Phraze 0 Report post Posted September 28, 2011 So anyway, i have been mucking round trying to work out how slow this old pc is! seems its running about par compared to its peers, every thing seems kinda normal. (well from what i have read)NovaBench Score: 429 Microsoft Windows Vista Home Basic AMD Athlon 64 X2 5600+ @ 2807 MHz Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce 8600 GT3071 MB System RAM (Score: 88) (there was 4 gig in there i think maybe a Gremlin has eaten one of my gigs) - RAM Speed: 2296 MB/sCPU Tests (Score: 224) - Floating Point Operations/Second: 51152328 - Integer Operations/Second: 160471852 - MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 658689Graphics Tests (Score: 92) - 3D Frames Per Second: 291Hardware Tests (Score: 25) (this is rubish 5400rpm drive) - Primary Partition Capacity: 298 GB - Drive Write Speed: 68 MB/s but there is one thing that's has confused me, that being the mod's (Nathan's) score. would you mind telling me why your pc has all most twice the score of mine and beats most of the i3's Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan 73 Report post Posted September 30, 2011 Our scores for the CPU section are 259 vs your 224. That's not a significant difference. Where my computer beats out others is in the GPU subsection - I have a pretty decent graphics card, and lots of RAM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Phraze 0 Report post Posted October 2, 2011 interesting, i considered trying to upgrade the AMD but i felt that it was (A) risky (stuff might start to fail) and (B) no longer cost effective. it must be a powerfull video card to bring it score up so much even with the 8 gig ram (ddr2?) Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan 73 Report post Posted October 3, 2011 In my case the GPU accounts for 40% of the score. You can see my subscores, by clicking the image in my signature. It looks like Intel's Sandy Bridge is the best now, if you're willing to upgrade your motherboard and RAM. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
