- Boot Time (from power on until all icons loaded in system tray, in seconds)
- PCMark Vantage
- 3DMark 11
- Excel Number Calculation (macro code generating calculations, lots of them. Measured in seconds)
- Game loading Civ V
- Sweet Home 3D picture rendering
- CrystalDiskMark (seq) - read
- CrystalDiskMark (seq) - write
- WinZip compression (3GB of bmp images)
My old system have the following specs: Windows Vista 32-bit, AMD 64 X2 dual core at 2,8 GHz, 4 GB RAM (300 MHZ) , Sapphire HD 5870 GPU.
Never got that PCMark Vantage to work though. The first time I ran the benchmark, an error came up saying I didn't have the right registration code. The second time I tried, the the error message said the registration code can only be used once. Never mind - I took PCMark Vantage out of the benchmark test.
Here is the result of the benchmark. It’s pretty much in line with my expectations. I’m particularly happy with the improvements for boot; CrystalDiskMark, and compression. That’s were the SSD come in play. The gaming benchmark (3DMark 11) is also great.Should I now over-clock to jack up these numbers? Maybe another day. With this little benchmark test, I conclude this blog. I hope it showed some useful information, or at least provided some joy for those of you who red it.
Cheers!
