Passmark Score WAY Down - Same Memory, different day . . .

[brijem]

In January of this year (2012) I ran a full passmark benchmark;
beside a slight overclock on the CPU and the addition of
a GTX560 (replaced my 9600GT) the system is identical now
to what it was then, however, I recently (September) ran the same
benchmark and the system rates a full 400 points less than it did
earlier in the year. The main drop is in memory performance - specifically the "Large Ram" mark.

In January my "Large Ram" score was 7820.
Now (with the same memory and no changes in the
bios concerning it) it has a "Large Ram" score of 1800.
Needless to say, it's a dramatic difference!
Also, the "Allocate Small Block" score is down by 40%.

Interestingly, my memory scores for "Read Cached", "Read Uncached"
and "Write" were all approximately 15% BETTER than they were
in January.

If it seems to be a factor, my CPU scores are also different.
They are down by a third in the "Integer Math" dept., down by
a sixth on "Floating Point", down by the same in "Multimedia"
and down by a sixth in "Prime Numbers". However, they are UP
by a small amount in "Compression", "Physics" and "String Sorting".

I'm confused (especially about the "Large Ram" drop).
Anyone have any thoughts?

Thanks : )

 

[EarthDog]

Not particularly. Passmark isnt a common program run around here.

That said, with memory, you can run it back to back and get differnet scores if something is going on in your system while its benching.

If your PC is running fine to you. I wouldnt worry too much about it to be quite honest.

A better test to run:

HDD/SSD: ATTO.

Ram: AIDA64 ram/cache benchmark