What's your benchmark?

My desktop -

Novabench score: 1238

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise
Intel Xeon X5482 3.20GHz @ 3192 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA Quadro FX 5800

32766MB System RAM (Score: 235)
- RAM Speed: 3232 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 688)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 204450272
- Integer Operations/Second: 786527296
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 974237

Graphics Tests (Score: 260)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 754

Hardware Tests (Score: 55)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 930 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 108 MB/s

I certainly do not have Dominick's powerhouse, but here are the specs for my HP tm2t Tablet.

Ext GPU on:

Internal GPU on:

10/14/2010 6:38:05 PM
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core i5 U 430 1.20GHz @ 1200 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5450

5942MB System RAM (Score: 136)
- RAM Speed: 3863 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 228)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 77219980
- Integer Operations/Second: 169620284
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 437007

Graphics Tests (Score: 14)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 53

Hardware Tests (Score: 29)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 445 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 64 MB/s

Sony VAIO VGN-NW350F

10/14/2010 8:36:37 PM
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core2 Duo T6600 2.20GHz @ 2200 MHz
Graphics Card: Mobile Intel(R) 4 Series Express Chipset Family

3936MB System RAM (Score: 106)
- RAM Speed: 2878 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 201)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 50535906
- Integer Operations/Second: 126451940
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 612093

Graphics Tests (Score: 14)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 52

Hardware Tests (Score: 24)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 287 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 67 MB/s

Sager Laptop. Logos runs well.

10/14/2010 21:12:22
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel Core i7 X 980 3.33GHz @ 3326 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285M

12280MB System RAM (Score: 208)
- RAM Speed: 9526 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 931)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 308336952
- Integer Operations/Second: 1209921312
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 1041080

Graphics Tests (Score: 231)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 677

Hardware Tests (Score: 28)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 149 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 173 MB/s

This looks useful and very interesting to see the wide range of results people are getting. I wonder if we might be able to come up with recommendation for a minimal benchmark people would want to have on NovaBench to make Logos run acceptably fast? (But I guess everyone's definition of "acceptably fast" will be unique.)

I've downloaded the software, but I've currently got about 20 applications running and it recommends I shut them all down before running the benchmarks. Probably a good idea.  In fact, it's probably best to run the benchmarks after a fresh reboot, so as to have as much memory available as possible. I'm not going to get around to it for a while though, as I'm in the middle of a dozen tasks. Do you think I multi-task too much?  Maybe that's part of why Logos runs so slowly on my machine. [;)]

Dell XPS 1645 (see below for specs)

Home Built System – Asus 5QPL-AM Motherboard

Novabench Score 560

Microsoft Windows 7 Professional
Intel Core2 Duo E8400 3.00GHz @ 3472 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 220

4096MB System RAM (Score: 117)
- RAM Speed: 4661 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 286)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 51150766
- Integer Operations/Second: 210226902
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 1052402

Graphics Tests (Score: 137)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 419

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

It's interesting how much having a discrete graphics card helped my overall score. Logos 4 runs very well on this system, although it does take about 25 seconds to get up and running the first time after booting up (7 seconds for subsequent starts). I'll benchmark my office computer later when I go down to the church building.

Rosie Perera said:

I wonder if we might be able to come up with recommendation for a minimal benchmark people would want to have on NovaBench to make Logos run acceptably fast? (But I guess everyone's definition of "acceptably fast" will be unique.)

Also the difference between a discrete graphics card and integrated graphics does have quite an impact on the overall Nova score as shown between my score and Bob's score (only 1 point difference). Yet I suspect Logos 4 would run faster on his machine given that his CPU score is much higher. Various components could skew the overall Nova score in the same manner. So would you have to have minimal scores for each component as well as an minimum overall score?

Dell Studio 1745 - Year Old

Logos 4 performs well (most of the time!)

Dominick Sela said:

Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise

Dominick, I agree with Rosie about curiosity about your system.  I am not familiar with your OS.  Is that a system the average user would benefit from and be able to causally use?   

Tested on HP dv6t-2000 CTO

Logos 4 runs fine, little or no lag during searches, passage guides, etc.

Verified NovaBench Score: 749

Test run on October 15, 2010
Microsoft Windows 7 Professional

 Intel Core i7 Q 720 1.60GHz running at 1600 MHz

NVIDIA GeForce GT 230M GPU

4087 MB System RAM (Score: 134)
- RAM Speed: 7926 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 480)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 201833288
- Integer Operations/Second: 478717600
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 551847

Graphics Tests (Score: 101)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 317

Hardware Tests (Score: 34)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 453 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 87 MB/s

Rosie Perera said:

I wish it would list what hard disk make and model we all have. DOMINICK AND DON, I'd like to know what you're using that gets you such blazing fast write speeds.

I am running Windows Server 2008 R2, which has the same underlying kernel as Windows 7, but it benchmarks about 20% faster in most of the tests I have run.  Most believe it's due to it being a SERVER O/S; but there are plenty of sites that show how to turn the eye candy back on and get the user apps we all love, to make it indistinguishable from Windows 7. It also has a very robust Virtual Machine manager built in, I run tons of stuff in it's own Virtual Box so I don't corrupt my base machine at all - it stays very virgin, so I don't end up having to reinstall every now and then like with Windows on the desktop. (That's the #1 reason I prefer it actually).

My disks are running RAID 1, so it's actually a little slower on write speed than it could be in either native mode or RAID 0. The drives are Hitachi HDS72101 drives, 4 1-terabyte drives grouped into 2 logical drives via RAID 1.

10/15/2010 13:25:51
Microsoft Windows 7 Ultimate
Intel Core i7 Q 820 1.73GHz @ 1730 MHz
Graphics Card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 260M

8181MB System RAM (Score: 175)
- RAM Speed: 7788 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 521)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 202721576
- Integer Operations/Second: 529693016
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 636168

Graphics Tests (Score: 182)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 544

Hardware Tests (Score: 35)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 451 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 89 MB/s

Alienware M15x laptop  8G ram  1G Graphics 

Sorry, that last post was intended to address Dominick. I left off the quote.

HP Pavilion Elite Quad Desktop (runs L4 with fast search results with lots of stuff open... so much better than my old Dell, though that one was 6 years old and was able to run L4 on 3MB RAM)

10/15/2010 3:31:40 PM
Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core i7 920 2.67GHz @ 2668 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 4850

8184MB System RAM (Score: 173)
- RAM Speed: 7521 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 626)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 204377848
- Integer Operations/Second: 675387488
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 854654

Graphics Tests (Score: 336)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 954

Hardware Tests (Score: 53)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 688 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 136 MB/s

This is from my laptop:

NovaBench Score: 530

Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium
Intel Core i5 M 430 2.27GHz @ 2267 MHz
Graphics Card: ATI Mobility Radeon HD 5470

2934MB System RAM (Score: 99)
- RAM Speed: 4952 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 336)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 101801244
- Integer Operations/Second: 273873524
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 654004

Graphics Tests (Score: 71)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 230

Hardware Tests (Score: 24)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 276 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 72 MB/s

Will do desktop later... both run Logos well. (I won't do my other laptop that I run Logos on, because its a dinosaur.. lol)

Rosie Perera said:

I might want to look into the OCZ-VERTEX2 which is even faster.

I do think you will be happier with some form of SSD included in your machine.The Dell is a fantastic machine out of the box. It came with 2 Samsung 640 GB HDs.

If I were not spoiled rotten, there would be no need for an upgrade. But since I have learned to require instant gratification, The micro-second delays irritate me.

Each model of SSD has it's good and bad qualities. I settled on this one, as a boot, Bible, office apps drive. I'll post my comparison next week. I don't expect to see large gains in benchmark numbers. I do expect to see snappier search times.    SSDSA2MH080G2R5  

[:P] It's a Netbook, People. [:P]

10/16/2010 2:45:56 AM
Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition
Intel Atom N270 1.60GHz @ 1596 MHz
Graphics Card: Mobile Intel(R) 945 Express Chipset Family

2038MB System RAM (Score: 97)
- RAM Speed: 1929 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score: 68)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 18874300
- Integer Operations/Second: 33113442
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second: 247032

Graphics Tests (Score: 1)
- 3D Frames Per Second: 3

Hardware Tests (Score: 6)
- Primary Partition Capacity: 105 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 11 MB/s

Rosie Perera said:

K.J. said:

NovaBench Score: 172

It's a Netbook, People.

 

I'm impressed that you've actually even got Logos running on a Netbook. What's the performance experience like for you?

Hi;

Sluggish searches, but it never times out and crashes. I got it to take to the creek, or to the mountaintop. A Kindle on steroids. It does all I expected of it and more. Naturally, I have a PC for home study. ( over 1000 benchmark )

Edit: It's also very cool for inductive/markup study at a WiFi coffee shop, etc. It fits nicely in a leather bible cover, and the 9 cell battery keeps you up and running for 5 hours+.[:)]

Paul Newsome said:

Man I guess Mac users need not apply...

Here we go ... using Parallels 6 on an 8Gb MBP, with 4Gb allocated to the VM

Just check out the Graphics Score!

L4 works nicely on the VM at least it did until Tuesday when it stopped working altogether because the graphics would not work (see this thread). Now I have run the tests I am beginning to think Parallels / W7 fault. No other apps seem to have drawing issues ...

If there is anybody else with a current MBP and Parallels who could do this and let me know what the graphics test is I would be grateful. (Go on ... see if you can beat the high score!)

Lenovo T61

10/18/2010 5:59:08 AM
Microsoft Windows XP
Professional
Intel Core2 Duo T7500 2.20GHz @ 2194 MHz
Graphics Card:
NVIDIA Quadro NVS 140M

3055MB System RAM (Score:
84)
- RAM Speed: 1605 MB/s

CPU Tests (Score:
80)
- Floating Point Operations/Second: 21563076
- Integer
Operations/Second: 46557300
- MD5 Hashes Generated/Second:
242590

Graphics Tests (Score: 34)
- 3D Frames Per
Second: 116

Hardware Tests (Score: 4)
- Primary
Partition Capacity: 88 GB
- Drive Write Speed: 7 MB/s

Bob Schlessman said:

Jerry M said:

 I am not familiar with your OS.  Is that a system the average user would benefit from and be able to causally use?

Jerry,

I suspect he is running this benchmark on a server at his place of employment not on his personal desktop. The CPU alone runs between $1300 and $1600 depending on where you buy it. The OS retails for $3,999 and the graphics card goes for around $3,000. Finally, he is running 32 gig of memory. Not your average desktop system by any means so it really isn't a fair comparison to the hardware most of us run. Sort of like comparing a Ford Focus to a top model  Lambergini.

Nope, not a server  - this is my desktop machine. I am a professional developer by trade.  We all have these machines. No one pays that for the OS because we have MSDN software subscriptions with Microsoft. OS cost is shov ing a DVD in the drive and installing it.

Bradley Grainger said:

I may be misunderstanding what you're saying, but FYI a MSDN subscription doesn't actually allow for regular desktop use of the OS; it's purely for development and testing in a sandbox.

Actually, not quite, but a common misunderstanding.

It says "Using the software in any other way, such as for doing email, playing games, or editing a document is another use and is not covered by the MSDN subscription license.  When this happens, the underlying operating system must also be licensed normally by purchasing a regular copy of Windows such as the one that came with a new OEM PC." which they are - all PCs were purchased new with Windows Vista or Windows 7 licenses (we don't buy PCs without an OS for example which some people do), so all PCs have an applicable license covering non-development use.  Additionally we purchased the MSDN subscription and license.

It doesn't say you can't USE the MSDN OS to run non-sandbox things, it says that use is not COVERED by the MSDN license, so you need another license to COVER its use - in effect you need TWO OS licenses. We do, we just USE one OS for operation (although some may dual boot if they choose).

So "running Novabench on your MSDN OS is a violation of the license" is false - running it and not having a purchased non-MSDN license for that PC that covers that non-sandbox development usage would be a violation.