PCMark Vantage and PCMark 05 world records

lately there has been some, 1 run 1 score type threads, let me tell you this is definatly not 1 run 1 score, and im not going to front, im not warming up either, im definatly warm, and im doing my best hah..

PLATFORM:
Gigabyte X58A-UD3R w/ gulfy 980X
MSI Lightning 5870 GPU
Corsair GTX2 rams
Corsair FORCE sandforce SSDs
Areca 1280ML raid controller
ANS ACARD 9010
Western Digital Velicoraptors sata3 600GB
GTX280 for XP pcmark05

I have so much respect for guys like SteveRo, MikeGuava, CptPlanet and even my team mate Dino. This platform is extremely difficult to bench and to get any good score on it you really need to know you stuff, not only that, put in a big effort in learning the bench to maximize your performance.

Even when you get it right, these big raid0 arrays can let you down easily, so have your image and your ghost bootable usb handy!

NO TWEAKS here, if you want to try and pick apart my benches, please do it, nothing to hide in my benches

Taking a look at the platform,

The Gigabyte UD3R is a really nice little board. I picked this board because it is what I need for this bench, offering all the functionality of a UD9 (of course with not as many PCIE slots) and not a huge amount going on with the board. This is important when there is so much going on with the raid array and the rest of the setup.

The MSI Lightning 5870 is a considerable jump over all the stock 5870s I have tried, this GPU goes to 1040MHz Vantage stable on stock cooling and is happy to push way past 1400 MHz on LN2, an outstanding GPU.

Corsair GTX2 ram, this is the kit I rely on to pull out the big numbers. I am not even pushing it on this occasion, 1070 at 7-7-7 would be a breeze for future runs I do.

Areca 1280ML is a legendary raid controller, it is unpeered in all the benchmarks we play with, and has been for years. I have tried raid controllers from 3 other vendors and my scores can no touch this raid controller. If you want to win at pcmark, you need ARECA.

Corsair Force SSDs, wow these SSD have some power in them. Dino prove that a pcmark vantage score is possible with them, and we already know with the right configuration they kick ass at pcmark05 also

Of course I always use my WD Velicoraptor as my bench drive, it is fast, stable, 600GB lets me run many OS variations and it can handle higher PCIE than when I use SSD.

Oh just a few quick tips, pcmark vantage, make sure your benching drive has enough free space like 3GB+ or the bench might not run. PCMARK Vantage I run on server 2008 R2, you need to enable desktop experience this gives you windows mail and media player.. or bench wont run. I find for pcm05 that w7 64 is better because it gives a more consistent memory latency especially, or else it goes up and down a bit when pushing the rams... 4k stripe size on the pcmv and PUSH your pcie as hard as you can...

Here are of course the scores!

39k PCMark Vantage
39k futuremark valid
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...pcmv_39100.jpg

144k HDD score
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/hdd_144k.jpg

35K PCMARK05
35k futuremark valid
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...5_w7_35364.jpg

29K PCM05 on XP - my score for ORB as it only allows XP
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...5_xp_29163.jpg

Now for some photos, this is the best part of this platform, the EPIC look!

full tilt
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/IMG_0570.jpg

the lightning ready to go
http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/IMG_0564.jpg

my warm up rig with the new heatsink from zero infinity, more of this soon
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http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...k/IMG_0520.jpg

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...ezy/gotssd.jpg

sick setup man.

http://sf3d.pp.fi/images/open/sleep.jpg

I tried to read it trough.. but PCmark is just so boring :shakes:

sf3d 1
pro 0

i can dig your comment though petri, for me all 3dmark except 3d01 is very boring

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I tried to read it trough.. but PCmark is just so boring :shakes:

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You know SF3D I'm a straight shooter and have the balls that most others don't.

I call stuff as I see it and guess what man, bottom line if you have nothing nice to say ( and you seem to have alot of that lately ) then don't say anything.

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Originally Posted by chew*

You know SF3D I'm a straight shooter and have the balls that most others don't.

I call stuff as I see it and guess what man, bottom line if you have nothing nice to say ( and you seem to have alot of that lately ) then don't say anything.

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If you dont have any sense of humour, don't bother.

I think James got it right :up:

of course i did man, i know you style, if you want to diss you are straight to the point :)

Dude you're insane.. Sick stuff man :clap:

Takes more than gem cpu's and binned vga's to pull this off :up:

Good job as always bro ;)

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Originally Posted by chew*

I call stuff as I see it and guess what man, bottom line if you have nothing nice to say ( and you seem to have alot of that lately ) then don't say anything.

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@Petri Seeing a bunch of SSDs wakes me up, seeing PCMark makes me sleepy - you somehow nailed what I was thinkin' too :D

Anyway I have big respect for people that still fuddle around with all thoose issues round about PC Mark and get out some good scores out of that bench pro :up:

Well done!!
You may have a lot of patience for all these connections..:p:

Edit: No more windows vista for pcmark?

I love PCMark setups :up: Looks like a fun rig, I imagine it's been many long hours figuring crap out on Vantage. Nice work :)

Way to go James, awesome scores mate! :up:
Maaaan am I seeing correctly? You're using 1250MHz CL5 Dominator DDR2 for your Acard? :D Haven't seen these modules in action since the Conroe days :yepp:

One more thing I'd like to add. I always throught that Vista is better than 7 for PCMark05, because basically Transparent Windows suck on Windows 7 (Aero isn't as fast as in Vista). Of course I'm talking about Vista 32bit, because 64bit stress the CPU a bit more... Anyway, congrats again and major thanks for sharing with us! :up:

huge achievement, sick setup , my respect is yours !

Good afternoon Mr Youngpro - much congrats sir! :up:
Job well done, very nice clocks! :yepp:

Congrats Mr.PCMark :p: :D

thanks to everyone for your kind comments,

i think the world would be a boring place if we all liked the same benchmarks haha

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Originally Posted by geobot24

Edit: No more windows vista for pcmark?

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well imo its much a muchness, vista indeed does give a great transparent windows but windows 7 gives a much better memory latency.. in my testing i find that in most circumstances your scores are almost equal..

my recommendation would be this,

if you have a great cpu and you have alot of cpu mhz, then run windows vista as transparent windows is a CPU benchmark, it scales heavily with cpu, so you will maximize your score.. and if your running AMD definatly vista as your memory latency wont be great anyway

if you dont have a great cpu (like mine, which is great for 2 cores and took 32m wr, but has one horrible core) then look at windows 7, you can push your ram and take advantage of the memory latency improvements in windows 7

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Originally Posted by George_o/c

Way to go James, awesome scores mate! :up:
Maaaan am I seeing correctly? You're using 1250MHz CL5 Dominator DDR2 for your Acard? :D Haven't seen these modules in action since the Conroe days :yepp:

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haha for sure, they were the ish back in the conroe days fitting they find their way back into a benching platform in 2010

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Originally Posted by SteveRo

Good afternoon Mr Youngpro - much congrats sir! :up:

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thanks dude, i think in truth you though, are Mr PCMARK :)

Big congratulations to James, you put in so much effort (and Dino) to get these achievements so they are very much deserved.
So what is your tally now of World Records (real ones!) across benchmarks? I think people should recognise that you have now had a WR in EVERY benchmark (isn't it?).

thanks dude,

LOL dude no way not even close, i have never got AM3, 3d05, pi 1M and pifast...

i definatly want AM3 though, the others are very boring haha..

maybe one day when i get some amazing cpu i will get an opportunity for these CPU intensive benchmarks though.. i definatly wouldnt turn it down :)

OK, i guess i just thought you are better than you really are :P

Well Done James :)

i never run pcmark, but it seems it needs patience and hard work. good work pro:up:

keep it rocking man this benchmark kicks arse :up:

Very impressive work James, a lot of time and dedication went into these scores! :clap:

Continuated pushing :up:

Beg up

PCMark?

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Just kidding. Well done :up:

Wow - tough bunch on this subforum! :)
I think I'll stay over on the storage forum where I belong! :yepp:

amazing job again :up:

Nice array setup ;)
Lovin your work pro :up:

:) Neat stuff as usual James :up:

Sick setup!

you my friend have the patience of a saint:)


Nice work as always!:up:

awesome stuff here James. pcmark05 always one of my favorite benches, the complexity and tweakability of it goes so in depth. you have pulled off a master score here, and I am loving the ssd/ramdrive setup your using. A+ :D

Great work!

gratz Mr. Pcmark :D

Nice work. I should run PCMark Vantge once, just for fun.

extremely noobish and probably naive question, but whats with the via-based board? the one with all the corsair memory sticking out of it and looks like its circa 2002.

is it where you ran the RAID corsair force ssds from?

sorry ive never seen such a crazy setup.

great job btw! :up:

that's the IRAM rig which powers the IRAM controllers nothing more

i'm using an old Compaq board myself for the same thing

http://desmond.yfrog.com/Himg801/sca...=640&ysize=640

@ Mr Dinos - how many irams can you bring to the party?
The magic number for the 1231/acards seem to be 5x or 7xR0.
Seems like 7 is a little better at the higher clocks - no idea why.

i think dino can throw 7 irams at the cause..

thanks dinos for the clarification. and holy batman youre setup looks crazy too. phase change, h20 cooling, ssd, all that stuff together probably cost more than my car.

Hey James,

I had a crack at it today too :D

PCMARK Vantage: 39,275

• GIGABYTE X58A-UD9 with 980X @ 5.55ghz
• GIGABYTE 5870 SOC GPU
• Corsair GTX2
• GIGABYTE iRAM x5
• ARECA 1231ML raid controller with only 2GB cache
• Corsair AX1200 1200W PSU
• F1 Gemini CPU pot

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=365739

http://img706.imageshack.us/img706/3530/pcmv393k.jpg

wtf dino you beat me, and make me look like f(L)ucking idiot in my own thread!

how come you have to use UD9 and SOC to beat me? haha

no probrem, now it is your turn, 40229

but stevero still kick us both

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...zy/40200-1.jpg

:rofl::rofl: pulls out a backup for 2nd :D

LOL you can call me chispy, yo chispy didnt you have a backup for AM3 for a top20 result? :rofl:

what is important is that I am number one in Australia haha

Backups, what are backups? ... :D

edit - when are you gentlemen getting your 4GB cache?
You will be catching up quickly when you do. :yepp:

Well done you crazy guys...:p:

Nice work there boys - some sick setups and awesome runs :clap::up:

really sick setups!!!

Looks like I might need to get another Areca card :)

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Originally Posted by Planet

Looks like I might need to get another Areca card :)

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Welcome back Mr. Planet long time no see - yes the 1880 is looking pretty good so far.

switch to UD7

http://i200.photobucket.com/albums/a...mark/36100.jpg

:up: great job james, seems battle starts btw u guys.

my 980x do 6180 at 1.75 vcore
nice score

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Originally Posted by subzero 1979

my 980x do 6180 at 1.75 vcore

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thanks for that interesting fact :clap:

the greeks posted a very nice score after their recent event, with dinos111 being involved you know there is potential massive pcmark05 score,

play around a bit yesterday and was able to come up with 39487, damnit system crashed before i opened all CPUZ windows

again similar platform

GIGABYTE X58A-UD7
CORSAIR GTX2
CORSAIR AX1200
ARECA 1280ML
2x ANS ACARD 9010
2x CORSAIR FORCE 60GB SSD

YOUTUBE VIDEO - a bit shaky sorry, done on my iphone
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finally got a good mount lol
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Thats nice and everythign, but when are you going to start benching good benchmarks?

:rocker: killer run

good benchmarks :shrug:

3dmark01, superpi 32m and pcmark right? :yepp::yepp:

well the 32m and pcmark is done, so i guess i need to do 3d01 now?

prime :cheer: prime :cheer: prime :cheer:

unless it really kills chips ( have only one-time experience with a damn ES)

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good benchmarks :shrug:

3dmark01, superpi 32m and pcmark right? :yepp::yepp:

well the 32m and pcmark is done, so i guess i need to do 3d01 now?

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Nice score James . Congrats !!! :up:
We'll play again after we manage to upgrade our storage configuration ...

I have to agree with your benchmark list . :D

Great score James :) as always nice work , now can you explain to me what kind of tweak you use for that HD General Usage Score of almost 1000K ? Maybe thats the tweak i am missing and i dont know how to get it up there , i have been messing around with similar setup , A few Acards , a few OCZ SF SSDS , Areca 1231ML , MSI5870 Lightning , Asus R3E all on a 6.2GHZ Gulfie and my HD General Use and Virus Scan its not as high as those of yours or near, you know for how long i have been playing PCMark05 maybe i neeed your guidance :D to post monster scores. Again please can you tell me how or what do you do to get such a high HD General Use and Virus Scan score ? If you dont want to share in public send me a PM Thanks in advance James.

Kind Regards: Angelo.

theres no "tweak" dude, its just getting your arrays setup nice :)

Sick scores young-PCMark-pro :up:

PCmark is not my favorite bench, but it is nice to play a little bit and learn more about system stability and raid :)

But one fact in PCMark always surprises me... how can you gain some advantage using ACARD/iRAM and (!) SSD Raids?
You can install PCMark just on one drive/array... or do you use the swap file / page file on one array and PCMark on the other one?

Thanks :)

chispy maybe you should ask the greeks for tips, they kick my ass in hdd virusscan

loopy83, bro pcmark is heavy rely on the hdd for its tests, so you select your acard as the bench drive, and it can do all the hdd tests on there, ssd/acard/irams all nice with pcmark

Ah I see... thanks for the info.
I know that the score is very HDD dependent. What do you mean with "select your acard as the bench drive": install PCMark on this array?
Or is there a extra option in PCMark to bin the HDD tests to an extra drive?
So my problem in understanding your raid-configuration is, why do you use several very fast arrays and not only the fastest one?
If there is no option to bin the HDD tests, you can only run PCMark on one array... maybe your choice is the ACARD array, why do you need another SSD array?
I surely need more information to understand this benchmark :D

Maybe I will test PCMark with a SSD raid0 (I have no iRAM/Acard) in the next time... I`m very interested in this bench :)

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chispy maybe you should ask the greeks for tips, they kick my ass in hdd virusscan

loopy83, bro pcmark is heavy rely on the hdd for its tests, so you select your acard as the bench drive, and it can do all the hdd tests on there, ssd/acard/irams all nice with pcmark

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Thank you James for the PM , appreciated :up: , i will not call it tweak anymore but more of a high knowledge Raid0 configurations. Great benching bro , keep on hammering PCMark05 , your knowledge and understanding of this benchmark is wayyyyy far ahead of most of us :D.

Kind Regards: Chispy.

Well done for the score pro..;)

But its down....why?

There is a requirement for a full screen on hwbot new rules, since I couldn't provide it (system crashed between first screenshot and opening all cpuz windows), my submission is invalid,

i think this is positive, it makes me go back and rebench and try for 40k haha