Black Hole benchmark Download

[Hilbert Hagedoorn]

Download the Black Hole benchmark (Beta). It tests the pure calculation speed of your cpu in double and integer (floating and integer). The bench has 2 tests, multithreaded and singlethreaded. Multith...

Black Hole benchmark Download

[dark_surge]

Thanks!

Results:

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Don't know if that's good or not. Just have to wait and see.

**Added**
Oops, I see there's already a thread for results. Sorry about that.

[SmileMan]

No, you're right to post here. This is for the new beta, the other thread is from 4.1.

[airbud7]

Originally Posted by dark_surge

Thanks!

Results:

 Click to show spoiler

Don't know if that's good or not. Just have to wait and see.

**Added**
Oops, I see there's already a thread for results. Sorry about that.

How did you save the image? ms paint? I get no right click.

[dark_surge]

Originally Posted by airbud7

How did you save the image? ms paint? I get no right click.

I used GIMP to save the image. I say save, but I guess they call it exporting now. </semantics>

[BetA]

hmmm, am i wrong or do i really allmost keep up with the i7 u have????

[dark_surge]

Originally Posted by BetA

hmmm, am i wrong or do i really allmost keep up with the i7 u have????

Nah if anything I'm doing it wrong. I've noticed the same thing on the 4.1 benchmark thread. I think I just need to take a look in the BIOS and see if there's any throttling or power management junk or etc I've overlooked. Either that or this CPU isn't as good as I originally thought. I got it for practically nothing so it's a possibility.

**Added**
After playing around in the BIOS I managed this:

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Not much better but oh well.

To be honest it's been almost a decade since I last overclocked anything or really messed around with the BIOS, especially with this Rampage IV. There's just a staggering amount of options to change when compared to any mobo I've ever owned in the past. Technology is already so fast nowadays and I've got a steady job so I haven't needed to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my electronics like I used to. I just do the basics of updating the BIOS when needed, turning off any throttling or whatnot, and making sure my clock speeds and timings are where they should be and then I leave it alone.

And on that note, if anybody else has a Rampage IV extreme and has any pointers I'd appreciate any help I can get.

**Added**
After googling your CPU I see you've got quite a nice OC on it. 2.83GHz to 3.8?

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@4.2GHz

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[zipper]

My old laptop lags behind...

[SmileMan]

Originally Posted by dark_surge

Nah if anything I'm doing it wrong. I've noticed the same thing on the 4.1 benchmark thread. I think I just need to take a look in the BIOS and see if there's any throttling or power management junk or etc I've overlooked. Either that or this CPU isn't as good as I originally thought. I got it for practically nothing so it's a possibility.

**Added**
After playing around in the BIOS I managed this:

 Click to show spoiler

Not much better but oh well.

To be honest it's been almost a decade since I last overclocked anything or really messed around with the BIOS, especially with this Rampage IV. There's just a staggering amount of options to change when compared to any mobo I've ever owned in the past. Technology is already so fast nowadays and I've got a steady job so I haven't needed to squeeze every last drop of performance out of my electronics like I used to. I just do the basics of updating the BIOS when needed, turning off any throttling or whatnot, and making sure my clock speeds and timings are where they should be and then I leave it alone.

And on that note, if anybody else has a Rampage IV extreme and has any pointers I'd appreciate any help I can get.

**Added**
After googling your CPU I see you've got quite a nice OC on it. 2.83GHz to 3.8?

**Added**
@4.2GHz

 Click to show spoiler

Clock for clock the old intel series aren't that much behind in pure calc speed. If you'd test an i5 2500k at the same speed of the c2q, you'll only see a difference of 200-300 points.
Anyway, the new series are cooler and can be clocked much higher (w/o ln2)
The reason why the difference quad threaded cpu vs 8threads is minimal, is because singlethreaded and quad threads will give around the same result.
That said, overclocking does help VERY much in this bench, especially multithreaded will scale up. Here will all 8threaded cpus gain much points, because the scale of the multithreaded test is much bigger .

I'll try 5.2ghz tomorrow.

Edit: People with overclocked phenoms are very welcome atm!

[SmileMan]

Originally Posted by zipper

My old laptop lags behind...

Really, it's an okey score compared to some others I saw already.

Some scores:

Athlon 64 3700+ stock



I7 3770 stock (3.4ghz, for singlethreaded 3.9ghz, turbo always on 1 thread)

So it seems there IS still a big difference c2q if they were on same clock. Could you test that c2q on 3.5ghz?


I5 2500k @4.3ghz



I7 920 stock (2.63ghz)



I7 2600k @5ghz (will do 5.2 or more tomorrow)



I7 3930k @4.9ghz



I7 2630QM stock (2ghz)


For people who want to get the best score out of their systems, lowering RAM LATENCY (speed not really), makes pretty much sense in the score and will give it a 200-500 points boost.

[-Tj-]

So it seems there IS still a big difference c2q if they were on same clock. Could you test that c2q on 3.5ghz?

Here is mine at ~ 3.56ghz

[dark_surge]

Originally Posted by SmileMan

Clock for clock the old intel series aren't that much behind in pure calc speed. If you'd test an i5 2500k at the same speed of the c2q, you'll only see a difference of 200-300 points.
Anyway, the new series are cooler and can be clocked much higher (w/o ln2)
The reason why the difference quad threaded cpu vs 8threads is minimal, is because singlethreaded and quad threads will give around the same result.
That said, overclocking does help VERY much in this bench, especially multithreaded will scale up. Here will all 8threaded cpus gain much points, because the scale of the multithreaded test is much bigger .

I'll try 5.2ghz tomorrow.

Edit: People with overclocked phenoms are very welcome atm!

Wow, we have the creator himself here. Thank you for explaining that to me. I'm surprised there's so little difference between a lot of these CPUs.

I wish I still had my Phenom II 965 rig in one piece so I could test that for you.

[SmileMan]

Np, could you plz experiment with your ram latency? Lower it a bit (1-2 cycles down or something) and test again. You'll have better scores.
Also, really close ALL programs. Even the smallest backgroundprograms like skype,... can affect your score pretty much.

[dark_surge]

@3.8GHz






For some reason I got a better score running the memory at 1600MHz than 1866. I'm assuming it's because the 3820 is only supposed to run up to 1600MHz when in quad channel?

I tried tightening my RAM timings but I couldn't manage anything lower than 8-9-9-23-1 @1.55v (I was at 9-9-9-24-1 @1.5v originally) and I didn't feel safe going much higher even though I've heard of people going up to 1.6 with this specific RAM.

Nonetheless, your advice has improved my score quite a bit. Thank you. It also got me back into OCing again a bit, although I've got a lot of catching up and re-educating to do before I feel as comfortable doing it as I once did. I feel like a junkie who's had his fix after 10 years of sobriety....that wasn't the best analogy.

[SmileMan]

Originally Posted by dark_surge

@3.8GHz






For some reason I got a better score running the memory at 1600MHz than 1866. I'm assuming it's because the 3820 is only supposed to run up to 1600MHz when in quad channel?

I tried tightening my RAM timings but I couldn't manage anything lower than 8-9-9-23-1 @1.55v (I was at 9-9-9-24-1 @1.5v originally) and I didn't feel safe going much higher even though I've heard of people going up to 1.6 with this specific RAM.

Nonetheless, your advice has improved my score quite a bit. Thank you. It also got me back into OCing again a bit, although I've got a lot of catching up and re-educating to do before I feel as comfortable doing it as I once did. I feel like a junkie who's had his fix after 10 years of sobriety....that wasn't the best analogy.

Going over 1.6v with your ram isn't dangerous, I run my ram at 1.59v all the time. Because I've 2 kingston hyperX sticks and 2 ripjaws, but the kingstons need more voltage to get these 1600mhz...

[beta-sama]

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[dark_surge]

Originally Posted by SmileMan

Going over 1.6v with your ram isn't dangerous, I run my ram at 1.59v all the time. Because I've 2 kingston hyperX sticks and 2 ripjaws, but the kingstons need more voltage to get these 1600mhz...

That's a relief. I'll try upping the voltage a tad then and see if I can tighten them up a bit more, although if I can't I'm happy with 8-9-9-24.

Thanks again for all your help!

[rflair]

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