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JeremyS 03-04-2005 10:36 PM

Interesting
 
My girlfriend jsut got a new computer, which has a 2.93GHz P4, 512MB PC3200 RAM, and 160GB HD.

She took a PCMark04 test, and scored;

CPU: 3871
Memory: 3904
HD: 4484

Now, my PC, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1GB Kingston PC3200, 1 40GB, 1 200GB HD. I scored;

CPU: 3828
Memory: 3115
HD: 2281

I'm not real sure why theres such a big different in hers, and mine? When mines better ( memory, at least for sure ). What could be the problem? :|

userasdf1234 03-04-2005 11:05 PM

What speed hard drive(ie. 7200rpm, 4200rpm...) do you have and what does your girlfriend have? People say that makes a big difference.

JeremyS 03-04-2005 11:38 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by userasdf1234
What speed hard drive(ie. 7200rpm, 4200rpm...) do you have and what does your girlfriend have? People say that makes a big difference.


They're both 7200. My hard drives are in bad shape. My main concern is the memory. I have 1GB, and she has 512MB of the same speed. So I don't understand that. :|

Kadath 03-05-2005 06:10 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by JeremyS
My girlfriend jsut got a new computer, which has a 2.93GHz P4, 512MB PC3200 RAM, and 160GB HD.

She took a PCMark04 test, and scored;

CPU: 3871
Memory: 3904
HD: 4484

Now, my PC, AMD Athlon 64 3000+, 1GB Kingston PC3200, 1 40GB, 1 200GB HD. I scored;

CPU: 3828
Memory: 3115
HD: 2281

I'm not real sure why theres such a big different in hers, and mine? When mines better ( memory, at least for sure ). What could be the problem? :|

Sorry dude, your girlfriend has just become the man in the relationship. :)

BurntToast 03-05-2005 06:33 AM

Well, some of the possiblities could be that
A) her memory has better timings and therefore is faster than yours
B) since her comp is new she doesnt have any background progs sucking up memory while you may have alot.
C) she was visited by the magical computer fairy that overclocked it without her knowing ;)

But seriously, people get so worked up over benchmarks. If you reformat and run pcmark again I bet you would probably get alot better scores.

R3d 03-05-2005 08:04 AM

for benchmakrs 512mb's turn out better then a gig.. tighter timings and shit.. memory is an odd thing to wrap your head around

JeremyS 03-05-2005 12:37 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Kadath
Sorry dude, your girlfriend has just become the man in the relationship. :)


That's why I'm so concerned. :| :lol:

I actually found out the problem. My crappy motherboard reads my RAM as DDR333, instead of DDR400 like it's supposed to. Theres some BIOS I can download to supposedly fix this I believe, but I have no floppy right now. :crazy:

viejo gringo 03-07-2005 04:54 PM

---she just paid me $20 not to tell you...:D


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