sandra benchmarking-> conspiracy?? recount?

[mikelou26]

=) anyways
my oced 700 coppermine intel's score at 933 mhz is weird...someday...it is OVER cpu 3000 points! then other day it levels off under 2300? what the HELL? and someday it says 930 mhz in sandra program..and other days at ...934? the HELL?

 

[Tetsuo316]

use zd's benchmark. it's not as twitchy as sandra, or 3dmark, or...

 

[Renob]

Were do you get zd benchmake?????????

 

[artemedes]

You have to order it from ZDnet.

I think they should make it available for download. I refuse to give them my CC number so i can order it. If I can download entire iso images of OS's that hit 650 mb, I should be able to download a benchmarking program. Thus I refuse to use it until it is freely available like other benchmarking program. I am sure that is one of the major reasons more people do not use it.

 

[mikelou26]

i thought sandra was the best?

 

[AdamK47]

You can get ZDnet Winbench99 for free from here.

I'd get the one without the video tests, unless you feel like downloading a 128MB benchmark.

 

[Priit]

I have no faith in ZDnet benchmark programs. Tried them some time ago and they show some very wierd results. 3D Winbench specially sucked. Sandra is using synthetic benchmarking and it has almost nothing to do with real-world performance.

 

[Viperoni]

Could be an unstable procesor.
That's the kinda results you get.
I've experinced it before, quite odd.

 

[mikelou26]

so what can it be?... that is making it "unstable"