Tech Tips and Reviews
Just a quick benchmark I did a year ago between the two computers.
Though the computers seem to be a generation apart and one seems to have half what the other has, they run relatively the same performance through my daily tasks of design.
Work computer
Work Computer. 6 core with 16 gig memory
Home Pc
Home Computer. 3 core with 8 gig memory
Computer I just bought at resell shop for $5.50
$5 Computer. 4 core with 4 gig memory
Got my Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 just last night and took a few photos and a video. Posted the fresh out of the box very first boot up.
Decided to do a performance benchmark for my new Admire 2. To be fair, I had to put the Admire up against my Bionic. The Bionic is a couple years old, but a phone I have always considered to be pretty fast.
Now understand that the Galaxy Admire 2 is the budget Samsung Galaxy. It’s cost at launch through Cricket was just less than 1/4 of current Galaxy phones and less than 1/4 the price of the phone I putting against the Galaxy Admire 2.
| Antutu Tests | Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 | Motorola Droid Bionic |
|---|---|---|
| Ram | 1804 | 995 |
| Cpu Integer | 1764 | 1322 |
| Cpu Float-point | 1367 | 1121 |
| 2d graphics | 1190 | 519 |
| 3d graphics | 3685 | 2670 |
| database IO | 555 | 75 |
| SD card write | 9.3MB/s 93 | 8.9MB/s 89 |
| SD card read | 22.2MB/s 191 | 16.8MB/s 168 |
| CPU frequency | 1188 MHz (x2) | 1000 MHz (x2) |
First to be tested was the Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 from Cricket that I got for $49
Next Tested was the Droid Bionic. That cost much more … Much Much more
Now for the two phones side by side.
Watching Antutu run, it was clear right away that the Admire 2 was about to stomp a smooshy spot into the Bionic. It did. FPS rates were different all across the board.
Samsung Galaxy Admire 2 VS Motorola Bionic Antutu Benchmark by Budget Tech Review on TruXterTech.Com
There seems to be endless websites ion the internet so i have not judged them all, i can not say that my “must have” list is the be all end all list. It is however, the list I use. So I am pretty much giving you my bookmarks.
FaceBook a Place to….. hmm .. I have no idea what it’s good for. but I keep going back… you can’t meet people there. so you can’t really call it a social network. it’s more like a place to add real friends that you already have, and then nothing… you are done. you can kinda go away now.
Myspace Used to be a great place to meet women, now it’s a place to play video games.
Twitter This place has so much potential, but really it is a place to get nailed with garbage.. but add local bands there and bam, you’re golden.
PcPitstop I go here to benchmark all computers before I repair or upgrade them, and then I benchmark after. To see a performance change.
Playlist The site I head to when i can’t remember a song, or when it is stuck in my head.
live365 What I listen to while at work.
Hulu Internet TV. to watch stuff you missed on Monday.. Kinda fumbly and awkward.
Joost a place to watch … well nothing really. Kinda dead now… Needs Trailer Park Boys.
Cnet Also known as Download.Com. Safest place to get downloads from. But be carefull, the advertisers there make stheir ads all say “download now” hoping to bait people who don’t fully read a page while getting a download.. Kind of crooked. Since they have enough volume they could prevent everyone from downloading spam filled files because they clicked some stupid advertisement.
The Jobacle Podcast Blog The podcast is great. Very motivational. Influenced my job search site
Of course there is Nvidia so I can get back up after windows eats my lunch and leaves me formatting.
I started with a simple search for a friend. My friend is looking for a store, any store in Houston that has Thomas Kinkade books for sale. I did a search in Google first, and found only one location and it says Rice Village. I did the same exact search in Bing and found two locations, the next location says Galleria. I am not sure there are any books by TK. All i really find is paintings, and some company that says they have TK lights and Lamps. I personally think his paintings look like they are supposed to be on Christmas cards.
Fuzzy Snowy teddy bears.
In my frustration of searching something I have no idea about i decided to do another search that was more to my level.
My new search was “free image editing tool”
Bing on it’s front page, never once linked G.I.M.P. but it did link a bunch of rubbish sites that talk about image editing tools.
google how ever linked gimp second link and picassa fifth link, it’s first link was “graphic soft” page showing gimp,photo scape, paint.net.
Actually, everything they linked in that page is found on the first page of the search results in google. Names I have heard of, Items I have used, stuff I know works.
Google won this one by far.
My follow up search. “free website flash”
First link in bing is flashmo
Flashmo has great stuff I know this for sure
The flash mo link in google is teh second, but the first is WIX, wix is for myspace flash . understandable that it is on top, more people want flash on their myspace than there are of website designers.
Again i score to google. simply because bing links wix twice in the first page. Looks like bing gets gamed easily.
my third search was “gta clans”
of course gtaclans.com is first result in both, but bing links second post as gamespy,SPAM. No one uses gamespy…. do they? i have never had anyone recomend gamespy to me.
google again
Fourth search was “discount auto parts”
Both had similar results, except google linked some sort of carpet place on the first page. big no no.
I give that one to bing.
For the most part, these are hit and miss. it is nice to have two strong search engines. I just the lay out of bing. Otherwise it’s no worse or better than google.
Oh and all my searches I only looked at the first page. the rest of the pages are always junk anyway.
I have always liked the work of a person named eXPer1ence, with his tiny stripped versions of windows products. This guy makes Microsoft feel like Linux. Open source and all you know?.
I did a search just to see if he had done anything with Windows 7. Well he did. Google pushed out some very promising results. On the popular Torrent search site it showed eXPer1ence, modded programs and his name for user account that created and uploaded the torrent files to the search engine. So I knew it was genuine and not from some virus freak that renamed a bad file.
I decided i would test it in benchmarks against the current Windows 7 that i have installed, straight from Microsoft’s website. Legit cd key and all .. of course. I just wanted to see if a stray dude could create mod a well appreciated operating system into a fine video game running o/s. I broke out the extra Sata Hard drive and connected everything. and yes it was the exact same make as the current drive I was using.
I did the full entire install. I installed my need for speed carbon and most wanted, shift and undercover, grand theft auto iii Vice city, San Andreas and gtaiv. All installed fine and smooth. I tried to install DirectX 10. It said I already had an equivalent version installed. Ok that was cool. I started my benchmarking. I played all my need for speeds on both versions of windows seven, 64bit full install and 32 bit tiny7. Tiny played a tad bit smoother but I got artifacts on occasions, I moved on to my Grand Theft Auto games. III was so smooth and impressive I was sold to tiny7 in a flash, same for Vice City and San Andreas. I started to try GTAIV. No go. GTAIV would not play. The command prompt would open and then quickly disappear. So I started searching online. I see that the latest version of tiny7 says it will play Grand Theft Auto IV Listed here. I confirm that I have the version stated. The game would not play. So i double check my directx version. It seems that some items of direct X would not install. I fully uninstalled Direct x 10 to see if I could solve the issue with a reinstall. Now direct X 10 would not install, at all.
I also got an issue with items on the desktop. If I tried to paste from or to the desktop, I would get an error saying that the desktop was not found. um… ermmm??? No version of Autodesk Or autocad would install. So it was useless for working on drafting. Would not sign into network and save settings. Some of my media editing tools would not work either. Like magix music maker and video editor. If magix does not work, then it’s useless to me.
For gaming, I have to say that Tiny7 is not a complete failure, but it did fail my trial. I have since uninstalled tiny7. I am really liking windows 7 ultimate 64 bit. Maybe next time eXPer1ence until then , I think i will go up the street and purchase 7, the proper way… It is worth it.
looks like passmark just updated today .
Steak and Bj day of all days.
Seems they are married people. lol
That’s the Assgot Ring Effect
put a ring on her finger and her assgot bigger and her mouth got smaller.
but here is the scores from their site.
Now For the one we really wanted to see.
Over Clocked Processors
Looks to me as of today 3/14/09 Amd Is the best “right out of the box” central Processing Units
but when you overclock, Intel i7 stomps.. Very good job guys, thanks for the scores.
You can benchmark with a fast easy tool from pcpitstop
Here is my pcpitstop benchmark score
Minimum System Requirements
Windows Vista – Service Pack 1 / XP – Service Pack 3
1.8GHz Intel Core2Duo or 2.4GHz AMD Athlon X2 64
1.5 GB of RAM
16 GB free hard drive space
256MB NVIDIA 7900 / 256MB ATI X1900
Recommended System Requirements
Windows Vista – Service Pack 1 / XP – Service Pack 3
2.4Ghz Intel Core 2 Quad or 2.1GHz AMD Phenom X3
2 GB of RAM (Windows XP) or 2.5 GB of RAM (Windows Vista)
18 GB Free Hard Drive Space
512MB NVIDIA 8600 / 512MB ATI 3870
looks like I am above low end, almost at high end, except I am on a dual core duo. not a dual core quad.
Although my processor is a higher rating than the quad core, it is still a dual duo.
See I use pc pistop because it is easy small and fast. not a huge detailed benchmarker for my computer I know, but it also isn’t very taxing on my machine. Some benchmark programs can be to much for your pc and break it by over stressing your components. Pcpistop is a light weight low stress test . it’s over in like 2 minutes. I make the score, I look at it, I tweak my machine I benchmark again and see if I got any faster. It’s great, free and easy…
So if you want to see if you are capable of playing the game, bench your machine and post your link to your score.
We all screen shot her benchmarks at the same time,
We all have been coming in and out checking for updates on the ultimate gaming machine. Raggie34 (a regular there) has been showing up and helping like it was a paying job. His efforts should be remembered. his work is well done.
I had my window down while I dug around other sites and she flipped out with a huge “hoooyaaa!” so I looked.
And hit the screen shot.
I think I am the last to post so I have to say ” good job on the BenchMark and stability throughout!”
GJ Colleen
Messing witha sempron I have.
Not really trying to break it, just don’t care much for it right now and really want motivation toevolve to the newest cpu and motherboard combo. Despite what everyone says should be issues right now, I have not had any issues and all games I play, play smooth fast and fine.. but the new stuff is so cheap right now.
Ok done trying to reasomn with you :-P
sempron 3400 cranked fsb from 200 to 205
changed from auto to 200
Nvidia 7600 512 mb agp from default 420/275 to 437/321
Bench scores are up by 500 on madonion and future mark .
http://truxtertech.com/talk/viewtopic.php?f=32&t=50
After benching, after playing in game.
I have to say, it plays a ton better without o/c
I played all the games I normally bench with
and saw that draw distance was greater while
in game, but detail was bland and there was stuttering.
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If you read my earlier post about my cat killing my video card.
You would pretty much assume that the card could not be saved. The card was so bad off it was like the “degause” button was stuck and well you pretty much assume the card was french fried. After 4 hours of wiping with a cotton swab and water then going back with window cleaner the very next day and doing this for about four hours only to give up and say “screw it” and start spraying the video card soaking it in glass cleaner even in the dvi socket and vga socket and s video socket, then going back with a paper towel and dabbing up the glass cleaner after it soaked for a minute then sprayed again and dabbed again. Final spray was a soaker of the entire card to rinse off remaining coffee residue. I dabbed after a two minute soak and drain , then went back and wiped with a paper towel and a hand full of cotton swabs until the card looked brand new. I mean under a microscope you would not find any dust, not one drop. I let the card sit for one more night, and a whole day of work.
Of course I tilted the card so that what ever fluid/liquid that was still in the card in any of the sockets would drain downward back the way it entered.
I dug out my BFG nvidia drivers, I put on fresh heatsink paste (the only heatsink paste I found was the cheap tube I had in my parts box) reinstalled my heatsink 
Snapped card back in, connected fans and power to card and booted up and installed the bfg nvidia drivers.
Went to pc pitstop and did my usual bencmark
here is after the clean up and reinstall
To see quick results, go to “compare” at the bottom.