# CPU Benchmark Competition **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [September 13, 2005, 12:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364 "2005-09-13T00:49:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![chaoticbear](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f07891/32.png) [@chaoticbear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chaoticbear)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/41 "2005-09-14T05:01:51Z")
> [@asterion](#): > > I think all the PCI slots–and I have six or seven–are PCI and … I have two. And two secondary/slave ones. Do you mean that you have 6 on your mobo, or that it will support 6? ---
**Author:** ![asterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/4da419/32.png) [@asterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/asterion)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/42 "2005-09-14T05:22:04Z")
I’ve got 5 PCI slots on the mobo, plus an 8X AGP. The case has got room for seven cards, so I used something that came with the mobo that adds two more full-sized USB ports, a USB mini-port, and a FireWire port. So that makes six normal USB ports in the back, two more up front (all the case supports), and adding in the PCI FireWire card I got for my old computer (all I had in that thing was USB1 and that won’t work with an iPod), three rear FireWire and one front Firewire. The video card is taking up the AGP slot, the sound card (a Voytera Turtle Beach Santa Cruz instead of using the onboard sound), TV card, and FireWire card take up three of the five PCI slots and gives me room for two more cards. Probably I’m going to get an IDEE controller card so that I can actually use my Zip drive again, because from here on out I’m getting SATA hard drives since the motherboard has that support built in, as do some of the power supply cables. Plus, as I said, I can RAID most of my stuff, or at least all my documents and music files if I buy two of them and the BIOS natively supports RAID. Actually, what really makes this computer weird is the dual LAN. I don’t know if I’ll ever use its bridging functions. And the case has got support for a front fan for the hard drives (I’ve got three external 5.25" bays, two external 3.5" bays, and 4 internal 3.5" bays) but I can’t get the fan I bought to power up and I haven’t really wanted to spend the cash on a new fan when I’m not having overheating problems. It would be really funny if I had everything up and running and if I was still on my old school’s network. I’d be using A, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, P, U, W, and Z all the time. That includes some logical drives, virtual drives, and network drives, but still, that is a lot of drives. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/43 "2005-09-14T05:23:15Z")
Mark: 83215 ALU: 8466 FPU: 9143 Mem: 9412 HDD: 6821 GDI: 14050 D2D: 5855 OGL: 31468 Processor: Amd Athlon 64 3500+ Newcastle [about 3% overclocked] Motherboard: MSI K8N NEO2 PLATINUM Socket 939 nForce3 Power supply: Antec NeoPower Modular 480W ATX Ram: CORSAIR ValueSelect 1GB Video Card: SAPPHIRE RADEON 9800PRO 128MB HDD: SAMSUNG 120GB 7200 RPM Serial ATA150 Optical: Nec Dual Layer DVD Microsoft XP Home SP2 Enclosure: Lian-Li PC-65 brushed aluminum I built this almost exacly one year ago. Its about time for another gig of ram aside form that I like the beauty of the case and the internals. Its slighty modded with all the cables sleeved and a few eccentric addons. ---
**Author:** ![fifty-six](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/5daacb/32.png) [@fifty-six](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fifty-six)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 5:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/44 "2005-09-14T05:28:14Z")
> [@Jayn\_Newell](#): > > Just as a point of interest, I noticed on the polygon test that the backs for the processors had AMD Athlon written on them…anyone else notice that? The green ones had Pentium4 on the other side. ---
**Author:** ![Sgt.Pepper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f04885/32.png) [@Sgt.Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sgt.Pepper)\ **Post date:** [September 14, 2005, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/45 "2005-09-14T13:32:22Z")
I wasn’t going to post mine, just lurk as usual, but had I had to after The Cat tried to catch some of those CPU chips falling off the screen. Then He would have killed some of those lines if there wasn’t an invisible barrier blocking His attack. 83272 AMD 64 +3200, 1 gig ram, x800 (pro or XT, I don’t remember). Judging from some of the replies this test isn’t wholly objective and can easily be manipulated. ---
**Author:** ![Uncommon\_Sense](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Uncommon\_Sense](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uncommon_Sense)\ **Post date:** [September 16, 2005, 12:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/46 "2005-09-16T12:23:47Z")
> [@Uncommon Sense](#): > > I got a whopping 22,227 on the work machine. P4 2Ghz, 30gigHD and 256MRam > Got a 0 on the OGL score. Ouch. > I’ll try in on the new Gateway at home. I expect slightly higher marks. 😉 The Gateway machine at home just did a **60,465**. Not too shabby for an out of the box unit. ---
**Author:** ![Unintentionally\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/unintentionally_blank/32/5418_2.png) [@Unintentionally\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unintentionally_Blank)\ **Post date:** [September 17, 2005, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364/47 "2005-09-17T21:04:17Z")
> [@Unintentionally Blank](#): > > 1. P4 2.8 Ghz, ATI 9200SE Nowhere near a ‘fast box’ by today’s standards. > > I’ll have to try one of the DL380 servers at the office tomorrow. FWIW, I boosted my scores on the home system to 58604 by just turning off one of the two monitors, and reducing the resolution on my system to 800x600. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/cpu-benchmark-competition/321364.md?page=2)