Gaming Tests
3DMark Vantage
A reliable and popular benchmark, 3DMark Vantage can provide a good insight into overall gaming performance of a system.
Valve Source Particle Simulation
Valve released this particle simulation test a while back for benchmarking platforms and CPUs.
Valve Source Map Compilation
More of a developer test than gamer test, this benchmark is indicative of how long it takes a system to compile a map.
More positive results for the new SNB architecture as it takes a performance lead in 3DMark Vantage and the aging Valve Source tests over everything but the 980X.
You guys are still using
You guys are still using handbrake 0.9.2 to test? Do you have any idea how many SSE optimizations have gone into x264 (the main component of HB) since then? There are even a few AVX instructions in the newest x264. Some encoding work functions have increased in speed by as much as 50% for Nehalem and more recent processors. Please consider updating your test platform.
Use your head Anthony, fact
Use your head Anthony, fact is I am sure most of these benches were done when 9.2 was the current version of handbrake. I would hate to see half of these benches done on 9.2 and half on 9.5. Those results would be rather inaccurate.
I am sure that at a point PCPER will update the version and re evaluate the processors accordingly.
Yeah last I checked, other
Yeah last I checked, other sites do that on an annual basis. Anand does it every year for his storage bench. Do you know how old 0.9.2 is? Try February 2008, over three years ago. Time to give up the ghost and rebenchmark a set of CPUs on 0.9.5 with the new defaults for HB to give users an idea of what the difference is today in terms of performance, not with ancient code from 3 years ago.
I have a system with an Intel
I have a system with an Intel DX58SO2 mother board.
Once I’m in the BIOS setup menu, how can I change the
“Boot Drive Priority”?
It looks like you use F10
It looks like you use F10 during boot to bring up the boot menu, not having seen it I can’t say for sure, but that menu is probably a bit more complex than just choosing a temporary boot device.