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Performance of my new computer…
Posted by Kelly Adams on October 20th, 2006 
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As mentioned in my previous post, I’ve built a new machine. And I’ve completed my first performance test on it, before any optimizations and with an out of date video driver. Here is what I got running 3D Mark 2006:
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And here is the result of the same test run on my old machine:
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That looks like a 3-fold improvement to me, which is better than I expected. I would have been happy with double the performance. But 3DMark 2006 looks at performance for future games: games that might be out *next* year. 3DMark 2003 is a test probably more in tune with games that exist today: here are the results from that test on each machine:
3DMark 2003 results
- Old machine:Â 10,257
- New machine:Â 18,405
So, for “current” technology games, my new machine is probably about twice as fast as the old one. I also tried 3dMark 2005, but for some reason it failed (crashed on the second test) on my old machine. On the new system, the 3DMark 2005 score was 11,262
October 20th, 2006 at 8:08 pm
The faster the computer, the slower the owner is about responding to emails
October 21st, 2006 at 12:04 am
My bad: I responded to your Mom, and whatever neuron handles such things decided that was the same as responding to you.
But one thing is true: now I can waste time really, really fast!
October 21st, 2006 at 10:03 am
“But one thing is true: now I can waste time really, really fast! ;)”
That’s good. In today’s world efficiency is important!
