PCMark Vantage and PCMark 05 world records

[youngpro]

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


144k HDD score


35K PCMARK05
35k futuremark valid


29K PCM05 on XP - my score for ORB as it only allows XP


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

full tilt


the lightning ready to go


my warm up rig with the new heatsink from zero infinity, more of this soon

[chew*]

sick setup man.

[SF3D]

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

[youngpro]

sf3d 1
pro 0

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

[chew*]

[IMG]http/open/sleep.jpg[/IMG]

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

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.

[SF3D]

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.

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

I think James got it right

[youngpro]

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

[Booj]

Dude you're insane.. Sick stuff man

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

[hiwa]

Good job as always bro

[SoF]

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.

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

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

[geobot24]

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

Edit: No more windows vista for pcmark?

[[XC] gomeler]

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

[George_o/c]

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

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!

[subaruwrc]

huge achievement, sick setup , my respect is yours !

[SteveRo]

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

[sofos1990]

Congrats Mr.PCMark

[youngpro]

thanks to everyone for your kind comments,

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

Edit: No more windows vista for pcmark?

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

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

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

Good afternoon Mr Youngpro - much congrats sir!

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

[T_M]

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?).

[youngpro]

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

[T_M]

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

[uncle fester]

Well Done James

[hey]

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

[dinos22]

keep it rocking man this benchmark kicks arse

[Don_Dan]

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

[Oliver]

Continuated pushing

Beg up