PCMark2002 Scores for Dual Athlon MP Motherboards

[JoshT]

System 1:
Asus A7M266-D
2 x Athlon MP 2000+
1024 MB ECC PC2100 DDR ( 2 x 512 MB )
VisionTek GeForce 2 MX 400 32MB
Intel Pro/1000 MT NIC
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2110S Controller (in 64-bit PCI slot)
3 x Seagate ST318452LW 18.4 Ultra160 SCSI HDD in RAID 5

CPU: 4702
MEM: 2681
HDD: 1062

System 2:
MSI K7D Master
2 x Athlon MP 2000+
1024 MB ECC PC2100 DDR ( 2 x 512 MB )
VisionTek GeForce 2 MX 400 32MB
Intel Pro/1000 MT NIC
Adaptec SCSI RAID 2100S Controller (in 32-bit PCI slot)
3 x Seagate ST318452LW 18.4 Ultra160 SCSI HDD in RAID 5

CPU: 4792
MEM: 2520
HDD: 738

Tested with clean, default Windows 2000 Professional install + SP3. On board sound, secondary IDE controllers disabled in BIOS - I can't remember if I disabled any serial/parallel ports, but it would be the same for each board.

I guess a 64-bit PCI slot makes a big difference, but the SCSI controllers are slightly different - the 2110S is half height, the 2100S is 32-bit only. I don't think the benchmark cares about the second CPU either.

[JungleMan]

PCMark is one of the dumbest benchmarks I have seen in my life. My tweaked out Athlon XP system (With DDR) scores about 3 times less in the Memory benchmark than some guy's Compaq with XP1900 and DDR, so obviously the benchmark is wack.

I usually use Sandra for benchmarking-- I can't say there are many, if any, good PC benchmarks, but Sandra is tons better than PCMark. I use HDTach for hard drive results.

How's 3DMark? Typically dual boards (since they are restricted by the AMD chipset and lack of good memory bandwidth) don't do as well in 3DMark.

[SirSpeedy113]

Originally posted by Jungle-Man
PCMark is one of the dumbest benchmarks I have seen in my life. My tweaked out Athlon XP system (With DDR) scores about 3 times less in the Memory benchmark than some guy's Compaq with XP1900 and DDR, so obviously the benchmark is wack.

well obviously that's me and stop hating on my compaq just because you didnt score higher.... I bet that If you had a higher score, you would have been saying it's the best

anyway, you are kinda right.. I mean I can't be getting 9000 on CPU or can i?

-Emo

[JungleMan]

Give me a break, 3 times higher? Something is messed up seriously.

MadOnion makes inaccurate but popular benchmarks, and PCMark is even worse than 3DMark.

[JoshT]

Yes, I guess PCMark isn't too good - and have two computers with nearly identical configurations (exact same MB and HDD) and there was a huge difference in the HDD score. I wonder how hard it would be to write my own benchmark - it'd be like get time, do something, get time, see how long it took.

[parksie]

http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ht...benchmark.html

[SirSpeedy113]

Originally posted by parksie
http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/jargon/ht...benchmark.html

hahahah so true

-Emo