PCMark Vantage World Records

[Musho]

hi mate

yes i am just playing around on this platform and i must say i have become a bit addicted to this benchmark

unfortunately Adaptec engineers are not willing to improve their card so i have to use ICH10 for now and even 2xSSDs is good enough for about 30K all air...maybe a bit more once its all running perfect.

SSD and stripe size will definitely give you a huge boost there but that is the only advantage i have over you guys with ACARDS.....i'll throw the thing subzero and give it a try but i would KILL for one of these 1231ML controllers to get the most out of 4xdrives.....or even more if it will scale

i used Patriot's new Sandforce based drives for this bench

Really nice result! What stripe size were you using for that run? Thanks!

[dinos22]

32K

[SteveRo]

32K

Excellent! Did you make it public!

edit - oh 32k stripe!, I thought you meant you got a pcmv 32k score - my bad

[dinos22]

i made another one public
which took a hit in a couple of drive tests....bench is inconsistent

anyways i dont stand a chance with SSDs against acards so im just playing for fun

[SteveRo]

i made another one public
which took a hit in a couple of drive tests....bench is inconsistent

anyways i dont stand a chance with SSDs against acards so im just playing for fun

Yes, the subtest numbers move around way to much from test to test - don't know why.
It seems to get worse the higher you get.

[dinos22]

Yes, the subtest numbers move around way to much from test to test - don't know why.
It seems to get worse the higher you get.

well they should be similar in terms of percentages of movement but i havent seen any great deal of difference in movement when i checked CPU scaling outside the usual 1-2% variation or so in overall bench score (hhd test obviously much greater)

[SteveRo]

Good morning,

Another Cascade progress report - I have improved my pcmv score a bit more - now at 38226 - http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=345375

config -
980x @ 5238 (27x194),
uncore @ 22x,
Dominator GT 2KC7 @ 10x 7-7-6-20-1T.
Gigabyte x58 UD7.
Areca 1231ML-4G
Acard 9010s @ 7xR0 4k stripe
Cooling via an sdumper provided Cascade.

With cpuv @ ~1.78v, I'm having trouble with the pcmv cpu gaming test - huge heat generator overwhelming the evaporator.

I can use the new oc on the fly easytune6 to get around this but it kills the storage system performance, still trying to figure out why.

edit - config info above

[dinos22]

no point beating your own records bro
give someone else a poke first............let's start seeing mike pull out the big guns heheh

[SteveRo]

Mike should have no problem beating what I have so far.
I'm surprised he's let me stay on top as long as he has.
I was trying to make it a little more of a challenge for him

[Expat GriZ]

Congrats Steve!! Well done. You've almost got me conviced to start playing this game.....but getting tired of waiting on new Areca 1880.

Thinking LSI 9260 with FP & 4 Vertex 2's. Big $$$, but I'll sneak it past the boss one of these days.

[SteveRo]

@ Expat - FYI - the #4 position in pcmv HOF standings shows as untitled but is actually Mr mbreslin's most excellent 980x with 5xR0 c300's on 9260-8i @ 31252.

Also, Mr Dinos's #5 run @ 29746 - I believe - is 980x/4 SF drives on ich10!

A 980x/9260 with 4 vertex 2's could be a huge player in pcmv.

edit - if you could pick up an open box 1231 and attach 4x vertex 2's - wow - i might be chaising you for the lead

[Computurd]

yes the game is changing with the sandforce, they are very strong! some excellent results posted there DInos! wow!

God it is getting harder to wait for G3 intels....this is making me antsy.

[Anvil]

Steve

Almost 2K points in just one month

The SF based drives are great for pcmv but they do need to be fresh, performance drops on the SF drives just like other drives.
Still, I don't think it is possible to beat your setup using current SSD's, mainly due to the exceptional performance of the Acard's at low QD.
(some new controller with a huge cache might help a bit, however, it does look like the huge cache might disappear, other/new solutions will take over, e.g. CacheCade, MaxIQ, ...)

[AceNZ]

What sort of storage-oriented tweaks are possible to help improve pcmv scores? For example, can you spread the files it accesses across multiple volumes?

[SteveRo]

@ ace - There are lots of things you can do to tune for pcmv performance - read this thread, also take a look at the info posted as part of the vantage public scores, also look at tweaking advice found here -

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=tweak

http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...ighlight=tweak

[SteveRo]

Steve

Almost 2K points in just one month

The SF based drives are great for pcmv but they do need to be fresh, performance drops on the SF drives just like other drives.
Still, I don't think it is possible to beat your setup using current SSD's, mainly due to the exceptional performance of the Acard's at low QD.
(some new controller with a huge cache might help a bit, however, it does look like the huge cache might disappear, other/new solutions will take over, e.g. CacheCade, MaxIQ, ...)

Yes but still 1.8k from 40 and I saw elsewhere that Mike is doing ln2 this weekend - oh well, it was fun while it lasted!

I would think that higher qdepth performance helps in pcmv also - seems like SF drives have it all over acards at higher qdepth.

I thought that combined with 1231 large 4GB cache might be the ticket.

[dinos22]

slow down so i can try catch you with SSDs

[SteveRo]

slow down so i can try catch you with SSDs

I would really like to see 4 SF OR 4 c300s on a 1231ML-4g - I think that might beat acards.

[dinos22]

im getting one so yeah you will see that

[SteveRo]

im getting one so yeah you will see that

That should definately be a killer setup.

[Computurd]

*grabs popcorn*

[SteveRo]

Good morning all,
Ok so a small increase this time.
I think I might be done for a while -38684
http://service.futuremark.com/compare?pcmv=346157

config -
980x @ 5190 (29x179),
Uncore @ 25x,
Dominator GT 2KC7 @ 2148 7-7-6-20-1T,
Gigabyte x58 UD7,
Oldie but goodie- Areca 1231ML-4G,
Acard 9010s @ 7xR0, 4k stripe, pcie 118,
Most excellent cooling via an sdumper provided Cascade.

Ok - Messrs Dinos and Mike - guys, your turn!

[mbreslin]

Grats steve, looks like 40k is a tough nut to crack.

I've been tempted to grab a 123ml but sheesh I've spent enough this gen.

[Nizzen]

New beta firmware for Areca in july. I testing now for 1680ix. No new for 1231

[dinos22]

so far breslin is looking much better on his setup than i am on areca 1231 with 2GB cache and 6xSF drives
just testing stripe now but yeah really poor results in HDD tests