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IV. Stock Benchmarking

Stock Settings
For benchmarking, I will first run the system on stock settings. The stock settings will serve as the baseline for comparison for the overclock score. This will ensure whether overclocking the CPU will give a performance boost or whether the CPU is just being tortured to death without any noticeable benefit.

Note that all settings here are on automatic, with the RAM frequency running at higher than CPU system bus. I didn't tweak this to run at 1:1, as the RAM is able to sustain such high speed.

For the stock settings, all benchmark results will be acquired from three(3) runs, removing the highest and lowest score, but not averaging the total score of the three. This limit the number of random peaks of scores, and hopes to reduce the number of random unusual results. There will be no online submission of score because of time constraint and software limitation.

Temperature at idle hovers at 49C, while shoots to as high as 66c. This is still within specifications as this processor is designed to run to as high as 68.6c. With this, it is interesting how the stock heatsink will fare later on with overclocking.

::Subsystem Test::

PCMark02

PCMark04

PCMark05

Sandra-CPU

Sandra-Multimedia

Sandra-RAM Bandwidth

::3D Test::

3DMark01SE

3DMark03

3DMark05

The stock results speak for themselves, and exceeded my expected performance of the processor. PCMark02 isn't impacted much by multi-processor but shows very vey high CPU and memory performance. PCMark04 and PCMark05 is where it reallys shows the muscle power, getting high marks, beating a lot of 500 and 600 series processors on stock settings alone. Gaming scores on 3DMark01 to 3DMark05 all shows consistent above average scores and while 3DMark01 still reflects a huge portion of CPU muscle on the result, the other incarnation of 3DMark such as the 3DMark03 and 3DMark05 all relies heavily on the GPU, as such, the results should be used as a reference point only. About time to overclock this baby.