How to properly benchmark a computer?

BurningSkyline

BurningSkyline

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Considering AMD's new Richland Architecture is out and there aren't a lot of reviews out there for the entire chip rather than just the GPU, I figured when my brother's new PC is up and ready to Go I'd benchmark it. Can you guys list off some free tools available for me to use?
 
You'd have to do a variety. You can do SuperPi Mod for CPU calculations, then use Unigene Valley Benchmark and 3DMARK 2013 for the GPU.
 
Alrighty I've done some benchmarks. The chip is reaching incredibly high temperatures, and I'm not sure if this is due to the case's airflow, ambient temperatures, or the CPU cooler. I stopped testing after I noticed the 100 degree max temp.

AMD Richland A8-6800K Test PC
3.9GHz, Radeon HD 8570D
ASUS F2-A85-M CSM
Corsair CX600
Seagate 500GB HDD
Kingston Hyper-X 8GB
Fractal Design Core 1000

Idle Temps on stock cooler: 26c Ambient (avg/min/max)
42, 42, 50

Load Temps on stock cooler: 25c Ambient (avg/min/max)
86, 41, 100

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Geekbench (32bit): 5942
Integer: 7004
Floating Point: 6495
Memory: 3998
Stream: 4178

Cinebench R11.5
CPU: 3.23 pts
OpenGL: 25.29 FPS

SuperPi Mod 1.5
1m Digits: 117.094 seconds

Handbrake 1080p Encode: (H.264 - avg bitrate 3000kbps 2-Pass Encoding, Turbo First Pass - 1 minute source)
2 minutes, 3 seconds / 123 seconds

Unigine Heaven Benchmark (1366x768 - see .zip for specifics)
Score: 368
FPS: 14.6
Min FPS: 6.7
Max FPS: 31.2
 

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I take when the system in your is intel and this benchmark you are running is amd, it is obviously a different system, the avg 86c and max 100c does seem high, what cooler do you have in this system ?
 
Stock AMD cooler. I think I might have screwed up the install of that somehow, but if my brother doesn't mind I might add a 120mm fan to the side panel. (its an ugly Orange with white LED fan LOL)
 
Well before you go to the expense of buying a better cooler, you could try removing the cooler and applying a new better quality thermal paste like arctic silver etc.

Do you have speccy installed on your pc, what are the rest of your system temps like ?
 
jamesd1981 said:
Well before you go to the expense of buying a better cooler, you could try removing the cooler and applying a new better quality thermal paste like arctic silver etc.

Do you have speccy installed on your pc, what are the rest of your system temps like ?
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I'll have to wait until my brother goes to work next to check out other system temps.
 
Are you sure the temperature is being reported correctly, it looks very unusual that it is just that one temp that is so high.
 
Install PC Wizard and compare the temps and what the voltage is on the power supply. What kind of power supply has he got? Looks like the 12V rail is at 6.4V, not good
 
I don't understand. It says that +12v voltage is 6.4, TMPIN2 reads 128c, and that the fan reads over 20,000 rpm! Is the power supply faulty?
 
oops, I was too busy wondering why it was off to add the PC wizard screenshot. :D But either way they read the same.
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Have you checked the temps in the bios, I Have had temps come up high in windows programs but have been normal in bios.

Although it could also be a bios glitch, a few months ago i bios flashed a gigabyte board before the flash temps were fine, after the flash the temps were really high.
 
Its def not 6.4V it wouldnt turn on. I would just touch the various parts of your motherboard and see if anything is super hot.
 
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