SB850 good enough for AMD PCMV WR

[GullLars]

Hey, i did this last year in december, but never got around to posting it. I just checked the lists again, and as far as i can tell i still hold the WR for single socket AMD, with my air-cooled (NH-D14) P2 X6, 4 sticks of Kingston ValueRAM (not aggressivly clocked), and 4R0 C300 64GB from SB850.
http://3dmark.com/compare/pcmv/393980/pcmv/394018

[Computurd]

holy cow! those are great results for the SB850! that media center score is insane from a mobo great work! havent seen ya in a while, good to see ya!

[GullLars]

Thanks Comp. I have a huge pile of benchmark data, and some graphs of it if you guys want to see. That may deserve a dedicated thread about SB850 SSD RAID though. My focus for this thread was feedback on the PCMark vantage score, and hopefully confirmation of if i'm the current holder of the WR in PCmark Vantage for single socket AMD setup. As far as i can tell there are none above 17941, and the closest below is Anvil at 17356. I'm sure he could beat my score if he wanted to and made an effort, but he hasn't done it so far.

[Computurd]

I have a huge pile of benchmark data, and some graphs of it if you guys want to see.

excellent! very interesting the SB850..and with the upcoming bulldozer many are very curious as to how the AMD storage systems compare i would love to see the info
i believe you are the AMD pcmv champ, great work!

[Tiltevros]

your gaming points are very low and u r using latest GPUs i thing that u must OC ur GPU and run again.
Very nice score with AMD SB but i thing u can push it more

[GullLars]

Both CPU, GPU, and storage was pushed to max i could get stable with 5-10C ambient on air (i opened my window when it was -15C outside :P). The only thing i didn't clock max was RAM. The 6850 isn't a high-end GPU, so low gaming score makes sense. It's more than enough to play COD black ops at 1920x1200 though.

[mattkosem]

I have a huge pile of benchmark data, and some graphs of it if you guys want to see. That may deserve a dedicated thread about SB850 SSD RAID though.

There actually already is one (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=246678). There's a 64MB C300 drive thread too (http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...d.php?t=254451). Your IO numbers look right where they should be for a freshly formatted stripe with NCQ on. Which driver/bios version was used for those benches?

--Matt

[Tiltevros]

your Gaming scores are lower than mine with 4850.....

[Anvil]

SB850 is great value

My AMD rig is currently spending its time as a storage-server so I won't be able to compete with your PCMV score

A pity that there aren't many "AMD" users playing with PCMV, when I got started there were only a few scores at ~10' iirc, so, taking the lead at ~17' points wasn't really a challange.

When I get the time I'll pick up the glove again and give it another go, 20' points should be doable.

[GullLars]

So there is a consensus that my 17941 score in PCmark Vantage is the World Record for AMD based systems?
Maybe it was an easy "get", but if ture, i can still say i hold a WR (until Anvil decides he wants to bench his AMD rig again :P)

[Anvil]

I'm not aware of any AMD based scores that exceeds your top score so I guess you can call it the PCMV-AMD-WR
(as for a new score, I've got a spare MB so I might get another CPU if the price is right)

As long as we are talking about PCMV, it doesn't take much to match that score using the Sandy Bridge platform, AMD really needs to come up with something clever.

From a storage point of view, the SB850 is still great, compared to Sandy Bridge it matches on throughput but can't compete on iops at small block sizes.

[recent]

i have to get myself couple of C300 !!!! FTW!