What's your benchmark?

• Motherboard: ASUS Rampage III Extreme
• CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition, 6 Core, 3.33GHz, 12MB
• RAM: 12GB DDR3 Triple Channel Memory
• Video Card: Gigabyte (ATI) Radeon HD 6970 880MHz 2GB 5GHz GDDR5
• SSD: OCZ Vertex 2 Extended Sandforce 240GB  [I plan to install Windows, Logos, and my most frequently used apps (e.g., Office) here]
• HD: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA2 7200RPM 3.6MS 64MB
• Coolermaster case and additional heat sink
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Nova results for a similar rig ...

And, yes, it does "fly".  Or, to quote Brian Blessed (Augustus) in I, Claudius, "Quick as boiled asparagus!"

A helpful CPU benchmark chart:

http://www.cpubenchmark.net/high_end_cpus.html

And, yes, it does "fly".  Or, to quote Brian Blessed (Augustus) in I, Claudius, "Quick as boiled asparagus!"

Grrrr !  I hate you !  (of course not).

Mine is a Dell XPS1530

1/29/2011 12:58:22 PM
Microsoft Windows Vista
Home Premium
Intel Core2 Duo T8300 2.40GHz @ 2401 MHz
Graphics Card:
NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS

3582 MB System RAM (Score:
98)
- RAM Speed: 2322 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score:
204)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 50663806
- Integer
Operations/Second: 123787612
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second:
650590

Graphics Tests (Score: 38)
- 3D Frames Per
Second: 129

Hardware Tests (Score: 18)
- Primary
Partition Capacity: 285 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 38 MB/s

Finally ordered my new PC from a local place that custom builds them. I can't wait to benchmark it when it comes and take Logos for a spin on it. It's gonna fly!

You could always overclock it ...

Finally ordered my new PC from a local place that custom builds them. I can't wait to benchmark it when it comes and take Logos for a spin on it. It's gonna fly!

You could always overclock it ...

I wouldn't want to be a hedonist, now, would I? [;)]

Finally ordered my new PC

With specs like that you'll be able to study the Bible AND answer questions about Logos.   

With that machine, I expect Rosie to triple her forum inputs and donate some computing time to find the world's largest Mersenne prime numbers!  [;)]

To overclock, you would need a nice 3rd party heat-sink/fan such as the very high quality Noctua NH-D14 (bottom) or the more affordable Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (top), and high quality thermal paste for the cpu.

I first started using computers back in the early 80's when they were at 4.77MHz or less and 16K RAM!  But I still love computer hardware.

To overclock, you would need a nice 3rd party heat-sink/fan such as the very high quality Noctua NH-D14 (bottom) or the more affordable Cooler Master Hyper 212 Plus (top), and high quality thermal paste for the cpu.

I've never tried overclocking before, but I suppose I could with this machine. It's gonna have one of these in it.

http://www.amazon.com/Noctua-NH-U12P-Cooler-Heat-Pipe-Bearing/dp/B002N2JVEE

I got the call that my machine is built and ready for me to pick up, but ironically I haven't had time yet. Or rather I know that once I get it I'll be spending a couple of days playing with it and getting it set up, but I've got some deadlines to meet so I can't allow myself that distraction. And yet....I'm allowing myself the distraction of the Logos forums. Go figure.

2/4/2011 3:37:33 PM
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz @ 3411 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 240

4096MB System RAM (Score: 117)
- RAM Speed: 4569 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 286)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 51191270
- Integer Operations/Second: 209771090
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 1045922

Graphics Tests (Score: 250)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 727

Hardware Tests (Score: 20)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 155 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 88 MB/s

After tweaking my new video card I was able to improve my score somewhat - from 638 to 673.

I think I will hold off upgrading to Sandy Bridge for a three months or so. While these scores fall considerably short of the new hardware, they are adequate for running Logos 4. Additionally, there have been some recalls on MSI motherboards and laptops due to some issues with the new Intel chipsets. One more reason not to be an early adopter.

Finally ordered my new PC from a local place that custom builds them. I can't wait to benchmark it when it comes and take Logos for a spin on it. It's gonna fly!

• Motherboard: ASUS Rampage III Extreme
• CPU: Intel Core i7 Extreme Edition, 6 Core, 3.33GHz, 12MB
• RAM: 12GB DDR3 Triple Channel Memory
• Video Card: Gigabyte (ATI) Radeon HD 6970 880MHz 2GB 5GHz GDDR5
• SSD: OCZ Vertex 2 Extended Sandforce 240GB  [I plan to install Windows, Logos, and my most frequently used apps (e.g., Office) here]
• HD: Western Digital Caviar Black 2TB SATA2 7200RPM 3.6MS 64MB
• Coolermaster case and additional heat sink
• Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

OK, are you ready for this?

Yeehaw!!

Now to install Logos and let 'er rip!

Yeehaw!!

Now to install Logos and let 'er rip!

Enjoy [:)]

Yeehaw!!

Now to install Logos and let 'er rip!

It is truly one sweet machine Rosie! It'll be interesting to see how making the SSD your primary drive affects the stats. Fasten your seatbelt and enjoy! [:)]

Blessings,

Bob

OK, are you ready for this? 

Rosie, you've waited a long time. What a fine machine! May you use it with joy.

Yeehaw!!

Now to install Logos and let 'er rip!

OK, are you ready for this?

OK soldier, we're expecting a report on this.

Rosie, you've waited a long time.

Yes, I have. It's been six months since my old desktop computer died, and I've been limping along on my laptop with a NovaBench score of 197 for all this time. Sometimes I put up with inefficiency for way too long because I "don't have time" to do what it takes to improve the situation. Yikes! Think of all the time I'd have saved cumulatively if I'd just bit the bullet back then. Technological asceticism has its place in the spiritual life (I advocate for periodic technology sabbaths), but not when it comes to good tools for studying the Bible!

OK soldier, we're expecting a report on this.

All downloaded by the time I woke up this morning.

Stay tuned...

EDIT:

Boot to my "Complex" test layout (with indexing still going on): 13 seconds on my new computer

Boot to same layout on my laptop: 2 minutes, 45 seconds

Oh I am so looking forward to never seeing that dreaded "Not responding" again!

Still indexing...1h 28m remaining. Will do a search comparison when that's done.

Has anyone else run a malware scan after downloading novabench?  You should, I have on two computers and picked up a trojan on both from the download. 

Has anyone else run a malware scan after downloading novabench?  You should, I have on two computers and picked up a trojan on both from the download. 

Thanks for the heads up. I just ran a scan with AVG and found nothing. What scanning software did you use that found the trojan?

Has anyone else run a malware scan after downloading novabench?  You should, I have on two computers and picked up a trojan on both from the download. 

Nothing here.

I use AVG anti-virus and did not detect.  I also use malwarebytes dot org anti malware and it was found.

I use AVG anti-virus and did not detect.  I also use malwarebytes dot org anti malware and it was found.

OK, I scanned with Malwarebytes and it found Trojan.Oficla in nb3test.exe, which is a helper program that gets run by Novabench 3 (nb3.exe). Found some info about Oficla here and here. But you never know whether to trust those sites that give you info about removing malware, because sometimes the tools they offer you for doing that are malware themselves. I have posted a query on the Novatech Forums asking if this is a false positive or if we should beware, and what to do about it if the latter. Will report back what I hear.

Rosie,

How fast is L4 in your new machine???

Rosie,

How fast is L4 in your new machine???

Yes, "Inquiring minds want to know."

Rosie,

How fast is L4 in your new machine???

Yes, "Inquiring minds want to know."

OK, so I already posted one statistic above. It takes 13 seconds to boot up to a fairly complex layout, from the time of clicking on the Logos icon on the Start menu to the time it is fully displayed. (Ironically, running "close all" from that layout takes nearly three times as long -- 38 seconds! That is nuts! That's Logos's fault, not my computer's. But it took 5:05 on my laptop, so this is a major improvement.)

Here are some more benchmarks:

A complete combined PG & EG with every section took 1min 30sec to populate when run on the entire book of Genesis

Basic Search for Baruch in Entire Library (5,365 resources total; 25,838 results in 1,591 of those) took 0.33 sec (according to the Search tab) or 3 seconds until all the progress bars stopped moving (according to my second hand).

Basic Search for <John 3:16> in Entire Library: 0.35 sec (5 sec until the progress bar stopped moving)

Basic Search for the Entire Library: 19.71 sec (26 sec)

Bring up Print/Export from the Search results of the the search above: 6 seconds

Basic Search for  "look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers" (Mark's test phrase search) in Entire Library: 21.65 sec (28 sec)

Sync (from clicking sync arrows until they stop moving): 2 sec

Update resources (from hitting Enter to the display of "No updates were found"): 2 min 39 sec [can't remember what it was on my laptop, but it was way longer than this]

Open my preferred Bible from a shortcut icon: 1 sec (it was 7 sec on my laptop)

Information panel updating while I'm paging through a Bible seems much snappier (1-2 second delay; it was more like 5-6 sec on my laptop)

Anything else I should try?

Anything else I should try?

you might try searching for * , but it will probably still take a long time even in your new machine.

It sounds impressive! Are you pleased with it?

Hope you enjoy it!

Anything else I should try?

Try a morph search lemma:ἄφεσις BEFORE 5 WORDS lemma:ἁμαρτία all passages, NA27.  This should be quick.  I get 0.72 sec.

you might try searching for * , but it will probably still take a long time even in your new machine.

Oh yes, good one! I would love to be able to search for all my highlighting using * in a practical amount of time. It used to take well over an hour on my old machine. I'm running a test now to see how long it takes on this one. UPDATE: Just finished in 729.38 sec (12 min). Now that's actually doable. I'd love to see it come in under 2 minutes, but I can live with this. (There are advantages to having suffered with a slow machine for so long. I've developed a great amount of patience!)

It sounds impressive! Are you pleased with it?

I haven't even finished setting it all up yet (Logos was my first priority), but so far yes, I'm quite pleased. Except there's some display driver glitch that I haven't figured out yet. A few pixels change color now and then and look like specks of dirt all over the screen. And it's bizarre because it doesn't affect all open apps. I can Alt+Tab back and forth between a maximized window with pixel dirt in it and another that doesn't have it. And it's random which apps get the pixel dirt, so it's not an app bug, definitely a video driver bug of some sort. I have the most up-to-date drivers for both my monitor and my graphics adapter. I switched from the Digital to the Analog version of the monitor driver which improved the problem a little (fewer pixels go wonky and less frequently, but it still happens).

Try a morph search lemma:ἄφεσις BEFORE 5 WORDS lemma:ἁμαρτία all passages, NA27.  This should be quick.  I get 0.72 sec.

.20 sec.

Try a morph search lemma:ἄφεσις BEFORE 5 WORDS lemma:ἁμαρτία all passages, NA27.  This should be quick.  I get 0.72 sec.

.20 sec.

VERY impressive.

OK, I scanned with Malwarebytes and it found Trojan.Oficla in nb3test.exe,

The latest  MalwareBytes 1.5 with latest virus definitions found nothing!

OK, I scanned with Malwarebytes and it found Trojan.Oficla in nb3test.exe,

The latest  MalwareBytes 1.5 with latest virus definitions found nothing!

I've got the latest. Just downloaded it from Malwarebytes.org before running it. Version 1.51.1.1100, Database version 5687. Just updated again to Database version 5688 and scanned just that one file (nb3test.exe) and again it found the trojan.

Try a morph search lemma:ἄφεσις BEFORE 5 WORDS lemma:ἁμαρτία all passages, NA27.  This should be quick.  I get 0.72 sec.

.20 sec.

0.18s on my quad core desktop and 0.37 on my laptop! These are first attempts eg. 0.07s second attempt on desktop.

I've got the latest. Just downloaded it from Malwarebytes.org before running it. Version 1.51.1.1100, Database version 5687. Just updated again to Database version 5688

Same definition 5688 but version is 1.50.1.1100. Digital signature 21 Dec 2010, downloaded 15 Jan 2011. I scanned just the file with no problem.

I've got the latest. Just downloaded it from Malwarebytes.org before running it. Version 1.51.1.1100, Database version 5687. Just updated again to Database version 5688

Same definition 5688 but version is 1.50.1.1100. Digital signature 21 Dec 2010, downloaded 15 Jan 2011.

Oops, that was my typo after seeing all those 1's. I too have 1.50.1.1100.

I scanned just the file with no problem.

Very odd. When did you download Novabench, and what is the version number? Mine is 3.0.2, dated December 11, 2010. Downloaded yesterday directly from Novabench.com.

Mine is 3.0.2, dated December 11, 2010. Downloaded yesterday directly from Novabench.com.

Ahhh! NovaBench version 3.0.1, downloaded 21 Oct 2010. I'll stay clear of 3.0.2

It's very likely to be a false positive.

It's very likely to be a false positive.

So perhaps I should report it to Malwarebytes and let them figure out whether it is or not?

Try a morph search lemma:ἄφεσις BEFORE 5 WORDS lemma:ἁμαρτία all passages, NA27.  This should be quick.  I get 0.72 sec.

.20 sec.

0.18s on my quad core desktop and 0.37 on my laptop! These are first attempts eg. 0.07s second attempt on desktop.

Nice to compare apples to apples, Dave - we share the same Desktop i7-860 CPU. My first run came in at 0.14s on my desktop.

 

So perhaps I should report it to Malwarebytes and let them figure out whether it is or not?

Very definitely.

So perhaps I should report it to Malwarebytes and let them figure out whether it is or not?

Very definitely.

Done. Got a reply back from them requesting that I enable logging and send them the log. (Sounds familiar... [:)]) I did that, and now their R&D team will take it from there.

In the meantime, I think this is probably a false positive, so we're probably all safe. I ran it through the battery of malware scans at http://virusscan.jotti.org and it passed all 19 of them.

Mine is 3.0.2, dated December 11, 2010. Downloaded yesterday directly from Novabench.com.

Ahhh! NovaBench version 3.0.1, downloaded 21 Oct 2010. I'll stay clear of 3.0.2

I didn't find anything on mine either, it's from 6/28/2010 version 3.0.0.0.

Nice to compare apples to apples, Dave - we share the same Desktop i7-860 CPU. My first run came in at 0.14s on my desktop.

Shhhh ..  I hear the sounds of over-clocking[:)]

Nice to compare apples to apples, Dave - we share the same Desktop i7-860 CPU. My first run came in at 0.14s on my desktop.

Shhhh ..  I hear the sounds of over-clocking

How does one do over-clocking? I've got this new souped up machine that can handle it -- this thing feels like a refrigerator it's so cool now. And it's quiet!

Nice to compare apples to apples, Dave - we share the same Desktop i7-860 CPU. My first run came in at 0.14s on my desktop.

Shhhh ..  I hear the sounds of over-clocking

How does one do over-clocking? I've got this new souped up machine that can handle it -- this thing feels like a refrigerator it's so cool now. And it's quiet!

Tom's Hardware articles answer over-clocking ?  => http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/core-i7-980x-efficiency,2590.html and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/5-ghz-core-i7-980x-overclocking,2665-8.html

Keep Smiling [:)]

OK, I scanned with Malwarebytes and it found Trojan.Oficla in nb3test.exe,

The latest  MalwareBytes 1.5 with latest virus definitions found nothing!

I've got the latest. Just downloaded it from Malwarebytes.org before running it. Version 1.51.1.1100, Database version 5687. Just updated again to Database version 5688 and scanned just that one file (nb3test.exe) and again it found the trojan.

Reported false positive to Malwarebytes. They confirmed it and fixed their database. Updated to latest (5703) and it no longer reports a trojan in that file.

How does one do over-clocking?

Just Google for overclocking and you'll get beginners and advanced guides!

Reported false positive to Malwarebytes. They confirmed it and fixed their database.

That's good to know. Thanks, Rosie.

Ha! My new machine is so fast that Google thought I might be a robot because of how fast I was searching for multiple things:

2/7/2011 6:00:28 PM
Microsoft Windows 7
Professional
Intel Core i7 960 3.20GHz @ 3201 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI
Radeon HD 5800 Series

8183 MB System RAM (Score:
180)
- RAM Speed: 8932 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score:
698)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 207612264
- Integer
Operations/Second: 759900208
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second:
1040882

Graphics Tests (Score: 581)
- 3D Frames Per
Second: 1577

Hardware Tests (Score: 38)
- Primary
Partition Capacity: 293 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 162 MB/s

I just got this XPS Studio 9100 from Dell  a little over a week ago.  Logos running slow and some other issues caused me to buy it.

Peace to you, Larry!               And Joy in the Lord!

After I got over a brief twinge of envy, I ended up very happy for you!          *smile*

          You must be pleased!              That's one of the most powerful machines that have been shared here!

Well-done!