Thats mine after a recent gfx upgrade.

I think its going to take some ££ to raise it further than that!

Windows 7

Im using a 2 * 1TB 7200RPM Stripe but its still slow. That said I have 8GB of RAM, so theres only noticeable disk lag when reading apps/files into RAM

I dont really trust the HD test.... I have 5 fast sata 2 disks in raid 0.... hardly make any difference compared to a single disk in the test..... but make s a massive difference when you actually use it


nimrod, what cpu do you have ? Ive got a core2duo going at 4ghz, itll do 4.4 easy but I had to up my fans to 7v which pissed me off so backed it off a bit

Im tempted to upgrade cpy/mb/ssd

wow been a while since we had benchmark type thread.

Here is mine:


spec as per sig, not bad for budget system.

Im running a Core i7 @ stock 2.8ghz
Im doing some investigation into drivers / bios updates as Im wondering if Ive got a weird bottle neck on the RAID chipset (or something).

I think its just the benchmarks not working it out right..... Ive always run raid and theyve always been under rated in tests

benchmarking my raid array tops out at about 100meg sec read/write

but I can copy from my 2 backup dicks onto it, and get 90meg/sec from each (so 180meg/sec write)

and Im pretty sure thats maxing out the backup disks not the raid array.... I dont notice any slow down if I open other programs etc...

I dont think it makes any difference what HDDs you have mostly, unless its SSD, it probably only recognises SATA, SATAII, RAID and SSD as types or something, hence most people getting the same index. It would be interesting to know. It does seem to make the whole thing even more arbitrary than I first thought.

Processor: 1.7
Memory: 4.0
Graphics: 1.9
Gaming Graphics: 1.0
Primary Hard Disk: 5.9

Thats my EEEpc. Im still on XP on my main pc. Im tempted to nick the 8gb SSD and use it for my swap file..

little brothers new rig....
(as per THIS thread)