Athlon X2 5000 BE acting strangely, why?

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Athlon X2 5000 BE acting strangely, why?

Post by CountTyro » Tue Mar 24, 2009 10:00 am

I'm testing Windows 7 and loving it. But something CPU-related is up. My 2.6Ghz Athlon X2 Black Edition gets an Experience Index Score of 1.8, which seems awfully little.

Rest of the components all get 2.9 or more. I'm on an Asus M3A78-VM (Ati 780G) with 2GB ram and plenty of hdd. I have tried turning off or replacing anything I could, but nothing has changed.

Here's a Resource Monitor shot, showing usage while browsing (Opera) and chatting (Pidgin). What are interrupts?
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I even tested with a Athlon LE-1620 I think it was. Please let it be a driver issue, because I have already sent one motherboard in for replacement (previous PSU fried the sound chip).

Help? :?

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Post by protellect » Wed Mar 25, 2009 10:45 am

This is probably correct.

The scale is just a lot bigger, Windows 7 indexing is designed to be able to scale i7 processors, and as far as clock-for-clock processing, any quad-core i7 will stomp an AMD processor by what is almost a whole magnitude.

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Post by shleepy » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:05 am

No, that can't be right. I imagine that an i7 would get close to the maximum score on Windows 7. The 5000+ isn't that bad of a processor, so 1.8 sounds quite a bit low. The scores should be roughly similar to the ones on Vista, but with a higher maximum score.

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Post by thejamppa » Wed Mar 25, 2009 11:10 am

Well, Windows 7 is Beta. We'll see how things go in future. However there is different way to utilize CPU benchmarking, the Window's own is hardly.... a good one. Since it does benchmarking own its own methods which are not always compearable other "real" benchmarks.

However we have to remember Core i7 gains tremendously when it can run 8 strings at once...

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Post by mentawl » Wed Mar 25, 2009 1:27 pm

Doesn't sound right to me - my spare pile-o-bits PC, with a Celeron e1200 @ 2.4ghz scores 6.2 on the CPU benchmark in Windows 7, or 4.8 (I think it was) at stock speed of 1.6ghz.

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Post by Mats » Wed Mar 25, 2009 2:24 pm

Core Duo T2300 1.66 GHz running W7 in VMWare with only one core: 4.1

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Post by CountTyro » Sat Mar 28, 2009 12:17 pm

It didn't seem to affect browsing or music listening much, but today I tried checking blender, and it was totally unusable, as the drop-down menus took several seconds to disappear. I could see the pixels disappearing line-by-line.

Slo-mo is cool but not when you're trying to actually do something.. :P

I don't want to go back to XP.. :(

According to data, the real score should really be around 5.2 so I definitely have a problem. I just don't know where to look.

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