Marathon SII: October PCM 05

[bmwbaxter]

Marathon SII: October PCM05

This month the Marathon Benching Competition will be continuing with some PCM 05. Please refer to the MBC rules here for any clarification on what is and isn't allowed.

Let the tweaking begin!!!!

What: PCM 05
Who: any forum member
Cpu: any CPU, no speed cap
Cooling: any cooling type
When: Ends October 31st, 12pm PST
Please use a background containing Fire!
Download PCM 05 benchmark: Here
Full Competition Rules: here


Competition Background: Must contain some kind of Fire

Please post a screen shot of your result as per HWbot rules in this thread and submit the score via the form below.






Results:

 

[yamaharacer19]

Have to delete this submission because I was reading a different PCMark rules on HWBot.

 

[keny]

Why !!!! Oh why pc mark this is going to be interesting

 

[bmwbaxter]

Why !!!! Oh why pc mark this is going to be interesting

Exactly the intended reaction. Muahaha!

 

[ATMINSIDE]

Its just annoying to get all the pieces installed >.<

I'll see what I can do

 

[MetalRacer]

Whats the trick to make this run?

I always get the windows media encoder 9 or newer must be installed message.

 

[ATMINSIDE]

You have to install all that stuff.

 

[Woomack]

yamaharacer19 | Intel | 2500K | AIO Cooler | 42697

One question ... what drive are you using ? 2GB/s+ seems too high for any SSD/HDD setup.

 

[QuickFast]

I'm guessing ramdisk from his other post and that his sub's on the bot seem to be blocked

 

[Woomack]

Why !!!! Oh why pc mark this is going to be interesting

I was expecting something else especially that many team members dislike pcmark 05. I'm just not planning to waste couple of hours on switching drives, reinstalling system and trying various tweaks ...

 

[jiccman1965]

Great score, but you might want to check the HWBOT rules for XP start up can not exceed 220MB.

yamaharacer19 | Intel | 2500K | AIO Cooler | 42697

 

[dejo]

Metal, are you running as administrator. sometimes that will cause an error if you dont

 

[MetalRacer]

You have to install all that stuff.

I have WMP 12 installed.

 

[EarthDog]

Great score, but you might want to check the HWBOT rules for XP start up can not exceed 220MB.

Can you use a ramdisk?

I feel sorry for the judges on this one... there is A LOT to look for to make sure the runs are legit...

EDIT: You can use a HARDWARE ram disk, not software.

Allowed optimisations :
Disable subtests
Specify disk drive for HDD subtests
Hardware ramdisk (eg: GIGABYTE i-Ram)
Audio and video codec tweaks
Powertoy (GUI for the registry)
Browser enhancement tweaks (eg: disabling/removing features, plugins, make-up)
AMD Raid Xpert and Intel RST

Disallowed tweaks/cheats:
XP Startup < 220MB/s
Software ramdisk
MFT Software
Ramcache software
Any software or human interaction altering the perceived speed of the benchmark program, tricking it to believe it ran faster
Non-default (included with benchmark) web browser
Non-default (included with benchmark) audio/video codec
Non-default sector size
Lucid Virtu MVP
Flash2desktop software

Yeah, this is a tricky, tweaky, benchmark to try to get things right. If you have an SSD or couple, that XP startup score will be a bear to get to >220MB. I remember when I had my time with this benchmark, I just couldnt get it right... it was way too low, or too high... Goldilock's syndrome.

 

[MetalRacer]

Metal, are you running as administrator. sometimes that will cause an error if you dont

I think I was but will double check when I get home.

 

[yamaharacer19]

I kept getting errors with my PCM05. I had to uninstall and reinstall the program. That worked for me.

 

[Tech Tweaker]

I have WMP 12 installed.

That's Windows Media Player, you need Windows Media Encoder too. Two totally different programs.

Download it here and then install it. That's the one I use.

 

[jiccman1965]

What kind of HD did you use to score 2183 MB on HD usage?

yamaharacer19 | Intel | 2500K | AIO | 39716

 

[bmwbaxter]

yamaharacer19 | Intel | 2500K | AIO | 39716

Also need fire in your background this month.

 

[yamaharacer19]

What kind of HD did you use to score 2183 MB on HD usage?

Raid 0 array consisting of a few HDs. I don't remember what they all are though.