Just shows what an upgrade can do!

Thought this might be of interest to people considering a Sandybridge upgrade.

My original system:
MSI P43 Neo (Intel P43 Express) motherboard
Intel E8600 3.3GHz CPU
4GB Corsair DDR2
Bog-standard SATA hard drive
ATI HD4850 512MB GPU
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/handsy/20110118%20cdm.png
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/handsy/20110118%20wei.png
3DMark06 = 12213

New system:
Asus P8H67-M PRO (Intel H67 Express)
Intel i5 2500 3.3GHz CPU
4GB Corsair DDR3
Crucial 64GB SSD
ATI HD4850 512MB GPU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/handsy/20110123%20cdm.png
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/handsy/20110123%20wei.png
3DMark06 = 13948

Quite a difference eh! ...and just to say, I *do* notice a significant difference in system responsiveness/boot time. This is not just benchmarks talking :)

Upgrade now ;)

What was the hard drive/ssd ??

Looking at those numbers I'm guessing you where running the sata in IDE legacy mode on your p43
That's the only reason I can see for that big a jump is disc performance numbers

SATA was in IDE mode in previous PC, yes.
Should it have been in AHCI then?

Either way, massive difference and I'm chuffed :)

P.S. it's a Crucial RealSSD C300 64GB

Nice upgrade.

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Originally Posted by machinist

Thought this might be of interest to people considering a Sandybridge upgrade.

My original system:
MSI P43 Neo (Intel P43 Express) motherboard
Intel E8600 3.3GHz CPU
4GB Corsair DDR2
Bog-standard SATA hard drive
ATI HD4850 512MB GPU
Windows 7 Ultimate 32-bit


New system:
Asus P8H67-M PRO (Intel H67 Express)
Intel i5 2500 3.3GHz CPU
4GB Corsair DDR3
Crucial 64GB SSD
ATI HD4850 512MB GPU
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit

Quite a difference eh! ...and just to say, I *do* notice a significant difference in system responsiveness/boot time. This is not just benchmarks talking :)

Upgrade now ;)

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The noticeable performance increase is all due to the SSD I think.

Agreed. Quad will be beneficial, but it's 99% the SSD.

I imagine the CPU and RAM may have helped with processor and memory performance, somewhat. ;)

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Originally Posted by machinist

Quite a difference eh! ...and just to say, I *do* notice a significant difference in system responsiveness/boot time. This is not just benchmarks talking :)

Upgrade now ;)

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Thanks for posting, funnily enough I've just upgraded to a modest sandy bridge and the thing that struck me most, that there is almost no difference in the time it takes applications to load from my single core Athlon 64 4200, using the same Samsung F3 7200rpm. which I swapped a to the new rig.

I really understand what all the fuss is about with these solid-state drives. Great benchmarking figures you have there nice job.:)

Yes running in IDE mode limits the transfer rates to a theoretical max of 133MB/s in practise it's lower around 120MB/s max and under sata IDE emulation even less