I did a benchmark

[phillyman36]

I downloaded a bencmark app futuremark. What do these results mean? How would say an athlon 64 x2(4200 or 4400 ) do?

total score was 4480

System Test Suite
Multithreaded Test 1 / File Compression 5.3 MB/s

Multithreaded Test 1 / File Encryption 46.5 MB/s

Multithreaded Test 2 / File Decompression 37.58 MB/s

Multithreaded Test 2 / Image Processing 13.72 MPixels/s

Multithreaded Test 3 / Virus Scanning 2759.7 MB/s

Multithreaded Test 3 / Grammar Check 2.04 KB/s

File Decryption 49.02 MB/s

Audio Conversion 2755.49 KB/s

Web Page Rendering 5.13 Pages/s

WMV Video Compression 54.72 FPS

DivX Video Compression 60.81 FPS

Physics Calculation and 3D 168.23 FPS

Graphics Memory - 64 Lines 2335.2 FPS

ps im using a Northwood 3.2 with a gig of ram and a bfg 6800 gt

 

[RadiclDreamer]

It means little to nothing by itsself other than your machine is pretty fast. Benchmarks come into usefulness by comparing them to other systems. So if you make a system modification run it again to see if perf drops or goes up.

 

[biostud]

ask here click

He might be willing to do the same test.

 

[knothead34]

to get 4500-5000 on 3dmark 05 is good score . now when dual cores are out in full force have to see what they do.