Following on from another thread.... I just spotted that my PC rating was out of date as I've recently fitted a new graphics card.

So this is the old one;

 

Where I was running

Intel Core2 Quad at 2.4Ghz

2Gb Ram

NVIDIA Geforce 7300GS, 512Mb

1 x 80Gb HDD, Partitioned for the OS (Windows 7)

1 x 80Gb HDD, Movies

1 x 300Gb HDD, Everything else.

 

Now I've updated my rating, and this is it now;

 

Where I'm running

Intel Core2 Quad at 2.4Ghz

2Gb Ram

XFX Radeon HD 4550, 1Gb

1 x 80Gb HDD, Partitioned for the OS (Windows 7)

1 x 80Gb HDD, Movies

1 x 300Gb HDD, Everything else.

 

So fitting the new graphics card has upped my overall rating, but seems to have upped my 'Primary Hard Disk' rating as well, not quite sure how that's happened though.

 

So how's your rating? :D

Edited November 1, 201015 yr by Daves_Zed
Added in OS

5.1

5.1

4.9

6.3

5.4

 

OVERALL RATING 4.9

 

dunno how to post up a pic

You must have a nice Graphics card in there ;)

it does the job ;) lol

 

Relatively dated custom built thing.

 

P4 3.4 ghz

3GB Ram

1x 120GB HDD, and 1x 300GB SATA HDD

NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT

Edited November 1, 201015 yr by Yowser

Mines quite out of date now, but meh here it is.

 

Quad core Q6600 running at 2.6Ghz

4GB DDR2 6400.

2 X 1TB Sata 2 Drives in Raid0

Nvidia 9800GTX+.

(My motherboard isnt great as its running on PCI-E 1.1 :(, dam pain in the ass)

Edited November 1, 201015 yr by murt

So fitting the new graphics card has upped my overall rating, but seems to have upped my 'Primary Hard Disk' rating as well, not quite sure how that's happened though.

 

So how's your rating? :D

 

I suspect its because of the increased memory on your graphics card, means windows isnt swapping between Graphics and system ram as much, which in turn isnt swapping data from the system memory into the page file on the hard disk - so your hard disk performance improves :)

I think I can explain that slightly !

 

Lower end GPU's will use the hard disk as Swap Memory, and when doing the

hard disk test your still using the graphics card a bit and hense the hard drive

will lose slight performance !

 

When you upgraded the graphics it no longer uses Swap Memory but rather

its own built in memory which is much faster and also in turn leaves your hard

drive to do other stuff !

 

Heres my rating and specs, its a custom built rig mainly to run graphics suites

for web design and a few games of course :

 

Also to note its not widely known but they changes the rating system on windows 7

 

So folks who do there tests on Vista will likely have higher scores, my system as is

used to max out on all scores at 5.9 now I run windows 7 and all the subscores have

changed, think this is due to a bigger range i.e vista went to 5.9 and 7 goes to 7.9 !

This is my laptop. Bit of a heap tbh these days, done alot of work now but still not doing so bad!

 

 

Acer 6930

Core 2 Duo 2.13Ghz P7450

4GB Ram

Geforce 9600GT M 1GB

320GB hard disk

 

Sadly my home machine still runs XP... havnt had chance to upgrade it yet, hell ive got 7 for this laptop which arrived in the post last christmas!

 

Still from memory its a

 

Q6600

4gb Ram

Ati 4850 1gb

2x 500GB hard disk in raid 0

+myriad of other hard disks

I'm using the Mrs PC at the moment running windows xp, and no she doesn't want it upgraded, my PC is in the process of being built but will be ddr3, haven't decided on graphics card yet. but will be running it in triple SLI, with a quad core Intel i7 processor.

 

For my Mrs pc though, this is from Dxdiag as i cant be arsed to take a screen shot with 3 different screens.

 

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System Information

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Time of this report: 11/1/2010, 21:29:42

Machine name: ME-0C13EE24384C

Operating System: Windows XP Professional (5.1, Build 2600) Service Pack 3 (2600.xpsp_sp3_qfe.100427-1650)

Language: English (Regional Setting: English)

System Manufacturer: Dell Inc.

System Model: OptiPlex GX620

BIOS: Phoenix ROM BIOS PLUS Version 1.10 A03

Processor: Intel® Pentium® 4 CPU 3.00GHz (2 CPUs)

Memory: 3070MB RAM

Page File: 254MB used, 4705MB available

DirectX Version: DirectX 9.0c (4.09.0000.0904)

 

 

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Display Devices

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Card name: NVIDIA GeForce 8800 GTX

Manufacturer: NVIDIA

Chip type: GeForce 8800 GTX

DAC type: Integrated RAMDAC

Display Memory: 768.0 MB

Current Mode: 1680 x 1050 (32 bit) (60Hz)

Monitor: Plug and Play Monitor

 

and yes with a angle grinder, a 8800GTX does fit in a dell case lol

and yes with a angle grinder, a 8800GTX does fit in a dell case lol

 

Big cards these !

 

Mine is a 8800 Ultra and its water cooled !

 

So big they named it the Black Pearl !

 

Seriously !!

Never used the snipping tool mikey ?

 

saves showing a full desktop capture !

 

Click the windows logo {start menu} and type snip into the search box; it comes with windows 7 .

Big cards these !

 

Mine is a 8800 Ultra and its water cooled !

 

So big they named it the Black Pearl !

 

Seriously !!

 

Everyone said id never get it in the case, so i got the angle grinder out, shaved off the back where the card would sit (bit of the case blocking the air vent on the card above the DVI ports) then had to go to work on the CPU cooler (damn stupidly huge thing that had more metal than it needed) so trimmed that down where the rear of the cards fan casing sits. a little mod on a few capacitors to get the card to sit where they were. and bobs ya uncle. in she slotted.

 

Im not even going to say how i fixed a 8800gtx the other day that refused to be recognized by windows. you would just think im mad lol

Never used the snipping tool mikey ?

 

saves showing a full desktop capture !

 

Click the windows logo {start menu} and type snip into the search box; it comes with windows 7 .

 

Us grown ups use Alt + Print Screen to capture the window in focus ;)

You can do that yeh !

 

but neater when you target just the bits you want minus the dialog parts

You can do that yeh !

 

but neater when you target just the bits you want minus the dialog parts

 

True true lol, I hadnt used that snip tool before - vista has it as well it seems! Quite useful actually. Alt print screen for me is from help manuals in XP days lol.

True true lol, I hadnt used that snip tool before - vista has it as well it seems! Quite useful actually. Alt print screen for me is from help manuals in XP days lol.

 

To be honest i really never saw the problem with vista, ok so it asks you before you do anything, but that's because micro soft got fed up with people deleting key files out of windows XP then screaming down the phone at tech support how crap windows was.

 

Then it was "vista is a system hog look how much ram its using while idling", its not a hog, that's just a misconception, windows implemented something that Mac OS's had long before windows put it in. a system that holds in memory regularly opened files. this way it made it quicker to start them if you went for one of the programs that was already in memory. it never hogged the system, just used ram more efficiently. where as XP, with my 3gig of ram, at the moment I'm only using 400meg of it. the rest is sitting there doing nothing.

 

i like vista its a good solid OS. and the performance gains xp has over vista isn't even noticeable to be honest.

Some very nice specs there :D

 

I had no problem with Vista, but I had the opportunity to have a fresh install with Win7 so I decided to. My lappy is still running XP Pro and I'm happy how it performs, it does what I need it to do.

 

I know I could do with some more Ram in my main PC, but it seems OK at the mo :D

To be honest i really never saw the problem with vista, ok so it asks you before you do anything, but that's because micro soft got fed up with people deleting key files out of windows XP then screaming down the phone at tech support how crap windows was.

 

Then it was "vista is a system hog look how much ram its using while idling", its not a hog, that's just a misconception, windows implemented something that Mac OS's had long before windows put it in. a system that holds in memory regularly opened files. this way it made it quicker to start them if you went for one of the programs that was already in memory. it never hogged the system, just used ram more efficiently. where as XP, with my 3gig of ram, at the moment I'm only using 400meg of it. the rest is sitting there doing nothing.

 

i like vista its a good solid OS. and the performance gains xp has over vista isn't even noticeable to be honest.

 

my only issue with vista was my old printer was not compatible so i had to buy a new one just to be compatible with vista, but other than that it was very secure. however windows 7 is the dogs ;)