Benchmark Results: Synthetics
Synthetics
The System Builder Marathon team decided to put two 3D Mark Vantage scores in this month for the $500 PC and its GPU PhysX-enabled 8800 GT and drivers. For the first run, we used default settings, which most readers will likely use, while PPU was disabled and hardware PhysX was shut off for the second run.
Let’s now take a closer look at these scores.
The substantial boost seen in the Performance profile comes from the second CPU test, where the physics workload is shifted from the CPU to the available PhysX hardware, which in this case is not a dedicated PhysX card, but our GeForce 8800 GT. For the overclocked PC, the overall CPU score jumps from around 5,200 in each profile with PPU disabled to 26,000 at default settings. Although this doesn’t weigh in heavy in the Extreme overall score, it does in the Performance profile test.
Including both charts allows for a fair comparison of the direct scores among all our System Builder Marathon machines, but doing this also allows us to take advantage of these synthetic benchmarks to look at the exciting possibilities that GPU PhysX offers.
Owners of a GeForce 8-series card or newer who want to experience GPU PhysX now could download the GeForce Power Pack from Nvidia’s site that contains among other things the Unreal Tournament PhysX Mod and the game War Monger.
Also, if you want to see if your game of choice is PhysX-enabled (and there fore relevant to this comparison, check here.
The added CPU speeds and doubled FSB frequency give a good boost in the system, productivity, and even the memory test. We see little improvement in the hard drive test, though. These results relate well to what we have already seen throughout our application testing.
We close out the testing suite with significant and rather consistent gains in all three of the Sandra benchmarks.
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Looking at the three systems that TH has put together for these reviews:
All the CPU's are of INTEL, does this mean that AMD is not an economical option in any of these price/performance brackets?
obviously not, this test is for price/power. if economy was a big factor in these reviews then im sure an amd proc would of gone in this computer.most likely not the super pc tho
It means that AMD simply isn't giving a decent power
rice ratio. As good as some of the chips AMD has released they just don't quite get there in terms of what you're paying for in comparison
Surely (as suggested in the article as an alternative) an X2 6000 which is already a 3ghz CPU would be a better long-term bet than a heavily overclocked Intel?
I woud have thought that for those with only $500 to spend, they would also be looking for years of stability rather than ultimate raw speed /shrug
Kyzarvs> well said. The conclusion I got, was there is nothing out there for $500 and you'll have to overclock.
What if you don't want to overclock?
Would anyone here play games at 800x600 to get a good frame rate with high detail. For some parts of crysis I did. guess what - it was still a great game.
well said, waxdart.
cheers,
bill
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Well AMD can't compete with Intel at the low because of:
However the choice of a E2180 is a bit stupid IMHO.
Bob
Kyzarvs> well said. The conclusion I got, was there is nothing out there for $500 and you'll have to overclock.What if you don't want to overclock?Would anyone here play games at 800x600 to get a good frame rate with high detail. For some parts of crysis I did. guess what - it was still a great game.
Well put it this way, Would you Spend £250/$500 to run Games @ 800x600 And then be outrun by something even cheaper in the next couple of months?
You have to look at it this way;
Spend Money on a good PC that will Outrun for months/year.
Or Spend a little amount on a PC; which you can overclock to the max and then buy another pc for a little amount once it has been outrun?
Great review guys,
Gareth.
How much are motherboard's?