Toms Hardware CPU Passmark Thread
If you are looking to upgrade your hardware, or have recently done so, and want to see how it stacks up, one of the Toms Hardware forum mods has started a thread where you can list your results, compare with others. Like the old PPBM5 results table used to be, it gives you an idea on the differences of GPUs and CPUs.
Tom's Hardware Passmark-CPU Benchmark Thread - CPUs
The biggest hassle I had was uploading the screenshot. There's none of that super friendly copy to clipboard and paste directly to the thread, that we enjoy here. You have to upload your screenshot to the likes of imgur and link to it on the TH thread. Imagine if we had to do that here with all the screen shots we use? [shudder] So score one for Jive for all its failings.
AFAICT my CPU, at least, would top their front page results table, but my old GTX970 is well and truly trounced by what look to be gaming machines in the rest of the thread. I used to have clock speed OC on automatic, but that made it shoot round to 4.4 to 4.5Ghz with heavy usage apps like Handbrake, or CPU-Z's stress/benchmark tool, and CPU temperature shot straight up to the high 90°C. I use a single 280mm Cooler Master Liquid Pro radiator with two 120mm fans. The fans ramped ever so slightly for the Passmark test. They go crazy loud when running Handbreak.
The instructions are in the first post as you'd expect, but basically, download and run this scary look .exe file. It took me a moment to work it out, but you have to click precisely on the word Run at the bottom of each window. (mine say rerun now because I have already run them — but you'd worked that out already. Right?)
https://www.passmark.com/ftp/petst.exe
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