dentaku wrote:

My video card gets a 5.9 and I see that 5.9 is the highest you can get (why not 6.0?)

dentaku wrote:

why not 6.0?

the-laughing-man wrote:

Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have?

Lloyd_Humph wrote:

That's a really rubbish scoring system.

DCMonkey wrote:



the-laughing-man wrote: Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have?

2GB of DDR2 on a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Sven Groot wrote:



DCMonkey wrote:  the-laughing-man wrote: Just out of interest, DCMonkey, how much RAM do you have? 2GB of DDR2 on a Gigabyte GA-P35C-DS3R

Brand, clock speed and timings please.

the-laughing-man wrote:

I'm on Corsair XMS2 800Mhz CAS4 and I still only get 5.5

Sven Groot wrote:


Brand, clock speed and timings please.

DCMonkey wrote:

And my Antec P182B case should get at least a 5.9 for style.

dentaku wrote:



DCMonkey wrote: And my Antec P182B case should get at least a 5.9 for style.

I've got the gunmetal grey P182B too but the Seasonic 650W PSU is what would make it a better "experience" because it helps keep it very quiet. My system was built to keep the noise down.

dentaku said:

DCMonkey wrote:

And my Antec P182B case should get at least a 5.9 for style.

I've got the gunmetal grey P182B too but the Seasonic 650W PSU is what would make it a better "experience" because it helps keep it very quiet. My system was built to keep the noise down.

icerthym31ski said:

dentaku said:

*snip*

 cpu  Phenom 9750 2.4ghz    -5.9
 ram  DDR2 2 ghz x2
                    1 ghz x2              - 5.9

gpu   Ati 3870
          Ati 3870  Crossfire        -5.9

hdd  seagate 500 gb              -5.9

this is the base score on windows vista x64....  -5.9    

dentaku said:

I'm assuming the new HP Blackbird 002 scores 5.9 on everything.

GoddersUK said:

icerthym31ski said:

*snip*

This is the age of the thread: 2 years.

Thread experience index: Necro Level 10

SlackmasterK said:

On 7's 7.9 scale:
Processor: 7.1   (Core 2 Quad Q6600)
RAM: 7.1 (8GB Patriot)
Graphics: 4.5       (3x Radeon X1650 Pro)
Gaming Graphics: 4.7  
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9   (WTF? Raptor 150GB)

Primary Hard Disk: 5.9   (WTF? Raptor 150GB)

elmer said:

My "trusty" old HP D530 (Pentium-4) desktop finally died on me the other day, and I was in a rush to get back to work, so rustled up a bitsa from the parts bins... and then loaded Vista for the first time on my working desktop.

Overall - 4.0
---------------
Processor - 5.9
RAM- 5.9
Graphics - 4.2
Gaming Graphics - 4.0
Primary Hard Drive - 5.7

It's G45 based board, and gets along quite nicely.

As you might guess from those scores, I don't play games or hi-def video etc... but for what I do (web dev) I feel like I've just been dragged out of the stone-age... holy mother of... this thing is fast... LOL.

blowdart said:

Weirdly my score went up when I switched to 64 bit. Memory hopped up from 5.1 to 5.6. I don't understand that one bit!

blowdart said:

Weirdly my score went up when I switched to 64 bit. Memory hopped up from 5.1 to 5.6. I don't understand that one bit!

Randy67 said:

My p.c has a 5.9 score,i have a Hp elite with a 750 watt power supply and a intel core 2 quad processor 2.66 and 8 gig ram and nvidia BFG  9800 gt graphics,all of my scores wer 5.9 so it can happen.

I got 5.9 on Vista and haven't yet tried on 7

mem op per sec 7.4

 desktop per for windows aero 5.9

3d business and stuff 5.9

disk data trasfer rate 5.9

overall: 5.9

sastreen said:

i have 5.9 in everything XD

Whoa.

stevo_ said:

sastreen said:

*snip*

Whoa.

My personal favorite:

SharePoint Guy said:

Processor: 6.1

Memory: 6.1

Graphics: 6.1

Gaming Graphics: 6.1

Primary Hard Disk: 5.4

 

I got everything 6.1 but my hard disk scores only 5.4

Processor: 7.5

Memory: 7.6

Graphics: 7.3

Gaming Graphics: 7.3

Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

I need to get an ssd

mastermine said:

SharePoint Guy said:

*snip*

Processor: 7.5

Memory: 7.6

Graphics: 7.3

Gaming Graphics: 7.3

Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

 

I need to get an ssd

SSD is the way to go. I have 2 x OCZ Vertex in raid 0 and I get a 7.6 on Win 7 RTM.

msi 790fx-gd70

amd phenom II x4 965

nvidia geforce 8800gt 512 video card

Western Digital green 1tb Hard drive

and 8gb ocz 1333mhz ddr3

Velociraptor only gets a 5.9. Must need an SSD or a drive to break the 5.9 barrier.

intelman said:

Velociraptor only gets a 5.9. Must need an SSD or a drive to break the 5.9 barrier.

I get 3.5 on my 3+ years old laptop, which still runs 7 smoothly  

Ion Todirel said:

intelman said:

*snip*

I get 3.5 on my 3+ years old laptop, which still runs 7 smoothly  

Got a new laptop and it also gets 5.9 for the hard drive (non-SSD).

CreamFilling512 said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

Got a new laptop and it also gets 5.9 for the hard drive (non-SSD).

 

Wow, you've got a big system partition. I always put the OS + apps on a relatively small partition (80GB) and everything else on different drives/partitions, so I can reformat the system drive without worrying about preserving anything. It's a habit I picked up during the Windows 2000 and XP betas, where we'd sometimes get a new build every week which meant re-installing your PC a lot.

Sven Groot said:

CreamFilling512 said:

*snip*

Wow, you've got a big system partition. I always put the OS + apps on a relatively small partition (80GB) and everything else on different drives/partitions, so I can reformat the system drive without worrying about preserving anything. It's a habit I picked up during the Windows 2000 and XP betas, where we'd sometimes get a new build every week which meant re-installing your PC a lot.

Yeah I might do that, they make it pretty easy to resize partitions now adays.  What I usually do is just copy my user profile to an external drive and then copy it back.  I'll probably carve out a new partition when the Windows 8 betas come out.

Sven Groot said:

CreamFilling512 said:

*snip*

Wow, you've got a big system partition. I always put the OS + apps on a relatively small partition (80GB) and everything else on different drives/partitions, so I can reformat the system drive without worrying about preserving anything. It's a habit I picked up during the Windows 2000 and XP betas, where we'd sometimes get a new build every week which meant re-installing your PC a lot.

You call that large? What are you gonna say about me?

Dodo said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

You call that large? What are you gonna say about me?

So what do you do in the event your system is borked and you need to reinstall? You'd have to copy nearly 2TB of data to some other location before you can format the disk.

Sven Groot said:

CreamFilling512 said:

*snip*

Wow, you've got a big system partition. I always put the OS + apps on a relatively small partition (80GB) and everything else on different drives/partitions, so I can reformat the system drive without worrying about preserving anything. It's a habit I picked up during the Windows 2000 and XP betas, where we'd sometimes get a new build every week which meant re-installing your PC a lot.

that's weird indeed

CreamFilling512 said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

Got a new laptop and it also gets 5.9 for the hard drive (non-SSD).

 

no need, I'm using it for browsing and minor stuff, anything serious I do on my desktop which would probably get a 7.9 in 7

Sven Groot said:

Dodo said:

*snip*

So what do you do in the event your system is borked and you need to reinstall? You'd have to copy nearly 2TB of data to some other location before you can format the disk.

Buy three new hard drives and create a new RAID array. Then install on there, starting from scratch. I don't 'bork' my installs, I don't even delete stuff. If I'm running out of space, I usully buy new drives to fill. Though, maybe I should get a few SANs and use RAIDed SSDs with 24h backups... might be a better plan.

Dodo said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

Buy three new hard drives and create a new RAID array. Then install on there, starting from scratch. I don't 'bork' my installs, I don't even delete stuff. If I'm running out of space, I usully buy new drives to fill. Though, maybe I should get a few SANs and use RAIDed SSDs with 24h backups... might be a better plan.

dupe

Dodo said:

Sven Groot said:

*snip*

Buy three new hard drives and create a new RAID array. Then install on there, starting from scratch. I don't 'bork' my installs, I don't even delete stuff. If I'm running out of space, I usully buy new drives to fill. Though, maybe I should get a few SANs and use RAIDed SSDs with 24h backups... might be a better plan.

so what happens if your machine suddenly doesn't boot because of a bad sector or whatever? RAID won't help you in any way

Ion Todirel said:

Dodo said:

*snip*

so what happens if your machine suddenly doesn't boot because of a bad sector or whatever? RAID won't help you in any way

I just use new drives. This way I am always presented with the opportunity of hiring a recovery firm like Kroll Ontrack, if necessary.

Usually drives fail much sooner, I set S.M.A.R.T warn levels to allow only one reallocated sector before a drive gets marked as failed).

Dodo said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

I just use new drives. This way I am always presented with the opportunity of hiring a recovery firm like Kroll Ontrack, if necessary.

Usually drives fail much sooner, I set S.M.A.R.T warn levels to allow only one reallocated sector before a drive gets marked as failed).

Just goes to show just how differently we all see and fix the same problem. The Sven/Ion solution is the most pragmatic, hassle free and time saving - and time honoured - solution.

If you prefer hiring krollontrack, then you must have more money than sense (and I mean that in the nicesst possible way), because you are really making mountains out of molehills.

It also may well be that you are a complete whizz, and can attain 99% reliability, but I have used some top knotch gear that has been borked beyond repair, and my time is expensive, I'd rather not waste it doing menial things like data recovery, when you can sandbox your data from the OS.

vesuvius said:

Dodo said:

*snip*

Just goes to show just how differently we all see and fix the same problem. The Sven/Ion solution is the most pragmatic, hassle free and time saving - and time honoured - solution.

 

If you prefer hiring krollontrack, then you must have more money than sense (and I mean that in the nicesst possible way), because you are really making mountains out of molehills.

 

It also may well be that you are a complete whizz, and can attain 99% reliability, but I have used some top knotch gear that has been borked beyond repair, and my time is expensive, I'd rather not waste it doing menial things like data recovery, when you can sandbox your data from the OS.

Actually, in percentage towards a whole year, my data reliability rating is about 99.74% right now. Uptime reliability of my workstation is at 90.14% and that's just because backordering a motherboard took a while (almost a month).

I can never have enough storage on the Desktop area (I like having things right at my finger tips). I've been replacing a drive about... every three weeks for the last months. If a drive fails and a RAID array fails with it to the point where software methods won't do anything anymore, well there's only the choice of hiring the Ontrack guys. I don't have that kinda equipment to read data from a platter of disassembled drives.

I might add, I also don't like loosing my personalized settings.

A single partition is most storage efficient and 1TB drives currently have the best capacity to price ratio.

If I need to reinstall, I just use new drives and copy my stuff from the old ones and then put them in a drawer... as simple as that.

CreamFilling512 said:

Ion Todirel said:

*snip*

Got a new laptop and it also gets 5.9 for the hard drive (non-SSD).

 

Curious, what laptop is that? HP Envy? What else has the i7 and ATI 4xxx series?

intelman said:

CreamFilling512 said:

*snip*

Curious, what laptop is that? HP Envy? What else has the i7 and ATI 4xxx series?

Dell Studio XPS 16

stevo_ said:

I don't think the thing about splitting the OS is nearly as needed these days, for the last few years I havent formatted, just usually got a bigger drive.

Old habits die hard I guess. And I did reformat for the Win7 beta, RC and RTM.

Processor - 7.1
RAM- 7.1
Graphics - 7.0
Gaming Graphics - 7.0
Primary Hard Drive - 7.7