Thats mine after a recent gfx upgrade.

I think its going to take some ££ to raise it further than that!

Apart from a graphics card upgrade a good few months ago, Ive not
upgraded in a good few years.. would like some solid state drives tho

thats running windows 7

Windows 7

Im using a 2 * 1TB 7200RPM Stripe but its still slow. That said I have 8GB of RAM, so theres only noticeable disk lag when reading apps/files into RAM

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Windows 7

Im using a 2 * 1TB 7200RPM Stripe but its still slow. That said I have 8GB of RAM, so theres only noticeable disk lag when reading apps/files into RAM

Something wrong there... Im using a single sata WD500gb HDD, 6gb of ram & an athlon 6000+ x2 or whatever its called.. oldish cpu

I dont really trust the HD test.... I have 5 fast sata 2 disks in raid 0.... hardly make any difference compared to a single disk in the test..... but make s a massive difference when you actually use it


nimrod, what cpu do you have ? Ive got a core2duo going at 4ghz, itll do 4.4 easy but I had to up my fans to 7v which pissed me off so backed it off a bit

Im tempted to upgrade cpy/mb/ssd

Im running a Core i7 @ stock 2.8ghz

Im doing some investigation into drivers / bios updates as Im wondering if Ive got a weird bottle neck on the RAID chipset (or something).

wow been a while since we had benchmark type thread.

Here is mine:


spec as per sig, not bad for budget system.

I think my desktop needs some new hard drives, the one in my laptop is faster!

Quote from: NimrodIm running a Core i7 @ stock 2.8ghz
Im doing some investigation into drivers / bios updates as Im wondering if Ive got a weird bottle neck on the RAID chipset (or something).

I think its just the benchmarks not working it out right..... Ive always run raid and theyve always been under rated in tests

benchmarking my raid array tops out at about 100meg sec read/write

but I can copy from my 2 backup dicks onto it, and get 90meg/sec from each (so 180meg/sec write)

and Im pretty sure thats maxing out the backup disks not the raid array.... I dont notice any slow down if I open other programs etc...

Quote from: knightymy 2 backup dicks

Sorry, I cannot get past this


teehehehehe *over it*

My system is actually from Dell so anything could be happening inside it but then for what I paid Im not that bothered
I can run the 3 Windows XP Virtual Machines I need for development and all my other stuff whilst watching a 1080p mkv without any problems so who cares about a number

I dont think it makes any difference what HDDs you have mostly, unless its SSD, it probably only recognises SATA, SATAII, RAID and SSD as types or something, hence most people getting the same index. It would be interesting to know. It does seem to make the whole thing even more arbitrary than I first thought.

Processor 7.1  (E8600 clocked to 4.1 ghz)
Memory 7.1
Graphics 7.6  (4970 clocked )
Gaming Graphics 7.6
Primary hard Drive 7.2 (SSD)

Still got to work out how to get past Comodo firewall to use my FTP

Processor: 1.7
Memory: 4.0
Graphics: 1.9
Gaming Graphics: 1.0
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

Thats my EEEpc. Im still on XP on my main pc. Im tempted to nick the 8gb SSD and use it for my swap file..

9650 @ 2.3Ghx (stock)
4Gb OCZ Reaper @ Stock
nVidia 260GTX (192)
2xDeskstar 250Gb Striped.

Nothing too fancy in other words

little brothers new rig....
(as per THIS thread)