New PCMark Vantage World Record - Thanks to All of You

[Computurd]

lol now your tallking. i am going to pick up an 1880 as well just for kicks. might be waiting a while for the 6gb/s ssd though. i think the new intels coming q4 look just about right, either that or the jetstream from iddilinx. we will see when that day comes.
OR if i can sell these 8 vertex 30 gb for 80 bucks apiece i might just pick up 8 x-25v

[mbreslin]

I was at least glad to find out crucial is doing both oem and standard retail boxes, my wife is going to lose her mind when she finds out I spent 6k$+ on just "some computer drives"

[Biker]

*just checking in*

Congrats Steve!

Great score

Beating that is going to prove seriously expensive

Ps. Sandforce is hitting the stores on Monday... my wallet and CC are both in hiding

[SteveRo]

HDD Test Suite 56159

HDD Test Suite
HDD 1
HDD - Windows Defender 293.72 MB/s
HDD 2
HDD - gaming 168.48 MB/s
HDD 3
HDD - importing pictures to Windows Photo Gallery 225.32 MB/s
HDD 4
HDD - Windows Vista startup 341.74 MB/s
HDD 5
HDD - video editing using Windows Movie Maker 235.23 MB/s
HDD 6
HDD - Windows Media Center 505.41 MB/s
HDD 7
HDD - adding music to Windows Media Player 178.03 MB/s
HDD 8
HDD - application loading 272.23 MB/s


new one right now

Excellent - I think 53K is the highest I have ever got in the HDD vantage bench.

[SteveRo]

oh I know it doesnt use more than 4 cores, but the gulfy is a bit quicker (especially versus my qx9650) as it is.

As soon as intel finally releases the thing I will have:

i7 x980 @ 5ghz+ on my ruffus SS (-35C @ 300 watt load)
6gb of DDR3 2000+mhz
5870CF (I dont think CF works for vantage though so I am probably better off taking the better ocing single card)
4x x25-E on 9211 (ich10 may be faster)

If I had a 1231 then I'd have a good chance of taking it.

edit: lets take top 3 or top 5 for xs ?

PCMark vantage responds very well to cpu oc.
5ghz w/o 1231 might still take it.
Look at Mike G's details (now #2) compared to mine - he beat me in most of the subscores - his WR stayed on top for 7 months.
I suspect Mike had a huge stable cpu OC - I had to beat him big time in a couple of the HDD subscores to pass him overall.
I agree - top 5 for XS would be great!

[SteveRo]

Hi, first congratulations Steve! I'm new to xs but have a build coming in the next week or 2, grabbing the 9211 and 9260 and as soon as they are available 256g c300 8R0,
look forward to benching with you guys, I'll let some of you guinea pig the new erecas and if one stands out i'll grab it too

Welcome! - always nice to have a new member with fun toys!

[SteveRo]

lol now your tallking. i am going to pick up an 1880 as well just for kicks. might be waiting a while for the 6gb/s ssd though. i think the new intels coming q4 look just about right, either that or the jetstream from iddilinx. we will see when that day comes.
OR if i can sell these 8 vertex 30 gb for 80 bucks apiece i might just pick up 8 x-25v

I ebayed eight 30GB turbos a couple weeks ago for 100+ each, you should have no problem getting $80 ea for yours - just don't wait too long.
And absolutely - yes - four or more x25-v's is a killer set up - do a compare for us: ich10 vs 9260 with x25-v's!

[SteveRo]

*just checking in*

Congrats Steve!

Great score

Beating that is going to prove seriously expensive

Ps. Sandforce is hitting the stores on Monday... my wallet and CC are both in hiding

I concur, tempatation is huge!
I am trying to hold off for a 980 - 16Mar.

[Tiltevros]

ok here is some news benchmarks with pcmark vantage
HDD Test Suite 57447

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=283233

[SteveRo]

ok here is some news benchmarks with pcmark vantage
HDD Test Suite 57447

http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=283233

excellent numbers and yes - missing cpu - cute.

[Tiltevros]

that means that im running pcmark vandage without cpu??? LOL?? i thing that my rig doesnt need any cpu to run hahahahhahahah
nice work futuremark

[Metroid]

Amazing, took so long for somebody to break it. Great work indeed!

[[XC] Oj101]

I'm dying of laughter at your 4K read speeds, how the hell is that possible? Aaaaahahahahahahahaha!! Well done mate!

[SteveRo]

I'm dying of laughter at your 4K read speeds, how the hell is that possible? Aaaaahahahahahahahaha!! Well done mate!

Good morning,

Not sure which bench your looking at but if it looks to good to be true its most likely due to the 4GB cache on the raid controller.
Using iometer - run at 1 minute, queue depth @ 64 - I can get 4K random read of 195MB/s - just shy of 50K iops.
I think that is mostly the acard array (DDR2 based) - though controller cache always helps some - I'm sure.
See the spread sheet in this screen shot -

http://img708.imageshack.us/img708/7029/wr105.png

[[XC] Oj101]

I'm not questioning it, it's one of those things that you think you'll never live to see and when you finally do all you can do is laugh

[Tiltevros]

here is without cache. SteveRo i think that giving up the 9211 was a major mistake mate

the 1rst is testing with sequential 4k @ 32 IO/s
the 2nd is testing with random 4k @ 32 IO/s

[SteveRo]

here is without cache. SteveRo i think that giving up the 9211 was a major mistake mate

the 1rst is testing with sequential 4k @ 32 IO/s
the 2nd is testing with random 4k @ 32 IO/s

Yep, you are almost 50% more iops than me at 4k random - the 9211 is an amazing controller.

If I oc the pcie to rather dangerous levels (120) - I can get closer - 232MB/s vs yours - 286 -

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=245367

[Tiltevros]

@ SteveRo any news from Foremay???

[SteveRo]

@ Tilt - nothing yet

[Metroid]

Hey SteveRO, could you do some benchmarks using the 2 X25-V 40GB in raid without the Areca controller? I want to compare it to an X25-M 80GB using Trim. I wonder which one would be faster 2 x X25-V 40GB or 1 x X25-M 80GB. I would like to know if X25-M 80GB Trim = 2 x X25-V 40GB Raid0.

[Tiltevros]

Its very intresting to see the difference in gaining points @ PCmark Vantage
Here are 2 results very simillar but with different scores

[SteveRo]

Hey SteveRO, could you do some benchmarks using the 2 X25-V 40GB in raid without the Areca controller? I want to compare it to an X25-M 80GB using Trim. I wonder which one would be faster 2 x X25-V 40GB or 1 x X25-M 80GB. I would like to know if X25-M 80GB Trim = 2 x X25-V 40GB Raid0.

Good morning Met, already done - see first post, third screen shot at -

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=245120

[Metroid]

Good night bed time for me, I missed that one, Thank you so much!

[onex]

why does it gives only 195MBps with 6*ACARDS on the ML?
it gave a better score with 4 on the ICH10R..
it should give ~the same results with 2, the ICH10R over there^^ the ICH must be limiting it yet it still scales less then the 4*X-25V's reaching ~110k.

the 1231ML should have drawback against the 9210/9211 testing speed with it's cache enabled,
it'd go strait to the CPU with an HBA...
computurd has shown 158KIOPs with an 9260-i8 and 8*32GB vertexes, yet could it be that the IOMeter test was testing with a small file so actually the cache was tested?
the 9260 seems like a better choice anyway...

RAIDing 2*ACARD's on the ICH10R and adding the other 4 on a 9210 should really scale better ..
..
you already did that,
it gave 95KIOPs at 4KB random and 372MBps!

or u needed the 4GB cache of the 1231 for the vantage tests...
this is quite confusing man .

[SteveRo]

Onex - yes, I agree - very confusing - the SSD benchmarks never seem to agree as you would expect.