC-6400 with timings 4-4-4-12 according to this software below.

DDR's have a Latency below 50ns that with a command rate of 2. (all four DIMMs working together).

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Doesn't Unigine use the CPU as well? Your CPU is fairly weak compared to the GPU. You could try the Passmark benchmarking tool. It shows you right in the program how your card/CPU performs compared to other people's card/CPU running at the same speeds.

I was hoping someone would post a response to you. I am sorry, but I don't have an answer, but simply a confirmation for you. I have a very similar computer...cpu,processor...

Task manager and file explorer opening are nearly instantaneous.

The term you should be including in your google searches is benchmark, and benchmark software. For example, a google search cpu benchmark software gives the following link

passmark

then you can compare your cpu to published values. They also have system test...

Passmark has a huge database of performance results. You can download their free software to do a test on your CPU and GPU and then you can compare the results to other user's scores. Might be that either the CPU or GPU is faulty. Software download here

The total score is not really interesting. Check each piece's individual score.

Rosewill for the most part sells decent enough PSUs, lets assume thats not the cause.

Have updated all drivers? How long has it been since you formatted your PC and reinstalled windows?

You could try running a synthetic benchmark like Passmark:

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

You can then compare your result with other 7950s. If you score similarly to other 7950s, its either a driver issue or the game is just terrible optimized like the other user said.

Just download Passmark and compare your computer's test results with the world. It's not hard to see which parts of your PC are the slow parts and figure out what is the bottleneck.

> GTX 750 ti

Great stuff!

I haven't used it in many, many years, but you might like to have a go at benchmarking your new rig:

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

See how it compares.

This sub might have a preferred benchmark comparison tool but not sure what it might be?

You can download Passmark here, but its windows only, so you'd need bootcamp.

A better option would be to use Geekbench, which can be used on OS X, but its CPU only.

Well, if you were interested in writing your own just for the fun of it, that could certainly work... You'd have to have it test many different things to get an idea of performance, and then give the systems a performance score so you could compare different systems to see how they did.

If you were looking for something quick and easy to install and run, PassMark's PerformanceTest is something that's got a free version and does the stuff mentioned above. It tests various things and then scores them based on how they did, and generates a cumulative score that can be used to compare whole systems. It also shows the scores of each test catagory, so you could also use that to find large discrepancies between two systems.

Some things to think about though, if it's getting noticeably slow relatively quickly and doesn't have malware, I would definitely look into checking the main hard drive's health. Usually a sign that a drive is about to fail is it getting very slow shortly before it does, as it has to attempt to read sectors multiple times to get the requested data.

EDIT: Disclaimer: Rule out a failing hard disk before you try to run a benchmark on it! Benchmarking a drive that's already on its way out may just cause it to die completely during the benchmark!

Doesn't MSI afterburner only display GPU temps? Download Speccy https://www.piriform.com/speccy and run this: http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

keep speccy in the corner of the screen so you can monitor CPU TEMPS while using it. please tell me the max temp it reaches

http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Would be wonderful to have some passmark contributions of benchmarks of the 6600k/6700k :) Just to get an idea where exactly the 6600k and 6700k sit among the other CPUs. :D Not 100% sure, but I think running a full test and then uploading the "Baseline" is how the CPU benchmarks are done.

There's a million, here's just an example:

CPU Benchmark

GPU Benchmark

edit: I guess they want you to install their benchmarking software so it's up to you, but shows you what you SHOULD be getting close to for both cpu/gpu and then you can test to see what you actually are getting for each component.

Passmark might do the trick http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Although you might not even have to run it because they seem to already have comparison charts https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_lookup.php?cpu=Intel+Core+i5-2500K+%40+3.30GHz&id=804

Honestly with the spec's there I do not see a bottleneck. Try running some benchmarks with it only clocked up .1Ghz each time. See if any performance increases.

A free benchmark utility can be found at passmarks website. They give a thirty day evaluation. http://www.passmark.com/products/pt.htm

Download something like this and compare your results to others. If you are getting well below average results then you might be having issues.

You did do a fresh install of windows right?

Well if you get the urge, here's a link to PerformanceTest. The testing actually works outside the "evaluation" period. Should stroke your computers ego a little bit ;) Stock the 4790k has the highest single threaded of any other chip out there right now but it's only at 2534 so I was jw how much impact that OC made on it.

It's based on user-submitted results from PassMark PerformanceTest.

Accuracy for performance should be reliable enough.

However, the value of each card is based on the price history, which may not be up to date. It could be even more inaccurate if your country of residence doesn't scale the price of cards in a similar scale to the US.

> are you sure the "overclocked with high voltage" isn't actually overclocked using the boost function (manually setting the boost multipliers is an easy way to OC) so that it's pushing harder?

I didnt set the multipliers myself, they are both set @ 33. I will check his both bioses to look at the boost function.

>also, check your RAM speeds, as my gigabyte mobo set my RAM to a lower speed by default. might make a difference.

Yesm both boards defaulted to 1333mhz when i first bult them and i changed them both to 1600.

>What program are you using btw to compare these?

Performance test.

Thanks for your help, ill check on those couple of things today.

Pick the benchmark tool of your choice and if you truly want I will compare it to mine.

I'll suggest PassMark PerformanceTest but if you want you can pick another.

I've never actually done a disk IO test, but there should be software that lets you do this. Maybe the evaluation version of Passmark PerformanceTest has disk tests available? Or IOzone? Google "disk benchmark" or "disk performance test". Look for something that will tell you the max sequential read speed.

Please go get Passmark and find out if it's your video card or not.

You should be able to test a variety of resolutions and figure out what the trigger is.

Then I'm leaning towards a corrupted texture file (or something similar).

I'd suggest running some GPU benchmarking softwares to "stress test" the GPU and see if the problem pops up elsewhere.

Here's a few:

Rthdribl

Passmark