JamieM 0 Report post Posted March 7, 2013 Hello, I have tested my score a few times and my CPU test seems particularly low compared to similar systems. This is my score: Verified NovaBench Score: 564 Test run on March 7, 2013 at 06:51 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Intel Xeon E5345 2.33GHz running at 2327 MHz ATI Radeon HD 5450 GPU8190 MB System RAM (Score: 147) - RAM Speed: 2211 MB/sCPU Tests (Score: 350) - Floating Point Operations/Second: 101699484 - Integer Operations/Second: 270553272 - MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 751180Graphics Tests (Score: 48) - 3D Frames Per Second: 159Hardware Tests (Score: 19) - Primary Partition Capacity: 466 GB - Drive Write Speed: 26 MB/s This seems like a similar system but has a much higher CPU result: Verified NovaBench Score: 733 Test run on January 10, 2012 at 16:15 Microsoft Windows 7 Professional Intel Xeon E5345 2.33GHz running at 2331 MHz Standard VGA Graphics Adapter GPU8187 MB System RAM (Score: 150) - RAM Speed: 2885 MB/sCPU Tests (Score: 558) - Floating Point Operations/Second: 203427336 - Integer Operations/Second: 543665640 - MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 755186Graphics Tests (Score: 0) - 3D Frames Per Second: 0Hardware Tests (Score: 25) - Primary Partition Capacity: 233 GB - Drive Write Speed: 92 MB/s I appreciate this does not give you much information but is there anything you could suggest I could try to increase the CPU score? Many thanks in advance. Jamie Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Nathan 71 Report post Posted March 8, 2013 Is the score consistently lower? There are a few things that might be causing this: a process running during the test using CPU, insufficient power supply, CPU running too hot, power settings of the OS, etc. Check some of those first. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
RobinD 0 Report post Posted March 14, 2013 Tip's to get the best performance out of your computer before you do your benchmark. 1. Got to Run, type in msconfig 2. Got to Boot tab. 3 Advanced Settings 4. Number of processors 5. Choose whats best for your CPU 6. Unpick the Maximum memory 7. Go to OK, Save and Exit, Reboot system. Whilst running a benchmark program, best to close all unneeded programs in Task Manager > Ctrl+Alt+Delete and choose Task Manager, click on an item, Right click and End Process. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
JamieM 0 Report post Posted March 15, 2013 Nathan & RobinD - many thanks for your input... I will try all of these ideas... very helpful. Thank you. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites